1. Year 10 Summer exam
Monday, 27 May 2019

2. EDEXCEL PAPER 1 3 part paper 45 minutes/part
We are giving you two of the elements of the paper.

3. PART 1 An unseen passage from a non fiction text
3 questions: 2 comprehension and 1 short essay – based on writers’ techniques
4 marks, 4 marks and 12 marks
Allow a good 25 minutes for the 12 mark question

4. SECTION B Based on an extract from Anthology A
2 Questions, 10 marks each
1: Reading, based on an analysis of the passage
1: Writing, based on the passage but asking for creative, transactional responses – reports, letters, speeches and so on.

5. Revision 1
Re read the anthology and think clearly about the choices made by the writers of each section.
Think about the effect of the layout and structure of the passage/web page. Use your SLAP techniques to help you engage with the writing.

6. Revision 2
Look back to the work we did in the Autumn, relating to transformational and transactional writing.
Inform, Explain, Describe
Formal report, newspaper report/article (slightly less formal perhaps, though with similar structural features), magazine review, “a contribution to a media programme”
You could look at the current GCSE revision materials on the GCSE relating to English language...

7. AOs Assessment objectives assessed in this paper AO2 Reading
All students will be required to demonstrate an ability to:
(i) read and understand texts with insight and engagement
(ii) develop and sustain interpretations of writers’ ideas and perspectives
(iii) understand and make some evaluation of how writers use linguistic and
structural devices to achieve their effects.
AO3 Writing
(i) communicate clearly and appropriately, using and adapting forms for different
readers and purposes
(ii) organise ideas into sentences, paragraphs and whole texts using a variety of
linguistic and structural features
(iii) use a rang