Love Relationships Poetry Sample Exam Questions AND Answer: 'Porphyria’s Lover’ + ‘Neutral Tones'

This resource features TWELVE exam questions for 'Love and Relationships’ poetry AND a 31-slide Powerpoint presentation AND supporting worksheets, showing students how to create an exam answer comparing ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning and ‘Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy.

The presentation is designed to help you prepare your class to answer a GCSE English Literature question on AQA Love and Relationships Poetry. It has been carefully designed and created to help you guide your class through each part of the essay writing process. It examines each of the following elements: the AOs and the Mark Scheme, exam timing and weighting, essay structure, how to write an introduction, using ‘rough notes’ for planning, contents of the main body and how to write a conclusion. Most importantly, it features many extracts from the sample exam answer which are annotated to show the importance of using subject terminology, precise and judicious quotes and comparative links.

The worksheets included are:
1. Love and Relationships Sample Answers – this 800-word sample answer to the question is presented in two formats. The first is a one-page A4 handout of the essay itself. The second is a two-page A4 handout with wider margins and more generous spacing – this allows ample space for annotation and highlighting. I would suggest copying this onto an A3 sheet – I’ve used it very effectively with pairs of students using different colour markers to highlight the various AOs, the subject terminology, comparative terms, precise quotes etc.

2. Love and Relationships Sample Planning Grid –a one-page A4 handout which shows the students how to use ‘rough notes’ to plan and structure their essay.

4. Planning Grid Template –a one-page A4 handout featuring a blank Planning Grid which students can use to plan their own essays for any part of the GCSE English course.

5. Love and Relationships AOs –a one-page A4 handout which explains the AOs to students in a manner that is accessible and easy to understand.

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12 Sample Exam Questions