AQA A2 English Language B 14th June 2016

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Thanks for the help guys :smile:

Does anyone know how you can find out in a text if a word is borrowed? Any tips on this, as you don't know what could come up.
Any predictions on the texts we could have for the exam?

Reply 41

Harriet1998

Original post by Gal cool

Thanks for the help guys :smile:

Does anyone know how you can find out in a text if a word is borrowed? Any tips on this, as you don't know what could come up.
Any predictions on the texts we could have for the exam?

Hi there. It should be quite obvious hopefully.
For instance, the word 'vodka' is quite obviously not English and therefore borrowed. The same for 'judge' and 'opera' which are derived from French I think. You will hopefully be able to tell. :smile:

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Reply 42

deano321

Please help!

We have only been told to learn Q1 and therefore only practised Q1. We've heard they may not even give a speech question. They may only give us a reading question. I have not practised or revised any of the content for the reading question. What should I do? I am totally confused.

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Reply 43

elsierose

Original post by deano321

They will definitely give you a speech question, there are always two questions: one on speech, and one on writing OR reading. The first question is always on speech.

Don't worry!! :smile:

Reply 44

Lottiexm

Original post by deano321

We have only been taught the content for Q1 too, our teacher didnt touch on the reading section at all. You only need to know the content for one so don't worry! The exam is always set out exactly the same

Reply 45

Tamaras23

Original post by elsierose

They will definitely give you a speech question, there are always two questions: one on speech, and one on writing OR reading. The first question is always on speech.

Don't worry!! :smile:

I'm in the same position, I have only revised speech. Today I looked through all the past questions ever asked and in 2011 they only asked about reading or writing, there was no speech question and now i'm worried they might do it again.

Reply 46

Lulu1609

Original post by Tamaras23

I've just looked up June 2011 and one question was speech and the other was
Writing

Reply 47

Tamaras23

Original post by Lulu1609

I've just looked up June 2011 and one question was speech and the other was
Writing

I think it was in the Jan 2011 paper.

Reply 48

Chuck234

Original post by Gal cool

Thanks for the help guys :smile:

Does anyone know how you can find out in a text if a word is borrowed? Any tips on this, as you don't know what could come up.
Any predictions on the texts we could have for the exam?

Aquisition will probably be on q child in the telegraphic or post telegraphic stage as there is more data to analyse

Reply 49

Lulu1609

Original post by Tamaras23

I think it was in the Jan 2011 paper.

Sorry, you're right!

I was taught all 3 acquisitions but speaking is by far the easiest.
If this happens I would just say you can still use theorists you'd use for speaking.

Reply 50

deano321

Ohhhh God , so what are people doing? Praying there will be a spoken question ?😂

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Reply 51

Chuck234

There's always a spoken one, and then either reading or writing. I'm personally just revising spoken as it's the easiest

Reply 52

elsierose

I was taught all three but I'm just revising speaking as it's my favourite and I don't want to waste time revising something that I won't do (just really hoping it's a good transcript haha)

Reply 53

Avjp39

I've only revised speaking too, theres so much more to write about than writing or reading and I'm pretty sure there'll definitely be a transcript for speech. Even the one in 2011 was speech it just had aspects of reading in it by the parents, the child in the transcript didn't read a word.

Reply 54

Gal cool

How hard is to get a grade B in this exam?

Reply 55

deano321

Cheers guys :smile:

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Reply 56

Lulu1609

Original post by Gal cool

How hard is to get a grade B in this exam?

Well last year a B started at 59/96 so hopefully that is do able

Reply 57

hagridhair

Original post by Gal cool

Thanks for the help guys :smile:

Does anyone know how you can find out in a text if a word is borrowed? Any tips on this, as you don't know what could come up.
Any predictions on the texts we could have for the exam?

Hi! You can usually see borrowing patterns from affixes, silent letters or final consonants.

French + Latin
- prefixes: 'pre', 'pro', 'con'

Germanic
- usually spelling/consonants like 'dge' + 'tch'

Greek
- usually silent letters like (p)sychology + (p)neumonia are all derived from Greek!

Words to do with science or religion are also mostly from Greek + Latin!

Generally if something looks or sounds French, Italian Spanish etc and I'm not sure which one it is, I'd label it as a latinate borrowing, since they've all derived from Latin - not sure if it will always work, but if all fails I try to throw something in last minute.

Here are some of my revision notes. Good luck everyone :smile:

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Reply 58

chloepilky

Original post by Lulu1609

Hi everyone! I'm doing this exam too.

Have you been taught just speaking acquisition or speaking, writing and reading?

I've been taught spoken, written and reading however I am just focusing on spoken as that's the easiest to analyse.