Revision tool based around language techniques for paper 1 creative writing looking at filling in a table with the definition and creating a sentence using that technique based around a picture of a stormy sea setting. Then students will use some of the techniques from the table to create an engaging and powerful opening paragraph applying all of the punctuation marks in the first paragraph to achieve the best writing start.
Creative writing Storm descriptive activities
Two detailed paragraphs filled with language techniques to conveys the storm’s destructive power. Students will be asked to:
-Highlight the language techniques
-Name the language techniques
-What connotations do they have.
Language analysis question
-How does the writer use language to describe the storm?
Great as a revision aid for creative writing.
Creative writing city sunset descriptive activities
Two detailed paragraphs filled with language techniques to conveys the beauty of the city’s sunset . Students will be asked to:
-Highlight the language techniques
-Name the language techniques
-What connotations do they have.
Language analysis question
-How does the writer use language to describe the sunset in the city?
Great as a revision aid for creative writing.
AQA English Language Paper 2 Q5 Writing frame & checklist to ensure that you get all of the important techniques in your writing while expressing your viewpoints and perspectives.
18 step writing frame using teachniques from AFORESTRIP suitable for if you are writing a speech, letter, article
Busy train station descriptive writing activities, language analysis revision exam practice
Creative writing busy train station descriptive activities
Two detailed paragraphs filled with language techniques to conveys the busy train station . Students will be asked to:
-Highlight the language techniques
-Name the language techniques
-What connotations do they have.
Language analysis question
-How does the writer use language to describe the sunset in the city?
Punctuation
-Add more complex punctuation in the paragraphs
Great as a revision aid for creative writing.
GCSE English Language Creative writing fog personification starter activity grade 9
This is a great starter activity for creative writing lessons, using weather and fog. The activity sheet has a paragraph personifying the fog, where students are asked to highlight the language techniques and name them. Then it opens up discussion for what connotations they can comment on. It will ask students to add more advanced punctuation in to the paragraph and then leading to students writing their own paragraph on fog.
This lesson is based on the AQA spec English Language Paper 2 comparing writers’ viewpoints and perspectives looking at the November 2021 resit paper on sweets and working conditions. Achieve a grade 9!
Packed full of engaging activities: starter activity, assessment activities and plenaries.
It breakdowns each question on the reading section 1-4 giving tips and strategies and model responses to answer the questions.
-Q1 Select true statements
-Q2 Summarising similarities and differences adding inference
Q3 Commenting and expanding on language techniques
Q4 Comparing viewpoints and perspectives, using contrasting connectives
Q5 writing task will focus on article writing, expressing viewpoints and developing ideas fast fashion and the consequences of unfair working conditions.
Self-assessment marking task, highlighting the language techniques.
This lesson will also reintroduce paper 1, talking about the differences between paper 1 and paper 2 writing tasks.
Q5 Paper 1 writing task, describe a sweet shop, with lots of build-up extension tasks to help prepare, plan and structure their response.
This lesson is full of activities and covers 43 slides.
When writing a response for the paper 2, question 5 writing section, ensure you can maximise full marks for content by using an abundance of AFORESTRIP techniques to engage and communicate effectively.
This is a glossary of language techniques for paper 2 writing. Technique and definition.
AQA GCSE English Lang Paper 2: Sleep & Insomnia Grade 9 Full paper breakdown. November 2022 AQA English Language paper 2.
Full lesson on the theme of Sleeping, 47 slides full of AfL activities: starter activity, assessment activities, plenary, activities allow for stretch and challenege, speaking and listening opoortunities to expressi opinions and viewpoints with discussion points –
AQA Paper 2, full paper Q1-5 activities & answers: Achieve a grade 9!
Looking at the two sources:
-How I beat my insomnia by Arifa Akbar
-A sleepless night by Fanny Fern
Lesson objectives:
-To familiarise ourselves with unseen texts How I beat my insomnia and A sleepless night
-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.
AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 The Old Man & the Sea Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Grade 9 Ernest Hemingway
Full lesson on Paper 1 The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemingway looking at the AQA November 2022 resit paper with grade 9 model answers for the reading and writing sections. Achieve a grade 9 jam packed with activities and tasks.
40 slides of a breakdown of the reading and writing sections, with grade 9 model answers and top tips to achieve a grade 9. Lesson focuses on exploding and developing inference. Starter task, Wordle activity, review and self assessment looking at EBI and WWW with a self assessment exit card activity.
-Discuss links between novels and themes.
-Analyse the opening section from The Old Man and the Sea for Paper 1
-Identify and discuss the difference between language and structural techniques
-Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference
-Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis
-Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure applying in structure cards
-Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4
-Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEEL
-Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task
-Read and review a piece of grade 9 writing
-Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
-Review your writing task, highlighting techniques
-Complete self-assessment exit card
This is a full lesson looking at each question in depth from the June 2022 GCSE English Language Paper 1 looking at John Steinbeck’s The Pearl. 36 slides which includes starter, Wordle activity, plenaries and assessment tasks for each of the questions 1 to 5.
Model answers are given for each question, looking at how students can achieve a grade 9. This lesson is heavily based around analysis and inference in the reading section and includes a grade 9 piece of writing for the Q5 task. The lesson generates discussion, looks at developing ideas and looking deeper into the metaphorical links of the matriarch figure, power, gender.
Lesson objectives include
-Match language devices to their definition and create your own sentences
-Analyse the beginning section from John Steinbeck’s The Pearl for Paper 1
-Identify and discuss the difference between language and structural techniques
-Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference
-Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis
-Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure
-Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4
-Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEE
-Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task
-Read and discuss, justifying your opinion on a grade 9 written response to Q5.
-Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
-Review your writing task, highlighting techniques
A full lesson of 24 slides and resources looking at Roald Dahl’s Boy extract on sweets and linking it to a piece of descriptive writing describing a sweet shop. This lesson gives tips on how to achieve a grade 9 looking at building word banks and technique banks so that they can feel confident attempting their assessment tasks.
This lesson focuses specifically on language analysis and build up tasks, planning ideas and the descriptive writing task based around creative reading Q2 language analysis on Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’ and creative writing Q5 describe a sweet shop using a taste test activity to get students to really focus on their senses to describe taste, touch, smells, sights, noises.
-To focus and reflect on past memories of sweets
-Read and analyse a piece of fiction text (Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’) relating to sweets to give use as inspiration for a piece of creative writing
-Identify and name language techniques
-Write a developed response to Q2 language analysis
-Develop a sophisticated word bank
-Generate and discuss descriptive ideas
-Express our own viewpoints and perspectives
-To create and develop a piece of creative writing describing a sweet shop
-Self review activity
-To recall learning from the lesson in a A-Z activity
A grade 9 writing activity, using a the traditional style of AQA paper 1 Q5 image and writing task, to get students to build up ideas, vary sentence starters, use sophisticated punctuation and language techniques.
-Complete sentence starters applying different language techniques.
-Use a thesaurus to create a word bank
-Build up and develop sophisticated vocabulary
-Develop language techniques based upon an image
-Read through the grade 9 descriptive piece of writing. Highlight the language techniques and make any annotations throughout.
-WWW and EBI?
-Complete a piece of creative writing (either the description or the narrative).
-Checklist for language techniques and punctuation
-Refer to mark scheme on level 4 (grade 9 band)
-WWW and EBI self reflection
1% Club Gameshow PowerPoint with English questions that will challenge you mentally. Think creatively, if you have justification for your answers, write it down. These are all fun English related questions that will get you thinking critically. How well will you do under pressure?
Rules:We asked the cross section of the British public a list of our unique questions, based on their answer they have been ranked in order of difficulty. Statistically, what percentage they got right is reflected in the question’s percentage.
The quiz will start with the easiest question at 90% that Britain got right and then end with the most challenging question that only 1% of the British public answered correctly. How well will you do?
Each student will get the chance of using a pass (if you need to use it) but this will cost you £1000. Each student will start off with £1000 if you use your pass (your £1000 goes into the winner’s pot), or get one question wrong you are out of the game and your money goes into the 1% prize pot! You can still play on, but you cannot be the winner!.
The audio timer is on the bottom right hand side of the question slides, you will have 30 seconds to answer each question. Will you crack under the pressure or will you triumph to be in the 1% Club?
This 35 slide complete lesson focuses on the 2022 movie Hocus Pocus 2 looking at language analysis style questions and responses, colour symbolism in Hocus Pocus 2, creative writing build up tasks and planning tasks and an example of a grade 9 piece of creative writing that all link to the movie and halloween. Explore the Sanderson Sisters looking at Winnie, Sarah and Mary links to paper 1 AQA style assessment
This lesson focuses on the horror genre and incorporates do now task, starter activity, colour symbolism, Q2 language analysis questions, creative writing top tips and build up tasks to create a sophisticated piece of writing, grade 9 example writing and Q2 language analysis checklist and Q5 writing self assess checklist.
-comment on the effect of colour symbolism on the three witches
-explode inference looking at language analysis
-develop a word bank full of language techniques
-highlight and comment on the effect of language
-explode and blow up inference and connotations
-Focus and zoom in on details when writing creatively
-build up sophisticated synonyms and ambitious vocabulary
-complete a writing plan
-complete a piece of horror creative writing
-self-assess checklist
18 individual writing prompts, 9 description and 9 narrative writing prompt strips that can be cut out and stuck in books as a means of a writing checklist, which students can tick of the different boxes for language techniques and technical accuracy.
Each strip has a different coloured image that coincides the AQA Paper 1 Q5 creative writing task.
GCSE English Language Paper 1 Creative writing 2x grade 9 writing description/story Everest/avalanche storm writing
GCSE English Language Paper 1 Creative writing. This includes 2 pieces of grade 9 writing examples including a description and a short story based on an image of a mountain scene (Everest) and a story with the title ‘The Challenge’.
Tasks include:
-read and highlight the language techniques and punctuation
-modifying sentences
-developing sophisticated synonyms
-planning
-complete writing tasks
Includes build up activities to build up ideas to create their own piece of creative writing.
GCSE AQA English Language Paper 1 Creative writing 2 pieces of grade 9 writing examples including a description & short story based on a image of a stormy ocean with a ship and a story about something under the water (shark attack Jaws style).
Tasks include:
-read and highlight language techniques and punctuation
-modifying sentences
-developing sophisticated synonyms
-technique bubbles
-planning
Also includes build up activities to build up ideas for their own writing task.
GCSE English Language Paper 1 Creative writing. This includes 2 pieces of grade 9 writing examples including a description and a short story based on an image of a mountain scene (Everest) and a story with the title ‘The Challenge’.
Tasks include:
-read and highlight the language techniques and punctuation in the two grade 9 pieces of creative writing
-modifying sentences
-developing sophisticated synonyms
-planning
-complete writing tasks
Includes build up activities to build up ideas to create their own piece of creative writing.
GCSE AQA English Language Paper 1 Creative writing 2 pieces of grade 9 writing examples including a description & short story based on a image of an abandoned room and a story that begins with the sentence: “Suddenly, I heard it. It was coming from the other side of the passage.”
Tasks include:
-read and highlight language techniques and punctuation
-modifying sentences
-developing sophisticated synonyms
-technique bubbles
-planning
Also includes build up activities to build up ideas for their own writing task.