Language Paper 1 Revision

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Paper 2 – Non- Fiction

50% of your GCSE
You are given 2 Non-Fiction texts to read and
compare/evaluate/analyse.
Source A – Modern Source B – 19th Century
1 h 45 minutes
Section A: Reading [40 marks]
(Spend 10 minutes reading and re-reading the extracts)

Question 1: Comprehension 4 marks

(Source A) 5 minutes
‘Select 4 true statements’

Question 2: Inference across 8 marks

two texts 10 minutes
‘Write a summary of the
differences of the presentation
of _______’

Question 3: How does the 12 marks

writer use language to ……. in 15 minutes
Source A?
Question 4: Comparison of 16 marks
methods 20 minutes
‘Compare how the two writers
convey their different attitudes
to ____________.’

Section B: Writing [40 marks]

Question 5: Response to an 40 marks

idea - Transactional Writing 45 minutes

Question Paper Insert

How to read the extract
As you read:
1. Read the small
paragraph that
explains what the
extract is about or Character
gets on bus
where it is from.
2. Write a word or
phrase next to each
paragraph to
summarise what it is
about
3. Put a star next to the
‘juicy bits’ (anything
that strikes you as
interesting; or stands
out)

What if you get stuck on a word in the extract?

Don’t be fazed by words you don’t immediately understand.

1. Read around the word for hints in the sentence usually you can have a
general idea of its meaning

2. Chunk the word – is there a part of the word that you already know?

3. Think about what is happening in the story at that point

4. Skip over the word and continue reading until the end of the sentence;
now go back to the beginning of the sentence and start again.

Language Paper 1: Section A Sentence Starters

Question 3: Structure Analysis question
Question 1: Always use the noun in the question of a pronoun
• At the start of the extract, we are introduced to…
• The village is..
• Then the writer brings our attention to…

• It is/ They are… • A key moment is…

• There is a sudden shift in mood when…

Question 2: Language Analysis question • The writer ends with…

Make a point • The ending is similar/different to the opening because…

• The writer depicts/conveys/presents ___ as… • This is an effective opening/climax/conclusion to the novel because …
Question 4: Evaluation Question
• The overall mood created is…
• I partly agree…
Introduce Evidence • I somewhat agree…
• The use of… suggests… • One could argue that…
• The writer deliberately uses… • This (method) clearly shows that…

• With…. The writer shows… • By using this (method) the writer has managed to …

Analysis • This (method) works well because…

• This creates the effect of…

• Through this (method), the reader is able to understand that …
• Obviously, …therefore…
• This creates the impression of…
• Here the (method) employed successfully highlights
• Furthermore, this suggests…
• The reader is bound to think
• To support this, the writer suggests…
• We know immediately that…
• A sense of .. Is created with…

• The use of the word/phrase… shows…

Question 1
Key Message:
Box up the appropriate lines and use the 5 minutes
noun/pronoun to start the sentence

Q2: Analysing Language

Step by Step: 10 minutes
1. Read the question first and +5
highlight the key focus
2. Read the extract
3. Underline all the words and Top Tips
phrases linked to X • Layered analysis, really unpick what
4. Write down as many words or words mean and their connotations
phrases to describe X (use your • Recognise the mood created or pathetic
own words) fallacy
5. Write two detailed paragraphs • Comment on the effect on the reader
on X.

A high level paragraph looks like:

WHAT
Topic sentence – answers the question with your own vocabulary (2 adjectives
or a phrase
Evidence – A range of embedded quotations (2-4)
HOW
Analysis of methods (Firstly, However, Perhaps) to probe for meaning
WHY
Writer’s purpose – explain why the writer may have done this
Language Paper 1, Questions 3
10 minutes
Remember:
+5
Structure just means the order of
How is the text ordered?
things that the writer describes in
Why is it ordered this way?
the passage.
Example:
What is the beginning like- why?
What is the ending like- why? The writer clearly foregrounds the text
Are they similar or different- why? with an introduction to the main
protagonist boarding the bus in relentless
rain and storm. This sets a melancholic
Useful sentence starters mood to the text and suggests the
• At the start of the extract, we are character is facing a struggle. This
introduced to… perhaps this is to… opening also suggests the journey of
Rosabel will be the focus of the story.
• Then the writer brings our attention
to… which makes us feel…
• There is a sudden shift in mood when…
• The writer ends with… this could be Q3 Success Criteria:
to… ❑ Points linked to the question
• The ending is similar/different to the ❑ A range of specific examples –
opening because… beginning, shift, overall
❑ Technical terminology used
• This is an effective
opening/climax/conclusion to the ❑ Why has the writer used it?
novel because… ❑ Develop with a link to the reader​

