by melaniewp | Apr 14, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, GCSE, Model Essays, Spoken Language
This is for the GCSE Controlled Assessment for Spoken Language Study. It focusses on two transcripts of David Cameron’s language in different contexts. If there are any technical terms you don’t understand use the glossary which I link to at the bottom of...
by melaniewp | Apr 14, 2013 | Autobiography, Chinese Cinderella, Exam Essays, IGCSE, Model Essays
This is a short answer Jack wrote for the Edexcel IGCSE anthology (for the Language exam). We’re revising the texts at the moment and he did a great job of getting straight to the point, picking up techniques used and explaining the effect. It’s published...
by melaniewp | Apr 13, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Of Mice and Men, OMAM Key Quotations
Chapter ONETwo men appear in an Edenic countryside location with a “green pool”. They’re on their way to a ranch, to work, and it turns out, they’re on the run because one of them (Lennie) did a “bad thing”.George is a small, dark...
by melaniewp | Apr 10, 2013 | Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Close Focus Third Person, First Person, Frankenstein, GCSE, IGCSE, Inclusive Language, Narrative, Omniscient Narrator, Point of View, Second Person, Third Person
How can I tell what point of view a story, poem or extract is written in? First, you need to know what the options are: Third Person (i.e. he, his, him /she, her /it /they, their /[name]) Second Person (addressed to: you, your, thee*, thou* or thine*...
by melaniewp | Apr 9, 2013 | Commas, Commas Exercises, Connectives, Full Stops, Full Stops Exercises, GCSE, Grammar, KS2, KS3, Punctuation Exercises, Subordinate conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions turn a sentence: Cats make me sneeze. into a non-sentence: it’s like magic!When cats make me sneeze.orBecause cats make me sneeze.orIf cats make me sneeze.orAs long as cats make me sneeze.orAlthough cats...
