by melaniewp | Jun 21, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, Coursework, Creative Writing, GCSE, IGCSE, My Last Duchess, Show Don't Tell, Writing
Here are some examples to demonstrate how to ‘show, don’t tell’ in a creative writing piece for GCSE. The text it is based on is ‘My Last Duchess’, by Robert Browning in which a Medici prince talks about how he murdered his wife.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...
by melaniewp | May 6, 2013 | Common Entrance, Controlled Assessment, Creative Writing, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Writing
This is a lesson I did with a student revising for the Writing Paper on the OCR GCSE English Language Exam, but would work equally well for AQA, WJEC, Edexcel or Cambridge IGCSE English Language Exams.Question SetDescribe a place you’ve beenPlace: New York....
by melaniewp | May 6, 2013 | Autobiography, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Writing
When you’re writing autobiography, there’s one big problem. How can you avoid writing ‘I’ all the time? It’s easy when you know how. Do what travel writers do:use ‘we’ – as it sounds less self-centred. There are other...
by melaniewp | Apr 29, 2013 | Common Entrance, Complex Sentences, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Writing
This is a lesson I did specifically for a student aged 13-14, who wanted to know how he could improve his writing level. We took a story that he had written for homework using pathetic fallacy. Most of his sentences started with a noun or pronoun. This is the...
