GCSE English Language (Year 10 and Year 11)

Accelerated Learning Programme: Language Paper 1 and Paper 2.

This accelerated learning programme is taught during the half term breaks to consolidate previous learning and to prepare students for the new half term.  They are designed to ensure that students become familiar with and can apply the Assessment Objectives to exam questions, both during class assessments and in their end of year exams. 

Each module is designed to develop the knowledge and skills required to achieve the top levels in English Language. 

Autumn Half Term Classes 

English Language Paper 1   

Time: 10h30 – 12h00

Accelerated Learning Programme: Language Paper 1 and Paper 2.

28th - 1st October 2024. 10:30-12:00.

28th October 2024 

Module 1  -Identify, analyse and Explain  the use and effect of Linguistic Devices in Fictional Texts . Understand and apply the exam answering technique (AO2).

29th October 2024

Module 2 – Identify, Analyse and Explain writers’ use of Language for effect in extracts. Understand and apply the exam answering technique. (AO2)

30th October 2024

Module 3 - Identify and understand the use of Structural devices  in Texts ( AO2)



31st October 2024

Module 4 - Analyse and Explain writers’ use and effect of Structure to create interest and engage the reader in extracts. Understand and apply the exam answering technique. (AO2)

1st November 2024

Module 5  -The Critical Evaluation of a Text . Evaluate texts critically to provide a personal, developed response to a focus statement.  Understand and apply the exam answering technique (AO4).

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GCSE November Resit Exam Revision

GCSE November Resit Exam Revision (28th October 2024 – 1st November 2024) 

Time: 19h00 – 20h30

These classes are intensively focussed on the key exam answering techniques  for the November resit exams. The objective of these classes is for students to achieve a much higher mark and grade for the Language exams , Exam papers and exam revision resources will be emailed once enrolment is confirmed. 

Autumn Half Term Classes (28 October 2024 to 1 November 2024)

28th October 

Language Paper 1 - Section A (AO2 and AO4)

Language, Structure and the Critical Evaluation of a Text 

 

29th October 2024

Language Paper1 - Section B (AO5 and AO6)

Imaginative Writing (Descriptive and Story Writing)  

30th October 2024

Language Paper 2 – Section A (AO1, AO2 and AO3)

Writing Summaries and making Inferences (AO1)

Comparing Writers perspectives and Viewpoints across Texts (AO3)

31st October 2024 

Language Paper 2 – Section B (AO5 and AO6)

Transactional and Non – Fiction Writing 

 

1st November 2024

Writing Assessment – this assessment will be marked, and feedback will be given to students. 

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Spring Half Term Classes 

English Language Paper 2

February Half Term Classes ( 17th February 2024 – 21st February 2024) 

Time: 10h30 – 12h00 

February Half Term Classes ( 17th February 2024 – 21st February 2024) 

17th February 

Module 1 – Writing Summaries and Making Inferences from  Non – Fiction Texts (AO1)

 

18th February 

Module 2 - Comparing Writers’ Perspectives and Viewpoints  in Non – Fiction texts 

(AO3)

 

19th February 

Module 3 - Imaginative Writing (AO5 and AO6)

 Write a Story and Description using the appropriate Linguistic and Grammatical structures. 

 

20th February 

Transactional Writing ( AO5 and AO6) 

Module 4 

Writing to Persuade – Write a compelling and convincing text using the appropriate language and genre features for Persuasive writing. 

 

21st February 

Module 5 

Writing to Argue  - Write a compelling and convincing text using the appropriate language and genre features for Argumentative writing.  

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