The document provides advice for studying for the Unit 3&4 English exam. It recommends practicing language analysis skills for 10-15 minutes every 1-3 days rather than cramming, as spaced practice will be more effective. It also advises focusing on individual skills like analyzing single words, visual elements, tone, and response selection before attempting full practice responses. Effective study involves setting weekly and per-session goals and discussing different study methods.

1. Preparing For
The Unit 3&4
English Exam -

2. 17

3. It’s getting to the
serious end of things...

4. Persuasive words /
phrases
• No labels
• Just persuasive words and phrases

5. Gillard’s attack on
Abbott

6. 1
Analyse Word / Phrase
2•
• When [name of
person]
says....[insert word or phrase]...
• uses the word....
• When the author
• Uses the phrase....[insert word or
• When speaker phrase]...
• When the writer • exclaims....[insert word or
phrase]...
• describes... as....[insert word or
• this suggests to 3 phrase]...
us... • attacks...as....[insert word or
phrase]...
• makes us feel...
• creates the
association for
us... 4 • Consequently...
• makes us visualise /
imagine / • Because of this...
picture....
• We then think....

7. Language Analysis

9. Skills vs.
Knowledge

10. Language Analysis
• 10-15 minutes of practice every 1-3 days
will make more impact than ‘cramming’ in
SWOT Vac.

11. Task & Background

12. Task & Background

13. Headlines you’re
unlikely to see

14. The Contention

15. The Tone
• Emotive?
• Logical?

16. Gillard’s attack on
Abbott

17. Purpose of tone
• Through the use of...the author establishes
a.....and....tone that seeks to position the
reader to feel that....

18. What’s the link?
2010: “students who attempted to work laboriously
through every sentence found the task difficult.
Students needed to choose which parts of the material
they would use to explore the way in which language was
being used.”
2010: “Some responses were just simple summaries or
lists of the techniques used, with little development.
These pieces did not score well as they did not fulfil the
task.”
2011: In stronger responses, strategic selection, together
with well-developed précis skills, allowed students to
demonstrate their language analysis skills.

19. Select

20. Don’t Label
• Appealing to the readers sense of social justice, Lee reminds the audience
why biological diversity is ‘so important’ in protecting the living standards of
the ‘poor’. Highlighting how reduced genetic variation and increased
biological similarity within ecosystems will impinge upon ‘food security’,
‘nutrition’ and the health of the ‘rural poor’ in exacerbating ‘extreme
poverty’, Lee asserts that it is our humanitarian duty to ensure that such
injustice is not inflected upon our fellow human beings. Metaphorically
presenting ‘us’ Westerners as the ‘powerful economic giant’ and callous
‘affluent hunters’ ‘subordinating’ the interests of the poor to pursue personal
wealth and ravish the environment, Lee urges us to ‘hunt less, gather less
and preserve more before it is too late’, effectively summarizing the crux of
his argument into a useful repetition of metaphor. By evoking imagery in the
reader with ‘us’ – the affluent, greedy giant, insatiably destroying habitats
and marginalising the livelihood of the third world, the reader’s sense of
justice and righteousness is inflamed to urge compliance to Lee’s contention.

21. Visual
• Our focus is captured by the visual when /
at...
• Draws attention to the idea...
• Re-inforces the point that...
• Supports the contention / argument that...

22. 2010 Picture

25. How To Study
• Studying for Language Analysis needs to be about more
than just writing whole practice pieces and memorising
the names of techniques

26. Language Analysis
• Practice reading and thinking
• Just focus on single words and phrases
• Just focus on visual
• Just focus on tone (emotive vs. logical)
• Just focus on selecting/planning a response
• Practice a whole response only when
you’ve worked on different individual skills
2-3 times

27. Effective study
• Have a study goal per week
• Have a study goal per study session
• Discuss different options for achieving
these goals

28. Thank you...