Key Points On Answering Questions In Paper 1

Question 1

What is micro and macro terminology? Q2

Answer 1

Micro terminology is usually on one word (adjective, metaphor) and macro terminology is used for a series of words (semantic field, lexical field)

Question 2

How should you use your quotes in q2 and q3

Answer 2

Always have short embedded quotes. Use 2 or 3 to support the same idea.

Question 3

What is your writing structure when you answer a question

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

How are you going to be organised in your writing?

Answer 4

Stick to ONE idea in a pargraph

Question 5

What are the timings of your questions in paper 1 English?

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

What should you use in q3 in Paper 1

Answer 6

Analytical adverbs throughout

Question 7

What is an example of using an analytical adverb?

Answer 7

The writer (analytical adverb) uses (technique) to (verb)

Question 8

What should you always be when you answer questions in Paper 1

Answer 8

Always BE PERSPECTIVE

Question 9

What should you always do to your point in question 4?

Answer 9

Always link to your point and core ideas of the question

Question 10

What should you always include in your writing?

Answer 10

Use techniques throughout and short embedded quotes (2-3)

Question 11

What should you always do in q4

Answer 11

Stick to your idea, link back and evaluate

Question 12

What are the key skills you need to show when you answer a language question?q2

Answer 12

• Select relevant examples of words and phrases, language features and techniques and identifying effective sentence forms.
• Commenting on them and analysing them.

Question 13

What does the mark scheme say in a q2

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What do you look at in q3?

Answer 14

• 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.

Question 15

What are the key skills in q3?

Answer 15

• Select relevant examples of structural features throughout the passage.
• Commenting on them and analysing them.

Question 16

What are the key skills that you need in q4?

Answer 16

• 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.

Question 17

What does the mark scheme say in q4?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Sentence stems for q3

Answer 18

• The extract begins with…
• The writer changes the focus…
• At the end of the text…

Question 19

Analytical adverbs you can use

Answer 19

Subtly, cleverly, boldly, ironically, powerfully, vividly, delicately, deliberately, passionately, obsessivly

Question 20

Analytical verbs to use

Answer 20

Depicts, portrays, presents, implies, exposes, provokes, explores, conveys, expresses, emphasises, 3cs condemn, critique and challenge

Question 21

What structure should you follow in your creative writing

Answer 21

Drop, shift, return and zoom in, and leave

Question 22

What do you do in your drop?

Answer 22

• 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

Question 23

What do you do in your shift?

Answer 23

• 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

Question 24

What do you do in your zoom in?

Answer 24

• 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.

Question 25

What do you do when you leave?

Answer 25

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?

Question 26

What should you always mention in a q4

Answer 26

Always highlight the methods of the statement and say why the writer has used them