GCSE English Language AQA Revision Guide - includes Online Edition and Videos: ideal for the 2024 and 2025 exams (CGP AQA GCSE English Language)

For focused help and support with your GCSE English Language revision, why not try a lesson with one of our expert online tutors? Students need to be aware of what they have available to them in relation to a text and the knowledge they possess. It is clear from my position as a student that a lot of effort has been put into organising the timetable. Writing flashcards for specific texts that contain key quotes relating to, say, certain themes and ideas can be a powerful revision process in itself. The language features you pick out could include things like: metaphors, similes, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, sentence forms and the use of specific types of words or phrases.First you need to read an extract from The Invisible Man by HG Wells, before picking out certain word classes. From the start of Y10, we made it clear that there was to be no more plugging of gaps or quick solutions. Summarise each of the differences in turn, with quotations, and explore perceptive inferences from both texts.

So, this video, for example, and its accompanying guide, takes pupils through the influence of poetry and rhyme on modern rap music. That meant I had 12 weeks of high-quality additional provision planned that could accommodate 60+ students a week. This note-taking system can be a really useful way of helping students organise their revision notes, while also providing them with opportunities to self-test. This is a revision material for GCSE students studying the new AQA English Language course (first examination Jun 2017). If, for example, students were to produce a page of Cornell notes for each poem in a series, chapter of a book or character in a play, they would eventually have their very own home-grown revision booklet, complete with quiz questions at the side of every page for ‘check and answer’ purposes.

If you can help them to revise in a way that doesn’t feel like a non-stop conveyor belt of information passing in one ear and out the other, you’ve made a decent start. Whether you want to revise lexis or semantics or learn about language development, Seneca can be your personal tutor for revising English Language. We hear many students saying things like: “you don’t need to revise for English language because you’re given the extract on the day”; or even that “you can’t revise for English language”. It can work particularly well when reading through chapters of a text, watching a Shakespeare play or listening to a lecture.

Make sure you use well selected quotations directly from the text and explain how these quotes show your points. It’s likely there will be more than four pieces of information available, so you’ll have plenty to choose from.Students should get used to completing deliberate practise tasks for both language and literature topics. It doesn’t matter if their revision materials look pretty (unless that makes it more likely that they’ll actually use them). Above all, they must be clear that they’ll need to test themselves repeatedly to ensure this information remains available to them when they need it. Self-testing techniques are still very much relevant when it comes to achieving the fluency and agility demanded by language papers in the exam room.