1. Session 28 Learning Objectives: - understand how to comment on language features and structure - practise how to answer Paper 1, Q 2 & 3

2. Brain warm-up
Exam results day: what’s going on in this picture?!

3. What do you want to achieve today?

4. Attack – staying safe online
…Phishing s
…Trojan horses
… Malware
How can you protect yourself?

5. Last week’s homework:-

6. SPAG: common spelling errors in English

7. QuAL
The writer uses an interesting WHAT? to describe the sun. She says “the sun was like a powerful lamp turned fully in his face”…

8. ‘I’m the King of the Castle’ by Susan Hill

9. ‘I’m the King of the Castle’ by Susan Hill
Re-read the second paragraph (lines 11 – 26). List four things about the crow’s appearance and behaviour that Kingshaw finds frightening.

10. Possible answers: It was very large It had enormous ragged black wings
It rose up suddenly
It flapped about his head
It beat its wings noisily
It kept diving towards him
It screeched
Its mouth was scarlet inside
It had glinting eyes

11. Analysing language features: Fill in the worksheet based on lines 27 - 33

12. Analysing language features
Question 2 Now focus on lines 27 – 33 only.
How has the writer used language to make us feel Kingshaw’s fear? You should mention:
- words and phrases/ language features/ sentence forms

13. Recall
Q3) Structural features …

14. ‘Structural features’
syntax
discourse markers and connectives
Themes/ tone
sentence length and type/ patterns
introduction to and development of character,
Perspective/ setting (think of a camera!)
Narration, viewpoint and narrowing focus
Sequence of events/ pacing/ ‘pause – freeze’

15. Question 3 Focus on the whole of the extract
Question 3 Focus on the whole of the extract. How has the writer used structure to interest you as a reader? You should refer to: - how the extract begins - how the extract develops - how the extract concludes

16. P1 Q3: Analyse structure Structural features can be:
at a whole text level eg. beginnings / endings / perspective shifts;
at a paragraph level eg. topic change / aspects of cohesion;
and at a word & sentence level when judged to contribute to whole structure.

17. 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.

18. Question 5
Either:
Write a description (suggested by a visual or written prompt).
Or:
Write an opening part to a story (about …)
40 marks/ 45 minutes

19. Description Plan it! Senses ‘TipTop’ Perspective
Say a lot about a little
Use figurative language and interesting vocabulary

21. A figure walking across a windswept moor.

22. A figure walking across a windswept moor.

23. Descriptive language

24. So, when do you start a new paragraph?
Person
Place
Topic
Time
Tiptop

25. Plenary: Independent learning – 1) Finish the homework sheet 2) Revise spellings for test next week!