by melaniewp | Apr 2, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, English Language, GCSE, Spoken Language
When Analysing a Transcript, you should consider:What is the purpose, and style of the spoken language? Take care to see if the purpose changes, or is different for each different speaker. Does it change and why?1. expressive – showing feelings2. transactional...
by melaniewp | Apr 2, 2013 | GCSE, Main GCSE Texts Likely Exam Questions, To Kill a Mockingbird
WJEC Style QuestionsAnswer part (a) and either part (b) or part (c).You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on part (a), and about 40 minutes on part (b) or part (c).(a) Read the extract on the opposite page. Then answer the following question:Look closely at how...
by melaniewp | Apr 2, 2013 | GCSE, Lord of the Flies, Main GCSE Texts Likely Exam Questions, William Golding
Here are some questions that I’ve pulled out of the last few years’ AQA, OCR and WJEC exam papers. Some of these are made up based on exam board question styles. Two include notes on what the examiners are looking for.How does Golding present violence in...
by melaniewp | Apr 2, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Pike, Poetry, Ted Hughes
Scroll down for the TOP grade essay on ‘Pike’, below the poem.PikePike, three inches long, perfectPike in all parts, green tigering the gold.Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.They dance on the surface among the flies.Or move, stunned by their...
by melaniewp | Apr 2, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Old Age Gets Up, Poetry, Ted Hughes
How does the writer use language to get across the theme of the poem?Old Age Gets UpStirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that collapse At the first touch of attention The light at the window, so...
