I learnt a few new things this week in English, this includes Lexical Fields. These are a group of words that share meanings and associations. For example, basketball has different lexical fields, like: hoop, score, dunk, slam, court, bounce, dribble, etc. Also, I learnt that a connotation is not the surface meaning of a word, it is what it implies or suggests.
Also, I learnt the term GRAMPS. This is very helpful for analysing texts. When we consider the grammar, lexis and semantics of any text, we have to think carefully about what they suggest about the following: G-genre, R-register, A-audience, M-mode, P-purpose and S-subject. Using GRAMPS will make it easier to analyse text in the future.
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Sunday, 8 September 2013
Trip to London
In the summer of 2004, my Nan and Grandad took me and my older sister, Sophie, to London for a few days. We travelled by car on the Friday evening and unfortunately got stuck in a huge amount of traffic, the journey took 5 hours in total! When we arrived at the hotel, which was situated on the outskirts of London, we went straight to bed as we were completely exhausted after the journey.
We woke up bright and early the next day as we had a lot of things planned. We had to get the tube into the centre of London; this was more stressful then we thought it would have been as we did not know our way around. Unfortunately, this lead to my Grandad getting his head shut in the train doors when he realised we had got on the wrong one, which was very funny for us, but seemed to make him quite angry. When we finally we got into the centre of London, I was surprised at how chaotic London was compared to Bristol. Our day consisted of visiting Madame Tussauds, where we posed for hours with our favourite celebrities, going to see Fame at the hippodrome and finally having dinner at the rainforest café. The day was full of great experiences which I will never forget.
The next day was just as busy, we spent most of the day exploring the sights of London. London seemed like such a huge place to me, so I was surprised at how quick and easy it was to jump on the tube and get to another famous site. We watched the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, then we got on what I thought was a normal bus, but was actually a bus/boat. I didn't appreciate only finding out it was a boat when we were actually heading towards the water; I just assumed we were crashing and excepted my death. This was also an amazing experience and I loved every second of it. The day was fantastic but very tiring, so I was very happy when we finally got back to the hotel and into bed.
Our final day was a lot more calm and we only had one thing planned; going to see Hairspray in the hippodrome. The show was fantastic and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed a musical, as the last experience I had was when my mum took me to see 'Cats' and I almost died of boredom.
Visiting London was one of my favourite memories and even though I have already seen the sights I wanted to see, I would love to visit London and do experience it all again.
We woke up bright and early the next day as we had a lot of things planned. We had to get the tube into the centre of London; this was more stressful then we thought it would have been as we did not know our way around. Unfortunately, this lead to my Grandad getting his head shut in the train doors when he realised we had got on the wrong one, which was very funny for us, but seemed to make him quite angry. When we finally we got into the centre of London, I was surprised at how chaotic London was compared to Bristol. Our day consisted of visiting Madame Tussauds, where we posed for hours with our favourite celebrities, going to see Fame at the hippodrome and finally having dinner at the rainforest café. The day was full of great experiences which I will never forget.
The next day was just as busy, we spent most of the day exploring the sights of London. London seemed like such a huge place to me, so I was surprised at how quick and easy it was to jump on the tube and get to another famous site. We watched the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, then we got on what I thought was a normal bus, but was actually a bus/boat. I didn't appreciate only finding out it was a boat when we were actually heading towards the water; I just assumed we were crashing and excepted my death. This was also an amazing experience and I loved every second of it. The day was fantastic but very tiring, so I was very happy when we finally got back to the hotel and into bed.
Our final day was a lot more calm and we only had one thing planned; going to see Hairspray in the hippodrome. The show was fantastic and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed a musical, as the last experience I had was when my mum took me to see 'Cats' and I almost died of boredom.
Visiting London was one of my favourite memories and even though I have already seen the sights I wanted to see, I would love to visit London and do experience it all again.
Thursday, 5 September 2013
'Exclusive: Miley Cyrus Breaks Silence Over VMA Performance'
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1713414/miley-cyrus-vma-performance-interview.jhtml
This article is about Miley Cyrus' reaction to her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. The singer has become very talked about since her performance, as many of her fans were disgusted at the way she acted.
In the article, we are told that Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke wanted to 'make history' with their performance, and I think it's safe to say that's exactly what they did. The article tells us that she has been very criticised, being called 'hyper-sexualised'.
We are told that she 'thrilled fans', 'inspired no shortage of memorable memes' and 'bested Beyonce's super bowl mark for most tweets per minute'. Her performance got a huge amount of bad attention from the public, but sadly she is not ashamed as she did what she wanted to do, and she 'feels great about it'.
Miley Cyrus shows that she has no regrets, as all she wanted to do was be talked about. She states 'I dont pay attention to the negative because I have seen this play out so many times'.
She compares herself to Madonna and Britney Spears, telling us "Madonna's done it. Britney's done it. Every VMA performance, that's what you're looking for; you're wanting to make history."
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