GCSE English language Structure

AQA GCSE English Language Question 3 Paper 1

****This teaching resource includes a PowerPoint presentation and a booklet designed to help students analyze and understand the structure and atmosphere of a text. The resource is broken down into five clear activities:

1.Vocabulary Match-Up: Students will match terms related to structural features, helping them familiarize themselves with key terminology. ( Answers - Slide 5)

2.Reading Comprehension: Students will read a provided text and answer questions based on a “Question 1 and 2” format, focusing on understanding and interpreting the text. ( Answers in mark scheme provided below, Answers for Q1 provided in notes section of slide 6)

3.Textual Analysis: After reading the full text, students will identify five structural features that apply to the text, enhancing their ability to recognize and analyze how a text is constructed.

4.Atmosphere and Structure Reflection: A set of thought-provoking questions will guide students to reflect on how the structure of the text contributes to its atmosphere.

5.Storyboard Creation: Students will visually map out the text’s events through a storyboard, helping them visualize key elements of the narrative.

6.Being an examiner task : includes 6 student responses ranging from 1 - 8 marks. Students get to be an examiner and first highlight any quotes/evidence in the answers, any structural techniques and lastly the effect on the reader. They then have to give each response a mark. Depending on the group you can pick to do 3 responses rather than 6.

7.Final activity is answering Q3.

The PowerPoint provides both the tasks and answers, while the accompanying booklet includes example student responses from a past exam (November 2018 Paper), allowing students to step into the role of an examiner. In the final activity, students will use the T-rex insert from the paper to craft their own answers, applying everything they’ve learned in the process.

This resource offers a comprehensive and interactive way for students to practice and improve their analytical writing skills in relation to structural features and atmosphere, while also giving them insight into marking and assessment.

It is very easy to edit and you can change the order of things if you like. The powerpoint is nice and my students really enjoyed the lesson. This can be done over 2-3 lessons.

Below are the links to the insert as well as the complete markscheme.

After completing Q3 we also did Q4 , I will upload a resoure for this also, as I think it works well as the students at this point have a great understanding of the text.

Link to insert: https://www.learnyay.co.uk/english/gcse-english/english-language/past-papers/aqa/2018-aqa-gcse-english-language-paper-1-data-insert-november-8700-1/

Link to mark scheme : https://dynamicpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/AQA-87001-W-MS-NOV18.PDF

Link to a video that helps students visualise the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA859Zbz9Og