1. Preparation for GCSE language mock 1
Section A: Reading What could you be assessed on? Mini whiteboards please – ready to share!
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2. Preparation for GCSE language mock 1
Do you know the structure of the exam?
Do you understand what each question entails?
Can you create a set of revision notes to prepare for the mock?
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3. 02) How does the writer use language 8 marks
GCSE Language Paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing 1 hour 45 min
Section A
One source
01) List 4 things… marks
02) How does the writer use language marks
03) How does the structure interest the reader 8 marks
04) Statement: Do you agree? marks
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4. Preparation for GCSE language mock 1
AO1
Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas
Select and synthesise evidence from different texts
AO2
Explain, comment on and analyse how written texts use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views
AO3
Not assessed on this paper
AO4
Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references
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5. What does retrieve mean?
01) List 4 things… marks
What does retrieve mean?
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6. 01) List 4 things… marks
Retrieve – pick out quotes from the text. These are the easiest four marks on the paper! Have a go on the following slide: List 4 things you learn about the speaker’s father?
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7. List 4 things you learn about the speaker’s dad.
01) List 4 things… marks
My father was a master storyteller. He could tell a fine old story that made me hold my sides with rolling laughter and sent happy tears down my cheeks, or a story of stark reality that made me shiver and be grateful for my own warm, secure surroundings. He could tell stories of beauty and grace, stories of gentle dreams, and paint them as vividly as any picture with splashes of dialogue. His memory detailed every event of ten or forty years or more before, just as it had happened yesterday.
List 4 things you learn about the speaker’s dad.
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8. How many language techniques can you remember? Make a list!
02) How does the writer use language marks
How many language techniques can you remember? Make a list!
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9. 02) How does the writer use language 8 marks
Which is better: explain or analyse? Why? Explain: Give reasons why Analyse: Examine closely, breaking it down and inferences and showing how parts contribute to the whole
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10. The exam board state you need to:
02) How does the writer use language marks
 The exam board state you need to:
Show detailed and perceptive understanding of language
Analyse the effects of the writer’s choices of language
Select a judicious range of quotations
Use sophisticated subject terminology accurately
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11. 02) How does the writer use language 8 marks
By our fireside in our northern home or in the South where I was born, I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved. From my father the storyteller I learned to respect the past, to respect my own heritage and myself.
AO2
Explain, comment on and analyse how written texts use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views
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12. This answer is a top level answer – why?

13. This question assesses how the writer has structured a text.
03) How does the structure interest the reader 8 marks
This question assesses how the writer has structured a text.
Structural features can be:
At a whole text level e.g. beginnings / endings / perspective shifts
At a paragraph level eg. topic change / single sentence paragraphs
At a sentence level e.g. sentence length
Analyse again!
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14. 03) How does the structure interest the reader 8 marks
By our fireside in our northern home or in the South where I was born, I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved. From my father the storyteller I learned to respect the past, to respect my own heritage and myself.
AO2
Explain, comment on and analyse how written texts use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views
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15. This answer shows promise – how?

16. 04) Statement: Do you agree? 20 marks
You will need to evaluate the text critically and give a personal response.
Examiner top tip:
To get all the marks for question 4, you need to provide a personal evaluation of the text and back it up with detailed evidence – use a range of short examples from the text to show what you have based your opinion on.
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17. 04) Statement: Do you agree? 20 marks
A student, having read this section of the text, said; “The writer makes the character’s feelings really clear. It feels as if you really get to know him”. To what extent do you agree?
He was a complex person, yet he taught me many simple things, things important for a child to know: how to ride a horse and how to skate; how to blow soap bubbles and how to tie a kite knot that met the challenge of the March winds; how to bath a huge faithful dog named Tiny. In time, he taught me the complex things too. He taught me of myself, of life. He taught me hopes and dreams. And he taught me the love of words. Without his teachings, without his words, my words would have not been.
AO4
Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references
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18. This is good! What skills have they shown?

19. Preparation for GCSE language mock 1
What could our top tips be for this element of the exam? How do you feel about it? What do you already know?
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