ELZ: English

Holiday Support
Summer 2018

Extension​
Year 10 Punctuation Revision
Year 10 Punctuation Quiz
Year 10 Sentence Length
Year 10 Spellings

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Revision and Practice
Year 11
Over the winter break, your revision should focus on the following areas:

1)      Re-read your set Literature texts. Then, re-read them again. Your aim is to know them back to front. Make notes on key themes and characterisation. Focus on quotations, evidence and context.
2)    Consolidate your revision notes for English Language. In particular, make sure your review guidance on narrative writing for Paper 1, Section B and Paper 2, Section B.  

Year 12 English Language
Over the winter break, your revision should focus on the following areas:

Your focus for revision over the winter break should be as follows:

1)      Revisit the key frameworks of Lexis, Grammar, Phonology, Discourse and semantics/pragmatics. Make sure that you review and learn terminology and ideas.

2)      Visit http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/contents.htm#langa – this is a really useful website, and you’ll find lots of notes on things we’ve already covered as well as topics we have yet to cover. 

Year 13 English Language
Your focus for revision over the winter break should be as follows:

1)      Revisit the key frameworks of Lexis, Grammar, Phonology, Discourse and semantics/pragmatics. Make sure that you review and key terminology and ideas.
2)      Visit http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/contents.htm#langa and add to your notes, particularly for Language Change. 
3) Conduct research into the following linguists and ideas, and have notes ready to discuss: Tony Bex and genre change; Joos and register; Fairclough and power; Halliday and language change and Bernstein and restricted codes.

Year 13 English Literature

Your focus for revision over the winter break should be as follows:

1) Re-read and read around your set texts
2)  Visit http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/poetry/wifebath.htm and use the booklet given in class to add to your notes
3)  Re-read and review what we have read of The Wife of Bath’s Prologue so far. Use the glossary and end-notes to make sure that your annotations of the text are as detailed and accurate as possible.