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English Language (9670)
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Free English Language (9670) revision notes for Oxford AQA International AS Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Unit 1: Language and context
Understanding texts: audience, purpose, genre and mode
Comparing two thematically linked texts
Mode: spoken, written and hybrid texts
Genre conventions, intertextuality and interdiscursivity
Directed writing: transforming source material
Unit 2: Language and society
Language and social groups: analysing data
Expressing identity and building relationships
Claiming power and status
Group membership and rapport
Language play, entertainment and performance
Academic argument essay on language and social groups
Language levels and terminology
Lexis and semantics
Grammar: sentence, clause, phrase and word
Phonetics and phonology in written and spoken texts
Pragmatics: inference and assumed meaning
Discourse structure and cohesion
Graphology and multimodal design
Text types and writing forms
Advertising and promotional material
Informative booklets, flyers and reference material
News and magazine articles
Digital texts: blogs, forums and website material
Speeches, interviews and planned spoken language
Letters, reviews and other non-fiction writing
Register, style and analytical response
Register, formality and tone
Sustaining a style for a specific brief
Structuring an analytical response with evidence
Transcript conventions and analysing spontaneous speech
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