AQA GCSE English Lang Paper 2:Compare Hot air balloon ride Grade 9 full breakdown Bhutan London

AQA GCSE English Lang Paper 2: Hot-air balloon rides Grade 9 Full paper breakdown. Bhutan London Compare writers viewpoints

Full lesson on the Hot-air balloon rides over Bhutan and London, looking at the differences between the two places and comparing writers’ opinions. 48 slides full of AfL activities: starter activity, assessment activities, plenary, activities allow for stretch and challenge, speaking and listening opportunities to express opinions and viewpoints with discussion points –
AQA Paper 2, full paper Q1-5 activities & answers: Achieve a grade 9!

Looking at the two sources:
-Floating over Bhutan by Martin Fletcher
-Hot air balloon ride over London by Henry Mayhew
Lesson objectives:
-To familiarise ourselves with unseen texts Floating over Bhutan and Hot air balloon ride over London.
-Identify the differences from two images and infer meaning
-Build up ambitious and sophisticated vocabulary
-Summarise the differences between two texts linking ideas
-Develop language techniques and explode inference
-Compare viewpoints and perspectives
-Discuss the format and content of a letter
-Review and highlight techniques from a model writing task
-Express our own viewpoints and perspectives
-Review your own piece of writing and highlight techniques

Grade 9 model responses to questions 1-4 from the reading section and a grade 9 Q5 model writing answer.

This lesson focuses on developing inference and expressing viewpoints and perspectives looking at comparing a modern C21st text and a C19th text.