GCSE English Language
Dates Available
- Week 1: 29 March – 2 April
- Week 2: 5 April – 9 April
- Week 3: 12 April – 16 April
Please note: Easter Revision classes WILL take place on Easter Monday (29 March).
Boards
All boards
Length of Course
20 hours
Times
9am to 1pm or 2pm to 6pm daily
This course provides help with skills useful for the various GCSE English Language exams in their current formats. The course will utilise exercises taken from a variety of examination paper with the aim of meeting the needs of all those who enrol.
The following areas will be covered. The length of time spent on each one may vary slightly from the following outline in order to take into account, the specific needs of students within a particular group.
Different Types of Exam Question
- An explanation of the different formats of the papers
Exam technique/Essay Skills
- Timing and structure
What Examiners are Looking For
- The different assessment objectives will be explained
Non-literary and Media Comprehensions
- Analysing language and arguments
- Summarising
Writing from a Stimulus
- Using specified forms (e.g. diary, letter, talk, leaflet)
Revision Tips
- Preparing for the exams, advice for the final weeks of revision
Reading
- Reading and understanding texts with insight and engagement
- Developing and sustaining interpretations of writers’ ideas and perspectives
- Understanding and making some evaluation of how writers use linguistic and structural devices to achieve their effects
Writing
- Communicating clearly and appropriately, using and adapting forms for different readers and purposes
- Organising ideas into sentences, paragraphs and whole texts using a variety of linguistic and structural features
- Using a range of sentence structures effectively, with accurate punctuation and spelling
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