This approach transformed our approach to setting homework and monitoring engagement in the subject. We opted to now focus on the importance of all lessons, since there wouldn’t be another lesson going over the same things again at a later date. There are a lot of marks available here, so you should spend around 45 minutes answering the question.

The lectures have attracted all levels of ability in the year and even the ‘cool’ students are making an effort to go. Each time, make your point, provide a good quotation and explain how the techniques or use of language creates the effect set out in the question. In section B you answer one question form a choice of two, where you demonstrate your own creative writing skills.You may use this as an assessment tool for your students or you can do this as guided practice with the whole class. Use quotations directly from the text to demonstrate the structure point and then explain how the quote proves your point. The attached resource contains a selection of 5 creative writing tasks, and they have been especially designed to suit the style of the GCSE Language papers. If, for example, students were to produce a page of Cornell notes for each poem in a series, chapter of a book or character in a play, they would eventually have their very own home-grown revision booklet, complete with quiz questions at the side of every page for ‘check and answer’ purposes.

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Students need to be aware of what they have available to them in relation to a text and the knowledge they possess. We tracked their work across the term and monitored their progress towards achieving the goal of completing all 50 tasks by the end of the term.

Simply contact us and we’ll provide some free advice and set up a lesson with the perfect tutor for you. You’ll be asked to focus on a small part of source A and select four true statements from a selection of eight. This activity can work well in any subject, though for English I’ll get the students to complete revision clocks based on key themes, concepts and characters. The English department has managed to fit in two lectures a week and they will be repeated so you can go to both before the exam. I had a wealth of experience in my department (76 years of English teaching experience – including two GCSE examiners, which I was at pains to let the Year 11 cohort know!

Students should get used to completing deliberate practise tasks for both language and literature topics.

Our tutors always hear students say that they don’t need to – or even can’t – revise for English Language.We hear many students saying things like: “you don’t need to revise for English language because you’re given the extract on the day”; or even that “you can’t revise for English language”. You can find even more great revision guides, advice and practice questions on our free resources page. The students needed to know that rocking up with a bag of Doritos and an energy drink was not going to happen. You will be asked to find four specific bits of information (such as a description of something) from a specific part of the text. Schools throw the word ‘revision’ around with aplomb, but don’t spell out what revision should be and what it should look like to those people best placed to see it in action.