English Language (9093)

9个单元 · 42个章节

免费的English Language (9093)学习笔记,专为Cambridge International A Level学生准备。下列每个章节都涵盖一个重点主题,附有例题与练习提示,可在 thinka 应用中延伸练习。

Paper 1 Reading: Text analysis

  • Reading unseen texts: form, structure and language

  • Analysing form and text-level structure

  • Word classes, vocabulary and figurative language

  • Voice, tense, aspect, modality and narrative perspective

  • Tone, formality and pragmatics

  • Using quotations and evidence in analytical writing

Paper 1 Reading: Directed response

  • Rewriting a text in a new form

  • Choosing vocabulary, style and structure for a given brief

  • Comparing your own text with the original

  • Relating features to purpose, audience and context

Text types and their conventions

  • Persuasive and promotional texts: advertisements, brochures, leaflets

  • Journalistic texts: editorials, news stories, articles, reviews, investigative journalism, blogs

  • Spoken and scripted forms: podcasts, scripted speech

  • Personal forms: letters, diaries, (auto)biographies, travel writing

  • Essays, narrative writing and descriptive writing

Paper 2 Writing: Shorter writing and reflective commentary

  • Writing a short text to a brief (up to 400 words)

  • Fulfilling the brief: form, purpose and audience

  • Writing a reflective commentary on your own choices

  • Audience, purpose and register

Paper 2 Writing: Extended writing

  • Imaginative and descriptive writing

  • Discursive and argumentative writing

  • Review and critical writing

  • Structuring longer pieces of writing

  • Paragraphing, cohesion and discourse markers

  • Accuracy and expression at word and sentence level

Paper 3 Language Analysis: Language change

  • The chronology and essential features of the development of the English language from Early Modern English to Contemporary English

  • Concepts and terminology related to language change

  • Theories and theorists of language change

  • n-gram graphs representing changes in language use over time

  • Word tables derived from corpus data

Paper 3 Language Analysis: Child language acquisition

  • The main stages of early development in child language acquisition

  • The different functions of children’s language

  • Theories and theorists of child language acquisition

  • The conventions and features of unscripted conversation and spoken language transcripts

Paper 4 Language Topics: English in the world

  • The historical development of English as a ‘global’ language

  • Varieties of English

  • Relevant ethical considerations

  • Analysing unseen texts on English in the world

Paper 4 Language Topics: Language and the self

  • Innateness and learning

  • The relationship between language and thought

  • The relationship between language and social identity

  • Analysing unseen texts on language and the self

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