Today’s Date

1. A F O S T R E Today’s Date Writing CA Objectives: Review features of non-fiction writing A newspaper invites young people to write articles about television programmes they either love or loathe. Write the piece you would send to the newspaper.

3. LOVE LOATHE WRITE AT LEAST 10 SYNONYMS FOR THE THESE TWO WORDS

4. HollyOaks Sixteen and Pregnant The Simpsons X-Factor Desperate Housewives Match of the Day Made in Chelsea Only Way is Essex Come Dine With Me Waterloo Road EastEnders Coronation Street Family Guy Geordie Shore Fresh Prince Jeremy Kyle The Great British Bake Off Six o’clock news

5. Your reasons for loving or loathing A reminder of AFOREST to help you reach top grade:

6. Key features of writing to argue or persuade • A FOREST

7. A F O S T R E A = Anecdote • A little story about yourself or someone else that backs up the point you are making.

8. A F O S T R E F= Facts, F= Funny • Facts: don’t just waffle, try to include some real facts • Funny: unless it is a very serious subject, try to include some humour

9. A F O S T R E O = Opinion • Try to have a clear point of view • Even if you are arguing and giving both sides, you should reach a conclusion

10. A F O S T R E R=Repetition, R= Rhetorical Question • Repeatkey words and phrases for emphasis. Do not just keep saying the same thing because you cannot think of anything else • Rhetorical Questions are a good way to start a paragraph, introduce a new idea or leave your audience thinking at the end of a speech. • Do you agree?

11. A F O S T R E E=Emotive Language • Powerful vocabulary such as ‘dreadful’, ‘amazing’, ‘crazy’, ‘ridiculous’, ‘amazing’; • Exaggeration • Inclusive language – ‘We’ not ‘you’. ‘Us’ not ‘them’

12. A F O S T R E S= Statistics • You will need to make these up!!! • 76% of students believe that....

13. A F O S T R E T = triples or the rule of three • This helps to emphasise. Examples: • To do well in exams you need to revise, revise, revise! • Exams are scary, boring and unavoidable! Let’s read an example:

15. Gum anyone? What are the pros and cons of chewing gum?

16. I loathe chewing gum! I have never understood the point of chewing gum; if God wanted people to spend hours and hours chewing he would have made us cows! Every day at school I am surrounded by students staring gormlessly at the teacher with the jaws swinging from side to side, they look like goats with wigs and purple blazers.

17. Chewing gum wastes so much time. At the start of most lessons we have to endure the grossness that is the teacher going around the room collecting gum. My fellow students proceed to produce these salivary grey lumps of gum from between their lips and throw them into the waste paper bin. Some actually try to split their gum in half, holding on to the slippery lump between their fingers, thinking they can fool the teacher into believing they have put the whole lot in the bin. It is these same fingers that then go on to touch the text book, the table, the chairs which are in turn touched by everyone else and, before you can say ’Orbit’ we’ve all got some dreadful stomach bug and have to spend a week on the toilet and all thanks to the girls that couldn’t give up her gum. Thanks a lot.

18. I am not sure if you have noticed but gum isn’t always a grey colour. It seems to come in all colours. I have seen red, pink and even blue. Sometimes I see girls chewing at school and it looks like they have bitten off a lump of fluorescent lycra shorts and are happily chewing away. If only they knew how idiotic they look. How has the writer made the writing fun and lively?

19. Spending all day chewing is not healthy. The constant motion of the jaw puts strain on the muscles that attach the jaw to the skull. Over time, these muscles have to compensate for the extra work by getting bigger. Basically girls are giving their jaw a 6 hour workout. No wonder some girls have faces like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Homer Simpson! In addition to this, chewing is the first function of the digestive system. When we chew our mouth produces saliva to digest food – which never arrives. All this saliva has to be swallowed. Over the course of a school day the average girl who chews gum can swallow over 14 pints of her own saliva. Ew! How has the writer made the writing fun and lively?

20. Let me tell you a secret girls: saliva is not digested like real food and liquids. Saliva, as a human body product, is reabsorbed back into the body through the large intestine leaving one by-product: carbon dioxide. And what happens to this co2? That’s right ladies; it is ejected from the body in intermittent bursts of wind. Farts, trumps, bottom burps, gas, doesn’t matter what name you give it – it is always disgusting.

21. So, like I said, if God wanted us to chew gum he would have made us cows, then we could chew and fart all day long and no one would mind!

22. Explore lively writing by answering these questions • What does the writer compare students who chew to in paragraph 1? • How does the writer use language in the second paragraph to make chewing seem unpleasant? • How has the writer used exaggeration in the second paragraph? • Write the simile in paragraph 3? • Write the sentence that starts with a verb in paragraph 4. • Write the simile in paragraph 4. • How does the writer appeal to the reader in paragraph 5? • What kind of humour has the writer used in paragraph 5? • How does the writer link back to the beginning in the last paragraph? • Find 4 examples of discourse markers.

