English Language Paper 1 (New). Questions 1-5

Great Expectations.

Sequence of lessons teaching the skills required for the New AQA specification - English Language Paper 1.

These lessons use an extract from the opening of Great Expectations to teach the key skills required for Questions 1 -5. The BBC version of Great Expectations is a useful tool to support the teaching of structure and language.

Lessons include: example paragraphs, paragraph structures, explicit links to the mark scheme, opportunities for self and peer assessment, scaffolds to help students plan their answers and a range of individual, pair and group tasks.

They are designed using the AQA recommended paragraph structures SQI for Questions 2 and 3. A sequence of questions: What, How and Why are established to meet the criteria set in the AQA preparing to teach resources that suggests the ability to comment, explain and analyse is internal hierarchy of progression.

The question 4 lessons focus on teaching students how to develop a critical and evaluative response to a statement using a routine that can be applied to any question 4.

The question 5 lessons are directs at Higher Ability students, focusing on using complex ideas and extended metaphors in descriptive writing.

AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas.
Select and synthesise evidence from different texts.

AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure
to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject
terminology to support their views.

AO3: Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are
conveyed, across two or more texts.

AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.