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Abi 2011
Some of my tutees who will be taking their exams in '11 have "The Media" as a topic. Since I have the good fortune of teaching them again today (grumble. Why can't the holidays last until Monday, huh?), I'm looking into texts to supplement their reading as preparation for their exams for those who better at content and might be needing the extra edge if I can't get them up to scratch in written expression until February '11.
I can't say I'm terribly creative when it comes to texts they can use, especially since I don't know yet what their teachers are going to make of the topic, but I think they all will want to talk about media and politics, therefore I wish they could read Metaphors Can Kill I and/or Metaphors and War, Again by George Lakoff and and could watch this lecture by the same:
I can't say I'm terribly creative when it comes to texts they can use, especially since I don't know yet what their teachers are going to make of the topic, but I think they all will want to talk about media and politics, therefore I wish they could read Metaphors Can Kill I and/or Metaphors and War, Again by George Lakoff and and could watch this lecture by the same: