English Language Writing 2020 Flashcards
What does question 5 on English Language Paper 2 ask you to do?
Write a text about the real world, like a speech, an article or a letter
What are the main three sections you should divide your answer into?
Ethos, logos and pathos
What is the main question that your ethos paragraph will answer?
Why should I listen to you?
What are the three things you need to cover in your ethos paragraph?
1) Why you’re an expert in this area
2) Why you have the audience’s best interests at heart
3) What your main point is
What is the main question that your logos paragraph will answer?
What is the evidence?
What are the three things you need to cover in your logos paragraph?
1) A logical explanation of what will happen
2) Facts and / or statistics
3) Expert quotations, with techniques
What is the main question that your pathos paragraph will answer?
Why should you care?
What is a more sophisticated alternative to these two words:
Good and bad
Beneficial and harmful
What is a more sophisticated alternative to these two words:
Important and not important
Essential and unnecessary
What is a more sophisticated alternative to these two words:
Do and not do
Implement and oppose
What are more sophisticated alternatives to these three final words:
Show
Think about
Teenagers
Demonstrate
Imagine
Adolescents
What kind of sentence is this?
Education.
A minor sentence (just one or two words)
What kind of sentence is this?
This has to stop.
A short, dramatic sentence
What kind of sentence is this?
How are teachers and parents allowing this to happen?
A (rhetorical) question
What kind of sentence is this?
“the British education system was once the envy of the world.”
Dialogue (someone speaking).
What kind of sentence is this?
Education is essential for exam success, for confidence, for life.
Tricolon (list of three)
What kind of sentence is this?
That’s how we - that’s how anyone - can see this is true.
A bracketed sentence (the hyphens do the same job as brackets).
What technique is this?
Working in every class. Working after school. Working evenings and weekends.
Anaphora (all the sentences begin in the same way.)
What technique is this?
Stop wasting the present on social media and go and live your life.
Imperative (a command).
What technique is this?
The shame and guilt of knowing you could have worked harder.
Emotive language (words that name or cause strong emotions)
Which paragraph would this fit best in?
I know that, like me, you wish for…
Ethos
It helps to show you have the audience’s best interests at heart.
Which paragraph would this fit best in?
Statistically, the evidence speaks for itself:
Logos
It helps to back up your argument with evidence
Which paragraph would this fit best in?
From the point of view of a…
Ethos
You can use it to show you are experienced in this area.
Which paragraph would this fit best in?
Of course, all of this has a dreadful human cost.
Pathos
It could introduce an emotional, real-life story.
Which paragraph would this fit best in?
Science has proven the link between…
Logos
It helps back up your argument with evidence
Which paragraph would this fit best in?
The implications for the future are clear: we need to…
Pathos
It predicts the future
What three sentences do you need in your introduction, if you are using an introduction?
General (the world)
Specific (your situation)
Thesis (your main point)
What three sentences do you need in your conclusion, if you are using a conclusion?
Thesis (your main point)
Specific (your situation)
General (the world)
What are the three things you need to cover in your pathos paragraph?
1) Creating strong emotions, like fear, pity or anger
2) Tell a real-life story OR
3) Predict the future
