Task: find a text and annotate it with all terminology that you know, then go over it with the terminology booklet, adding more. Create an overall question that is likely to come up in the exam and plan an essay for it, including all the terminology you have found. Priorities the most important points you want to make, linking them so that the essay would flow.
Extract from Modern Family:
Cameron Tucker: There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You'd think the dreamers would find the dreamers, and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not the opposite is true. You see, the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists, well without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.
Mitchell Pritchett: It was a supportive "wah-wah".
Cameron Tucker: There is no supportive "wah-wah". A "wah-wah" by its very nature is spiteful, nasty and undercutting.
Extract from interview with The Maine.
What is the meaning behind the new album title "Pioneer"?
John: I got sick and tired of hearing people say that everything happens for a reason, ‘cause I don’t believe that. I believe that anything you would like to do, you can do with your own two hands and your own functioning brain, and I feel like whatever path it is that you want to embark on, you are more than capable of doing so by yourself, and that’s kind of why I named it that.
Pat: It’s all about doing your own thing, forging your own path. We recorded the record ourselves, and we’re doing everything ourselves. We’re paying for it ourselves, we’re releasing it ourselves, and we’re just doing our own thing.
Where have you been recording the album at?
Pat: El Paso, Texas.
Ok, now what’s going on with the November 21st date, I hear that’s not the actual day the album’s coming out?
John: It’s not necessarily the exact date, we’re still figuring that out. We’re putting it out on our own, and we’re paying for it all on our own, and you have to go through a distribution company. We have to figure out what date they can put it out on.
So I guess the better question is, is it going to come out while the Pioneer tour is happening?
John: It definitely will come out during the tour!
The rule of three is used in both of these texts. Pat says of how 'we're paying for it ourselves, we're releasing it ourselves, and we're just doing our own thing' to emphasize how much they are doing it alone by repeating 'ourselves' throughout, it shows how united and together they are by doing their 'own thing' implying they have common interests as a band. In the Modern Family extract, Cam describing the noise 'wah-wah' as 'spiteful, nasty and undercutting' to show just how much he disagrees with it as spiteful is not enough to describe his feelings towards it.
The purpose of these two texts are to entertain and inform together. Cam's monologue becomes more political and speech like than talking of his actual feelings, he conveys his emotions and ideals through two types of people, hoping to relate to someone who is listening or watching the show.
