1. How do I Revise for Language Paper 1?
English Language Paper 1
Work hard and work smart
Write a list of what you need to do for each topic in English.
Revise for 40 minutes to an hour
Summarise what you learnt and work out what your next steps are.
Unseen Extract from a Fiction text
4 comprehension questions
Creative writing: Narrative or Description

2. 1. Organisation: Use revision Guides and your class book.

3. 2. Know your Terminology Red Amber Green First/ second / Third person
If first person is someone telling you his or her story, and second person is you being told how you should do something, then third person is more like a camera recording events. That's not to say it's necessarily an objective point of view. A third person narrator can be highly subjective.
Omniscient narrator
This is a common form of third-person narration in which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an omniscient (all-knowing) perspective on the story being told: diving into private thoughts, narrating secret or hidden events
Chronological
Following events in the order in which they occurred.
Zooming
Beginning with something small and zooming out to something bigger. Or zooming in from something big to something much smaller.
Narrowing
Changing the focus from something broad to something more focused.
Broadening
Changing the focus from something focused to something broad.
Shifts
This could be shifts in time, between characters, points of view or places.
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4. 3. Create Flash Cards and test each other.
Language term 
Definition:
Example:

5. 4. Unseen texts: Know the format of the exam questions and how to answer them.
Q1: List four things that we learn about…
Q2: How does the writer use language to…?
Q3: How has the writer structured the text to interest the reader?
Q4. A _____ said, ‘__________________________’. To what extent to do you agree?
Know the mark scheme.

6. 5. Have an exam strategy
Quantity
Quality
1.5 minutes per mark.

7. 6.Other revision tasks Improve old essays Design your own exam paper
Self assess your work.
Peer assess your friend’s work.
Plan answers together.
Use Show My HW, BBC Bitesize and Mr Bruff.