At the beginning of the course, you may want to run a quick lesson (or two) about a concept – language change in this instance – that helps you identify or quickly assess your student’s analytical abilities.  Alternatively, after the Individual Oral and Higher Level Essay are complete in Year 2 of the program, you may want to focus on Paper 1 skills that have nothing to do with a non-literary body of work.    

This lesson, found here, focuses on emoji and how they are changing language.  Many of the resources and links come from 2015.  No matter.  The articles, activities, and video are still relevant and get to the heart of the matter: Is emoji a language?  How is emoji changing language?  Are we going to – or do we already communicate – only using emoji most of the time?  

Have fun with this lesson, especially with the question about how you use emoji versus how your students use emoji.  Do you interpret them the same way?  Is there are generational divide?  Why or why not?

Best,

Tim and David