Some very basic/rudimentary tasks for students to complete to practise for the new CCEA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE paper: Paper 1: Section A: Writing for Purpose and Audience.

A ‘cheat sheet’ of things that GCSE candidates should hunt for / aim to do in paper 2: section B. Students should be made aware that this is purely to help students hunt for certain things to speed up their analysis time. It does not mean that these things will come up!

A Tension Graph activity and summary of KEY tension points in An Inspector Calls

Hi all! These are a mixture of reworked PPQs from the old specification and articles I have sourced myself from some careful scouring of the internet. I intend to use them as mocks or tracker tests to chart my students' progress through the unit 'Reading to access non-fiction and media texts'. They are to be used in conjunction with the new CCEA GCSE English Language paper. Hopefully you find them useful.

CCEA GCSE English Literature: Poetry: Identity Anthology - teaching notes

CCEA GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology: Identity. Teacher notes for analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. Hope this helps!

Year 9 Travel Writing Extracts and Comprehension Questions Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods Paul Archer and Johno Ellis It’s On the Meter Paul Archer and Johno Ellis It’s On the Meter Joe Simpson Touching the Void Paul Archer and Johno Ellis It’s On the Meter

CCEA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Unit 1 - Paper 1 Section B - Book Cover. This is a sample question created for the new gcse specification. I usually introduce the things they should look out for in book covers: GENRE, AUDIENCE, PURPOSE (G.A.P.) sell the book cover/ persuade the reader to purchase create enigma or intrigue hints at the narrative structure / plot endears the reader to the main protagonist setting narrative P.O.V. (Is it first person to create a confiding tone?) and tense (present for a sense of immediacy?) sentence structuring and punctuation for various effects language devices tone Then I use the assessment matrix to mark it. I’ll take a good essay, scan it in, share it with the class and give them a matrix, letting the students ‘be the examiner’ and annotate the sample essay explaining why it is good and what they could do to improve. Hope this helps.

Sample response to May/Jun 2019 series of new 2017+ GCSE Lit specification.

Analysis of Edward Thomas's poem "Aspens" to be used with AS Level Students.

CCEA GCSE ENGLISH Language: Unit 4 (Paper 2) Section A: Personal or Creative Writing Here is a sample creative piece in response to one of the mock papers made (and available for download on TES). It is quite dry and whilst the plot line is probably standard enough, it doesn’t really pitch it to the correct audience stipulated in the mock question. The characters are quite static and need to be developed more, and the piece is too short. However, I thought students could use it to see the importance of reading the question carefully and consciously trying to engage the target audience you’ve been assigned. My plan would be that after they in pairs discussed the work, filled in the checklist and gave some feedback on what was good/bad, that we could discuss the stimulus picture and brainstorm some potential plotlines. A lot of them might be inspired to do a Pretty Little Liars style thing where the main character perhaps gets texts from a mysterious unknown person, or perhaps go down a bullying route?

CCEA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Non-Fiction Texts To be used for Paper 2 Section B: Tasks 3 and 4. A re-purposed PPQ from the old specification - designed to be used as a new spec resource to help teach the non-fiction component of paper 2.

Notes for Frost's After Apple Picking

A sample response for Bourne and Casino Royale DVD covers for the CCEA GCSE Paper 1 Section B Past Paper Question

CCEA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1: TASKS 2 AND 3 Two repurposed legacy spec resources for the 2017+ Specification, The ReVision.

CCEA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK COVER ANALYSIS FOR PAPER 1 SECTION B: TASKS 4 AND 5. Something Nasty in the Woodshed and Thick as Thieves novels to analyse for Paper 1 Revision

CCEA GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE: POETRY ANTHOLOGY: IDENTITY

A video that guides students through a sample Q on Titanic. The other resources are available on here to download and use.

A topical 'writing for purpose and audience' task which considers Hollywood and other high profile abuse of power scandals.

CCEA GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE: The Study of Prose: Paper 1 Sections A and B. This resource contains two sample essays taken from the 2018 May/June Exam: Section A: A sample response on Lord of the Flies : Piggy as a victim Section B: Unseen prose sample response on Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer extract