Language Analysis: Yay or Nay?

[Charmz]

Im pretty sure i wrote 'readera' occSionaly instead of the audience will they care that much?

Oh shit! I totally forgot it was a speech and used reader as well!! Crap!

[datfatcat]

lol I changed all "readers" to listeners in the last minute.

[Wazzup]

i was using readers, listeners and audience lol!!

[Najaf]

The kid she said she saw in the TV ad was the little weiner at 0:24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jINvfJFO2lM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[datfatcat]

The kid she said she saw in the TV ad was the little weiner at 0:24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jINvfJFO2lM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

HAHA nice one!!

[werdna]

LMAO CHECK THIS OUT!!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/VCAA-2012-English-Exam-Article-Not-sure-if-BOY-or-GIRL/163590553782483?fref=ts

Didn't take too long for it to pop up. Lol

[brenden]

I said the headphones related to the language of the kid watching a dinosaur, showing that she is listening rather than reading and I think I took her "back to the books"thing literally (although I can't really remember now :S). I know I mentioned the headphones though.

[gummo]

The first slide was a bit weird. I ended up saying that the boy (apparently it was a girl though, lol) was "turning his back" on the printed word and that Mrs. Elliot's example of the boy sitting "all alone" with his tablet-reader helps to recontextualise the image and possibly lend it an ominous air, idk. 

[Lado]

The first slide was a bit weird. I ended up saying that the boy (apparently it was a girl though, lol) was "turning his back" on the printed word and that Mrs. Elliot's example of the boy sitting "all alone" with his tablet-reader helps to recontextualise the image and possibly lend it an ominous air, idk. 

I used the 'turning his back' as well! I think there are many ways to interpret the image and none is more 'right' than the other... I wouldn't worry about whether or not it correlates perfectly with others' understandings.

[gummo]

The first slide was a bit weird. I ended up saying that the boy (apparently it was a girl though, lol) was "turning his back" on the printed word and that Mrs. Elliot's example of the boy sitting "all alone" with his tablet-reader helps to recontextualise the image and possibly lend it an ominous air, idk. 

I used the 'turning his back' as well! I think there are many ways to interpret the image and none is more 'right' than the other... I wouldn't worry about whether or not it correlates perfectly with others' understandings.

Woo! Everyone that I talked to had totally different interpretations. Someone at my school talked about the printed word being the "backbone" of society - sounded pretty good.

[Charmz]

But she did use a powerpoint and they could possibly be reading right?

[Shenz0r]

Weren't the powerpoints there just to show visuals during the presentation?

I mean, not many would write a speech and have a whole, exact transcript of it on the screen. That would defeat the whole purpose of an oral presentation.

[HERculina]

nothings wrong in english, what you said seems pretty decent if you expanded upon it correctly. I said his back was to the books - ignorance, and that gave the implication he could 'push' the books over -> what this symbolises etc.

I said something like this too, for the first image.how he had his back away from that big pyramid of books, which also symbolized all the information/knowledge he was missing out on.
Anyway, for the second slide, I said it was ironic, cause the boy went to buy the book, not borrow it yet he only had a 'good six months' to read it?
Didn't analyse any of the Harry potter stuff, didn't have timeeee for it.
And yeah , I just mentioned the slides as visual slides.

[k.tse]

OMG, THE BOY WAS A GIRL?! :|

[datfatcat]

WHAT? Ask vcaa to put a better picture next time, one where a girl havin long hair or wearin a skirt!!

EDITED: After a look at the photo again, I must say I still think that is a boy.