Revise AQA GCSE English Language Revision Guide

Cover
Contents
Reading
	The exam papers explained
	Planning your exam time
	Paper 1 Reading questions 1
	Paper 1 Reading questions 2
	Paper 2 Reading questions 1
	Paper 2 Reading questions 2
	Skimming for the main idea
	Annotating the sources
	Putting it into practice
	Putting it into practice
	The writer’s viewpoint
	Fact, opinion and expert evidence
	Explicit information and ideas
	Implicit information and ideas
	Inference
	Point–Evidence–Explain
	Putting it into practice
	Putting it into practice
	Word classes
	Connotations
	Figurative language
	Creation of character
	Creating atmosphere
	Narrative voice
	Putting it into practice
	Putting it into practice
	Rhetorical devices 1
	Rhetorical devices 2
	Whole text structure: fiction
	Whole text structure: non-fiction
	Identifying sentence types
	Commenting on sentences
	Putting it into practice
	Putting it into practice
	Evaluating a fiction text 1
	Evaluating a fiction text 2
	Using evidence to evaluate
	Putting it into practice
	Writing about two texts
	Selecting evidence for synthesis
	Answering a synthesis question
	Looking closely at language
	Planning to compare language
	Comparing language
	Comparing structure
	Comparing ideas
	Comparing perspective
	Answering a comparison question
	Putting it into practice
Writing
	Writing questions: an overview
	Writing questions: Paper 1
	Writing question: Paper 2
	Writing questions: time management
	Writing for a purpose: creative 1
	Writing for a purpose: creative 2
	Writing for a purpose: viewpoint 1
	Writing for a purpose: viewpoint 2
	Writing for an audience
	Putting it into practice
	Putting it into practice
	Form: articles
	Form: letters and reports
	Form: speeches
	Putting it into practice
	Ideas and planning: creative
	Structure: creative
	Beginnings and endings: creative
	Putting it into practice
	Ideas and planning: viewpoint 1
	Ideas and planning: viewpoint 2
	Openings: viewpoint
	Conclusions: viewpoint
	Putting it into practice
	Paragraphing
	Linking ideas
	Putting it into practice
	Formality and standard English 1
	Formality and standard English 2
	Vocabulary for effect: synonyms
	Vocabulary for effect: creative
	Vocabulary for effect: viewpoint
	Language for different effects 1
	Language for different effects 2
	Language for different effects 3
	Putting it into practice
	Putting it into practice
	Sentence variety 1
	Sentence variety 2
	Sentences for different effects
	Putting it into practice
	Ending a sentence
	Commas
	Apostrophes and speech punctuation
	Colons, semi-colons, dashes, brackets and ellipses
	Putting it into practice
	Common spelling errors 1
	Common spelling errors 2
	Common spelling errors 3
	Proofreading
	Putting it into practice
	Source 1 – Rebecca
	Source 2 – To Kill a Mockingbird
	Source 3 – Every Man For Himself
	Source 4 – The Help
	Source 5a – The state of the Prisons, 1818
	Source 5b – ‘Prison doesn’t work’
	Source 6a – Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole
	Source 6b – Captain Scott’s Diary
	Source 7a – On Women’s Right to Vote
	Source 7b – ‘From Suffragettes to Political Apathy’
Answers