I'm sure that you are missing your English lessons...

So I am going to give you some fish to feed. Click the mouse to create food for them, which they will eat.

Dont' forget to feed them over the holidays!

And looking forward to seeing a few of you over pre-6th, as I'll be a year 12 tutor next year

What did you think of paper 2?

...and how did it go?

Well done; you're finished now.

Happy days.

Past Papers for paper 1

As I said, they're hard to find on the net because of copyright issues. If you haven't already looked, though, the BBC Bitesize revision English Mock is a good example of what you might get in the paper, and it also has a markscheme.

There's also some revision help on this site about persuasive writing.

And, of course, you will have a session tomorrow morning from me for last-minute stuff.

Hope this helps...

Paper 1 practice

Internet off again....and on again....now I have a lovely new computer, so hopefully will work for more than 8 hours this time.

The board tend not to put up paper 1 because they are often things which are copyright-heavy, so they can have them for the exam, but can't put them up on the web. That's why it's good to think of your own possible paper 1 pieces.

There will certainly be standard questions; always one to test your understandiong (like a precis), asking you to briefly out line the argument; always one to compare texts--perhaps layout or language or often both--always something that is testing how you respond to and if you can distinguish between fact and opinion.

The exam board have given really precise guidelines here:

GCSE English (Specification A): Paper 1 Section A
The following AOs will be assessed in all questions in Section A rather than in specific
questions:
• read, with insight and engagement, making appropriate references to texts (AO2 (i));
• select material appropriate to their purpose (AO2 (iv))
HIGHER TIER
• Question 01 tests the ability to follow an argument (AO2 (iii))
• Question 02 tests the ability to distinguish between fact and opinion (AO2 (ii))
• Question 03 and 04 will test the ability to understand and evaluate how writers use
linguistic, structural and presentational devices to achieve their effects (AO2 (v))
• Either Question 03 or 04 will test the ability to make cross references (AO2 (iv))

Hope this helps!

I'm Back!

Did you notice I was gone? All revising too hard for next week, no doubt. My internet has been down, but now I'm back, o joy and bliss.

So.... next week it's the whole paper 1 business... I hope that you're still practising with your media notebooks!