How to talk to anyone: The experts' guide

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/28/how-to-talk-to-anyone-the-experts-guide

This article gives an in depth analysis and explanation on how to talk to different types of people, including: children and teenagers, strangers, your doctor, your date, your parents and your boss. Collectively the break down in personal and specific language generates an expert how to guide on how to talk to any kind of person. The guide includes an analysis on why these genres of people speak and like to be spoken to the way that they do, relating to personality and general characteristics

Step away from your phone: The new rules of conversation

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/28/step-away-from-your-phone-the-new-rules-of-conversation

This article explores the changing and shaping of face-to-face conversations in modern society. It looks at a fairly new concept about the takeover of online conversations. One in particular being "Phubbing", which is a term used to describe when someone is having a conversation with someone in real life, and at the same time, talking to somebody else on their phone. This terminology has been linked to the way that young people are growing up being able to use technology in a more advanced way, for example typing on their devices without looking at their screens.

The 3D's: The 3 Theories About Language and Gender

Dominance: Zimmerman and West (1987)

This is the theory that in mixed-sex conversations men are more likely to interrupt than women, or in other words, to dominate the  conversation.

• Positions of power: Competitive and  cooperative
• "Men are assertive of their power, and women are friendly and sociable"

Difference: Deborah Tannen (1990)

The difference theory states that the male and female races are culturally different, which reflects on their language and the way they speak to people that are either of the same or of a different gender.

• "Men's conversation is message-oriented, based upon communicating information"
• "Women's conversation is much more important for building relationships and strengthening social links"

Deficit: Robin Lakoff (1975)

The deficit theory hones in on the idea that one language in inferior to the other, or in the case of gender-specific language, the way that men or women talk in a variety of situations.

• "Male language is stronger, more prestigious and more desirable"
• "Women are socialised into behaving like 'ladies'"

English Language AQA Exam Questions

Language varieties paper
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77012-SQP.PDF

Paper commentary
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77012-COM.PDF

Student responses
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77012-CEX.PDF

Bristol University: Guide to Grammar

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/index.htm

A.       Handy for revision

B.       Punctuation/Structure

-          How the text is laid out, how the paragraphs are formed, order of the text

-          Graphology

-          Discourse

-          FPA

-          Syntax (sentences) compound, complex, simple

-          Utterance

-          Imperative (command)

-          Interrogative (question)

-          Exclamative (exclamation)

-          Declarative (to declare)

C.       Common confusions

-          Homophones

-          Lexis

-          Semantics

-          Pragmatics

D.       Exam responses

E.        Pitfalls and problems

-          Grammar

-          Lexis

F.        Style

-          FPA

G.       Handy for revision

Andrew Moore - Language and Occupation

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/lang/occupation.htm

Occupations are an important feature of society. Any analysis of how society works is likely to consider occupations - these are a very common feature of social organization, more or less universal in economically developed societies and throughout recorded history. Occupations could not really exist without language, especially those in which many people work together, and need to pass on information about how to do things, or about current tasks.

Femvertising

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/12/femvertising-branded-feminism

Andrew Moore - English Language

http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/contents.htm#langa

AQA A Level English Language Past Papers

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/as-and-a-level/english-language-7701-7702/assessment-resources

Transcript

A: Right, B.. Where did you go on holiday?  

B: Umm.. I’d say LA, cus there’s a lot of things to do and um.. you know you have  

     broad.. broadwalk and.. all the.. all the attrac-  

C: It’s not.. it’s the boardwalk?  

B: Boardwalk..?  

C: Broadwalk is in Knowle, where I live..?  

     (Pause)  

     *Laughter*  

A: Alright yeah anyway..  

C: Sorry carry on!  

A: Same thing really..?  

D: What about you, A?  

A: Crete.  Because it’s lovely and hot and uh.. it’s really Greek and I like Greek..  

     people.. uh and I like Greece in general.  

B: Do they speak English there, like.. really well or..?  

A: Yeah they do actually. They do speak English pretty well.  

C: Europeans do though don’t they?  

A: Yeah  

B: No because I have.. there's um.. I know someone from.. Denmark.. that speaks  

     English.. like exactly how an American, but... they speak Danish as well.. it's  

     kinda weird!  

A: D what about you?  

D: I'd probably go to Miami.. cus it's just hot, and nice  

A: I love America  

C: Yeah .. I haven't been but I really want to go.. I go to Cornwall  

B: Cornwall?  

C: Have you actually been to Cornwall?  

B: No.. where would you wanna go, apart from Cornwall?  

C: I don't know actually.. America really.  

D: Where in America?  

C: Anywhere really... I haven't been-  

B: Yeah but what's your ideal place?-  

C: I don't know! I haven't researched into it.