Useful structural points

- Withholding and releasing information
- In media res
- Cyclical structure
- Contrasts/Juxtapositions
- Motifs
- Mood changes
- Narrative perspective

What is not a structural point…

- Sentences
- Words
Language Paper 1, Question 4
20 minutes

+5
Step By Step: Q4 Success Criteria:
1. Read the question and put a box ❑ Agree with statement​ (fully or partially)
around the section the question ❑ A range of specific examples – from selected area
states. ❑ Technical terminology used
2. Underline the key ideas in the ❑ Why has the writer used it?
❑ Develop with a link to the reader​
statement.
3. Find evidence that supports the
ideas in the statement. Make Focus on the second part of the source,
sure you are looking for from lines 22-40.
methods!
4. Decide on your stance on the ‘The reader feels more sympathy for the
statement. death of White Fang than the death of Jim
5. Write your response – detailed Hall’
paragraphs focusing on method
s and effects. To what extent do you agree?

Quick plan
Sympathy for white fang
• eyelids drooped and went shut’ – the slow death of White Fang
• ‘perceptibly agitated’ – ideas of pain and suffering
• The text ends with the death of White Fang not Jim Hall – less description
of Jim Hall’s death
• ‘grumbled an acknowledging growl’ – love for family

(no sympathy for ) Death of Jim Hall

• ‘then they turned to White Fang’ – characters lack sympathy
• ‘the man’ – less connection as an audience
• Violent imagery – ‘gaping’
• had done his work’ – duty to kill Jim Hall, Jim Hall as an intruder
• ‘abyss of blackness’ – death of Jim Hall linked to darkness

I wholeheartedly agree with the student who suggested that readers do feel
more sympathy for White Fang because we see an emotive description of his
bravery and eventual death which builds sympathy for this dog. Also, yes it is
evident that the writer intends for readers to care less about Jim Hall as we
become champions for the dog in the struggle and little focus is given to the
death of the intruder.

Firstly, the writer certainly builds pity for this heroic dog in the extract as….
Clearly… Evidentially… Poignantly…
The use of (violent imagery, adjectives, phrases, emotive, pathos, verb choices)
Also the description of…. Suggests….
Ultimately, White Fang is pitied because…
Secondly, Jim Hall is not presented in a pitiful way as he seems to be the antagonist
of the story.
The writer describes with…..
Firstly…However….Perhaps
The use of (lack of name, ambiguous language, symbolism of darkness) show…
In summary, I fully agree because…
 AO5: Content and
Section B: Writing Organisation
AO6: Technical Accuracy
Key Headlines

• 45 mins- 5 planning, 35 writing, 5 checking

• Follow the mood changing structure
• Use a complex list and reoccurring object
• Use the set structure/idea you have been practising

An example: Read and spot the features of the plan.

Exposition The sky was tinted a bleak shade of grey. Warm and humid, the smell of

1 establishing
setting, mood
and character
rain lingered in the air around her. It was presumably the crack of dawn yet
the temperature felt as high as the peak of a southern heatwave, a familiar
yet insufferable sensation to recall. Wind swept the sand and soil towards
situation ( best
the building she stood next to, ceaseless lines of miserable people wrapped
around the corner of it. A dozen white trucks were lined up at the barbwire
in present fencing, separated by steel barricades like the women and the children
tense if you were. She stood in the middle of one of these lines and clutched at her
want to show chest pocket. The outline of a miniature rag doll, one her son graciously
off past tense made of her, comforted her deeply during times like this. She had worked
in the shift) tirelessly to root herself in American soil, but none of it mattered.
Thick clouds now circulated the parking lot, predatorially. Tempestuous and
Shorter unrelenting, the prospect of heavy rainfall was not unlikely. She felt

