by melaniewp | Apr 15, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Key Quotations, Of Mice and Men
Similarities to the first chapter: it’s set in the same location and repeats many of the ideas from the first chapter, including the ‘heron’ which ‘swallowed the little snake’. This could represent evil being destroyed, prefiguring Lennie’s death. At the start...
by melaniewp | Apr 15, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Key Quotations, Of Mice and Men
Get Quotations for Chapter ONE TWO FOUR FIVE SIX All quotations (long version) (short version)Get model essaysThe scene is presented as Edenic: ‘deep and green’ ‘warm’...
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 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...
