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.