Language Paper 1

Cards (18)

  • Overview:
    • 1 hour 45 minutes
    • 80 marks total
    • A fiction source
    • 5 questions split into reading and writing sections
    • 50% of language GCSE
  • Questions:
    READING:
    1. List 4 things
    2. Analysis
    3. Structure
    4. Evaluation
    WRITING:
    5.  Creative Writing
  • Q1?
    • List 4 things
    • 4 marks
    • 5 minutes
  • Q1: List 4 things
    • Don't make inferences
    • Just copy out from the source
  • Q2?
    • Language Analysis
    • 8 marks
    • 10-12 minutes
    • 2-3 paragraphs
  • Q2: Analysis
    • Strong thesis (all your ideas about the extract, your essay should prove this)
    • Judicious quotations (ones you can draw multiple interpretations from)
    • Strong inferences (using terminology and effective zooming in)
    • Comment on the writer's choices
  • Analysis Paragraphs
    1. WHAT - What is my inference?
    2. HOW - How is this evidenced in the text?
    3. WHY - Why does the writer do this?
  • Language Techniques:
    • Metaphors
    • Similes
    • Lexical fields
    • Personification
    • Zoomorphism
    • Pathetic fallacy
    • Alliteration
    • Sibilance
    • Plosives
    • Onomatopoeic verbs
    • Soundscape
    • Asyndetic and polysynthetic listing
    • Anaphora
  • Q3?
    • Structual Analysis
    • 8 marks
    • 10-15 minutes
    • 3 paragraphs – 1 on the beginning, middle and end
  • Q3: Structure
    • Identify structural features and comment on their effect on the reader
    • Use the whole extract (2-3 features from each part)
  • Structual Features
    • Short sentences
    • Paragraph lengths
    • Cyclical structure
    • Punctuation
    • Introduction of new characters/settings
    • Flashbacks
    • Foreshadowing
    • Perspective changes
    • Shifts in focus
    • Dialogue
    • Climax
    • Mood changes/tenses
    • Zooming in and out
    • Contrasts
    • Opening in mediares
    • Tension
    • Foregrounding
    • Foreboding
  • Q4?
    • Evaluation
    • 20 marks
    • 20-25 minutes
    • Around 4 paragraphs
  • Q4: Evaluation
    • Evaluate your perspective on the statement
    • Use both language and structural features
    • There will be 2 parts of the statement which contradictprove (agree or disagree with) both parts
    • Link to the statement throughout your response
  • Q5?
    • Creative writing
    • 40 marks – 24 marks for content & organisation and 16 marks for SPAG
    • 5 minutes planning, 40-35 minutes writing
    • 2-3 pages
  • Q5: Creative Writing
    • Use both language and structural techniques
    • Focus on man’s relationship with nature
    • Show beauty and serenity
    • Verb choices that show power
    • Sound choices that create impressions of nature
    • A range of punctuation
  • Language Techniques for Creative Writing
    • Personification
    • Lexical fields
    • Motifs
    • Metaphors
    • Similes
    • Symbolism
    • Juxtapositions
  • Structural Features for Creative Writing
    • Cyclical structure
    • Shift in focus
    • Isolated paragraphs
    • Short sentences
    • Climax
  • In Q5, never use dialouge