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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2009, 12:01:36 pm »
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Uhh, my class is revising over last year...it's kind of really irritating me.  Stuff we spent the whole of last year talking over...and they forgot ALL of it over a few weeks.  Kind of depressing stuff...hopefully they'll get the gist of it again, cos we're just about to start AOS 3, and I swear, if someone asks the teacher what an adjective is, or the like, I will have to strangle something.
VCE '08:
Psychology [41] ><

VCE '09:
English Language         [..]  Specialist Mathematics [..]
Mathematical Methods  [..]  Chemistry                    [..] 
Physics                       [..]  UMEP Mathematics       [..]

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2009, 12:05:03 pm »
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Oi. What's an adjective?

Lol naa I know what you mean, and I agree.
VCE 2008:
Physical Education [50]
VCE 2009:
Business Management [49]
Biology [48]
Further Mathematics [44]
Chemistry [39]
English Language [36]

ENTER: 99.25

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2009, 02:09:38 pm »
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We've had so much English Language homework... particularly regarding the Australian accent. I had to do a presentation on the General Australian accent.
What I've found is that books are far better resources than the internet when it comes to English Language, and its best to get Australian authors. I could barely find anything on the General Australian accent online beyond a simple definition.
My class is using The Cambridge Encyclopedia of English Language - Crystal, Mastering Advanced English Language - Thorne, and Insight Guide to English Language. We also watched Sounds of Aus DVD.

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2009, 06:53:31 pm »
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Uhh, my class is revising over last year...it's kind of really irritating me.  Stuff we spent the whole of last year talking over...and they forgot ALL of it over a few weeks.  Kind of depressing stuff...hopefully they'll get the gist of it again, cos we're just about to start AOS 3, and I swear, if someone asks the teacher what an adjective is, or the like, I will have to strangle something.

Omg.  We did exactly the same thing for the past week.  Other than that, we've only covered Australian English (the accent, slang and pronunciation).  Before that for some reason, we did Teen speak as well.

I'm using Mastering Advanced English Language - Thorne, and Heinemann English Language Units 3+4 - Taunt.

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2009, 06:57:38 pm »
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Yeah we did teen speak as well, but I haven't seen it in the textbook or anything...? We don't go to the same school do we? Lol.
VCE 2008:
Physical Education [50]
VCE 2009:
Business Management [49]
Biology [48]
Further Mathematics [44]
Chemistry [39]
English Language [36]

ENTER: 99.25

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2009, 10:01:08 pm »
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My class has just been revising from last year and working on Australian accent/pronunciation, etc, as well as the influences that have effected AE. We've had to write a few essays already.

We don't have a textbook, however, the teacher brings in resources for us to use.

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2009, 03:08:01 pm »
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Yeah we did teen speak as well, but I haven't seen it in the textbook or anything...? We don't go to the same school do we? Lol.

It's not in the textbooks that we use.  Instead, we had to do several interviews with at least two people - one person who is older than teen speakers and one person who is a teen speaker.  We had to do the interviews as evidence for the essay we had to write.

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #22 on: February 16, 2009, 04:39:12 pm »
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Hmm, I would've thought you'd have needed more than one interview with a representative from each demographic. After all, there's a myriad of social factors that affect language, so it'd be difficult to discern whether speech patterns in your individual were specific to the teenage group or a separate subculture.

We're just revising metalanguage at the moment.

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #23 on: February 16, 2009, 04:50:24 pm »
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Yes, that's what we had to mention in our essay - the interview that we conducted was just a representative of the sub-group of teen speakers.

After all, it wasn't a SAC.  Just a little task to give the teacher an indication of where we are at.

From these replies, looks like a few people are revising as well.  It's good to know we're not the only ones doing revision.  :D

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2009, 06:10:26 pm »
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Thank god revision is over...my irritation has no grounds on which to feed now...Though I must say, the revision diagnostic test wasn't all to impressive when looked upon at a class scale >,<".  At any rate, it gives me more incentive to work harder.

Just started AOS 1; watching the Sounds of Aus DVD next class!  Glad that the learning will commence...hopefully.
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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2009, 09:20:50 pm »
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How was Sounds of Aus?

"SUBSTANDARD" is now a meme in my class :P

And we also watched this in class: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJ88yvXb_c

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #26 on: March 06, 2009, 10:11:49 pm »
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hey isnt english copmulsory in australia

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #27 on: March 07, 2009, 11:42:41 am »
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hey isnt english copmulsory in australia

I'm pretty sure it is.  However, I'm 100% sure it is compulsory if you want to complete the VCE.

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #28 on: March 15, 2009, 11:51:02 am »
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Thank god revision is over...my irritation has no grounds on which to feed now...Though I must say, the revision diagnostic test wasn't all to impressive when looked upon at a class scale >,<".  At any rate, it gives me more incentive to work harder.

It can't be that bad! The average mark for our school's metalanguage quiz hovered somewhere around 40%. It could have been indicative of the difficulty of the test though; our school typically does very well in English Language... last year, approximately 60% of students attained study scores of over 40!

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Re: English Language 2009 Roll call!
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2009, 11:57:40 am »
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60%?! Shit. Which school would that be? Our school would be lucky to get 10% above 40.

Mind you, this is only the first year our school will be doing 3/4 English Language lol.
VCE 2008:
Physical Education [50]
VCE 2009:
Business Management [49]
Biology [48]
Further Mathematics [44]
Chemistry [39]
English Language [36]

ENTER: 99.25