Key Points On Answering Questions In Paper 1 Flashcards
What is micro and macro terminology? Q2
Micro terminology is usually on one word (adjective, metaphor) and macro terminology is used for a series of words (semantic field, lexical field)
How should you use your quotes in q2 and q3
Always have short embedded quotes. Use 2 or 3 to support the same idea.
What is your writing structure when you answer a question
What (State the technique), How (how does the writer do it, use analytical verbs) and Why (focus on the impact + purpose. Show the thoughts and feelings of the extract. Always refer to the reader (“reader feels a sense (…’)” or “the reader has a feeling of (…) or “the reader begins to sympathise with the character,” etc.
How are you going to be organised in your writing?
Stick to ONE idea in a pargraph
What are the timings of your questions in paper 1 English?
- Read the text (15min)
- Q1 AT MOST 4min
- Q2 AT MOST 10min
- Q3 AT MOST 10min
- Q4 AT MOST 20min
- Q5 AT MOST 40min
Check your work for 5-10min
What should you use in q3 in Paper 1
Analytical adverbs throughout
What is an example of using an analytical adverb?
The writer (analytical adverb) uses (technique) to (verb)
What should you always be when you answer questions in Paper 1
Always BE PERSPECTIVE
What should you always do to your point in question 4?
Always link to your point and core ideas of the question
What should you always include in your writing?
Use techniques throughout and short embedded quotes (2-3)
What should you always do in q4
Stick to your idea, link back and evaluate
What are the key skills you need to show when you answer a language question?q2
- Select relevant examples of words and phrases, language features and techniques and identifying effective sentence forms.
- Commenting on them and analysing them.
What does the mark scheme say in a q2
Show detailed and perceptive understanding of language:
- Analyse the effect of the writer’s choices of language
- Select a judicious range of quotations
- Use sophisticated subject terminolgy accurately
What do you look at in q3?
- The sequence through a passage, such as: introduction, development, summary and conclusion, repetition, threads, patterns or motifs
- Shifts in ideas and perspectives, such as: movemnt big to small, place to place, outside to inside, narrative perspectives
- Coherence, such as: connections and links across paragraphs, links within paragraphs, topic sentences.
What are the key skills in q3?
- Select relevant examples of structural features throughout the passage.
- Commenting on them and analysing them.
What are the key skills that you need in q4?
- Understanding what the writer has sought to achieve in the passage.
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the writer’s choices.
- Selecting relevant quotations and textual references to support your views.
What does the mark scheme say in q4?
Critically evaluates the text in a detailed way
- Offers examples from the text to explain the views convincingly
- Analyses the effects of a range of writer’s choices
- Selects a range of relevant quotations to validate (justify) views
Sentence stems for q3
- The extract begins with…
- The writer changes the focus…
- At the end of the text…
Analytical adverbs you can use
Subtly, cleverly, boldly, ironically, powerfully, vividly, delicately, deliberately, passionately, obsessivly
Analytical verbs to use
Depicts, portrays, presents, implies, exposes, provokes, explores, conveys, expresses, emphasises, 3cs condemn, critique and challenge
What structure should you follow in your creative writing
Drop, shift, return and zoom in, and leave
What do you do in your drop?
- Drop your narrative voice in the story.
- Who is the narrator? What are there thoughts and feelings at the beginning.
- Start in the middle of it
- Think about where are you going to be
What do you do in your shift?
- Use a “phrase to shift the paragraph.” Link the past and present
- Use a flashback to describe the location at a different time of day or year. Use different emotions
- Use a significant memory
What do you do in your zoom in?
- Say “Now” to link
- Return to the original time and place, but zoom in one detail of the image and describe it in detail. Why is it significant? Show the thoughts or feelings if you describe a human.
What do you do when you leave?
Zoom out of the original location.
Imagine a leaf or feather blowing in the wind, or a bird flying above the location.
If you describe the location of a builidng, finish by describing the outside.
Cyclical idea?
What should you always mention in a q4
Always highlight the methods of the statement and say why the writer has used them
