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 Starter Activity

What are you going to focus on in the last week of preparation for
your English Language mock exam?
Y11 English Language Week 8
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Revision for Mocks

YEAR 11 ENGLISH LANGUAGE – WEEK 10
Learn Lesson: Revising for the Mock Exam
 Learning Objectives

Make sure you’re clear on what to expect in your English Language mock exam

Review some of the skills and techniques you will need

 TOPIC INTRODUCTION

Well, this is our last week before the mocks…

In this Learn lesson we’re going to focus mainly on the Non-Fiction

Reading section. We’ll look at some hints and tips that will be useful
in improving your marks, particularly concerning how you present
your material.
 Your mock exam will be on English Language Paper 1
Non-fiction & Transactional writing

Questions 1, 2 & 3 will be on an unseen non-

fiction text. Question 4 will be on one of the
non-fiction texts from section 1 of the
anthology. Question 5 will be a comparative
question between the unseen text and the
anthology text given.

The suggested time for section A of the paper

is 1hr 30 mins – leaving you 45 mins for
A copy of the Anthology text and the unknown text will be provided section B: Transactional writing
English Language Paper 1- Non-fiction & Transactional writing

Assessment Objectives(AOs) and marks available for each question

Unseen non-fiction text

Unseen non-fiction text

Unseen non-fiction text

Non-fiction Anthology text

Comparative question on the two texts above

Transactional writing task
Non-Fiction Texts: Reading Section A
 IMPORTANT POINTS
Using quotations and close analysis

Keep your quotations short and to the point:

Using just a few words is more powerful than copying out chunks of text: it
shows you are being selective in what you say

Copy out accurately:

Everything you copy (quote) from the text has to be in INVERTED COMMAS

Embed your quotation:

Put the quotation inside your own sentence, rather than sticking it in the
text on its own and then commenting on it
Embedding a quotation
Making the most of quotations
Literary Devices and the effects used by writers
Let’s start looking at a practice paper.
Here is the unseen text:
Unseen nonfiction extract
Unseen text continued…
Unseen text continued…
 Initial thoughts

You’ll be looking more at this unseen text, as well as the rest of the
paper, in your Explore groups.

What can we say initially about the text though, on first reading?

• What characteristics can you observe about “A Splendid Stay in

Bhutan?
• Which Anthology text do you think it will be paired with?
• What similarities and difference can you notice between them?
LESSON COMPLETE
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