TERM 1 EXAM CONTENT - TUESDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2015

Reading – Criteria B

Revise by reading as much as you can in English (Library books, news websites – BBC, The Guardian, Football blogs). The more exposed you are to vocab, structures, English in general the more your English will gradually improve. Ensure you have read at the very least all the articles I have posted on the blog about New Technologies and Language Learning.

Article about Self- Driving Cars

Robots

Writing – Criteria C

Part 1: Grammar and Vocabulary

Vocabulary:

1)    Language Learning

2)    Languages 2

3)    The Internet and New Technology

Grammar:

1)    Make, get and do collocations

2)      Expressing purpose, reason, result CAE Student’s Book p.170

3)      Advanced Reported Speech

Part 2: Writing

1)      Speech Writing - Features and sentence starters/linking phrases

* a semi-formal to formal register, perhaps with flashes of informality

* include speech rhetoric e.g. rhetorical questions, repetition, flashes of humour, anecdotes, personal pronouns, facts and statistics, anticipating the counter argument, alliteration

* address the audience at the beginning (Welcome/ Good morning ...)and keep contact with them throughout (e.g. use of “we” and “you” etc.)

* will catch the audience’s attention at the beginning, and leave a clear impression at the end

2)      Transcript Interview Writing – Features and sentence starters/linking phrases

Features of a Transcript Interview

Reads like a script – an accurate transcription of the words used, without commentary or description

* uses a register appropriate to the degree of formality implied by the task

* will have a Question & Response structure, showing the characters' 'alternating speeches'

* will express realistic oral speech, perhaps with complex interactions such as interruptions

* will make apparent an overall pattern of topics and ideas

What does your Transcript interview need?

·         An introduction giving date of interview, who wrote transcript, who was interviewed

·         Questions and answers

·         STRUCTURE Questions which follow a logical order linking to what in said in the previous answer

·         Relatively formal language – this is a professional interview

·         Oral expressions – ‘you know’, ‘pretty much’, ‘sorry, no’, ‘I mean’, ‘like’, ‘anyway’, ‘kind of’,

‘for example’