2 paragraph
developing
character
tentative droplets struck her temples and roll down the curves of her
cheeks. Half-hearted drizzling soon turned to raging downpour; her curls
matted onto her forehead and her clothes were soaked through. The lack of
provided shelter made the process evermore chaotic and frustrating for the
situation whilst
women surrounding her. She focused on the gradual darkening of the soil-
sustaining/ the vast, ceaseless, unforgiving stretch on either side of the fencing that
enhancing mood determined her fate. She was ushered into a truck soon enough, surrounded
by 10 or 20 other drenched and shivering women. She swiftly cowered into a
dark corner, reaching for the ragdoll once again. Holding the worn artefact
One sentence close to her chest, she stole one final glance at the sandstone soil before

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the doors of the truck-container were slammed shut.
paragraph
introducing a The very same sandstone soil she treaded along as she entered the Land of
shift in time and the Free, the Home of the Brave…
mood
She remembered he memories of her liberation- her utter fearlessness- still
lingered in the hills and valleys of her mind; she remembered smelling fresh
grass being mowed along her neighbour’s lawn while lounging on her patio,
Recount the in the morning sunshine; she remembered the birth of her first child,

4 memory with a
distinctive mood
shift (
naming him ‘Carlos’ meaning ‘free man’; she remembered her first pay-
check, and her last one, both gifted to her parents as a symbol of her
gratitude. Mostly, she remembered the soaring, towering, boundless skies
above her humble town in south-western Texas.
could be a tense
shift, too, if you Now, as the sky seemed to close further and further in on her every day,
started in she thought of Carlos. It had been months since she had held him in her
present tense)
arms. She tightened her grip on the ragdoll; a pathetically inadequate
substitute for her son’s embrace. The petty, soiled figurine was barely
distinguishable in the darkness that now engulfed the truck. As she heard
Try for a the engine start, she felt the woman next to her recoil into herself, shaking
complex list if tumultuously. The majority of the women in the container were sobbing
you can quietly, some of them paralysed-still with pure misery. She wondered what
each of these women did to end up here; whether they had lived America
all their lives, migrated when they were young or old, were born in
Resume the

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America, or Mexico, or somewhere entirely different. They were all the
mood you same in the eyes of the law because of the blood that ran through their
opened your veins.
text with.
Circular She had worked tirelessly to root herself in American soil, but none of it
structure mattered.
sentence
Language Paper 1- Question 5 When planning your story use a range of vocabulary
including exciting verb choice to set mood.

Glossary of descriptive vocabulary

Adjectives
• Tumultuous
• Ominous
• Ecstatic
• Iridescent
• Resplendent
• Ephemeral
• Melancholic
• Tempestuous
• Hostile
Verbs
• Walk: Stride, Stroll, Pace, Saunter,
Meander, Strut
• Run: Dash, Sprint, Ride, Course, Surge, Hurry
• Pour: Drizzle, Drip, Empty, Hail, Volley, Burst,
Torrent, Rupture, Thrash
• Shine: Glow, Sparkle, Burn, illuminate,
irradiate

Language Paper 1- Question 5 Ranging your sentence types will also elevate your
response.

Why do we need to range our sentences?

- To build pace or slow down the pace.
- To shift time or mood.
- For clarity.
- To manipulate the order of the narrative and help the
reader enjoy the plot.

There are many ways to range

sentences. We’ve learnt 4 specific
types.
 Paragraph 1 – Set mood
Exposition establishing

1 setting, mood and

character situation ( best
in present tense if you
Useful opening sentences:
It was sunset.
want to show off past It was sunrise.
tense in the shift)
The sun set on another day.
Shorter paragraph
Fog lurked above him.
2 developing character
situation whilst sustaining/
enhancing mood Vocabulary choices
Adjectives
One sentence paragraph
• Tumultuous (up and down, used to describe the sea or a storm)

3 introducing a shift in time

and mood
• Melancholic (sad, depressing)
• Nostalgic (reminder of the past)
• Iridescent (bright and glowing)
Recount the memory with a • Resplendent (bright and vibrant)
4 distinctive mood shift
( could be a tense shift,
too, if you started in Verbs
present tense)
• Walk: Stride, Stroll, Pace, Saunter, Meander, Strut
Try for a complex list if you
can
• Run: Dash, Sprint, Ride, Course, Surge, Hurry
• Pour: Drizzle, Drip, Empty, Hail, Volley, Burst, Torrent, Rupture,
Resume the mood you Thrash
5 opened your text with.
Circular structure sentence • Shine: Glow, Sparkle, Burn, illuminate, irradiate

