1. English Language Paper 1
May Half Term Revision
Tuesday 6th June
Don’t worry if you don’t get through all of these tasks. We will be working on the same powerpoint and tasks when we get back on Monday 5th June. So any you miss, you can do on Monday for practice.

4. Exam Question Practice
Use the PLANNING SHEET to plan your response!
You MUST plan!!
PART B
You have 45 minutes to write your response – spend 5 minutes planning.
Exam Question Practice
Individual Task:
You are going to answer an exam question. Make sure you use the following criteria – the examiner will be marking you on these key things!
Accurate and ambitious punctuation
Sentence starters and structures
Adventurous vocabulary
Language techniques
Answer the following question:
Write about an experience in which you were surprised about the outcome.
Your response can be real or imagined.
*Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Remember – you MUST write in paragraphs!

5. Exam Question Practice
Use the PLANNING SHEET to plan your response!
You MUST plan!!
PART B
Remember – you MUST write in paragraphs!
You have 45 minutes to write your response – spend 5 minutes planning.
Exam Question Practice
Choose one of the tasks below
Write about a time when you or someone you know felt intimidated by someone or something. OR B.
Individual Task:
You are going to answer an exam question. Make sure you use the following criteria – the examiner will be marking you on these key things!
Accurate and ambitious punctuation
Sentence starters and structures
Adventurous vocabulary
Language techniques
Look at the image provided. Write about an intimidating moment. Your response can be real or imagined.

6. Exam Question Practice
Use the PLANNING SHEET to plan your response!
You MUST plan!!
PART B
You have 45 minutes to write your response – spend 5 minutes planning.
Exam Question Practice
Individual Task:
You are going to answer an exam question. Make sure you use the following criteria – the examiner will be marking you on these key things!
Accurate and ambitious punctuation
Sentence starters and structures
Adventurous vocabulary
Language techniques
Answer the following question:
Write about a time when you or someone you know made a plan that went wrong. Your response can be real or imagined.
*Your response will be marked for the accurate and appropriate use of vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Remember – you MUST write in paragraphs!

7. Exam Question Practice
Use the PLANNING SHEET to plan your response!
You MUST plan!!
PART B
Remember – you MUST write in paragraphs!
You have 45 minutes to write your response – spend 5 minutes planning.
Exam Question Practice
Choose one of the tasks below
Write about a time when you or someone you know felt trapped. OR B.
Individual Task:
You are going to answer an exam question. Make sure you use the following criteria – the examiner will be marking you on these key things!
Accurate and ambitious punctuation
Sentence starters and structures
Adventurous vocabulary
Language techniques
Look at the image provided. Write about a moment where someone is trapped. Your response can be real or imagined.

8. Exam Question Practice
Use the PLANNING SHEET to plan your response!
You MUST plan!!
PART B
Remember – you MUST write in paragraphs!
You have 45 minutes to write your response – spend 5 minutes planning.
Exam Question Practice
Choose one of the tasks below
Write about a time when you or someone you know felt excited about something. OR B.
Individual Task:
You are going to answer an exam question. Make sure you use the following criteria – the examiner will be marking you on these key things!
Accurate and ambitious punctuation
Sentence starters and structures
Adventurous vocabulary
Language techniques
Look at the image provided. Write about an exciting moment. Your response can be real or imagined.

9. Planning Your Response…
Key words you can use:
Sentence starters to possibly use:
PLAN
Who?
(Who are your characters going to be?)
Why?
(Why is your event going to happen?)
Where?
(Where is your main event going to happen?)
When?
(When is your event going to happen – time of day?)
What?
(What event is going to happen in your story?)

10. WRITING USING THE SENSES
Learning Objectives:
To be able to be imaginative with our descriptions which appeal to all of the five senses.

11. Write about a time when…
Try using multi-sensory language in your response. (The 5 senses)
You tried something new
Something unexpected happened
You shared something
You learnt something about yourself
You felt scared or worried…

12. A mint toffee
It looks like...an imperfect cube. A matte lump of creased amber. Wonky pinched corners like a fully plumped pillow.
It feels like...smoothed ridges like a weather beaten pebble. Tacky like a well-used lump of blue-tack. Thick tar slug that shrinks to nothing. A benevolent filling extractor.
It smells like...subtle buttery sweetness.
It tastes like...cool thick mintiness.
It sounds like...slapping and clapping. Squelching.

13. Mind map the 5 senses for the image below…

14. Success Criteria Checklist
Green – achieved
Pink – not achieved
Success Criteria Checklist
Have you achieved the following criteria in your response?
Success Criteria
Achieved?
Is the punctuation accurate (capital letters, full stops, commas, apostrophes)?
Do their sentences make sense?
Have they structured their writing in paragraphs?
Have they used a variety of sentence starters and structures in their writing? (Identify examples)
Have they used ambitious vocabulary in places – especially for adjectives (describing words)?
Have they used language techniques for effect? (Identify these techniques)
Have they used ambitious punctuation for effect? (Identify this ambitious punctuation)

15. READING
Part A Practice
Using the extracts on the following slides, completed the following tasks:
Identify LANGUAGE and STRUCTURAL techniques in the extract
Comment on the EFFECT of the techniques used

16. Extract 1 – Scrooge – Charles Dickens
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint; from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often ‘came down’ handsomely, and Scrooge never did.
Remember – you will get a longer extract in the exam.

17. Extract 2 – Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Remember – you will get a longer extract in the exam.

18. Extract 3 – Tell Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters were close fastened through fear of robbers), and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door; and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily. I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out, ‘Who’s there?’ I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed, listening; just as I have done night after night hearkening to the death watches in the wall. Presently, I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief – oh no! It was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him although I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself, “It is nothing but the wind in the chimney, it is only a mouse crossing the floor,” or “It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp.” Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions; but he had found all in vain. ALL IN VAIN, because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel, although he neither saw nor heard, to feel the presence of my head within the room.
Remember – you will get a longer extract in the exam.

19. Remember – you will get a longer extract in the exam.
"Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead of looking up to where I stood on the top of the steep cutting nearly over his head, he turned himself about, and looked down the Line. There was something remarkable in his manner of doing so, though I could not have said for my life what. But I know it was remarkable enough to attract my notice, even though his figure was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench, and mine was high above him, so steeped in the glow of an angry sunset, that I had shaded my eyes with my hand before I saw him at all. "Halloa! Below!" From looking down the Line, he turned himself about again, and, raising his eyes, saw my figure high above him. "Is there any path by which I can come down and speak to you?" He looked up at me without replying, and I looked down at him without pressing him too soon with a repetition of my idle question. Just then there came a vague vibration in the earth and air, quickly changing into a violent pulsation, and an oncoming rush that caused me to start back, as though it had a force to draw me down. When such vapour as rose to my height from this rapid train had passed me, and was skimming away over the landscape, I looked down again, and saw him refurling the flag he had shown while the train went by.
Remember – you will get a longer extract in the exam.