The Features of a Travel Blog

Look at these different travel blogs:

Travel blog 1

Travel blog 2

Travel blog 3

Travel blog 4

Read the entries on these blogs. Find and write down at least 2 examples of each of the features on your sheet.

Poetry: Shared Document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OKqhvv8_eNonmzT8WjiVCI76VgfKaobPyOg-uI3hB1E/edit?usp=sharing

Snow day work

Create your own murder mystery.

Think about:

• the crime that has been committed
• location, time of day etc
• clues
• witnesses
• suspects

Asperger Syndrome Research

You need to each look at one of the following web-sites and collect 5 facts from each site. You have 20 minutes to do this!

http://www.youngminds.org.uk/for_parents/worried_about_your_child/autism_aspergers/children_autism

http://www.mychildwithoutlimits.org/?page=autism&gclid=CP7IsP6ilq0CFYQLfAodnWyeoQ

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/asperger/detail_asperger.htm

Once you have collected this information turn it into an informative poster with the key information. Again you don’t have long to do this, it is the information that is important not how it is presented. 

Entertaining Travel Writing

Follow this link. Read the blog post and fill in your sheet with at least one example of each of the features of entertaining travel writing.

Researching Travel Blogs

Look at these different travel blogs:

Travel blog 1

Travel blog 2

Travel blog 3

Travel blog 4

Read the entries on these blogs. Find and write down at least 2 examples of each of the features on your sheet.

Watch Obama's Victory Speech again and choose at least four key quotations to use in your GCSE assessment. Remember to identify which language features he uses in your quotations.

Obama's Election Night Speech




Click here for a Transcript of Speech


Informal Speeches


Watch the following interviews with Barack Obama and identify when he talks about similar issues to those he is discussing in the quotations you chose from his speech. Copy quotations from his interviews into the space provided on your planning sheet and annotate these to identify the features of informal/spontaneous speech which he is demonstrating.

Interviews with Ellen DeGeneres:




Interview with Will Smith:


Interview with David Letterman:



Mr McCarey's video


The following video should give you ideas of things to write about in your GCSE assessment: