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English Language Home Learning Booklets Year 10 and Year 11 AQA GCSE

Subject: English

Age range: 14-16

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18 March 2020

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English Language home learning / remote learning booklets for Year 10 and 11 AQA English Language GCSE

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English Department

It is our choices that show what we truly are,  far more than our abilities, gcse english literature homework, paper 1: shakespeare and the 19th century novel, shakespeare: macbeth.

Open the booklet for a range of activities designed to support your learning and develop your vocabulary.

Jekyll and Hyde

Learning quotations.

As both Literature exams are Closed Book, it is imperative you learn quotations. We've condensed each text for you - learn and practise! Plus do find an extra revision booklet!

Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry

Modern text: an inspector calls, poetry: power and conflict cluster, unseen poetry, gcse english language homework, paper 1: creative reading and writing, paper 2: viewpoints and perspectives.

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Language Paper 1

• PAPER 1 JUN 2017 INSERT.pdf
• PAPER 1 JUN 2017 PAPER.pdf 3mb
• PAPER 1 OCT 2016 INSERT.pdf
• PAPER 1 OCT 2016 SAMPLE (2).pdf
• PAPER 1 SAMPLE 2 INSTER.pdf
• PAPER 1 SAMPLE 2 PAPER.pdf

Below is a quick-fire presentation that can help as last-minute revision on the questions for Language Paper 1. Next to that are a good number of full Paper 1 texts and questions to match them for you to practice on.

• AQA-Language-Paper-1-Last-minute-Revision.pptx
• GCSE-English-Paper-1-Creative-Reading---Writing-NEW-VERSION.pdf 2mb

Revision practice for language paper 1 - lots of extracts and questions. Have a go at one and pass to your class teacher for feedback.

Revision practice for language paper 2 - lots of extracts and questions. Have a go at one and pass to your class teacher for feedback.

Year 11 English

IXL offers more than 100 Year 11 English skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, national curriculum, or standardized test.

Reading strategies

A. main idea.

• 1 Determine the main idea of a passage

B. Audience, purpose and tone

• 1 Which text is most formal?
• 2 Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
• 3 Identify audience and purpose
• 4 Compare passages for tone

C. Literary devices

• 1 Identify the narrative point of view
• 2 Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
• 3 Recall the source of an allusion
• 4 Interpret figures of speech
• 5 Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
• 6 Classify figures of speech: review
• 7 Analyse the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

D. Analysing literature

• 1 Analyse short stories: set 1
• 2 Analyse short stories: set 2

E. Analysing informational texts

• 1 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 1
• 2 Analyse the development of informational passages: set 2
• 3 Trace an argument: set 1
• 4 Trace an argument: set 2
• 5 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
• 6 Analyse rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

Writing strategies

F. organising writing.

• 1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
• 2 Organise information by topic

G. Topic sentences

• 1 Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea

H. Developing and supporting arguments

• 1 Distinguish facts from opinions
• 2 Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
• 3 Choose the best evidence to support a claim
• 4 Identify supporting evidence in a text
• 5 Evaluate counterclaims
• 6 Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
• 7 Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims

I. Persuasive strategies

• 1 Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements
• 2 Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing

J. Creative techniques

• 1 Use personification

K. Writing clearly and concisely

• 1 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
• 2 Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
• 3 Identify sentences with parallel structure
• 4 Use parallel structure
• 5 Remove redundant words or phrases

L. Active and passive voice

• 1 Identify active and passive voice
• 2 Rewrite the sentence in active voice

M. Editing and revising

• 1 Use the correct frequently confused word
• 2 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
• 3 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
• 4 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
• 5 Correct errors in everyday use
• 6 Suggest appropriate revisions

N. Research skills

• 1 Identify plagiarism

O. Prefixes and suffixes

• 1 Word pattern analogies
• 2 Word pattern sentences
• 3 Words with pre-
• 4 Words with re-
• 5 Words with sub-
• 6 Words with mis-
• 7 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
• 8 Words with -ful
• 9 Words with -less
• 10 Words with -able and -ible

P. Greek and Latin roots

• 1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
• 2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
• 3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
• 4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
• 5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

Q. Homophones

• 1 Use the correct homophone
• 2 Identify and correct errors with homophones

R. Foreign words and expressions

• 1 Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
• 2 Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
• 3 Use the correct foreign expression

S. Word usage and nuance

• 1 Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
• 2 Use words accurately and precisely
• 3 Replace words using a thesaurus

T. Analogies

• 1 Analogies
• 2 Analogies: challenge

U. Context clues

• 1 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
• 2 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
• 3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word

V. Reference skills

• 1 Use dictionary entries
• 2 Use dictionary definitions
• 3 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
• 4 Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

W. sentences, fragments and run-ons.

• 1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
• 2 Identify sentence fragments
• 3 Identify run-on sentences
• 4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons

X. Phrases and clauses

• 1 Is it a phrase or a clause?
• 2 Identify prepositional phrases
• 3 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
• 4 Identify dependent and independent clauses
• 5 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
• 6 Combine sentences using relative clauses
• 1 Form and use plurals: review
• 2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns

Z. Pronouns

• 1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
• 2 Subject and object pronouns review
• 3 Pronouns after 'than' and 'as'
• 4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with 'who'
• 5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
• 6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
• 7 Identify vague pronoun references
• 8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
• 9 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

AA. Verb types

• 1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
• 2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
• 3 Identify participles and what they modify
• 4 Identify gerunds and their functions
• 5 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

BB. Subject-verb agreement

• 1 Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
• 2 Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
• 3 Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects

CC. Verb tense

• 1 Form the progressive verb tenses
• 2 Form the perfect verb tenses
• 3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

DD. Adjectives and adverbs

• 1 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
• 2 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
• 3 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
• 4 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst

EE. Conjunctions

• 1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

FF. Misplaced modifiers

• 1 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
• 2 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
• 3 Are the modifiers used correctly?

GG. Restrictive and non-restrictive elements

• 1 Commas with non-restrictive elements
• 1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
• 2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
• 3 Commas with coordinate adjectives

II. Semicolons, colons and commas

• 1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
• 2 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
• 3 Semicolons, colons and commas: review

JJ. Dashes, hyphens and ellipses

• 1 Use dashes
• 2 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
• 3 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

KK. Apostrophes

• 1 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
• 2 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

LL. Capitalisation

• 1 Correct capitalisation errors