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Question 1: 8 marks/12 mins What do you learn about… (check the question)
Skills: Reading a text, being able to summarise and explain
what it is about, inferring meaning from the text & embedding
short supporting quotations. DO NOT ANALYSE
LANGUAGE
Work your way methodically through the text making sure you
check each paragraph for the message and relevant
information. Refer to the final paragraph as it normally gives a
contrasting idea or piece of information.
Style: I learn that / I understand that… (embed quotations) This implies that… / This creates the impression that… / The writer is suggesting that...
Question 2: 8 marks/12 mins
Explain how the headline and picture are
effective and how they link to the text.
Skills: Say a lot about a little. Link your analysis of the headline and picture to quotations from the text. Explain HOW it links to the text. 2/3 of your answer should be analysing language & picture. 1/3 of your answer should be explaining how it links to the text. Band 4 = link your analysis carefully to what the text is about. Style: The writer uses a pun in the headline when they
write ‘took off’. This implies that … but also it
suggests that… This links to the text when the writer
states ‘….’ this links to the pun because…
Question 3: 8 marks/12 mins
Explain some of the thoughts and feelings of…
(check whose thoughts & feelings)
Skills: You need to show you can identify thoughts and feelings in
the text & embed quotations to support what you say. Cover the
whole text. Show how they change in text. Identify the writer’s
thoughts and feelings and how they change through the text.
Write 4 PEA paragraphs. Focus on thoughts/feelings by analysing
the thinking/feeling words used in the text.
Style: The writer feels / The writer thinks (state thought or
feeling) … (embed short quotations) this implies that…
Only analyse words when linking them to a specific
thought or feeling.
Possible techniques
to identify:
Pun, alliteration,
simile, metaphor,
colour, image size.
Question 4: 16 marks/24mins (worth 20%)
COMPARE how the writer has used language for effect in TWO texts.
Skills: Write a lot about a little. You must choose words &
techniques closely. Analyse the effect of them in detail.
Compare it with another text. Name & explain techniques
used. COMPARE + the effect created: similar or different?
Style: In Source * the writer uses a (insert technique) …
(quote) This creates the effect of…
The writer creates a … effect by using a (insert technique).
This implies that…
Similarly in Source * the writer uses…
However the writer creates a different
effect in Source * when s/he uses (insert
technique). (Quote) This implies that...
Question 5: 16 marks / 24 mins (worth 20%)
Writing to DESCRIBE/EXPLAIN.
Skills: PLAN! Fit your writing to your AUDIENCE & PURPOSE. Use a variety of suitable language techniques. Write about 1.5 pages. Paragraph, spell & punctuate properly. Use interesting words for effect. Is it a Letter? Dear… I am writing to… Yours sincerely/faithfully.
Question 6: 24 marks / 36 mins (worth 25%)
WRITE TO ARGUE/PERSUADEPLAN! Fit your writing to your AUDIENCE & PURPOSE. Use a variety of suitable language techniques.
Write about 1.5 pages. Paragraph, spell & punctuate properly. Write about 2-2.5 sides
Revision Guide / Work-
book pages:
Language
Techniques:
Pun, alliteration, simile,
metaphor, verbs, facts,
personification, , nouns,
adjectives, imperative verbs, rule
of 3, rhetorical questions,
Language
Techniques:
Pun, alliteration, simile,
metaphor, verbs, facts,
personification, , nouns,
adjectives, imperative
verbs, rule of 3, rhetorical
questions, statistics.
2 hrs 15 minutes
80 marks.
Section A: 1hr 15, 40 marks
Section B: 1hr, 40 marks
Q1 2—17
Q2 18—27
Q3 14-15, 28-31
Q4 32-51
Q5 52—92 Practice
on pg 99
Q6 52—92 Practice
on pg 101
Make sure you
refer to the
WRITER and
don’t analyse
language.
Use synonyms to
show a variety of
feelings. Eg: Excited,
curious, inquisitive,
enthralled, exuberant.