Table of ContentsTitle Score

1 Phrasal verbs

2 Reading between the lines: Contextual meanings

3 Ambiguous headlinese

4 Language Constraints

5 Influences on language

6 Fashion cliques

7 Commentary

8 Humor in Ads explained

9 Using language to describe something in exaggeration

10 Gender bias in language

11 Humans of Al Jabr

NameG12 English Compilations

Select from the given three settings given in the table prompt and develop the examples and constraints in using the language.

You may also indicate another setting not listed in the table.

You will have to provide three (3) constraints and three (3) examples to go with each of them.

What makes a good commentary?

While no two commentaries on a text should be the same and while each should reflect the student’s own interpretation and ‘take’ on the text, there are key skills that everyone should apply, as indicated by the success criteria on page 6.

Now read this task and the passage that follows it:

1 The passage below describes the writer’s experience in Burma when he was serving as a police officer at a time when the British ruled the country. He has been ordered to deal with a possible threat posed by an elephant. (a) Comment on the style and language of the passage.

See the pdf book on google drive for an example of commentary. PAGE 16 OF THE PDF BOOK.

You may comment on the form, the target audience, the discourse, semantics (meaning of words), morphology (the structure of words), lexicals (the choice of vocabulary),