William S. Burroughs as Opium Jones, 1960s Robert... IELTS-Blog - IELTS exam preparation for free Language and technology Introduction This guide is written for students who are following GCE Advanced level (AS and A2) syllabuses in English Language. This resource may also be of general interest to language students on university degree courses, trainee teachers and anyone with a general interest in language science. Please look at the contents page for a full list of specific guides on this site. Back to top What do the examiners say about this subject? Language and technology is one of the subjects studied within the broader area of Language and Social Contexts, which is set as a module for study within the specification for the AQA's Advanced Level (GCE AS and A2) Specification B for English Language. In giving guidance to people studying the subject, the examiners advise them to study: the variety of language forms insofar as they are affected by the technological medium used for communication (e.g. telephone, radio, television, computer); historical and contemporary changes, where appropriate. 1. 2. 1. 2.
Italy's Drowned Village The story of how a church in Italy was submerged underwater, so that now only the spire can now be seen above the water’s surface… Photo: Image: suedtirol.altoadige Legend has it the bell can still be heard in the dead of winter, sounding out its knell despite the fact that it has long since been removed. Photo: Image: Petr Drápalík The history of Graun, near the Austrian-Italian border, stretches back to Roman times, but this small village enjoyed the relative anonymity of most settlements of its size until the 1930s, when the story of why it was submerged begins. Photo: Image: Photographer unknown via Mental Floss In 1939, the electric company Montecatini announced plans for a 70-foot deep lake that would unify two natural lakes, Reschensee and Mittersee. Photo: Image via schule.provinz The building of the dam began in 1940 in the face of fierce local resistance, and this opposition together with the War slowed progress so that it was not completed until 1950. Photo: Photo: Charles01
Scriptwriting In The Classroom Introduction What do we want students to know about scripts, scriptwriting, and screenplays? To begin with, most media (advertising, newscasts, billboards, TV, Radio, movies) start as writing. Before an inch of video or film is shot, before an ad is designed, someone has written it down on paper (or on the web.) Secondly, those who use scripts use various techniques. Learning to write a script opens the door to a process that many students have never been exposed to. To begin, I suggest teachers write the words AUDIO and VIDEO on the board or on an overhead transparency. Explore the resources by clicking the links in the left hand column. Timely resources: The Comic Book Script Archive
Materials for Students: Writing the Academic Paper: Attending to Style flash.media.Sound - ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform id3:ID3Info [read-only] Provides access to the metadata that is part of an MP3 file. MP3 sound files can contain ID3 tags, which provide metadata about the file. If an MP3 sound that you load using the Sound.load() method contains ID3 tags, you can query these properties. Flash Player 9 and later and AIR support ID3 2.0 tags, specifically 2.3 and 2.4. The following table describes ID3 tags that are supported but do not have predefined properties in the Sound class. When using this property, consider the Flash Player security model: The id3 property of a Sound object is always permitted for SWF files that are in the same security sandbox as the sound file. However, in Adobe AIR, content in the application security sandbox (content installed with the AIR application) are not restricted by these security limitations. For more information related to security, see the Flash Player Developer Center Topic: Security. Implementation public function get id3():ID3Info Related API Elements
BLUE WHALE GENERAL DESCRIPTION The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived on Earth. It is also the loudest animal on Earth. These enormous mammals eat tiny organisms, like plankton and krill, which they sieve through baleen. They live in pods (small groups). Blue whales are rorqual whales, whales that have pleated throat grooves that allow their throat to expand during the huge intake of water during filter feeding. SIZE Blue whales grow to be about 80 feet (25 m) long on average, weighing about 120 tons (109 tonnes). A Comparison of the Size of the Blue Whale and Other Interesting Animals Blue whales are the loudest animals on Earth! Click here to hear a blue whale call (recorded by the NOAA). SKIN, SHAPE AND FINS The blue whale's skin is usually blue-gray with white-gray spots. They have a very small, falcate (sickle-shaped) dorsal fin that is located near the flukes (tail). The blue whale has about 320 pairs of black baleen plates with dark gray bristles in the blue whale's jaws.