Unit 1 Exploring Language overview quiz - WJEC A-Level English Language quiz

1 hour 45 minutes

1 hour

2 hours 30 minutes

3 hours

Original writing and critical writing

Analysing language and contemporary English

Spoken language and creative re-casting

Language over time and language and identity

You choose one of several essays

Only Section A is compulsory

Both sections are compulsory and must be answered

Only Section B is compulsory

Spelling, handwriting, vocabulary, fluency

Genre, audience, purpose, mode

Reading, writing, speaking, listening

Phonology and prosodics, lexis and semantics, grammar and morphology, pragmatics, discourse

Meaning in context, including what is implied rather than stated

The sounds of speech

Sentence structure

The history of words

Listing as many features as possible

Linking precisely named features to their effect on the audience in context

Using long quotations without comment

Describing the layout only

Subject, verb, object and adverb

Cause, consequence, change and continuity

Genre, audience, purpose and mode

Past, present, future and conditional

Old English poetry

Eighteenth-century legal documents

Latin grammar

Contemporary English, often electronic and digital communication

It is written in form but behaves like speech: spontaneous, interactive and informal

It mixes English with other languages

It can only be read aloud

It has no grammar

A prescriptivist view that standards are falling

A descriptivist view that explains why features arise and what they achieve

Refusing to analyse digital language

Judging all slang as incorrect

Using 'app' instead of 'application'

Spelling 'soooo' for emphasis

Turning the noun Google into the verb 'to google'

Adding a laughing emoji

They replace all grammar

They show the writer's spelling ability

They are always errors

They act as paralinguistic cues that supply tone and manage face

Imperative

Interrogative

Declarative

Exclamative

A type of punctuation

A group of words that share a common area of meaning

A spoken pause

A grammatical tense

It proves the writer is careless

It has no meaning

It recovers prosody, performing the stress and intonation of speech in writing

It is required by the medium's software