A level language students guide us through our first term: How we survived our first term at Woodhouse.

 

 How to Survive your first term Podcast radio programme

Surviving Woodhouse infographics

Surviving Woodhouse First term

How to survive your first term. Short film 

Teams L6 Language: Looking at the language in the media reporting on US protests then looking at a Lexis and Sentences question

Lower 6th Language students have been making short videos to consolidate their understanding of English Language topics

1. How advertisers sell.

2. Grammar at Woodhouse College

3.

4. George Orwell: Language and Power

5. How to write an Opinion Column

What is Forensic Linguistics

Professor Tim Grant gives his inaugural lecture on how forensic linguistics helps to solve criminal cases

English Language videos made by our lower 6 students

1. The Adventures of English

2. Descriptivism versus Prescriptivism

3. English Open Day

English Language terminology videos

                                                    1 Representation in English Language

2. Language and Discourse

3. Pronouns made interesting

Nice video on the various accents around Britain

Interesting Programme about techniques of public speaking and rhetorical techniques

Simon Armitage on the skills of public speeches. This is useful for your AS second coursework choice and language and power.

Interesting Language Investigation

The end of the Olympics closing speeches would make interesting comparative studies for both A2 language investigations and for AS Language and Power. Boris Johnson's closing speech would make interesting comparison with David Cameron's speech at the same parade. Sebastian Coe's speech could be added to the mix. Find them below. Coe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3pyItoH58Y Cameron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOfpYcVOyY Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57gg2sinGK0

Finding additional resources on itunesU

If you have an itunes account you will find a mass of university and media resources on your chosen texts for coursework and exams. ItunesU is the educational section of itunes and all of the resources are free. Radio programmes and university lectures and podcasts can be downloaded to your devices. A recent search found resources on: Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe's Turn of the Screw, Gatsby, a mass of resources on Shakespeare, T S Eliot's The Wasteland, Chaucer's canterbury Tales. Additionally Language students will find items of interest on language and gender,technology,power, langugae acquisition and change.