Wednesday 14th May exam: English Language AQA A level

Thank God for that. Now it's time to study Chemistry & Biology (after a long sleep)

Yes - war would be a better comparison due to the words as machines can come into that! Thank God it's a word! You've made me feel so much better! - thank you!

Those were probably my best points then the other bits I can't even remember I felt very limited on what I could say.

Do you remember any other points you made/

Yes- you need that!

And I have 4 exams next week - 2 maths a psychology and business so I need to start preparing too!

Good luck!

i talked about lexical assymetry i.e. how the term catfight is only used to refer to female arguments even though the term cat embodies both genders. then from that i managed to make the point that language embodies sexual inequality and could bring in Julia Stanley who said there are 220 sexually promiscuous terms for females and only 20 for males. Then I could bring in Muriel Shulz who said the fact that there are more negative terms for females shows a patriarchal society.

I have Psychology too, I absolutely hate it (it's boring in my opinion).

Good luck to you as well!

Oh my goodness - you're so clever!! You're on your way to an A definitely.

I hate that I didn't think of that! :/ - all those points I had the information I just failed to identify it.

Oops!

Well I'm going to stop worrying now - it's done! Moving onto Psychology now

Thank you so much for those points - very accurate.

Was text G the comic strip? If it was, I interpreted it to be humourous as it was a pun through the adaptation of the Superman comics

appreciate it but there's going to be 100's of points I didn't think of either! You probably had at least one original point that few people thought of so don't panic! good luck with the rest of your exams

I find it confusing as I've never read comics. I didn't understand it at all.

That went...okay. Not brilliantly, but not fantastically. I thought last year's was easy and I failed that, so hopefully this ambivalence is a good thing!

The groupings though - what were AQA thinking?! That was so random! I did a group of texts that used direct address, then subgrouped it for texts that used direct address as a means for synthetic personalisation and ones that didn't. I also did a group on texts that relied on pragmatics, texts that contained a specific lexical field, then I quickly shoved another paragraph in about texts that used the passive form. The passive grouping I had to rush because I was running out of time. :/

Power was slightly better I think! I included loads about politeness and face. Did anyone else say that Maria was the powerful one? I said that she used repressive discourse strategies such as apologies, but this was likely due to the fact that her speech was pre-planned and therefore she wasn't sincere - but Joe's utterances were spontaneous, so his politeness features were sincere and therefore he lacked power.

On to English Lit!

Section A- I grouped by spoken language features, pragmatics and imperatives
How did I do with these? good groups? what did everyone else do?

That went...okay. Not brilliantly, but not fantastically. I thought last year's was easy and I failed that, so hopefully this ambivalence is a good thing!

The groupings though - what were AQA thinking?! That was so random! I did a group of texts that used direct address, then subgrouped it for texts that used direct address as a means for synthetic personalisation and ones that didn't. I also did a group on texts that relied on pragmatics, texts that contained a specific lexical field, then I quickly shoved another paragraph in about texts that used the passive form. The passive grouping I had to rush because I was running out of time. :/

Power was slightly better I think! I included loads about politeness and face. Did anyone else say that Maria was the powerful one? I said that she used repressive discourse strategies such as apologies, but this was likely due to the fact that her speech was pre-planned and therefore she wasn't sincere - but Joe's utterances were spontaneous, so his politeness features were sincere and therefore he lacked power.

On to English Lit!