by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | Applying to Oxford and Cambridge, George Callaghan, Guest Blog
Oxford and Cambridge are among the most famous universities in the world. They are unarguably the most renowned in Europe. Gaining a place is tough, but not impossible. George Callaghan, director of Tamesis Educational Consultants, and an Oxford alumni, explains how...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | GCSE, GCSE English Literature, How to Compare, How to Write an Essay, Poetry
Help! Your teacher’s just told you to write a comparison between two or three poems, but you don’t know how…Don’t panic! Just follow these simple steps: first, figure out what’s the same and what’s different. This is where a...
by melaniewp | Jun 4, 2013 | AQA, Carol Ann Duffy, GCSE, Medusa, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, OCR, Poetry
In ‘Medusa’, Carol Ann Duffy creates a personification of jealousy that flickers from mythical re-imagining, through metaphor to a vividly specific instance of ‘Love gone bad.’ The language of the first person narrator is violent, mixing...
by melaniewp | Jun 4, 2013 | AQA, Edexcel Language Anthology, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, My Last Duchess, Poetry, Robert Browning
How does the writer present the character of the Duke?+ get an example of creative writing based on ‘My Last Duchess’ (GCSE creative writing controlled assessment) hereThe Duke narrates this dramatic monologue, whose topic seems at first to be his antique...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Shakespeare
Which texts are you studying?Macbeth’Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.’Othello’O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.’Romeo and...