Success Criteria for the exposition

- Set clear timer and mood
- Range sentence types and openers
- Use of imagery and figurative language
- Introduce special object
- Show not tell language – character
- Engaging final circular structure sentence

Setting a negative mood Setting a positive mood

• The sky was gloomy • The sky serene and tranquil
• Clouds had gathered • Peaceful valleys and flowing streams
• The sky threatened a storm • Lush green trees
• Rain drizzled • Vivid blue seas
• Mizzling rain • Pink hue in the sky
• Hostile environment • Delicate buds of flowers
• Haunting shadows • Fresh scent of dew
• Rugged cliffs • Sun rising from the East
• Fog and mist gathered • Aromas of jasmine and honeysuckle
• Ominous shadows • Sound of birdsong
• Decaying leaves Mood grows stronger
• Thrashing waves • Sun rays burst through the clouds
Mood grows stronger • Ray of light pierces through the sky
• Thunder raged and erupted • Iridescent sun/moon
• Lightning forked the sky • Birds fluttered
• Harsh and thunderous sounds of thunder • Blue sky stretched across the landscape
• Rain thrashed and pounded the ground • Reflection glittered and shimmered in
• Tumult of wind the water
• Tempestuous • Faint outline of a rainbow
Paragraph 2 – Emphasise mood
Exposition establishing

1 setting, mood and

character situation ( best
in present tense if you
want to show off past
tense in the shift)
Verbs
Shorter paragraph • Walk: Stride, Stroll, Pace, Saunter, Meander, Strut
2 developing character
situation whilst sustaining/
enhancing mood
• Run: Dash, Sprint, Ride, Course, Surge, Hurry
• Pour: Drizzle, Drip, Empty, Hail, Volley, Burst, Torrent, Rupture,
Thrash
One sentence paragraph • Shine: Glow, Sparkle, Burn, illuminate, irradiate
3 introducing a shift in time
and mood

Recount the memory with a

4 distinctive mood shift

( could be a tense shift,
too, if you started in
present tense) Success Criteria for the exposition
Try for a complex list if you - Select verbs and adverbs to emphasise mood
can
- Range sentence types and openers
Resume the mood you
- Use of imagery and figurative language
5 opened your text with.
Circular structure sentence
- Reference special object

Paragraph 3 – the one line paragraph

Exposition establishing

1 setting, mood and

character situation ( best
in present tense if you
Model:

want to show off past • Nostalgic and wistful, his minded drifted to another tine…
tense in the shift)
• Desperate and alone, one lone tear trickled down her face…
Shorter paragraph
• This moment was unique and she would remember it forever!
2 developing character
situation whilst sustaining/
enhancing mood
• Her mind was racing, racing towards the dream she had always
had…
• The more she stared out into the sunset, the more she nostalgic she
One sentence paragraph
became…

3 introducing a shift in time

and mood

Recount the memory with a

4 distinctive mood shift

( could be a tense shift,
too, if you started in
present tense)

Try for a complex list if you

can

Resume the mood you

5 opened your text with.

Circular structure sentence
Success Criteria
Make it stand out if you can ( no dead flowers here!)
Maybe pick up on a word from the final sentence of the
previous paragraph.
Use interesting punctuation (… ! ? )
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Paragraph 4 – the mood and time shift
Exposition establishing setting,

1 mood and character situation (

best in present tense if you
want to show off past tense in Model:
the shift)

With a misty look in her eye, she remembered that day: she
remembered….; she remembered…; she remembered (weather
Shorter paragraph developing shift)… Most of all, she remembered….
2 character situation whilst
sustaining/ enhancing mood

One sentence paragraph

3 introducing a shift in time and

mood Success Criteria
Zoom in on three memories with a mood shift
Use repetition at the start of each sentence for effect.
Recount the memory with a Zoom in on the moment life changed again ( for better OR
4 distinctive mood shift
could be a tense shift, too, if
you started in present tense)
(
worse)
Zoom in on something to signpost returning to the mood of the
Try for a complex list if you can
first two paragraphs ( objective correlative)

Resume the mood you opened

5 your text with.

Circular structure sentence

Paragraph four: Nailing the complex list

Colon: signposts the beginning of a list
8 minutes
Semi-colon: used to list long items/ sentences Write up the
complex list using
The football results were popular this weekend:
Liverpool won the Champions League; Chelsea beat this guidance. Be
rivals Arsenal; Juventus annihilated Madrid. Fans prepared to share.
were going wild!

