Hungry?

Let’s make some **&!ing food then. Come

on…

This is not looking good for me…

Watch this

Write down the ingredients to make this chicken curry…

Then watch this

Write down the ingredients to make this chicken pie…

On the reverse of your ingredients

In pairs:A write a shopping list that would be useful if I wanted to make anything eg chicken, pork, bananas, icing sugar

B write list of food types eg meat

Look at the list of writing techniques

In the final box, alone, quietly for two minutes…

Write an explanation of…HOW WRITING IS LIKE COOKING

Use the words: Dishes, ingredients, types, words, techniques

My Ingredients/Food types

How is writing like cooking?

Section B of the exam paper

Is a test of your ability to WRITE (Section A was a test of your ability to read.)

They are trying to find out how good a chef you are. Can you make the dish they ask for by using the right ingredients in the right amounts put together in the right way?

There are 2 writing tasks in Section B (loosely based on the subjects explored in Section A)

Task One (16 marks)You will be asked to inform, explain or describe• You need to spend about 25 minutes on this

question

Task Two (24 marks)You will be asked to argue or persuade• You need to spend about 35 minutes on this

question

Turn on the TAP! For each piece of writing you will need to think about....

• TASK (what you are being asked to do – the question or problem you have been set)

• AUDIENCE (who the text needs to be written for – who will be the reader/s?)

• PURPOSE (why the text is written - to explain, persuade, argue or inform)

You will also need to think about what form (the type) of writing might you be asked to undertake?

• You may be asked to write a letter....

or

• articles for a newspaper, website or magazine• emails• leaflets• reports• advice sheets

THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD BE READING THEM ALL THE TIME! YOU CAN’T WRITE SOMETHING WELL UNLESS YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH IT!

On your own

Look at the examples of the kind of tasks you may be asked to complete in the writing section of the paper.

Using 4 colours, underline or highlight the task, audience, purpose and form for each task.

This should be the first job you do when you

start this section of the exam paper

Write a brief article for a website of your choice informing your readers about an interesting or unusual journey or travel experience you have had. Explain why it was memorable.

Your school or college is inviting entries for a writing competition. The topic is “Dangerous sports activities and pastimes are selfish, often put others at risk and should be discouraged.”Write your entry arguing for or against this view.

Write a letter which you hope will be published in your local newspaper. Inform readers what leisure facilities are available for young people and families in your area and explain how you think they could be improved.

‘Life is too easy for young people today. They lack challenges and don’t have to fight for anything.’Write an article for a magazine of your choice which persuades your readers that this statement is either right or wrong.

Write an entry for your blog describing your favourite time of year and explaining why you like it.

‘There’s no point making the effort and taking the risk of travelling the world, disturbing people and animals as you go, when you can see it all on TV or the Internet.’Write a magazine article which persuades young people either to travel or stay at home.

Write an entry for your online blog which describes a time when you felt uncertain or unsure about a situation you were in and explain how you overcame it.

It has been said that: ‘People who save lives or help improve the lives of others are the true role models of today.’Write an article for a newspaper in which you argue your view about what makes a good role model.

Sometimes difficult decisions have to be made. Describe a decision that you, or someone you know, had to make and explain the consequences. Your piece will appear in the Real Lives section of your local newspaper. Many people believe that it is our duty to cut back on our use of

the world’s resources, and that we must invest in greener forms of energy for the future – whatever the cost.Write an article for an environmental website which argues for or against this idea.

The travel section of your local newspaper is inviting readers to write about their favourite place.Write a letter to the editor describing a favourite place you know and explaining why others would like it.

A recent report states: ‘Homelessness in the UK is a crisis that is destroying the lives of people, especially young people.’Write an article for your school or college newspaper persuading young people to support charities which help the homeless.

Using 4 colours, underline or highlight the task, audience, purpose and form for each task.

So…this section is the opposite of Section A

In Section A, you work out and write about what language and techniques have been used by the writer to suit their TAPF.

In Section B you choose the language and techniques to suit the TAPF you have been given.

In cooking terms:

In Section A you are EATING the meal and then commenting on the ingredients used and how they suit the food type.

In Section B you are asked for a meal and are COOKING the meal and handing it to your examiner.

So let’s look at what the first lines of the texts in Section A that you looked at before Easter

Source 1: An online article called “Images bring life of lost Amazon tribe into sharp relief.”

Source 2: An article called “Slimezilla! Monster jellyfish armada threatens divers and nuclear plants.”

Source 3: An extract from a book by Bill Bryson.

Take the list of “Ingredients” and see how many you can apply to the opening lines

The life of an isolated tribe in the Amazon jungle has been documented by a crew flying overhead in a helicopter.

They poison fish, sting humans and even attack nuclear power stations.

There was a sound of undergrowth being disturbed - a click of breaking branches, a weighty pushing through low foliage - and then a kind of large, vaguely irritable snuffling noise. Bear!

Take the list of “Ingredients” and see how many you can apply to the opening lines

The life of an isolated tribe in the Amazon jungle has been documented by a crew flying overhead in a helicopter.

WHY are these features used? Relate to the TAPF

Take the list of “Ingredients” and see how many you can apply to the opening lines

The life of an isolated tribe in the Amazon jungle has been documented by a crew flying overhead in a helicopter.

Simple, declarative sentenceAdjective/formal

Verb/formal

Factual

WHY are these features used? Relate to the TAPF

Take the list of “Ingredients” and see how many you can apply to the opening lines

WHY are these features used? Relate to the TAPF

They poison fish, sting humans and even attack nuclear power stations.

Take the list of “Ingredients” and see how many you can apply to the opening lines

WHY are these features used? Relate to the TAPF

There was a sound of undergrowth being disturbed - a click of breaking branches, a weighty pushing through low foliage - and then a kind of large, vaguely irritable snuffling noise. Bear!

The good news is…

That you can all already write! This means that you’ll get about 30-50% of the marks without any real thinking.

What you need to do to get the other 50-70% is CRAFT your writing, deliberately choosing words, sentence types and techniques that you wouldn’t have chosen without thought.

Here’s what they want you to do for the top band

Communication• communicates in a way which is convincing and compelling• form, content and style are matched to purpose and audience• engages with structured and developed writing and complex

details• uses linguistic devices• extensive vocabulary, words are increasingly ambitious

Organisation of Ideas• linked paragraphs • a variety of structural features• coherent

Take the 14/16 Answer

• I will read it to you• Then, divide it up equally using scissors• Spend 5-10 minutes on your extract finding

“ingredients” from the sheet and also examples of anything from the markscheme

• Stick your extracts down on sugar paper in order 1 at a time and tell the others how to annotate it

• Make sure that the person telling you how to annotate it has not missed anything