1. Preparation for GCSE language mock 2
What is the difference between fiction and non fiction? How about texts between 19th and 21st Century? Discuss please – ready to share!
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2. Preparation for GCSE language mock 2
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. 01) Tick 4 statements….. 4 marks
GCSE Language Paper 2 Writer’s viewpoints and perspectives 1 hour 45 min
Section A
Two sources
01) Tick 4 statements… marks
02) Write a summary marks
03) How is language used marks
04) Compare both sources marks
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4. Preparation for GCSE language mock 2
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
Compare written ideas and perspectives and how they are conveyed
AO4
Not assessed on this paper
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5. Preparation for GCSE language mock 2
Read through the two sources:
Source 1: A 21st Century online article called, ‘The Pontfadog oak was the oldest of the old, revered, loved … and now mourned’ by John Vidal
Source 2: 19th Century Extracts from ’Night Walks’ by Charles Dickens: on being Homeless
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6. Recap: What does ‘read for meaning’ mean?
01) Tick 4 statements… marks
Recap: What does ‘read for meaning’ mean?
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7. 01) Tick 4 statements….. 4 marks
This is testing your ability to read and understand the sources. These are the easiest four marks on the paper! Read the source: an online article called, ‘The Pontfadog oak was the oldest of the old, revered, loved … and now mourned’ by John Vidal
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8. The news was on Facebook by dinner time
01) Tick 4 statements that are true marks
The news was on Facebook by dinner time
The Pontfadog tree was 1,200 years old
The tree was struck by lightning
The second largest tree in Britain
Oldest tree in Wales
The villagers were proud of the tree
The tree had previously survived flooding
20 locals gathered around the tree
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9. The news was on Facebook by dinner time
01) Tick 4 statements that are true marks
The news was on Facebook by dinner time
The Pontfadog tree was 1,200 years old
The tree was struck by lightning
The second largest tree in Britain
Oldest tree in Wales
The villagers were proud of the tree
The tree had previously survived flooding
20 locals gathered around the tree
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10. What does a summary look like? What do you think it should contain?
02) Using the two sources, write a summary marks
What does a summary look like? What do you think it should contain?
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11. STATEMENT EVIDENCE INFERENCE X2
02) Using both sources, write a summary marks
STATEMENT EVIDENCE INFERENCE X2
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12. 02) Using the two sources, write a summary 8 marks
Using the two sources, write a summary of the differences between Wales and England Source A……………………. Evidence……………… This shows that……………. However, Source B…………………… Evidence…………………… This shows that…………
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13. This question assesses how the writer has used language
03) How is language used marks
This question assesses how the writer has used language
Words
Phrases
Language Features
Language Techniques
Sentence Forms
Analyse again!
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14. 03) How is language used 12 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.
STATEMENT
EVIDENCE
IMPACT
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. 04) Compare the attitudes of both sources 16 marks
For this question, you need to refer to the whole of source A together with the whole of source B.
Compare how the writers convey their different ideas and perspectives of the events that they describe.
In your answer, you could:
compare their different ideas and perspectives
compare the methods they use to convey their ideas and perspectives
support your response with references to both texts.
STATEMENT
EVIDENCE
IMPACT
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16. 05) Writing to provide a viewpoint 24 marks – content and organisation
GCSE Language Paper 2 Writer’s viewpoints and perspectives 1 hour 45 min
Section B
05) Writing to provide a viewpoint
24 marks – content and organisation
16 marks – accuracy
40 marks
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17. Preparation for GCSE language mock 2
AO5
Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences.
Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts
AO6
Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation
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18. 05) Writing to provide a viewpoint 40 marks
In section B of paper 2 you will be given a statement that expresses a point of view, and you will be asked to write a response to it, giving your own point of view. What you write about will be linked to the theme of the two texts you have read in Section A (the Reading Section) of the exam paper.
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19. Write a response to the following:
‘Young people do not look after their environment in the way they should do.” Write the text of a speech for a debate at your school or college in which you persuade young people to take more responsibility for protecting the environment.
Shared write
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20. 05) Writing a viewpoint 40 marks
What should we aim to include? This will become part of your writing checklist.
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21. 05) Writing to provide a viewpoint 40 marks
“Homeless people only have themselves to blame: it is not the responsibility of the community to look after the weak or vulnerable.” Write a letter to your local MP arguing for or against the statement.
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