ENGLISH

LANGUAGE

Lesson 1 – What is English language?

 “Without language, one cannot talk to people and
understand them; one cannot share their hopes and
aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or
savor their songs..”
– Nelson Mandela
 READING WRITING

• Pick out key, relevant information • Improving spelling, punctuation and grammar

• Comprehension of a variety of texts • Writing to entertain, persuade, inform and

• Understand a range of language and structure debate appropriately

techniques alongside their effects • Use and apply knowledge of literary techniques

• Critically compare texts

 COMMUNICATION

Job applications
& interviews

Debates & public

speaking

Reports &
presentations
 READING
LANGUAGE STRUCTURE
What is being written? How is it being written?
Narrative
Adjectives Similes Personification Chronological
perspective
vs non- Order of events
Adverbs Analogy First person chronological
Metaphors
Verbs Flashback
Alliteration Second person
Onomatopoeia In media res
Third person Flash-forward
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron Limited Foreshadowing
Hyperbole Cliffhanger
Omniscient
Pathetic fallacy Satire
Narrative shift Pace Resolution
Irony Tone/mood
Sarcasm Paragraph
Punctuation Listing
Synesthesia lengths
Colloquialism

Allegory Ambiguity Sentence type Complex Clause

Repetition
Simple Compound
 1) Highlight/circle any new or unfamiliar words on the previous slide
TASK 2) Create the following table in the back of your books
3) Enter 3 language techniques and 3 structure techniques into the table and complete the
row for each technique
4)When you come across a new technique, add it to the table and revise!

Technique Definition Purpose/effect Example

Adjective A describing word • Create an image in the Hungry, peckish,
reader’s mind ravenous
• Create a particular
mood, tone, All the adjectives are to
atmosphere do with hunger but
“peckish” suggests mild
hunger whereas
“ravenous” indicates
extreme hunger

Similes A comparison between two •
things using the words “as”
or “like”
To create: a clearer “Her bed was as soft as
understanding of a feather but mine was
something, an image, hard like rock.”
particular mood, tone
or atmosphere
 1) Use as many of the techniques from the previous slide to describe the two
TASK: pictures below (one paragraph for each picture)
(Avoid repeating the same technique/over-exaggerating)

Note: The setting is pretty much the same but the moods portrayed are slightly different
 1) Look at the picture below. If it was given as a writing prompt, what sort of

TASK stories could you write about it?

2) Think about how you would plan the story
 Example 1 Example 2
• Happy, excited atmosphere • Sad, gloomy atmosphere

• Plot: • Plot:

• A family is moving into a new house a lot bigger than • A family has to move out of their house because the

the old house parents’ jobs changed

• Siblings race to pick their rooms • Problem: they are sad to leave their friends and life

• Problem: character doesn’t get the room they want behind, think about the memories they once had in the

• Solution: they get a smaller room but it has a nice view now empty house

and faces a new friend’s window • Solution/cliffhanger: there is hope for positive changes

• Narrative: 1st person, the youngest child of the family in the new town/house

• Techniques: dialogue, similes and metaphors, • Narrative: 3rd person narrative to give perspectives of the

personification different family members

• Techniques: pathetic fallacy, juxtaposition, semantic field

 HOMEWORK
1) Write a story (about one page) using the picture of the empty room as a prompt

2) You can plan your own story (make sure to write the plan out) or use one of the
plans from the previous page

3) Make sure to use as many different language and structure techniques as possible