Summary English Language GCSE AQA tips, tricks and structure

English Language tips
Paper 1:
Question 1:

 4 simple point
 Can quote from extract
 Do not infer, just right the point
 Spend a couple of minutes

Question 2:

 What language features does the writer use?
 Most importantly, right about the effect of the feature (e.g. sense of
mystery/fear/happiness/tension)
 One word analysis
 Spend 10 minutes on this question (2 paragraphs)

Question 3:

 What structural features does the writer use?
 Don’t write about what is happening; write about where it’s happening in the text
and why!
 E.g. perspective shifts, cyclical structure, zooming in and out, flashbacks, dialogue
 Describe their EFFECT
 Don’t need to use quotations
 Spend 10 minutes (2 paragraphs)

Question 4:

 Time to re-read the text
 Evaluating ideas in the source (the statement said by the student) and the methods
used to convey them
 You can write about ANYTHING!
 You must relate your answer to the statement at all times and explain how they
writer does it
 One word analysis
 Spend 25 minutes (3 paragraphs)

Question 5:

 Descriptive writing
 E.g. personification, metaphors, similes, SEMANTIC FIELDS, punctuation, vocabulary,
paragraphs length