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If you're revising for Paper 1 and want to do some last-minute terminology work, these are good places to look. The Internet Grammar of English The Interactive Grammar of English

If you're revising Paper 2 of the new AS level, there have been some really helpful articles about some of the topics covered, over the last few days. This piece from The Guardian on Friday (thanks to @ENSFCEnglish ) looks at research carried out by Dr Alexander Baratta into accent prejudice in education and quotes some staggeringly ill-informed views about how trainee teachers should speak. The story is also covered in The Sun  (thanks to @paulkerswill ). A couple of years ago, this story about a teacher made news when it was suggested she had been told to 'tone down' her northern accent while working in a soft, southern, shandy-drinking school (thanks to @Lisa7Pettifer for that link). Elsewhere, Rob Drummond at MMU kindly posted the results of a short survey he had carried out into attitudes towards young people's language and you can find them here . All of this material is useful for both sections of the new Paper 2 (AS and A level) where you might see examples ...

Revision of Paper 1 skills and approaches has been on our agenda recently, so here are a few things that we've been looking at. Given the limited amount of time to read two substantial new texts and write three answers, I think we probably have to be quite disciplined about time on this paper, so it pays to read for meaning effectively and plan cleverly. For our students, I've been suggesting an approach to planning answers that allows for getting an overview of each text to help with the meanings and representations in Questions 1 and 2 and which also starts to focus on the compare and contrast requirements of Question 3. Underpinning it all is a focus on finding examples of language and describing them accurately. Here's an outline of what I've given our students to work with. I've been quite pleased with the results this week, so let me know if it works for you. In the short time you have in the exam, you need to make sure every minute counts. Your note-taking ...