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Examiner created, trialled before posting and always update with any changes. Paid reviews rewarded with any resource under £5 free-heavily animate PPTs with step-by-step/click-by-click organisation and if there's anything I can make more visually enticing - I will. Download some of my free resources to see the quality, as I put the time and effort in to ensure free and paid resources are worthwhile. Requests, fixes or complaints: leckyletters@gmail.com using 'TES Shop' in the subject bar.

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Examiner created, trialled before posting and always update with any changes. Paid reviews rewarded with any resource under £5 free-heavily animate PPTs with step-by-step/click-by-click organisation and if there's anything I can make more visually enticing - I will. Download some of my free resources to see the quality, as I put the time and effort in to ensure free and paid resources are worthwhile. Requests, fixes or complaints: leckyletters@gmail.com using 'TES Shop' in the subject bar.
AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - Paper 1 Full Set - 'Unsullied'
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AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - Paper 1 Full Set - 'Unsullied'

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Cover image from www.flickr.com - Free for commercial purposes… The scene for analysis is Season 3 Episode 4: ‘And Now His Watch ish Ended’ GOT is available on HBO and HBO NOW © Covers all questions and tries to move away from mainstream PEE paragraph structure. Triangulating and embedding evidence is encouraged but the slides can easily be switched back if you choose. This could be spread out across a couple of weeks of 3hr sessions because it’s 45 slides long and has revision slides for basic terminology. It covers every Paper 1 question, linking directly to the original exam-style paper included - to which the presentation refers constantly, throughout. Practice skills for: AO1 - Identify Explicit Information AO2 - Explain, analyse and comment on a writer’s use of language. AO2 - Explain, analyse and comment on a writer’s use of Structure. AO4 - Evaluate critically, another person’s opinion of a text. AO5 - Creative & Descriptive Writing. It is aimed at 16+ due to the violence of the war scene and it might also be too much for lower level learners. If you have, however, ventured into descriptions from historical wars - check it out. It is very engaging with a visual interpretation to show before reading the text. It’s also laden with step-by-step animation. Each click leads you to the next logical point. Went through this today and was very easy to use…
AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language Paper 1 Full Coverage & Revision
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AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language Paper 1 Full Coverage & Revision

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This bundle is HALF PRICE and covers every aspect of paper 1, three times over. The GOT walkthrough is a more advanced learner session but the Full Paper 1 set goes into much more detail and there’s another walkthrough to choose from. There are a multitude of text extracts in this collection and a full set of colourful revision cards; literally hundreds of them.
AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language Paper 1 Mega Pack
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AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language Paper 1 Mega Pack

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Complete half year mega pack of Paper 1 resources with walkthrough revision set included before any Paper 1 assessment you wish to use. Try my micro mocks for a pound or buy as part of the Paper 2 mega pack! Buy any mega pack and get a free PDF Teaching planner for 2019/20 - simply leave a review and I’ll reply with a time expired (20 minute) download link.
AQA 8700 GCSE English Language - New Paper 2 Nonfiction Mega Pack
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AQA 8700 GCSE English Language - New Paper 2 Nonfiction Mega Pack

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A collection of my newest Paper 2 sessions with immense animation, a multitude of tasks, timers and mark schemes. Interesting texts and questions, as well as activities and guided analyses/summaries/comparisons. Take your students through Paper 2 with some fun! See individual resources for more details.
AQA 8700/2 GCSE English Language - Paper 2 Mega Pack
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AQA 8700/2 GCSE English Language - Paper 2 Mega Pack

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A complete set of detailed resources for the non-fiction paper. Includes detailed lessons, with handouts, revision booklets for each question and a workbook with an example of each question for practice. As well as various mocks and a 3hr walkthrough resource, and second full set, both covering all questions again.
AQA 8700 GCSE English Language Revision Practice Pack
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AQA 8700 GCSE English Language Revision Practice Pack

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This is a collection of practice revision resources which also act as extension tasks. Can be used in drop-in sessions and with large groups. The revision guide is also sold separately but for more than the entire price of this bundle. See individual resources for more details…
AQA 8700 GCSE English Language Paper 1 & 2 Set
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AQA 8700 GCSE English Language Paper 1 & 2 Set

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Containing over 100 slides and two full sets of activities. Get your hands on all these for a discounted price when you buy them together! A great deal of work, trialling and effort went into these. I hope you find them useful! Run the slideshows to see all the animation.
AQA 8700/2 GCSE English Language - Summaries Revision Workbook
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AQA 8700/2 GCSE English Language - Summaries Revision Workbook

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Now with accompanying PPT file! For GCSE students of English language to revise and practise their skills. Start with basic summaries and ease into what Paper 2, Question 2 requires. With examples and extra exam-style tasks, this booklet makes a great 1.5-2hr session with or for homework. It covers the main elements of the summary question and has a number of tasks to complete as well as an exam-style summative task.
AQA 8700 GCSE English Language - Repetitive Language Features
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AQA 8700 GCSE English Language - Repetitive Language Features

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A focus on Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance & Sibilance and the effects and importance of such features. Help your students to understand the reason for using these features and they will surely begin to use them effectively within their own writing. Give them an undertanding of repeptitive features that will inspire perceptive responses to AO2 questions! Preparation for language analysis and scope to push more advanced learners. With embedded Storm video for a feature creation task, an exam-style summative assessment task and step-by-step/click-by-click animations…
AQA 8700/2 English Language - Non-fiction Writing
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AQA 8700/2 English Language - Non-fiction Writing

