GCSE English Language Paper 2 (June 2018): tips, skills and example responses.

This is a 24 slide power-point that takes students through the GCSE English Language Paper 2 (June 2018). It includes tips on each question, stepped approaches and example responses.

In the reading section of the paper, questions 2 and 4 are taught consecutively to show the different requirements of these comparison questions. There is a slide that includes question 2 and question 4 next to each other and then annotated points about the different timings, skills and assessment objectives that are being assessed on these two questions.

Example responses are given for each question, with just an opening example paragraph for question 5, and there are annotations next to each example response so that students have tips on how to write a good GCSE response to each exam question.

In the writing section of the paper, as the preview image shows, the wording of the question is annotated to break it down and inform students’ planning for each paragraph of this response. There are also some suggestions on the theme of the question and a reminder of rhetorical devices (using the AFOREST acronym) with examples related to the June 2018 writing question.

All example responses are included on word documents too for ease of printing and students could annotate success features of each response.

This resource would easily to take 3-4 lessons to walk and talk students through each question on GCSE Paper 2 (June 2018). It could also be used as feedback after an independent practice on this paper.