The deep recesses of his memory recalled the pain of that day: he
remembered the wreckage of the car surrounding him; he
remembered the guttural sob his mother let out as she saw his
injuries for the first time; he remembered the searing pain up is
leg which crippled him for days. Most of all, he remembered the
fear which engulfed when he heard the prognosis.
Paragraph 5 – Return to original place with a change of time
Exposition establishing Model:

1 setting, mood and

character situation ( best
in present tense if you
Vocabulary choices
Adjectives
• Tumultuous (up and down, used to describe the sea or a storm)
want to show off past • Melancholic (sad, depressing)
tense in the shift) • Nostalgic (reminder of the past)
• Iridescent (bright and glowing)
Shorter paragraph • Resplendent (bright and vibrant)

2 developing character
situation whilst sustaining/
enhancing mood
Verbs
• Walk: Stride, Stroll, Pace, Saunter, Meander, Strut
• Run: Dash, Sprint, Ride, Course, Surge, Hurry
• Pour: Drizzle, Drip, Empty, Hail, Volley, Burst, Torrent, Rupture, Thrash
One sentence paragraph • Shine: Glow, Sparkle, Burn, illuminate, irradiate

3 introducing a shift in time

and mood Success Criteria
First sentence could pick up a word from the last sentence
Recount the memory with a of the previous paragraph.
4 distinctive mood shift
( could be a tense shift,
too, if you started in
The sky…..resume initial mood
Zoom in…..the mood continues
present tense)
Zoom in…..the mood continues (objective correlative)
Try for a complex list if you
can Zoom in ….the character – action reflects mood
Circular structure sentence ( at the end of this paragraph or
Resume the mood you

5 opened your text with.

Circular structure sentence
as a stand alone paragraph)

Self assessment
Even Better If (EBI) - Re-read your work and look below at your target, is there any improvements you
can notice already?
AO5 (Content and Organisation) AO6 (Technical Accuracy)

T1: Formal register with ambitious vocabulary T5: Secure use of sentences for clarity

T2: Used a range of methods to set and shift mood T6:Wide range of punctuation used accurately
(pathetic fallacy, metaphors, imagery, senses)
T7: Variation of simple, compound and complex
T3: Followed planned structure to show inventive sentences and a range of sentence starters
structure (mood change, flashback, motifs)
T8: Standard English used with correct grammar and
T4: Clear paragraphs with linked ideas and discourse tense
markers
T9: Accurate spelling
How do I make my plan fit the question?

1. Foreground the theme of the question in your opening.

• For example if it asks you about a hard time you may begin with
‘The sun set on another troublesome day.’ Or perhaps if it is
about time travel you would begin with ‘As I watched the rain
hammer the ground, I travelled back in my mind to that day.’
2. Do not be thrown by the question, still follow the plan
you have been using.

Write a narrative with the title ‘The last attempt’

Write a description of a shocking event.

Write a description informed by this image.

Write a narrative about a special memory.

Write a narrative informed by this image.
 Language paper 1 helpsheet
Read the extract
1. Predict e.g using the title and context box
2. Clarify e.g using the glossary and context of the sentence to support
3. Summarise e.g a word or phrase for each paragraph
4. Question e.g who is X? Why has the writer used pathetic fallacy?
Answer the 4 questions
Question 1
1. Only focus on the section specified
2. Highlight the key word
3. Use short sentences
Question 2 (2 paragraphs)
1. Consider the writer’s language choices
The writer chooses to use…… “……”
2. Explain the impact of these choices on the reader (you!)
This could make the reader think/imagine/feel….
Question 3 (3 paragraphs)
1. Considering the writer’s structural choices
At the beginning the writer chooses to focus on… when they write “…”
The focus then shifts…
The extract ends by focusing on… which contrasts with/echoes the
beginning because…
2. Explaining the impact of these choices on the reader (you!)
This could make the reader think/imagine/feel/question ….
Question 4 (Thesis statement and two paragraphs)
Open with a thesis statement
I partially agree with the statement that… because…
1. Opinion at different parts of the extract
I agree that…. because at the beginning of the extract…
2. Juicy evidence that supports points
The writer describes the …”…..”
3. Writer’s choices to increase juiciness!
The writer chooses to use…… “……”
4. The impact on the reader
This could make the reader think/imagine/feel/question ….