23. Monday 20.VI.11 Modern Life I am learning how imagery in non-fiction writing creates effects Starter What is a NIGHTCLUB? What do you think the average age of a night clubber is? Who goes to NIGHTCLUBS?

24. What would an evening in one of these clubs be like? Use half a page to write words and draw images of what you see and how you think you would feel.

25. What would an evening in one of these clubs be like? Use half a page to write words and draw images of what you see and how you think you would feel.

26. I loathe nightclubs! The Hell of Nightclubs Charlie Brooker I went to a fashionable London nightclub on Saturday. Not the sort of sentence I get to write very often, because I enjoy nightclubs less than I enjoy eating wool. But a glamorous friend of mine was there to ‘do a PA’, and she’s invited me and some curious friends along.

27. Obviously, at 36, I was more than a decade older than almost everyone else, and subsequently may as well have been smeared head to toe with pus. People regarded me with a combination of pity and disgust. I spent the night wearing the expression of a man waking up to Christmas in a prison cell. ‘I’m too old to enjoy this,’ I thought. And then I remembered I’ve always felt this way about clubs. And I mean all clubs – from the cheesiest downmarket sickbucket to the coolest cutting-edge hark-at-us poncehole. I hated them when I was 19 and I hate them today. I just don’t need to pretend anymore.

28. I’m convinced no one actually likes clubs. It’s a conspiracy. We’ve been told they’re cool and fun; that only ‘saddoes’ dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little world wants to be labelled ‘sad’: it’s like being declared worthless by the state. So we must muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions. Clubs are despicable. Cramped, overpriced furnaces with sticky walls and the latest idiot tunes thumping through the humid air so loud you can’t hold a conversation. And since the smoking ban, the masking aroma of cigarette smoke has replaced by the over-bearing stench of farts, body odour and hair wax.

29. Anyway, back to Saturday night, and apart from the age gap, two other things struck me. Firstly, everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecure losers, worried about how they think others judge them, trapped within a never-ending cycle of crushing status anxiety.

30. The second thing that struck me was frightening. They were all photographing themselves. In fact, that’s all they seemed to be doing; standing around in expensive clothes, snapping away with phones and cameras with one pose after another, as though they needed to prove their existence, right there, in the moment. Importantly, this seemed to be the reason they were there in the first place. There was very little dancing: just pouting and flashbulbs.

31. Surely this is a new development. Clubs have always been vapid and awful and boring and blah – but I can’t remember clubbers documenting their every moment before. Not to this demented extent. It’s not enough to pretend you’re having fun in the club anymore – you’ve got to pretend to be having fun in your Facebook photos, and your friends’ Facebook photos. It’s an unending exhibition in which a million terrified, try-too-hard imbeciles attempt to outcool each other. Clubs are insufferable dungeons of misery. Shut them all down.

32. Question 1 What are the writer’s main points? (HINT: refer back to each paragraph) Write your answer like this: The first point the writer makes is that… (use own words then a quotation to prove it). Then the writer makes the point that… (use own words then a quotation to prove it). Next the writer says… (use own words then a quotation to prove it).

33. Question 2 How has the writer used language to entertain the reader? (HINT: which parts are funny or shocking?) Write your answer like this: POINT: (what language does she use), EVIDENCE: (prove she has used that kind of language), EXPLAIN: say why the language is entertaining. Then repeat the process.

34. Question 3 What annoys you about the British summertime? Write a paragraph linking your ideas using the discourse markers from last week. Don’t get me started on the British summertime! The worst thing…

35. Sentence structure and punctuation  • Learning objective: • To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses

36. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. because as In order to since although The boys built an enormous snowman. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

37. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. when while until after before The boys built an enormous snowman. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

38. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. because as In order to since although The cat fell asleep. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

39. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. when while until after before The cat fell asleep. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

40. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. The hunter could not find the deer. because as In order to since although Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

41. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. when while until after before The hunter could not find the deer. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

42. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. when while until after before Super Squirrel decided it was time for action. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

43. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. Super Squirrel decided it was time for action. because as In order to since although Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

44. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. because as In order to since although The mice needed a torch. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

45. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. when while until after before The mice needed a torch. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

46. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. because as In order to since although King Kitten rubbed his hands in glee. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

47. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses Use one of the conjunctions in the box to change this simple sentence to a longer complex sentence. when while until after before King Kitten rubbed his hands in glee. Can you make a complex sentence with a conjunction at the beginning? Don’t forget the comma!

48. L/O: To extend simple sentences with subordinating clauses • Task: Write a paragraph about what is happening in the picture, using only complex sentences WILF: Complex sentences with one subordinate conjunction, a capital letter and a full stop.