Eng/KS5/Syno6

Advice on Synoptic Unit 6

This grid shows what has been set by AQA so far.

Notice there will always be 3 texts: non – literary, literary and spoken.
You will need to examine and analyse the mode differences.
You then have to write an evaluation of the comparative approaches you have taken and how it helped your textual analysis
You should refer to the alternative approaches which could have been taken
Refer to language theory

Given Link	Non-Literary	Literary	Speech
Topic of Football	Report of football match from Sunday Times	Football at Slack: Ted Hughes (poem)	Football commentary
Account of Experiences	Extract from Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks or Memorial Speech by John Jay Chapman	Extract from The Tesseract by Alex Garland	9 year old boy recounts an accident
Writers and speakers trying to influence or persuade	Advert from The Big Issue and Speech made by Neil Kinnock	A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns (poem)	Short conversation between father and son
Speech	Honda HR – V 5 advertisement	Extract from novel Kit’s Law by Donna Morissey	Monologue from ‘Century Road’ a television documentary