Fabulously Fat

1. Fabulously Fat Objective: to learn to answer an exam question

2. TASK 1 Listen to 10 minutes of Woman’s Hour on BBC radio 4 via Iplayer. • Question 1: Identify purpose/audience/genre • Question 2: Identify 5 key language features of the show

3. TASK 2 Using your bullet pointed notes on ‘Fabulously Fat’ from last week, use this information to start writing a radio script for BBC Woman’s hour titled ‘Women and their weight’. Use the style mode on page 12 to help you with layout.

4. You have 30 minutes of this lesson to finish typing up your ‘Woman’s hour’ radioscripts.

5. Re-read the sample commentary on page 16 before completing the following task Write a commentary which explains the choices you made when writing your radio script, commenting on the following: • How language and form have been used to suit audience and purpose • How vocabulary and other stylistic features have been used to shape meaning and to achieve particular effects

6. E-mail your radio script to someone else in the class Question 1: Read your partner’s radioscript and annotate (using the ‘review’ – ‘comment’ function) all the places they have referred to the source material from the original article. Question 2: Annotate your partner’s work with key language features you can identify. Describe how they are suitable for the purpose/audience. Then e-mail their work back with your comments. Question 3: Read your annotated radioscript and see whether the comments your partner made about language match those made in your commentary.