AS/A2 WJEC English Language LG1/LG4 24-May & 3-June 2013

I found that alright tbh, how did everyone else find it, and what did you talk about?


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I found that alright tbh, how did everyone else find it, and what did you talk about?


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I found that alright tbh, how did everyone else find it, and what did you talk about?

Wow, I did finish in time. I talked about sentence types and moods, syntactical parrellelism, all types of nouns, Triassic structure and more stuff. Dw you will have done good


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I thought it was alright as well, a lot easier than some of the past papers! I can remember talking about passive voice, cardinal determiners, noun phrases, modification, dynamic verbs, reported speech and appositional phrases for section A and past and present tense, adverbs, asyndetic listing, minor and simple sentences, passive voice, hypophora, antithesis and colloquialisms for section B. How about you, anything similar?

In section A, I talked about verbs, sentences (relative clauses etc), adjectives, noun phrases, reported speech/quoting, passive voice, declaratives, syntactical parallelism, adverbials.... so much stuff. Didn't like the texts though, I prefer ones juicy with adjectives and good noun phrases. Still, English is English and it went fine. Loads to talk about in section B, could have written 4 more pages probably, lol.

the exam was alright section A was very good but i missed out the bullet point on section B where it said how does the author talk about change of Cardiff was that really on the paper because i didn't mention it at all!!!!!!!

for section A i talked about declaritive sentences, stative verbs, dynamic verbs, rogatio, parrallel phrasing, geographical data, direct address, graphology, first person, contractions, present participles, superlatives.

for section b i talked about 8 points only and missed the bulletpoint

How did you guys manage the time?
How long did you spent on section A and how long did you spend on section B
How long did you spend reading and analysing the text before beginning to write the essay?
I'm not use to 2hr 30min exams, my hand was literally trembling by the end of it, still I didn't even finish section B

I spent 1 hour 45 on section A (ran over by 5 minutes), and I spent 20 minutes analyzing (I am a master at quick feature-spotting, granted, the texts were quite empty though). How much did you write for section B? 1 and a half pages is generally acceptable if it's really good.

Also, am I the only one who thought section A was a little... dry? I didn't enjoy the language features, and found it hard to get some very high level features in there. I think the best I got in was 'asyndetic listing of noun phrases using compound negative adjectives' or something crazy like that. It just seemed empty of everything I really like analyzing.

Also, is it okay if you intertwine your points in section B? I wrote about how he showed enthusiasm for old and new Cardiff. Acceptable or not?

so the second pint in section b was about the change in cardiff? :/ CRAP

I thought 1hr 30 was the right amount of time for section A, but I ended up spending 1hr 50 on it. I'm just not sure how many features I need to mention.

I did think there was a lot you could of spoke about in section A for the part that asked how the writer presents the events, but there wasn't a great deal you could of spoke about for how the writer presents those involved (police and looters).

I couldn't decide really whether he was all for the change in Cardiff or against. I think generally he was against the change. He did mention some positives of the new Cardiff, but how positive were they really, he said things like telesale capital or something, I don't think many would consider that a positive. The positives changes he said were attracting tourists, but notice how he later on he speaks of parts of the city which he admires that tourist never see as these places are hidden by the new changes to Cardiff.

The second part where you had to mention how the writer conveys change in Cardiff, you could have much mentioned the old buildings he mentioned like Roman church or something. There were a few words that were related to change, "transformation" as well others. I never really got to finish that part of the section B.

Would anyone like to discuss LG1 or LG4?
Essay structure?
These videos might may be useful for revision: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDC1DB15082544F5B

Any LG4 help please?


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I've only just started revising

I'll post some useful things on this thread tomorrow, once I've revised more.

i too got a D in jan, section B is much much harder in A all you need to remember is all spoken language terminologies, childrens language acquisition, language in male and female and political correctness