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This is a three hour set of sessional activities with a glossary page and marking criteria that could easily be extended and streched out. The PPT works, hand-in-hand, with the booklet and it would be a good idea to pilot the delivery as the animation work click-by-click/step-by-step. This was originally created for resit students which is why it’s in such a condensed format and has an exam-style task on contraception. Hope you find it useful! DETAILED & HEAVILY ANIMATED!
AQA 8700/2 GCSE English Language - Paper 2 Questions: 1-4 Retro Gaming
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AQA 8700/2 GCSE English Language - Paper 2 Questions: 1-4 Retro Gaming

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This 28 SLIDE ppt & handout have been designed to be visually impressive… the graphics were a joy to put together. Heavily animated and laden with activities covering AO1-3 - this action-packed set of 3-4hrs worth of sessions consists of: introductory/formative/summative tasks, embedded videos for use without the need for the internet - animated into images of retro and modern hand-held gaming consoles, and has some quite accessible texts from which to produce some great answers. Has a 1970s arcade advert and a 1990s one. Really nice to compare. The set leads nicely into a Question 5 resource I put together on Gaming & Grammar. See my shop for a discounted bundle!
A Level English Language - A Brief History of English with Embedded videos
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A Level English Language - A Brief History of English with Embedded videos

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Updated - Animations had been stripped…they’re now back… Take your AS/A level Eng Lang students through the ages via this quite detailed 2-3hr session. Visually pleasing and videos, embedded for ease of use, are also placed into an old TV Set template. It adds a bit of charm to it but is just a gimmick. My students made notes from slides but all images are of good enough quality to print if you right click them and save as image. I used some of them to make a display with students but they created a giant timeline on a wall with craft materials. Any feedback will be welcomed as it was my first year and some of my students did well so it would be good to improve and update.
AQA 8700 GCSE English Language - AO2 - Analysis using Flash Fiction
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AQA 8700 GCSE English Language - AO2 - Analysis using Flash Fiction

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There is a text extract in this from a school shooting incident…be warned - covers sensitive issues. This covers basic word classes and Metaphor/Simile. It is laced with activities and tasks as well as images and a really short video clip of moving clouds which will hopefully prompt simile creation. Prepped for a 3hr class with some interesting texts and questions. There is an example analysis and mark schemes included. All images from pixabay.com where all images and videos are free to use - no questions asked - even for commercial purposes.
AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - Revision Workbook Structure
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AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - Revision Workbook Structure

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Now with accompanying PPT file! For GCSE English Language Students to practise their skills of making inferences. There is a structural focus relating to Paper 1 - Question 3. It goes over the main elements of the question and has a number of tasks which relate to varied elements of narrative structure.
AQA 8700/1 English Language - Evaluation Revision Workbook
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AQA 8700/1 English Language - Evaluation Revision Workbook

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Now with accompanying PPT file! Can be used as a session or homework. This is for GCSE English Language Students to practise their skills in general evaluation and then the exam question. With a number of formative tasks and exam-style questions. There are a few texts to explore and these are great for 1:1 tuition.
AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - Structural Foreshadowing Grid
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AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - Structural Foreshadowing Grid

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Train students to make rational predictions based on fictional expositions, in practice for Paper 1 - Question 3. Begin with a fictional exposition. Then note down all the symbolic ideas within. Following this, make a reasonable prediction about what might be foreshadowed by the writer. FInally, make as many comments as you can about the significance this has to the entire plot and how it will affect the reader via creating interest/intrigue. Foreshadowed clues to future events are in a great many novels…these, like Steinbeck’s famous novella, are often teleological. Writing about them can get some big marks for your students! =-) Take a look at my brief session on this - with another one of these sheets included: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-english-language-paper-1-question-3-structure-foreshadowing-12124686
AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - Paper 1 Revision Cards - Christmas
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AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - Paper 1 Revision Cards - Christmas

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I have a smashing set of these for sale in my shop - covering both papers. This set is just Paper 1 - Section A and can only be printed single-sided. Also a card matching exercise once laminated and cut up. Brilliant Christmas starter. Essentially 8 reading micro-mocks using famous Christmas songs. Mince pie week makes me cringe so I try to do workshops as a lot don’t turn up! Enjoy! And, if you like, consider purchasing my full set: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-english-language-revision-card-set-12197052
AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - AO2 Language Analysis Revision Session
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AQA 8700/1 GCSE English Language - AO2 Language Analysis Revision Session

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This session covers language analysis - briefly - and guides through a triangulated answer using an older Use for a quick practice session or as an intro session to analysing language with a greades 4-5 (level 3) mark scheme. There is also a Guided Triangulation Worksheet. It helps train students to triangulate and embed their evidence and link all 3 quotations to the same main point. Writing more sophisticatedly as a result, they will gain more marks as it will be more perceptive than a standard set of PEE paragraphs… There is also an example answer but focused on a different text. I find it best not to use a direct example. Some just copy and paraphrase but with this, they really have to confront the difference as well; it also shows a good detailed paragraph. Hope you find it useful! Please leave some feedback either way.