Examples of accent (Bristolian)

https://www.youtube.com/user/terrytheoddjobman

Terry, the odd job man, is a man that is from Bristol who creates and uploads videos in the hope to entertain youtube viewers by sarcastically explaining the Bristolian language.

TED Talks

https://www.ted.com/talks

Steven Pinker - Language Habits

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought

John McWhorter - Texting is killing our language JK!!

https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_language_jk

Form, Purpose, Audience Texts.

Text 1 - A Taken 3 Film Review (The Telegraph)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11326925/Taken-3-review-a-tragedy.html
Form: Film review within a newspaper
Purpose: To inform people about how good or bad the film was and their opinions and advice.
Audience: Anyone who is interested in the particular genre, possibly more men above the age of 25.


Text 2 - A newpaper article about diesel pumps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34262990
Form: Newpaper article
Purpose: To inform people about the fact diesel pumps could run dry
Audience: Anyone that has a diesel car or interested in diesel cars.


Text 3 - A children's story book
http://www.magickeys.com/books/gingerbread/index.html
Form: Story (online) 
Purpose: Entertainment and learning for children
Audience: Parents (if they read) and children (if they listen and read)


Text 4 - Script of a play set in a school
http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Scripts/script.aspx?iSS=2187
Form: Script
Purpose: To entertain or to be performed 
Audience: Anyone who would like to act out the play. More towards primary/secondary school children because of the theme and simple language.


Text 5 - Blog
http://jazzabellesdiary.blogspot.co.uk/
Form: Blog of a young business women 
Purpose: Share thoughts and experiences with people with the same interests
Audience: Anyone who enjoys reading her posts or has a similar lifestyle (e.g the same job title, Marketing Executive)

English Language is changing faster than EVER!

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/01/icymi-english-language-is-changing-faster-than-ever-says-expert

This article is explaining that the English language is changing faster than ever and this is down to social media. Experts say that parents and the older generation do not understand and are confused by the way their children speak on social media and also how they text them. It has been found that terms such as 'fleek' and 'bae' are new words and a survey shown that only 10% of 2,000 parents understood the true meaning, while 86% of them openly admitted that they felt they spoke a totally different language to their own children on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. This is also including abreaviated words, strange punctuation structure a long with different words. Popular social media acronyms ICYMI (in case you missed it), TBT (throwback Thursday) and NSFW (not safe for work) also made the list of terms parents failed to understand. However old text speak such as TXT and G8 and M8 are considered to not be used as widely as it used to when text messaging first came to the world but instead is being replaced by new words and now Emoji's. Emoji's are images that are available on iOS phones that can be used to express emotions that have all different facial expressions. Other symbols are also available such as weather symbols, food, objects and many more. Visual messaging is also becoming more popular because of new applications being produced, for example, Snapchat, Instagram and Vine where you can share and send photos and videos either privately or publically on a personal account. John Sutherland, a language expert has said that "we are moving to a more pictographic form of communication with the increasing popularity of emoticon". Eventually it is thought that less words will be used in messaging so icons and pictures will take over.

Frame Works for the course

• phonetics, phonology and prosodics: how speech sounds and effects are articulated and analysed
• graphology: the visual aspects of textual design and appearance
• lexis and semantics: the vocabulary of English, including social and historical variation
• grammar, including morphology: the structural patterns and shapes of English at sentence, clause, phrase and word level 
• pragmatics: the contextual aspects of language use
• discourse: extended stretches of communication occurring in different genres, modes and contexts.

All raait! It's a new black-white lingo summary.

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article209405.ece

This article is based on what linguists have identified in the way English language in Britain is changing due to the way dialect varies in different countries and is shared through migration into the UK. They have discovered that English language now includes words and sounds from cockney, Jamaican creole, Bengali and other languages which are now spoken in many areas and cities in England. They have also noticed that one group of student from many different backgrounds such as Arab, Portuguese and Ghanaian all spoke with the same dialect. They are also suggesting that people and groups are changing thenway they pronounce words to match friends or celebrities as they think it is "fashionable and cool". New dialect is also spread on radio stations that are being played nationalling around the country, including music which plays a large part in why English language now include so many multi-ethic dialect. A study was held out on teenagers which proved that kids from Watford speak the same dialect as the kids in London, also stating they were from a number of different ethnic backgrounds.
Words from different counties are also widely being spoken around Britain, especially words like "creps" meaning trainers and "ends" meaning area.

AQA Course Specification

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/as-and-a-level/english-language-7701-7702/specification-at-a-glance

Year 6- Grammar & Punctuation Test

http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/quiz/2013/feb/04/grammar-punctuation-quiz-test