FILM: Of Mice and Men

Posted By Christopher Waugh on May 16, 2015

FILM: Touching the Void

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Apr 13, 2015

Fate, Free Will and Figurative Language

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Oct 2, 2014

Today we explored via the attached presentation, Shakespeare’s use of metaphor. The activity at the end should be completed for homework.

Of Mice and Men – Advanced Quotation Strategies

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Feb 4, 2014

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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...

Everyday Speech: Samples of your own talk

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Sep 22, 2013

These videos are exerpts of your own spoken conversations for you to use as a source for your transcription. The next step is to transcribe these conversations, ensuring you don’t use text language, but this time write your transcript in full, and add information about the sounds, facial expressions, pauses, interruptions and everything you can of the para-linguistic aspects of the conversation. Glenn and George Kai and David...