Beverly Abrahams | Thursday June 26, 2014
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, EDEXCEL GCSE, Edexcel GCSE Generic Skills, Edexcel GCSE Skills Resources, EDEXCEL iGCSE, EDEXCEL iGCSE English Language, Paper 2 Reading and Writing, Edexcel iGCSE Generic Skills , Edexcel iGCSE Skills Resources, OCR GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Creative Writing, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing, AQA GCSE Generic Skills, AQA GCSE Skills Resources, Edexcel English, Edexcel Unit 3 Creative Responses, OCR GCSE English, OCR GCSE Generic Skills, OCR GCSE Skills Resources, WJEC GCSE English Language, WJEC GCSE Generic Skills, WJEC GCSE Skills Resources, English 0522, Cambridge iGCSE English
click on image to enlarge Introducing an Essay This guide has been written with the CIE English Unit 0522 in mind, but it could be equally useful to introduce and practice argumentative writing skills for WJEC, OCR, AQA and Edexcel GCSE and iGCSE. Where do we start? We all realise the importance of an introduction to an essay. Besides being important because of its content (i.e. ‘what’ it says), it is also important in that it sets the tone for the rest of the essay (i.e. ‘how’ it says…
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Richard Gent | Wednesday June 04, 2014
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
Modern Texts An Inspector Calls PPT GCSE English Literature Student’s Guide to An Inspector Calls Learning Mats | An Inspector Calls A Guide to Animal Farm A Guide to Mister Pip GCSE English Literature To Kill a Mockingbird | Set of Lessons GCSE English Literature Student Guide to Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ A GCSE English Literature Guide to Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black A GCSE Student’s Guide to The Woman in Black GCSE English Literature Student Guide to John…
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Sarah Mellor | Wednesday April 16, 2014
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Script Writing, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
Associated Resources Lesson Plan for Script Writing.doc Script Writing Grid.doc Script Writing - Presentation Feedback Grid.doc Script Examples.doc Introduction The resources contained here are designed for students studying GCSE English (focused on the AQA Boards Specification). The resources are designed primarily for students of lower ability as well as with specific special educational needs; however, as this unit is skills and practice based the ideas and guides can easily be adapted for…
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Sarah Mellor | Tuesday April 15, 2014
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Creative Writing, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
AQA GCSE Unit 3b: Creative Writing (Descriptive) Teacher Notes Associated Resources Character Description Task.docx Scene Images Prompts.docx Descriptive Writing Grid.docx Introduction The resources contained in this teaching pack are designed for students studying GCSE English (focused on the AQA Boards Specification but easily adaptable for all other GCSE English specifications). The resources are designed specifically for struggling students, including those of lower ability and including…
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Sarah Mellor | Wednesday January 22, 2014
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Productive, Creative or Original Writing, Descriptive Writing, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
click on image to enlarge Introduction The resources contained in this teaching pack are designed for students studying GCSE English (focused on the AQA Boards Specification but easily adaptable for all other GCSE English specifications). The resources are designed specifically for struggling students, including those of lower ability and including those with specific Special Educational Needs. The exam board’s only differentiation concession is to create a Higher and Foundation Tier paper…
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Sarah Mellor | Friday November 22, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Productive, Creative or Original Writing, Informative Account, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
click on image to enlarge Introduction The resources contained here are designed for students studying GCSE English (focused on the AQA Specification). The resources are designed specifically for students of Lower Ability as well as those with certain specific Special Educational Needs. The exam boards’ only differentiation concession is to create a Higher and Foundation Tier paper each series, they do not specifically cater to students who struggle to access the basics in English – so we…
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Sarah Mellor | Thursday November 21, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Productive, Creative or Original Writing, Persuasive Writing, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
click on image to enlarge Introduction The resources contained here are designed for students studying GCSE English (focused on the AQA ‘A’ Specification). The resources are designed specifically for students of Lower Ability and with specific Special Educational Needs. The exam boards’ only differentiation concession is to create a Higher and Foundation Tier paper each series; they do not specifically cater to students who struggle to access the basics in English – so, as teachers, we…
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Sarah Mellor | Thursday November 21, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing, Hot Entries, Writing, Persuasive Writing, Speech Analysis
click on image to enlarge Identifying Persuasive Techniques and Analysing Persuasive Texts Introduction The following lesson plan and resources are ideal for a one-off GCSE preparation lesson. The idea is to examine persuasive techniques and then answer a GCSE examination-style question on two persuasive texts, requiring students to compare the texts in terms of the audience and point of view of the writer. You can use this resource in two ways: Spread the tasks out over two or three lessons,…
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| Friday November 08, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Productive, Creative or Original Writing, AQA English, Unit 3 Creative Texts, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
