A wide collection of written responses for AQA 8700 exams. I’ve used these as examples and have written them with ideas from marking real exams. I asked others to write some so they appear more authentic. I’ve had students who, for whatever reason, find it hard to grasp an example answer if it’s typed. So I thought this would help. They have seemed to work better once they’ve decided the scruffiest must be mine! No work has been replicated, here. But they are very good examples, particularly the Jigs and Reels responses. The structure ones were based on what I was hoping to see but never actually did. Students over complicate it most of the time and map out the text gaining 2-3 marks. These examples show how differently the question can be approached. Students can mark them, with some support and you yourselves can have a practice if you’re new or haven’t marked for AQA. DISCLAIMER - All marks are close approximations. Having marked for a few years, I have noticed that sometimes standards can minutely shift from year to year.

Got this online and removed all copyrighted content. Images are all from www.pixabay.com - where ALL images are free to use, even for commercial purposes… Useful booklet with answer booklet and is nice as a homework task. There is a more advanced and updated, Fantasy Fiction, version in my shop. It has grammar included and a fully animated answer powerpoint in addition to a booklet. It has different texts in it - check it out! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-gcse-english-language-ao6-fantasy-fiction-spag-workbook-and-ppt-12184776

Just revision quiz for use as a formative assessment - revision/recap task. Great to get students into teams to work together on this one. You need to keep track of individual or team scores but the categories were a pain to think of. Any feedback, suggestions for improvements are most welcome!

Just what it says on the tin! With the added extra of multiple choice and student-led differentiation.=-) Print them off double-sided and one side covers only description, whilst the other covers a narrative approach. Laminate them to keep them from wear and tear and they make a great addition to my Paper 1 Revision Cards Pack - in which you get 64 reading questions plus another 2 sets of these for £3.50. There is also a bundle of 152 cards covering every AO from both exam Check them out VIA THIS : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-1-english-language-revision-cards-paper-1-12191208

This is well-animated and is sectioned off by LO slides which tick each off as they are covered. The main formative task is also put together with step-by-step highlighted quotations which follows a set of statements which are set up to imitate the exam page. After revisiting the terms ‘explicit’ & ‘implicit’ - it provides an overview of P2Q1. There are two activities at the end - one to practice independently and feedback and then a summative one to end the session. Hope you find it useful and any feedback would be greatly appreciated. =-)

Just something fun and engaging that kids have played all over the world - Boy/Girl is something I’ve turned into a vocabulary builder - hope your students like it! There’s also a Boring Sentences challenge which has served as a differentiated worksheet - challenging students with perhaps adding in one or two descriptive words and others: all of them. I also get them to research synonyms and try to get even more advanced words than those on the sheet. Now, there is also a more advanced Boring Sentences group challenge included. Hope you find them useful!

I use these as an extension or starter task - also in drop-in sessions, particularly closer to the exams. They are great for practising varying and matching vocabulary to genre. Having also posted some free A3 Image Planning Boards: these would be good prompts for planning a creative piece and also to aid learners who are struggling. Ask students to: Create/plan a story in a specific genre. Write an opening/ending to a narrative. Write a character breakdown/description. Write a setting breakdown/description. Match vocabulary to genre. Research Synonyms. Research letters of the Alphabet which aren’t present! They don’t make a bad poster, either!

This has been updated with animated answers for the connectivity task. This aims to introduce students to essay writing and academic language. It goes in from a conceptual angle based on teleological connections. Everything, including essays, is a smaller/larger version if something larger/smaller. It will last about 2 hours or so but I made it when I first started so there might be some alterations needed.

Ideal Paper 2 Starter Task which encourages students to use Hyperbole in their writing. It will also lead into a more in-depth language features session and encourages students to exaggerate and then extend with further words and phrasing.

In an effort to promote triangulated answers and improve strategies like ‘pee’ - I thought I’d give this away for free. Guide even your struggling students towards writing better quality and more detailed responses via this engaging and interesting set. It stresses the important of triangulated evidence and inferences. The booklet is designed to be used in a classroom, at home and for 1:1 tuition . It is also good to give to parents and have them work with their children in their own time - to solidify their ideas of what good use of evidence is and how they can gain more detail from finding patterns in evidence. The powerpoint presentation is made from it - so it can be taught but it can also be student-led as there are brief instructions and it begins from a general level, working towards more complex ideas. This is also a small part of a 100 page complete workbook I’ve created for each of the academic objectives from AQA (8700) - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-english-language-revision-workbook-12212036 This link has the book and a 131-slide powerpoint - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-english-language-complete-revision-workbook-and-131-slide-ppt-display-12111223 There is also a very complexly planned and animated pair of sessions to purchase which works alongside this booklet - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-english-language-ao2-analysis-introduction-finding-patterns-12131920 Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! I hope you find it useful.

