1. WHAT WILL MY ENGLISH LANGUAge GCSE BE LIKE?
Glue in your information sheet in the front of your book

2. Approaching Question 2 of Paper 1
Tuesday 12th December 2017
C/L
Approaching Question 2 of Paper 1
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
To build my confidence with different types of language terminology.
LESSON OUTCOME:
To identify word classes and methods accurately and independently.

3. Word classes adverb verb noun adjective I describe a noun.
I am an object or “thing”
verb
I add information to a verb and can end in –ly.
noun
adjective
I am a doing word (an action).

4. Now write a sentence with each word class in it and underline the word class!
Word classes
I add information to a verb and can end in –ly.
adverb
verb
I am a doing word (an action).
noun
I am an object or “thing”
adjective
I describe a noun.

5. Word classes “the word”
Can you avoid “the word”?
Let’s play a game of guess who!
Write the numbers 1-5 in your books and we will see how well you can spot the correct word classes.

6. Guess who
1. The wind howled ferociously.
verb

7. Guess who
2. Peter was taken prisoner.
noun

8. Guess who
3. Silently, she crept into the room with all her focus placed on her every quiet move.
adverb

9. Guess who
4. It has been scorching hot recently.
adjectives

10. Guess who
5. She froze as she realised that she had forgotten her homework.
verb

11. What do you do for q2?

12. Q2 = language analysis YOU MUST SAY A LOT ABOUT A LITTLE!
You should only spend 10 minutes on this question.
You need to explain how the writer uses certain words for an effect (adjectives, nouns, adverbs, phrases, connotations of words).
You need to explain how the writer uses certain methods deliberately for an effect (similes, metaphors, personification).
YOU MUST SAY A LOT ABOUT A LITTLE!

15. How does the writer use language here to describe the effects of the weather?
The writer uses a simile to describe how in the turbulent weather, the coach was “rocking between the high wheels like a drunken man.” The writer deliberately uses this method to demonstrate how powerless the coach is against the strength and force of the wind because it cannot move in a clear and purposeful way, instead it moves as if it was drunk. The adjective “drunken” in “drunken man” suggests that the weather has made the coach appear intoxicated and almost makes the reader imagine a clumsy coach that cannot cope against the wind’s strength. Furthermore the writer is describing here how the weather has the ability to make everything in the weather’s path seem childlike, weak and pathetic which stresses the brutality of the wind and rain.

16. How does the writer use language here to describe the effects of the weather?
Start with the method (adjective, noun, simile?)
The writer uses ________________ when it says “____________________” to make the weather seem…………………….
Then explain in detail the effects of this language. Why has it been used? How does it make the reader feel? Think of all the ways it makes the weather seem and why.
Keep saying how ‘the writer deliberately does this’

18. Wednesday 13th December 2017 C/L Language Terminology
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
To build my confidence with different types of language terminology.
LESSON OUTCOME:
To identify word classes and methods accurately and independently.

19. Re-cap: For each sentence, give the word class of the underlined word
IRIS
Challenge:
Push further: is a dynamic verb, a concrete noun….
1. I could see the dark clouds looming down. 2. I could feel the sun beating down on me. 3. The mist cloaked the sky in gloom. 4. He was abundantly covered in tattoos. 5. The cake tasted magnificent.
“the word”

20. BIGGER PICTURE
This week we are analysing language and commenting on the writer’s methods for Question 2 of your Paper.
THIS HALF TERM: We are practising all the questions for Paper 1 of your English Language GCSE.
NEXT LESSON:
You will independently explain the effect of language features from a today’s 20th century extract.
TODAY’S LESSON:
You will IDENTIFY language features and explain their effect using an extract from ‘Room’.

21. Room
A story of a five-year-old called Jack, who lives in a single room with his Ma and has never been outside.
When he turns five, he starts to ask questions, and his mother reveals to him that there is a world beyond the walls.  
Jack has never seen the outdoors before because they have been held as prisoners by a man who captured Jack’s ‘Ma’ when she was nineteen.
Jack and his mother manage to escape The Room
We will read a description of when Jack is taken outside the hospital for the first time ever.

22. How does the writer use language to describe jack’s experience of going outside?
Ma says it’s time to try going Outside again. “If we stay indoors all the time, it’s like we never did our Great Escape at all.” She’s sounding cranky, she’s trying her laces already. After my hats and shades and shoes, I’m tired again. Ma lets me revolve the door rapidly five times. She pushes and we’re out. It’s so bright, I think I’m going to scream. Then my shades are drowning in darkness and I can’t see. The air smells toxic and makes my nose ache. My neck is suddenly tightening. “Pretending you’re watching this on TV” the nurse says in my ear. I’m squishing the green spikes under my shoes. I bend down and rub them, it doesn’t cut my fingers, instead it tickles my palms. The grass is an emerald sea and I feel like I’m drowning in it. I stare at it and see a twig and a leaf. The leaf is yellow. The air. That air again it tastes awful. My neck tightens again. The sun’s rays are strong and beam through my sunglasses. I feel like my skin is viciously sizzling everywhere.

