Cambridge International AS and A Level English Language Teacher's Resource CD-ROM

Part 1. AS Level: Unit 1. Reading non-fiction: 1. Types of question, language and style; 2. Key reading skills for responding to passages; 3. Planning and structuring a commentary; 4. Using evidence and quotations; 5. Descriptive writing; 6. Personal writing; 7. Memoirs and autobiographies; 8. Persuasive writing; Unit 2. Writing non-fiction: 9. Approaching 'directed writing' questions; 10. Approaching 'writing for a specified audience' questions; 11. Planning written responses; 12. Text types and purposes; 13. Discursive writing and writing to argue; Unit 3. Imaginative writing: 14. Exploring imaginative writing tasks; 15. Key reading and writing skills; 16. Creating your own imaginative and descriptive writing; Part 2. A Level; Unit 4. Text and discourse analysis: 17. Features of spoken language; 18. Speech strategies; 19. Transcribing speech; 20. Paralinguistic features; Unit 5. Spoken language and social groups: 21. The context of spoken language; 22. Language used to include and exclude; 23. Non-standard features of English; 24. Speech sounds and accents; 25. Theories and studies of social variation in language; 26. Dialect, sociolect and idiolect; Unit 6. English as a global language: 27. English and other languages; 28. Whose English is it? Kachru's Circles model; 29. From British to Global English; 30. English: standard and non-standard; 31. British vs American English; 32. Language death; Unit 7. Child language acquisition: 33. The main stages of early development; 34. Language acquisition by children and teenagers; 35. The functions of young people's language; 36. Theories of language acquisition.