English Language Writing 2020

Question 1

What does question 5 on English Language Paper 2 ask you to do?

Answer 1

Write a text about the real world, like a speech, an article or a letter

Question 2

What are the main three sections you should divide your answer into?

Answer 2

Ethos, logos and pathos

Question 3

What is the main question that your ethos paragraph will answer?

Answer 3

Why should I listen to you?

Question 4

What are the three things you need to cover in your ethos paragraph?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is the main question that your logos paragraph will answer?

Answer 5

What is the evidence?

Question 6

What are the three things you need to cover in your logos paragraph?

Answer 6

1) A logical explanation of what will happen
2) Facts and / or statistics
3) Expert quotations, with techniques

Question 7

What is the main question that your pathos paragraph will answer?

Answer 7

Why should you care?

Question 8

What is a more sophisticated alternative to these two words:

Good and bad

Answer 8

Beneficial and harmful

Question 9

What is a more sophisticated alternative to these two words:

Important and not important

Answer 9

Essential and unnecessary

Question 10

What is a more sophisticated alternative to these two words:

Do and not do

Answer 10

Implement and oppose

Question 11

What are more sophisticated alternatives to these three final words:

Show
Think about
Teenagers

Answer 11

Demonstrate
Imagine
Adolescents

Question 12

What kind of sentence is this?

Education.

Answer 12

A minor sentence (just one or two words)

Question 13

What kind of sentence is this?

This has to stop.

Answer 13

A short, dramatic sentence

Question 14

What kind of sentence is this?

How are teachers and parents allowing this to happen?

Answer 14

A (rhetorical) question

Question 15

What kind of sentence is this?

“the British education system was once the envy of the world.”

Answer 15

Dialogue (someone speaking).

Question 16

What kind of sentence is this?

Education is essential for exam success, for confidence, for life.

Answer 16

Tricolon (list of three)

Question 17

What kind of sentence is this?

That’s how we - that’s how anyone - can see this is true.

Answer 17

A bracketed sentence (the hyphens do the same job as brackets).

Question 18

What technique is this?

Working in every class. Working after school. Working evenings and weekends.

Answer 18

Anaphora (all the sentences begin in the same way.)

Question 19

What technique is this?

Stop wasting the present on social media and go and live your life.

Answer 19

Imperative (a command).

Question 20

What technique is this?

The shame and guilt of knowing you could have worked harder.

Answer 20

Emotive language (words that name or cause strong emotions)

Question 21

Which paragraph would this fit best in?

I know that, like me, you wish for…

Answer 21

Ethos

It helps to show you have the audience’s best interests at heart.

Question 22

Which paragraph would this fit best in?

Statistically, the evidence speaks for itself:

Answer 22

Logos

It helps to back up your argument with evidence

Question 23

Which paragraph would this fit best in?

From the point of view of a…

Answer 23

Ethos

You can use it to show you are experienced in this area.

Question 24

Which paragraph would this fit best in?

Of course, all of this has a dreadful human cost.

Answer 24

Pathos

It could introduce an emotional, real-life story.

Question 25

Which paragraph would this fit best in?

Science has proven the link between…

Answer 25

Logos

It helps back up your argument with evidence

Question 26

Which paragraph would this fit best in?

The implications for the future are clear: we need to…

Answer 26

Pathos

It predicts the future

Question 27

What three sentences do you need in your introduction, if you are using an introduction?

Answer 27

General (the world)
Specific (your situation)
Thesis (your main point)

Question 28

What three sentences do you need in your conclusion, if you are using a conclusion?

Answer 28

Thesis (your main point)
Specific (your situation)
General (the world)

Question 29

What are the three things you need to cover in your pathos paragraph?

Answer 29

1) Creating strong emotions, like fear, pity or anger
2) Tell a real-life story OR
3) Predict the future