23. How does the writer use language to describe jack’s experience of going outside?
Get in a group of 3
You will have:
An extract
Highlighters
Job 1
All of you need a highlighter.
One person find the adjectives
One person find the verbs
One person find the adverbs
Job 2
Together share the adverbs, adjectives and verbs that you found
THEN
Everyone needs to make a comment on one adverb, adjective or noun

24. How does the writer use language to describe Jack’s experience of going outside?
The adjective “bright” shows how Jack is not used to the sunlight and that it’s too much for him. It makes the reader feel sympathy for him because he is overwhelmed.
Ma says it’s time to try going Outside again. “If we stay indoors all the time, it’s like we never did our Great Escape at all.” She’s sounding cranky, she’s trying her laces already. After my hats and shades and shoes, I’m tired again. Ma lets me revolve the door rapidly five times. She pushes and we’re out. It’s so bright, I think I’m going to scream. Then my shades are drowning in darkness and I can’t see. The air smells toxic and makes my nose ache. My neck is suddenly tightening. “Pretending you’re watching this on TV” the nurse says in my ear. I’m squishing the green spikes under my shoes. I bend down and rub them, it doesn’t cut my fingers, instead it tickles my palms. The grass is an emerald sea and I feel like I’m drowning in it. I stare at it and see a twig and a leaf. The leaf is yellow. The air. That air again it tastes awful. My neck tightens again. The sun’s rays are strong and beam through my sunglasses. I feel like my skin is viciously sizzling everywhere.
The verb “drowning” makes it seem like Jack is panicking and he is suffering. The writer uses it to capture how worried Jack is and how he is finding even the grass to much for him,

26. Independent Language Analysis
Week 2
C/L
Independent Language Analysis
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
To understand how to explain the effect of word classes.
LESSON OUTCOME:
To INDEPENDENTLY explain how the writer used language to describe Jack’s experience in ‘Room’.

27. BIGGER PICTURE
This week we are analysing language and commenting on the writer’s methods for Question 2 of your Paper.
THIS HALF TERM: We are practising all the questions for Paper 1 of your English Language GCSE.
NEXT LESSON:
You will independently explain the effect of language features from a different 20th century extract.
TODAY’S LESSON:
You will IDENTIFY language features and explain why the writer uses them.

28. Question 2 How does the writer use language to …….
You have to write 2 paragraphs
You need to think about WHY the writer has used certain words and its effect on the reader
Explain 2 layers
Use subject terminology

29. How does the writer describe Jack’s experience of going outside?
The writer has used dynamic verbs to show that Jack’s experience of outside is very stressful
STATEMENT EVIDENCE ANALYSE
because it says that his neck is “suddenly tightening.”
The verb “tightening” makes it seem like Jack feels like he is suffocating. It also suggests that he feels trapped and cannot cope being outside. This verb is used by the writer to make the reader feel Jack’s panic because it is an uncomfortable feeling.

30. How does the writer describe Jack’s experience of going outside?
Quick practice!
“Ma lets me revolve the door rapidly three times”
What language feature would you pick out?

31. How does the writer describe Jack’s experience of going outside?
Quick practice!
“Ma lets me revolve the door rapidly three times”
Think of how this adverb makes the experience seem

32. How does the writer describe Jack’s experience of going outside?
Quick practice!
“Ma lets me revolve the door rapidly three times”
This suggests that he is moving quickly because he is panicking so much.
It also implies that he is desperate to delay going outside.

33. How does the writer describe Jack’s experience of going outside?
Quick practice!
“Ma lets me revolve the door rapidly three times”
It also implies that he is desperate to delay going outside.
The writer uses adverbs such as “rapidly” to describe how frightening the experience is. This adverb, suggests that he is moving so quickly because he panicking. It also implies that he is desperate to delay going outside so that’s why he keeps revolving the door.
Suggests he moving so quickly because he is panicking so much.

34. How does the writer describe Jack’s experience of going outside?
You have 5 minutes thinking time.
Look at yesterday’s extract and figure out what two quotations you are going to write 2 paragraphs about.
Be sure that you are picking two quotations that tell us something about Jack’s experience
Be sure that you are picking two quotations where you can use subject terminology.
5 minutes
End

35. How does the writer describe Jack’s experience of going outside?
Now to write the answer Write 2 DETAILED, BRILLIANT paragraphs
What aspect of language does the writer use to describe Jack’s experience?
STATEMENT
EVIDENCE
ANALYSE
DETAIL WINS
Give a quotation to back up your statement
Analyse and giver “layers” of comments about the language
It reveals… It also shows…
Zoom in on words
The writer has used this to….