Language and age

1. Record your thoughts and responses to some of the questions in the video on page 2.

2. Record interviews with other people of your age group, and/or people of other age groups. You might like to interview some of the adults in your life – perhaps your parents, or your teachers. How about interviewing different generations in your family and comparing thee answers – perhaps yourself, your parents and your grandparents? Can you track how language has changed over time in your own family?

3. Can you gather a range of different thoughts and opinions? You could record a series of ‘vox pops’: these are tiny mini interviews, where you ask just one question (the same question) to lots of different people (perhaps your classmates), and compare how they respond. You could ask one of the questions in the video on page 2, or you could come up with your own.