Beano ditches Spotty and Fatty for Scotty and Freddy upsets Rees-Mogg

Lord Snooty unhappy at attempts to avoid encouraging bullying and body image issues!

Guardian.

Playlist of past/practice clips

You can use these to set yourself practice exercises - feel free to hand in any subsequent essays for marking and feedback:

Jan 2009 exam extract

Representation of age was the focus here


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Kevin becomes a teenager

Classic comedic representation of the teen stereotype...

ImageTeens vid

Using those interviews with local senior citizens and other media content I've put together a new short film on (perceptions of) teens today; blocked from YouTube because of some of the content, but viewable at http://vimeo.com/37516712

Needed further editing ideally, but the time wasn't available. 

Scripting teens in 'Enders+Skins: scriptwriters interviewed

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/jan/24/teens-tv-language for insight on how TV scriptwriters script teen dialogues (interviews with Eastenders and Skins scriptwriters)

Global population when YOU were born?

Interesting tool at The Guardian which lets you put in any d.o.b. after 1951 to get stats on the UK and wolrd population at that time. You can access it here.
Here's the data from 1.1.52, almost 60 years ago: