GCSE English - Language and Perspective Analysis for Language Papers - 22, 23, 24

Big Question Retrieval and Analysis - An Inspector Calls
• Objective: To analyse key themes, language, and characters in An Inspector Calls.
• Description: Focusing on Priestley’s social messages, this worksheet helps students explore themes of social responsibility, class conflict, and generational differences. It includes practice questions to support retrieval and thematic analysis.
• Key Techniques: Imagery, metaphor, sentence structure.
• Focus Points: Identify how specific words and images create mood or emphasis.
• Exam Tip: Describe the effect of language choices on readers and how they support the writer’s purpose.

Thematic Analysis and Key Quotations - An Inspector Calls
• Objective: To retrieve and analyse key themes and quotations.
• Description: This worksheet aids students in identifying important themes in An Inspector Calls, with tasks for selecting and analysing quotations. It encourages students to build interpretations supported by specific textual evidence.
• Key Techniques: Tone, point of view, rhetorical devices.
• Focus Points: Contrast each writer’s perspective and analyse how language supports their viewpoint.
• Exam Tip: Focus on similarities and differences in perspective, citing specific words or phrases to support your analysis.

Applying Comparison and Language Analysis
• Objective: To analyse and compare language and structural techniques in two unseen texts with a similar theme.
• Description: This worksheet guides students through comparative analysis, focusing on how two writers approach a shared theme. Tasks involve identifying language techniques and discussing their impact, providing practice in linking ideas across texts.
• Key Techniques: Comparative language, structural contrasts.
• Focus Points: Practice side-by-side comparisons, identifying thematic and stylistic contrasts.
• Exam Tip: Use comparative phrases to smoothly transition between texts and make clear connections.