click on image to enlarge June 2015 Submission Candidates must complete two tasks. Each task must be taken from a different column. Work should be produced under formal supervision in time totalling up to four hours. The responses do not need to be of equal length. They do not have to be completed in the same session. The objective assessed in this part of Unit 3 is: AO4 Writing Write to communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, using and adapting forms and selecting vocabulary…
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| Thursday November 07, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Gender, Spoken English, GCSE Spoken English, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
click on image to enlarge When starting a module it is important to explain to students what the course requirements are. I tend to share the information from the specification with them and explain what each point means in detail.Candidates must complete one task. Work should be produced under formal supervision in time totalling up to 3 hours. The objective assessed in this part of Unit 3 is: AO2: Study of Spoken Language Understand variations in spoken language, explaining why language…
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Aimee Williams | Monday November 04, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Spoken English, GCSE Spoken English, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
click on image to enlarge Introduction A comprehensive 3-week scheme of work for the Power Spoken English controlled assessment with associated resources. This SOW refers to the 2015 task banks. Resources Week 1 Power and Authority Wk 1 SOW.docx Interviewers.pptx Jeremy Kyle Transcript.docx JK Image.docx Key.docx Language Devices.pptx Power in Society.pptx Power Initial Questions.docx Power Introduction.pptx Power Role Play.docx Power Transcripts.docx Prompt Sheet.docx Terminology.docx What Do…
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Aimee Williams | Monday November 04, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Spoken English, GCSE Spoken English, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
click on image to enlarge Introduction A comprehensive 3-week scheme of work for the Multimodal Spoken English controlled assessment with associated resources. This SOW refers to the 2015 task banks. Resources Week 1 Language of Multimodal Wk 1 SOW.docx Example Questionnaire.docx FB Emoticons.docx FB Statuses.docx Hybrid.ppt Mime Cards.docx PP.ppt Prompt Cards.docx Spoken and Written Differences.ppt Spoken and Written Texts.docx Spontaneous Language Transcript.docx Terminology SPLAT.ppt What Do…
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Beth Kemp | Thursday September 05, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, Hot Entries, Speaking & Listening, Individual, Group, Drama-Focused, Spoken English, GCSE Spoken English, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing, WJEC GCSE English Language, Unit 4 Spoken Language
click on image to enlarge Spoken Language Study at GCSE Some advice from an A Level English Language specialist Firstly, don’t worry! What students are being asked to do at this level isn’t linguistically ‘heavy’ and will not require a lot of new terminology in order for them to do it very well indeed; in fact, many of us who were comfortable with the linguistics from our teaching of A level initially went overboard on concepts and terminology, producing students who, intoxicated by…
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Theresa Sowerby | Wednesday September 04, 2013
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Spoken English, GCSE Spoken English, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing, AQA A Level English Language B, ENGB1, ENGB4, KS5 Archive, AQA A Level
click on image to enlarge Background This SOW was initially used as a GCSE English Study of Spoken English Controlled Assessment task (CAT) with a set of able students. It worked very well in focusing them on an area of language that was of interest to them, encouraged them to undertake an in depth study of an area of spoken language and become familiar with the necessary terminology with which to analyse the data and reflect on their own experience of language in the classroom. Having the live…
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Aimee Williams | Tuesday January 31, 2012
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, Hot Entries, Spoken English, GCSE Spoken English, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing
The Language of Radio DJs AQA GCSE Spoken English CA SOW 2013.zip This AQA GCSE Spoken English Scheme on The Language of Radio DJs contains the following resources: Week 1 EnglishEdu - AQA Unit 3c Spoken Language Study SOW Week 1.doc Introduction to Unit.doc Studying Spoken Language Intro.ppt A Glossary of Spoken Language Features - Teacher Copy.doc A Glossary of Spoken Language Features - Student Copy.doc Conventions.ppt Info on DJs.doc Key.doc Medium.ppt Radio Stations.doc Spoken vs Written…
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Aimee Williams | Tuesday December 07, 2010
Categories: KS4, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, AQA English Language , Unit 3 Understanding Texts and Creative Writing, EDEXCEL GCSE, Edexcel GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, Edexcel English Language, Unit 3 Spoken Language, OCR GCSE, OCR GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, OCR GCSE English Language, Unit A650, WJEC Eduqas GCSE, WJEC GCSE Pre-2015 Resources, WJEC GCSE English Language, Unit 4 Spoken Language, Hot Entries, Language and Linguistic Analysis, Spoken English, GCSE Spoken English
A very useful zipped set of files from Aimee Williams including a Scheme of Work and Associated Resources for the new GCSE English “Spoken English” Unit. Although written for AQA, these will be fully transferable across other boards as this is a new universal GCSE English requirement. Week 1 - Scheme & Resources Week_1_Scheme.doc Annotation_of_Txt_Message.pptx Annotation_of_Txt_Message.ppt Features.docx Features.doc Spoken_vs_Written_Cards.docx Spoken_vs_Written_Cards.doc…
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