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...
by melaniewp | Apr 1, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, Describing Words, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, SATs KS2, Sensory Language, Verbs, Vocabulary, Writing
If you want to write a story with more interesting description, try this – from age 8 to age 18. Sometimes a thesaurus is too big, too hard to use and you don’t know what word you’re looking for anyway. This sheet is for inspiration for stories....
by melaniewp | Apr 1, 2013 | A-Level, Exam Essays, Feminist Criticism, GCSE, Othello, Shakespeare, Women in Othello
QuestionIt is often suggested that the women in Othello are weak. In fact, Othello is a play of female power. Evaluate this claim.Things to think about:Which of the men could we say are under women’s power? Which most, which least? Could we say the women are...
