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ok so you know you have to write 1000 words but for things like radio programmes and audio guides, would they actually be 1000 words long? isn't it not making it suitable for its audience if you're just writing loadsss to fill the word count? n wouldnt it make radio quite boringg and narrative? help!

Reply 41

tomkent

The word limit will be defined in the question!!

Oh and xanjalix how the hell did you get rejected (nottingham), you got like 3as and a b :s

Reply 42

ellieema

i hope everyones doing ok for tomoro. slightly anxious. but im definately going to write things i should mention in my commentary on the pack. in pencil. then rub them out. lol! i dont understand everyone finding the fairtrade stuff boring, i LOVE that pack, i can get so passionate about it! i mean thats the key thing isnt it, sounding interested yourself. cos if you sound bored noones gonna want to read it!
oh yeah, weve been advised not to cut and paste anything other than pictures. Id advise that aswell, try to show what you can do yourself, only cut and paste in dire straights.

Reply 43

tomkent

I dont think that there's any advantage of pasting.
Just draw your layout and say "picture here" maybe what it would be of, or say picture 2 source J.

MAKE SURE YOU WRITE CAPTIONS

otherwise theres no context!

Reply 44

xanjalix

i agree about the whole only pasting pictures, but i don't think i will unless i have like 20 minutes left at the end - which i doubt! people i know have written in pencil but i doubt there will be time to rub out, so im just going to rip that page out lol.

and all the past papers i've read have all been 1000 word limit, and my teacher said not doing more than 850 words will "seriously affect your grade" so i reckon we're just going to have to really long out the boring stuff! and Tom e Kent, i have no idea about the notts rejection! i was sooo mad, but i reckon it may be cos im not doing a maths or science? or maybe they just didn't like my personal statement! either way..agh!

Reply 45

Mensan1

How have you guys grouped the gladiator pack?

Reply 46

xanjalix

if u look on page 1, i've written some stuff. ahh quite stressed at the moment, i just hope they don't spring something really random on us.

Does anyone know if radio 4 has multiple presenters? or would u just write one presenter talking throughout?

Reply 47

Calsy

radio 4 generally only has one presenter, but on specialist topics ... maybe like this one, they have a guest speaker from a university or someone who is a specialist in that field

Reply 48

xanjalix

aare you allowed to bring in random people who haven't said anything in the source material and just make up names like that? sorry if its a stupid question!

Reply 49

Calsy

i should think so .. i know i will be doing if we have to write a radio transcript .. although i suppose it makes sense to just use people who have written some of the source material, at least that way you've covered both angles! im not 100% sure !

Reply 50

xanjalix

chances are they'll have a "listening" something for the gladiators one, n i guess it could only be audio guide or radio broadcast, so im just concentrating on that. all ive done with fairtrade is read it, nothing else really..hmm ahh

Reply 51

tomkent

If you go on bbc.co.uk then Radio, you can listen to recorded radio 1,2,3,4 etc.
It has topics too, so you can listen to history topics, as they would be different from musical ones.

I found that helpful, here's what ive found for these:

radio 4:
serious
lots of glossing
assumed that listeners are intellectuals - use big words
remeber its spoken so it must flow, not too complex or slow moving.

Radio 3:
subject then short decription then what your going to say, then into it. Very intellectual, requires lots of knowledge.

Radio 2:
Narrative, like news not personal, lots of quotes.

Hope that helped :biggrin:

Reply 52

IAmFaye

Can anyone please tell me what 'liberalisation' means and why it's bad for poor countries? I don't really get it! :confused:

Reply 53

xanjalix

lol i don't get it either! thanks for the help Tom E Kent, will be printing that off! i don't understand most of the fairtrade pack, stuff about numbers and facts like "liberalisation" just are hard for me to understand - that's why i do english! so i doubt im going to be doing that one. and i should be off now, wake up early and all that. so good lucky everyone and thanks for all the help! xx

Reply 54

IAmFaye

This is a silly question but it's bugging me and I hope someone is up to answer it, how are you going to write 'Fair Trade' out? Are you going to write is as 'Fairtrade', 'fair trade' or 'Fair Trade'? I've seen it wrote out as all three, which is the correct way?

Reply 55

tomkent

I would write it normaly, as you would any other word in a sentence. Not joined. So fair trade. It wont matter.

Reply 56

tomkent

it went ok i felt. everyone else?

Reply 57

IAmFaye

Yeah, I think it went ok, not amazing though! It took me about 15 minutes to decide what question I wanted to do, I'm just so indecisive! In the end, I chose question 1, about writing a fictional part in a book for kids aged 9-11.

I haven't had any practice with websites so I wasn't confident with doing question 2. I was tempted to do question 3, about the speech to kids about fair trade. I wouldn't have had a clue about question 4, with the display boards.

I hope I wrote it well for the audience, I'm not too sure, I divided sections with subheadings, kept things short and simple, I didn't use complex vocab, I used lots of cartoony-pictures (none of which were in the booklet, just pictures I just thought of, I hope that's allowed, is it?), I made it a bit informal and tried to be humorous.

I didn't have enough time to read through my work though, which is annoying because I always do silly mistakes.

What questions did everyone else do?

Reply 58

Stick Man

D'oh! How come I didn't see this thread before the exam? :thud:

I think most people, myself included, answered question #1. I'm a bit worried I might have fallen into their don't-change-your-tone-too-quickly trap, but I'm pretty certain I evaded their don't-be-too-patronising, don't-write-too-little and don't-use-too-few-sources traps.