Mini Lesson Planning

Morning everyone

Since our lesson was disrupted on Monday we've lost some planning time for your mini-lessons, and as some people were absent on Thursday we may need to re-shuffle the groups a bit. I will sort out the groups and when you are all paired up, please continue with your planning for the mini-lessons.

Remember that your lesson needs to include the following:

1. Clear aims and objectives - what do you want the class to achieve and learn?
2. A starter activity to engage the class and get them working.
3. Present your assigned theory in terms that the group will understand.
4. A work sheet or an activity to assess the class' learning.
5. A plenary to summarise your lesson and to decide whether or not your aims and objectives have been achieved.

We will be presenting these tomorrow, so make sure you are ready!

Grice's Maxims, Politeness and Face Theory

Hi everyone,

We covered a lot of ground on Monday and I introduced you to 3 fairly complex theories. Without you completing your own independent wider reading and research, you will not be able to fill in the gaps to ensure you fully understand these concepts, which are vital to your study of language and will be far more pertinent in Year 2.

With this in mind, today I want you to spend this lesson re-reading the theories and researching them online, looking at linguistic blogs, articles, anything you can find to aide your understanding.

Please make notes on your own blogs.

Click here to access Monday's PPT.

Here's a YouTube clip relating to Grice's Maxims.

Language & Occupation

Morning all

You will be completing some writing tasks today. Please look back through the two PowerPoints relating to language & occupation and complete the following tasks - some of these will be continuations of what we did on Thursday and Monday. Complete them on Google docs and share your work with me at claudiaalgieri23@gmail.com

1. Write an analysis of the kitchen staff transcript which focuses both on close linguistic analysis and how this transcript applies to John Swales' theory of discourse communities. (Minimum 500 words)

2. Add on two paragraphs in which you compare and contrast the language between those in different positions of power within the transcript. 

3. Read through the Drew & Heritage 'Talk at Work' theory, and add in 2 paragraphs in which you discuss how this theory applies to the kitchen transcript.

I am expecting thorough and detailed work in the form of PEE paragraphs. Those who do not complete the amount of work expected will be in supervised study this week to catch up.

Language & Occupation - Discourse Communties

Click here to access the PowerPoint for Lang & Occupation and to re-cap John Swales' discourse communities. Use the PPT and click here to access another resource to add to your notes and to ensure you understand the concept.

Additionally, click here to re-cap the Drew & Heritage 'Talk at Work' theory.

Accent, Dialect, Social Class & Sociolect

Morning all,

Today I want you to re-cap what we did on Monday to ensure you fully understand it, and then do some wider research tasks through TED Talks (and I'm going to get you set up on TED Ed, more on this in a bit).

Firstly, click here to access Monday's PowerPoint. Read over your notes and ensure you you understand the concepts and the different studies. Research them online if you need more info.

Next, complete the writing task we started on Monday on your blogs. No more than 3-4 paragraphs.

When you have done that, watch this TED Talk on Sociolinguistics andthen summarise on your blogs, with a few points on how this relates to the theories and studies we looked at on Monday.

The last task you need to do is to sign up for Ted Ed by following this link . Once you make an account, I can then send you links to relevant TED talks with accompanying questions, which you can complete either on your phone or in our computer room lessons.

When you have signed up, follow this link and watch the video, "Does Grammar Matter?".
Then complete the 'Think' questions - ensure you complete all of these as the responses will be sent directly back to me and I want them in before the end of the lesson. Anyone who does not complete these will be in supervised study. Then, read through the 'Dig Deeper' material, and finally read through the 'Discuss' section. When you have read through 'Discuss', write the questions on your blog and develop a short response (1 or 2 paragraphs) based on your own ideas and the responses already on the page.

This should take up the whole lesson, and then tomorrow we will be starting Language & Occupation.

Any issues, come see me.