The one with all the links to the Year 11 exam

As Year 11s only have a few weeks left, I thought I'd blog some links of some past posts about the AQA language exam. Hopefully, they might help somebody in the last few lessons before they say good bye and good luck to the students.

Question 1

Questioning skills- an approach I have used with Question 1 text:
 
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/questioning-questions.html


Question 2

Analysing headlines and pictures, focusing on tone:
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/whats-tone-of-headline-aqa-question2.html

Cohesion between parts of a text (headline, picture and text):
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/cohesion-aqa-unit-1-question-2.html


Question 3

Exploring power in pictures and non-fiction texts:
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/ive-got-power-question-2-and-3.html

Question 4

Focusing on effect when comparing texts:
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/it-is-war-well-not-really-but-it-does.html

Question 5/6

Exploring tone and modelling writing:
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/when-will-when-will-when-will-i-be.html

Preparing students for the exam

A list of activities for students to complete as revision:
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/55-days-to-english-exam.html


Literature - Poetry


Looking at syllables:
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/poetry-one-word-three-syllables.html


Looking at repetition:
http://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/history-repeating-itself-repeating.html