Here you’ll provide your own perspective on a task related to the theme that was introduced in section A. This will help them considerably when they come to attempt those longer exam responses that are designed bring their knowledge together.

I had a wealth of experience in my department (76 years of English teaching experience – including two GCSE examiners, which I was at pains to let the Year 11 cohort know! Do not analyse language in this question – you won’t get any marks for talking about language in question 3. It was particularly helpful for our weakest students, providing a supported, structured approach to revision that generated some excellent results. That meant I had 12 weeks of high-quality additional provision planned that could accommodate 60+ students a week. This book can also be bought as a standalone Online Edition — we'll send you a code to redeem immediately.You absolutely need to revise for GCSE English language and following a few simple steps can make all of the difference. This bundle contains twelve full practice papers in the style of AQA's English Language Paper One (8700) in Microsoft Word format. Lessons now start with regular questions on all the texts, which serve to highlight gaps and areas for the students to work on – ‘Tom, you need to work on Macbeth; Jasmine, you need to work on your poetry.

It can be useful to turn these into distinct homework tasks and encourage the systematic approaches above, so that they’re able to focus on knowledge and retrieval. Whether you want to revise lexis or semantics or learn about language development, Seneca can be your personal tutor for revising English Language. The above revision techniques are easy to apply to literature topics, where there’s a clear body of knowledge to accompany each text, but they can seem less practical for the largely unseen texts and tasks of English language study. We were looking for evidence that the students had engaged with the tasks, rather than producing the swathes of copied-out notes and highlighting that are often a poor proxy of revision. This is a revision material for GCSE students studying the new AQA English Language course (first examination Jun 2017).

They should take the opportunity to read and annotate, plan their responses and answer longer questions as part of their revision. And we've included online videos that walk students through how to answer each question in the exam and score top marks!

This set of skills-focused resources lets pupils test their skills at analysing poems, pieces of writing and more. There are a lot of marks available here, so you should spend around 45 minutes answering the question. It gives a brief overview of what is expected in both Paper 1 and Paper 2 of the Language course and gives a breakdown of how to tackle each question. For focused help and support with your GCSE English Language revision, why not try a lesson with one of our expert online tutors?

It is clear from my position as a student that a lot of effort has been put into organising the timetable. You’ll be asked to focus on a small part of source A and select four true statements from a selection of eight. Available on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Breaker and more. Check out our revision guide for AQA English language paper 2 as well to make sure you’re confident with both papers. Our tutors always hear students say that they don’t need to – or even can’t – revise for English Language.