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Year 11
The Final Push
English Language: Question 1 Papers 1& 2 = information retrieval.
Fact 1:
English and Mathematics are considered the two most important subjects
(core-subjects / educational institutions / employment)
Fact 2 :
You will have to re-sit if not meet the required standard up until you are 18 years
of age.
Fact 3 :
English Language and Literature have to be sat and either counts as showing
skills in English.
Fact 4:
If you prepare for the exams your mark will be higher than without!
Steps already in place:
English Language Booklet issued at Parents’
Evening/ Class.
Materials placed on English page of School
Website:
http://fallibroome.academy/learning/department
s/stretch-and-challenge/
Blog +Lecture Series (Wednesday session)
English Language revision sessions
Ask class teacher.
Other places to look:
AQA website
YouTube: especially Slide
Share / Mr Bruff tutorials.
Study Guides: especially
AQA endorsed/ CGP / Pearson
Key area of preparation is to know exactly what is on each paper and in what format. This is
not a secret. You already know this. The exam is not trying to trick you – just to test your
ability after 11 years of speaking, writing and studying the language of the country you live
in. Being prepared for what is on each paper will give you confidence.
Paper 1
Question Focus
Marks
Paper 2
Question Focus
Marks
Information
Retrieval
Four facts
4
Information
Retrieval
True or false statements
4
Language
Use of writer’s Language
8
Summary of
comparisons/
contrasts of TWO
extracts
NOT about language but about
being able to notice different
viewpoints
8
Structure
How an extract has been
organised
8
Language
Use of writer’s Language in
ONE of extracts
12
To what extent do
you agree?
Engage with a text by
showing an understanding of
ANY techniques the writer
has used
20
Comparison/
Comparison/ contrast of
contrast of writers’ writers’ use of techniques:
use of techniques language / structure….
16
For your own writing: Creative Writing :
You will be judged on TWO areas – Content and Technical Accuracy
Content
Technical Accuracy
Structure: interesting start / end etc…
Use of techniques ( from metaphors to
triadic structure to rhetorical questions
etc….
Complex punctuation ONCE!
Use of varied sentence starts and
lengths
Paragraphing
Spellings
Correct grammar ( eg: is/ are to /too
was/ were )
Correct punctuation. Are you sure you
How well are you interesting/ engaging can punctuate correctly?
the reader?
Top tips at home:
English Language
Vocabulary: 15-20 complex words. If can be
used to describe a person, place or situation
it is useful. Know how to spell / use!
Examiners expect to see challenging
vocabulary used. Sparingly! Judiciously!
Vocabulary:
Nasty, horrible---------- nefarious
Big, great
------------- colossal
Sad, unhappy------------ melancholic, morose
Happy
-------- blissful, ecstatic
Small, tiny --------- diminutive, minuscule
Tired
---------- lethargic
Lazy
----------- indolent
An example of crafted writing (descriptive):
There were black clouds above them. It was meant to have been a great day but
something was wrong. The weather wasn’t nice. Before the weather had been
good. There was nothing to suggest it was going to turn nasty. The sky was
getting darker. They should have taken notice of this, but they were young and
didn’t know any better. They should have.
Above them, nefarious clouds gathered. It was meant to have been a pleasant
day, a blissful day. Yet something was wrong: something melancholic hung in
the air. Just hours before the sky had been bright. No hint given that danger lay
ahead. The ever-darkening sky should have been a warning, but in the height of
summer and height of youth clouds were just clouds. How wrong they were.
Top Tips: English Literature:
 Know each poem’s message(s).
 Poetry: learn 4 or 5 top analytical points for each
poem.
 Full texts: know the author’s reasons for writing the
text. Main messages/themes.
 Learn at least 10 highly analytical points to impress
the examiner.
Top tips at home: English Literature
Ensure have a range of verbs (spelt correctly) to use when
presenting a writer’s methods:
Highlights / accentuates / emphasises / shows / exemplifies /
forwards / heightens a feeling of…..
Shakespeare emphasises through the use of light and dark
imagery just how evil Macbeth has become.
Priestley exemplifies his views on capitalism…
For all texts need to LEARN QUOTES. Learn some short, memorable
quotes:
‘Macbeth’: ‘Full of scorpions is my mind’ ‘black and deep desires’
‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent beneath it’
‘Partners in greatness’
‘An Inspector Calls’
Mr Birling says, ‘Fiddlesticks!’
‘We don’t live alone. We are members of one body’.
‘Bees in a hive’
‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
‘There are millions and millions of John and Eva Smiths’
‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
‘Master Hyde….must have secrets of his own; black secrets, by the
look of him’ ‘ape-like fury’
‘a great-flame of anger’
A good way of learning quotes is by writing them down and
testing yourself, or getting someone to test you. The next
slides are some of the quotes taken from the English Stretch
and Challenge session on the School website. Have a go!
Enfield, describing Hyde to Utterson, "There is something wrong with his
appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable."
Utterson, speaking to himself, "If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek."
Jekyll, reflecting on mankind, "All human beings... are commingled out of
good and evil."
When Stevenson depicts Hyde as “staring with injected eyes” and suggests the
dreadful contortions of his features as they “melt and alter," he evokes the
ghastliness of the moment of transformation
Jekyll, continuing his description of his own desire to be Hyde, "...and it
was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of
temptation."
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Macbeth does murder
sleep: the innocent sleep,
‘too full of the
milk of human
kindness’
‘blood will have
blood.’ Macbeth
What's done cannot be undone.
(Lady Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1)
There’s daggers in men’s smiles.
‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’
‘lower costs and higher prices. ’
‘Girls of that class-’
Intimidation ‘You know of course that my husband was lord Mayor only
two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate.’
You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you
do, then the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse
when he does.‘ Sheila
'He’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves.‘ Sheila
‘Mother, I think that was cruel and vile’