See what you think of these micro mocks - there’s a £2pack of 6 - including these and a Hair P2 one with larger texts - in my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-new-spec-gcse-english-language-6-colourful-revision-micro-mocks-papers-1-and-2-x3-each-12131407

I put this together because I saw one on here and then got a real excitement for it and made a full walkthrough presentation with example answers for every question. I hope you find the Paper itself useful as an extra - we know these papers are still rare so I made it as close to a real one, structurally, as I could. Check out my FULL PAPER 1 Walkthrough for this paper! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-new-spec-gcse-english-language-paper-1-game-of-thrones-unsullied-full-intro-revise-pack-12128418

Made this over the weekend and would love some feedback… This mock features a couple of pages from Alan Bissett’s ‘Boyracers’ - a Scottish novel which is written partly in a Scottish vernacular form. I have removed all major profanity so words are literally silenced when reading so some assumptions can be made. It is really funny reading it out and can be very engaging with students. So I thought I’d share it in the form of a mock paper. Can be used in classes or as homework/independent revision - please be doubly aware of the audience aim. Let me know what you think! =-)

This free resource is just a compilation of images taken from AQA Yr 7, 8, 9 books (less than 10% of each and shared for educational purposes ONLY) and put into a displayable format in order to run students through the basics of AO1. It has all answers animated into it, step-by-step/click-by-click, and some handwritten ones that can easily be replaced. Went for the authenticity of a pen on a Microsoft Surface…it looks pixelated in the preview but once downloaded as a PPTX file it’s very smooth and gives a feel of authenticity as examples of what students might have actually written. If you like the animation - have a look at my other free resources which are available. I do put a great deal of effort into the free ones as well as the sold ones - please review and let me know what you think, especially if you think there can be any improvements. I’ve had some external feedback for this. Some the answers were not from the correct lines - this was to gear students for the following task, however: that wasn’t clear - so I’ve modified and added some guiding notes. Hope you find it useful!

PLEASE READ BEFORE REPORTING! WARNING the street name: ‘Bell End’ is featured in this hand out. It was made with my own students in mind who are 16-18 but always makes them giggle. Please also bear in mind that this is a street name. It’s not an insult until YOU make it one… This is fantastic to use with adults and there are some very significant issues which are readable in the subtext. Great to push students to contextualise and finally reach that grade 4!

This 100 page Complete Revision Guided Workbook runs through a process of both finding patterns in texts and triangulating evidence to prove a point. With 8 sections covering: Triangulation Analysis: Language Analysis: Structure Evaluation Creative/Descriptive Writing Summarising & Synthesising Comparisons Writing with Persuasion It comes with 100+ slide Powerpoint presentation that’s been sequenced, step-by-step/click-by-click with screenshots and answers for the booklet’s build-up tasks. At the end of each section, there are exam-style questions to practise learned/revised skills and it truly is something I’m very proud of. I will be basing my EdD thesis on methods within this and so to encourage use, it’s totally FREE. Join the discussion! Like our Facebook page and join our group…share your experiences and ask any questions: https://www.facebook.com/funcenglish https://www.facebook.com/groups/232341065224383

I usually use this as either revision or after my nonfiction language feature double session. Download to see how this works! This is a fully animated ppt, with step-by-step/click-by-click animation, animated annotations and example 1/2 answer for paper 2, question 2. Activities and notes prompts, throughout, this AO1-3 session lasts upto 3hrs and covers question 1, 2 and 4 of paper 2. It ends with a prompt for Q4 and leads perfectly into a more detailed comparison session. Explore Victorian ‘Hulk’ ‘floating prisons in 1846 and compare how different the prisons and writers’ perspectives are. A 2011 article is included which is great to compare. Click the Alcatraz image and open a 1934 video of real prison footage. Alcatraz was actually open in the 1800s and the video provides some interesting content.

My students hate the fact that I make a movie an educational experience but, here it is! A universal movie analysis worksheet for Structure. Whilst watching Christmas films or clips, even, students can fill in the sheet with copious notes and then discuss/write afterwards… Hope you find it useful! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-) Image taken from www.pixabay.com - where all top quality images are free to use, even for commercial purposes.

These speak for themselves, really. Great to aid planning for a creative piece of writing based on an image - word doc is included so that the box labels can be edited, or images replaced if you prefer. If you have time - you can fill one out as an example and print them. I took the pictures with a decent-ish camera, so they look great in A3. Lamination would enhance them as well. Work well in drop-in sessions, too. students have a range to choose from, with the free image cards I’ve also shared and a set of purchasable revision cards in my shop.

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.