50 first words

The child's 50 first words include 'ta' and 'please' which will have been reinforced by the parents as they will be rewarded for being polite and will use these words when they want to ask for something. A lot of the words on the list will have been learned through imitation such as 'hiya' and 'hello' as they are greetings used regularly by people. The child is likely to have observed these greetings being used to them by their mother or other adults. Other words such as concrete nouns might be learned through imitation and reinforcement as they will see people give different names to different objects and pick up on this. A lot of the nouns they pick up on will be objects used regularly in their day to day life as these words will be repeated by the parents when put in front of the child so after a while they will begin to associate those words with the objects and learn to say them.

Tea Time - Discourse Strategies

Repressive

• Use of modal auxiliary verbs: - "You can", "It could be", "That  could help", "You can also"
• Personal Pronouns: - "we're asking", "we'd love to", "we can't think of a better reason"
• Statements about cause of the charity to make readers feel like they need to participate/guilt-tripping: - "give poorer communities the chance of a better future" "helping people, irrespective of religion, to tackle the problems they face and build the life they deserve", "a nice cup of tea that could help make a fairer world"
• Declaritive statements to encourage readers: - "we can't think of a better reason to take a tea break.", "this year we'd love to beat that total"
• Positive Lexis: - "incredible", "nice", "fairer", "better", "unique", "love", "adventurous", "best pals", "colourful", "delicious"

Opressive

• Imperatives: - "order your free event pack", "download free resources right now", "Just ask everyone", "order yours now", "complete our online registration form", "Just give us a call"