Of Mice and Men – Advanced Quotation Strategies

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Feb 4, 2014

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Robert Burns – To A Mouse

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Feb 3, 2014

Today we will explore a stanza of Robert Burns’ Poem “To A Mouse” and discuss the intertextual relationship between its message and that of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!   thy-lane  = alone Gang...

Of Mice and Men – Audio

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Dec 16, 2013

Spoken Language Study: Advice for Assessment

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Oct 17, 2013

This video contains my advice to students completing their GCSE Assessment after a Spoken Language Study that investigated the movement of features of spoken language that have moved into text and instant messaging communication. The question that the assessment will answer is: Explore the features of the language used in digital communications which suggest they are closer to spoken rather than written language. Comment on public...

Spoken Language Study: Structure

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Oct 16, 2013

As part of our preparation for the Spoken Language Study, we’ve been exploring the idea of structuring extended answers. The attached image is the result of an exercise where everyone was given these paragraph starters in a randomised order, and they had to select an order and justify why they chose it.