by melaniewp | Jul 8, 2013 | AQA, ENG1H, English Language, English Language Exam, GCSE, How Do Writers Use Language?, Question 4
Question four is the one that students struggle with the most, producing vague, low-grade answers. Examiners are looking for specific comments, which analyse the specific mood or effect of a particular word in context. Don’t just list techniques that you...
by melaniewp | Jul 6, 2013 | AQA, ENG1H, English Language Exam, GCSE
Get model exam answers including June 2013, with examiners’ comments. This is sometimes called AQA Unit 1 or Paper 1. It is the English GCSE or English Language GCSE code 4705 and 4700. This page is for those of you taking your exams in 2014 or 2015.What is the...
by melaniewp | Jul 4, 2013 | AQA, ENG1H, English Language Exam, GCSE, Question 3, Thoughts and Feelings
Explain some of the thoughts and feelings that the writer has on her journey?The writer’s mood is initially positive, stressing the sensory beauty of the desert at night. Unusually, she seems to ‘love’ the ‘vast’, bare open spaces,...
by melaniewp | Jul 4, 2013 | AQA, ENG1H, English Language Exam, GCSE, Presentational Features, Question 2
ATeacherWrites.com+ All Paper 1 Resources ENG1HENG1H Question 2 June 2011 Model Answer’Up, up and away – the day that armchair travel really took off’Explain how the the headline and picture are effective and how they link to the text.The...
by melaniewp | Jun 20, 2013 | AQA, Creative Writing, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Writing
This is a question set in June 2013 for the Writing Section of the GCSE AQA English Language exam. The answer below is written by me, and you can read a clean version, without annotation here.To start with, I should probably say that this took me an hour, I did it on...
by melaniewp | Jun 20, 2013 | AQA, Best and the Worst, Creative Writing, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Something Interesting, Writing
The BestThe best meal I had was stolen. I wasn’t supposed to be in the Swan Bar at Shakespeare’s Globe; I was supposed to be meeting an old friend, staring at objects in a museum and having an intelligent conversation. But my friend had lost his phone – so I...