Part 1.

AS Level:
Unit 1. Reading non-fiction:
1. Types of question, language and style
2. Key reading skills for responding to passages
3. Planning and structuring a commentary
4. Using evidence and quotations
5. Descriptive writing
6. Personal writing
7. Memoirs and autobiographies
8. Persuasive writing

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Unit 2. Writing non-fiction:
9. Approaching 'directed writing' questions
10. Approaching 'writing for a specified audience'
questions
11. Planning written responses
12. Text types and purposes
13. Discursive writing and writing to argue

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Unit 3. Imaginative writing:
14. Exploring imaginative writing tasks
15. Key reading and writing skills
16. Creating your own imaginative and
descriptive writing

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Part 2. A Level
Unit 4. Text and discourse analysis:
17. Features of spoken language
18. Speech strategies
19. Transcribing speech
20. Paralinguistic features

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Unit 5. Spoken language and social groups:
21. The context of spoken language
22. Language used to include and exclude
23. Non-standard features of English
24. Speech sounds and accents
25. Theories and studies of social variation in
language
26. Dialect, sociolect and idiolect

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Unit 6. English as a global language:
27. English and other languages
28. Whose English is it? Kachru's Circles model
29. From British to Global English
30. English: standard and non-standard
31. British vs American English
32. Language death

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Unit 7. Child language acquisition:
33. The main stages of early development
34. Language acquisition by children and
teenagers
35. The functions of young people's language
36. Theories of language acquisition.

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Q & A?

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