AQA GCSE 2026 Language Paper 1: Question 5 Descriptive Writing Practice

**Boost your students’ confidence and creativity for the 40-mark Question 5!
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This downloadable resource includes 4 engaging, exam-style descriptive writing worksheets designed to help students plan, structure, and write effective responses for AQA Paper 1, Q5.

Each worksheet features:
A stimulus image to spark ideas
Guided prompts to help students plan their description
Focus on ambitious vocabulary and language devices
Structural feature reminders to support high-grade writing
Timed writing practice to build exam stamina
Peer-assessment task where students evaluate each other’s work. Perfect for developing examiner awareness

**Updated for the 2026 specification
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From 2026 onward, AQA’s Question 5 encourages students to write a description from their imagination, rather than sticking strictly to what is shown in the picture. This pack supports that shift by helping students learn to:
• build settings creatively
• develop mood and atmosphere
• use the image as inspiration, not limitation

Perfect for:

GCSE English teachers
Revision lessons
Homework tasks
Cover lessons
Intervention or tutoring sessions
Homeschooling

Give your students the tools they need to craft vivid, confident, and high-impact descriptions and score highly on this crucial question.