1. GCSE English Language 2017/18 Session 5
Today’s Learning Objectives:
Read and understand science fiction (P1)
2. Analyse how writers use structure …to engage the reader (P1 Q2)
FS Maths: counting lines and paragraphs; timings and mark schemes

2. What do you want to achieve today?

3. Question: How does the writer use language to …
Question: How does the writer use language to ….? You should focus on … - words and phrases - language features and techniques - sentence forms

4. What is this about? List abstract nouns. Explain your response.
From 49 mins – 55
(or stop at 54 to omit pram sequence)

5. Sentence Forms
 A simple sentence has a single clause. Clouds hid the stars.  A compound sentence has two or more simple sentences joined together: The flies emerged and they flew about.

6. Sentence Forms
A complex sentence has a main clause which can stand alone as a sentence, plus a dependant clause which cannot stand alone:
“They looped around me, sounding like sputtering, single-prop airplanes.”

7. Viewpoint/ Perspective
First Person – I we
Second Person – You.
Third Person - he, she, they, it
= pronouns

8. Pronouns Verbs Adverbs Types of noun Adjectives

18. What is the structure of a text?
= its organization. The arrangement of certain things within the text. What kind of things does the author need to make decisions about at the start of the story?

19. P1 Q3: Analyse structure
A typical Q3 You now need to think about the whole of the text. This text is from the opening of a novel. How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader?

20. P1 Q3: Analyse structure You could write about:
what the writer focuses your attention on at the beginning
how and why the writer changes the focus as the extract develops
any other structural features that interest you.

21. similes
metaphors
alliteration
personification
repetition
onomatopoeia