Paper 1 Information

Question 1

How many is marks is Q1 worth?

Answer 1

4

Question 2

How many is marks is Q2 worth?

Answer 2

8

Question 3

How many is marks is Q3 worth?

Answer 3

8

Question 4

How many is marks is Q4 worth?

Answer 4

20

Question 5

How many is marks is Q5 worth?

Answer 5

40

Question 6

What AOs are in Q1?

Answer 6

AO1

Question 7

What AOs are in Q2 and 3?

Answer 7

AO2

Question 8

What AOs are in Q4?

Answer 8

AO4

Question 9

What AOs are in Q5?

Answer 9

AO6 and AO5

Question 10

Timing suggestion for Q1

Answer 10

10 mins

Question 11

Timing suggestion for Q2

Answer 11

10 mins

Question 12

Timing suggestion for Q3

Answer 12

20 mins

Question 13

Timing suggestion for Q4

Answer 13

20 mins

Question 14

Timing suggestion for Q5

Answer 14

5 mins planning and

40 mins writing

Question 15

Structural points (10)

Answer 15

Atmosphere
Repetition
Focus
Paragraphs
Characters
Sentence types
Dialogue
Beginning and ending
Tense
Perspective

Question 16

What is AO1?

Answer 16

Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response
Use textual references, including quotes, to support and illustrate interpretations

Question 17

What’s AO2?

Answer 17

Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meaning and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate

Question 18

What’s AO3?

Answer 18

Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written

Question 19

What’s AO4?

Answer 19

Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation

Question 20

5 different types of nouns

Answer 20

Common
Proper
Concrete
Abstract
Collective

Question 21

What’s a verb

Answer 21

Describes what a person or thing does or what happens

Question 22

What does a verb describe? (4)

Answer 22

An action
An event
A situation
A change

Question 23

What are modal verbs?

Answer 23

Combine with other verbs to express necessity, possibility, intention or ability
E.g. must, shall, should, would etc

Question 24

What are adverbs? (3)

Answer 24

Used to give information about a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
They can make the meaning of them stronger or weaker and often appear between the subject and it’s verb

Question 25

What are adjectives?

Answer 25

Words that describe a noun, giving extra information about it

Question 26

What’s a pronoun? (2)

Answer 26

Used in a place of a noun that is already known or had already been mentioned. This is often done in order to avoid repeating the noun.

Question 27

What’s a preposition?

Answer 27

A word such as after, in, to, on, with. Prepositions are usually used in front of nouns or pronouns and they show the relationship between the noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence

Question 28

What’s a determiner? (3)

Answer 28

A word that introduces a nouns.
The determiner ‘the’ is sometimes known as the definite article
The determiner ‘a’ (or an) as the indefinite article

Question 29

What’s an exclamation/ interjection? (2)

Answer 29

A word or phrase that expresses a string emotion.

Often stand on their own, and in writing they’re usually followed by an exclamation mark rather than a full stop

Question 30

What’s a conjunction?

Answer 30

(Connective) used to connect phrases, clauses and sentences