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WT2 Q3 (A Streetcar Named Desire)
The following Written Task 2 (HL) Critical Response addresses the prompt ‘how and why is a social group represented in a particular way’? The question comes from the ‘power and privilege’ area of study....
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Zones of Proximity: An Activity for Discussing Tone
In conducting IOCs with students, you may ask them in follow-up questions to discuss the tone of their extract, particularly if they have not tackled this in their own initial presentation. Students...
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Introducing Literature in Context: A Summer Activity
The following scheme of work is designed to introduce students to reading literature in context. The lessons have been designed to prepare students for their study of English Language and Literature....
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Paper 1 (SL) The Rings of Saturn
This commentary responds to an extract from W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. The extract is reasonably short, and requires close reading to tease out its subtleties. Recent SL examinations have seen...
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The IOC: A Student's Guide to Preparing and Presenting
The Individual Oral Commentary is a challenging task. The nature of the assessment component can exert considerable pressure on students. Teachers should not overlook this, and should do all they can...
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Paper 1 (SL) How to Attract Women
This commentary refers to the advertisement ‘how to attract women without even trying’. Arguably, the somewhat sexually explicit nature of the advertisement makes it a rather improbable candidate for...
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Assessment and Feedback Forms Free
One of the purposes of the Language and Literature website is to make teaching more straightforward for teachers; to ‘save time’, as it were. With this in mind, teachers can access, on this page, a...
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To Tweet or Not to Tweet Free
A few years ago, I had some odd habits. One of these involved getting out of bed at 5am. After rising, I’d have a hurried breakfast, cycle to work, shower, and by 6am I was at my desk, in the cozy company...
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Paper 1 (HL) Visual Texts
It is entirely possible that students may be expected to comment on visual texts or visual aspects, including graphology, of multimodal texts in their Paper 1 examination, both at Standard and Higher...
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Revision With Twitterature
Here is a very short, simple activity for revision (probably for Part 3 texts). You can use it at the beginning of a lesson as a 'starter' activity, or at the end. It takes 5-15 minutes. As exams loom,...