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Abstract
Exam Board: WJEC / Eduqas
Level: GCSE
Subject: English Language
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: June 2017
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | ii | ||
| Section A: Reading | 1 | ||
| 1: Planning your exam time | 1 | ||
| 2: Reading texts explained | 2 | ||
| 3: Reading questions explained 1 | 3 | ||
| 4: Reading questions explained 2 | 4 | ||
| 5: Reading the questions | 5 | ||
| 6: Skimming for the main idea or theme | 6 | ||
| 7: Annotating the texts | 7 | ||
| 8: Putting it into practice | 8 | ||
| 9: Putting it into practice | 9 | ||
| 10: Explicit information and ideas | 10 | ||
| 11: Implicit ideas | 11 | ||
| 12: Inference | 12 | ||
| 13: Interpreting information and ideas | 13 | ||
| 14: Point – Evidence – Explanation | 14 | ||
| 15: Putting it into practice | 15 | ||
| 16: Putting it into practice | 16 | ||
| 17: Word classes | 17 | ||
| 18: Connotations | 18 | ||
| 19: Figurative language | 19 | ||
| 20: Creation of character | 20 | ||
| 21: Creating atmosphere | 21 | ||
| 22: Narrative voice | 22 | ||
| 23: Putting it into practice | 23 | ||
| 24: Putting it into practice | 24 | ||
| 25: Rhetorical devices 1 | 25 | ||
| 26: Rhetorical devices 2 | 26 | ||
| 27: Fact, opinion and expert evidence | 27 | ||
| 28: Identifying sentence types | 28 | ||
| 29: Commenting on sentence types | 29 | ||
| 30: Structure: non-fiction | 30 | ||
| 31: Structure: fiction | 31 | ||
| 32: Putting it into practice | 32 | ||
| 33: Putting it into practice | 33 | ||
| 34: Handling two texts | 34 | ||
| 35: Selecting evidence for synthesis | 35 | ||
| 36: Synthesising evidence | 36 | ||
| 37: Looking closely at language | 37 | ||
| 38: Planning to compare | 38 | ||
| 39: Comparing ideas | 39 | ||
| 40: Comparing perspective | 40 | ||
| 41: Answering a compare question | 41 | ||
| 42: Putting it into practice | 42 | ||
| 43: Evaluating a text: fiction | 43 | ||
| 44: Evaluating a text: non-fiction | 44 | ||
| 45: Using evidence to evaluate | 45 | ||
| 46: Putting it into practice | 46 | ||
| 47: Putting it into practice | 47 | ||
| Section B: Writing | 48 | ||
| 48: Writing questions: an overview | 48 | ||
| 49: Writing questions: Component 1 | 49 | ||
| 50: Writing questions: Component 2 | 50 | ||
| 51: Writing for a purpose: creative | 51 | ||
| 52: Writing for a purpose: inform, explain, review | 52 | ||
| 53: Writing for a purpose: argue and persuade | 53 | ||
| 54: Writing for an audience | 54 | ||
| 55: Putting it into practice | 55 | ||
| 56: Putting it into practice | 56 | ||
| 57: Form: articles and reviews | 57 | ||
| 58: Form: letters and reports | 58 | ||
| 59: Form: information guides | 59 | ||
| 60: Putting it into practice | 60 | ||
| 61: Ideas and planning: creative | 61 | ||
| 62: Structure: creative | 62 | ||
| 63: Beginnings and endings: creative | 63 | ||
| 64: Putting it into practice | 64 | ||
| 65: Ideas and planning: inform, explain, review | 65 | ||
| 66: Ideas and planning: argue and persuade | 66 | ||
| 67: Openings: transactional/persuasive | 67 | ||
| 68: Conclusions: transactional/persuasive | 68 | ||
| 69: Putting it into practice | 69 | ||
| 70: Paragraphing for effect | 70 | ||
| 71: Linking ideas | 71 | ||
| 72: Putting it into practice | 72 | ||
| 73: Vocabulary for effect: synonyms | 73 | ||
| 74: Vocabulary for effect: argue and persuade | 74 | ||
| 75: Language for different effects 1 | 75 | ||
| 76: Language for different effects 2 | 76 | ||
| 77: Language for different effects 3 | 77 | ||
| 78: Using the senses | 78 | ||
| 79: Narrative voice | 79 | ||
| 80: Putting it into practice | 80 | ||
| 81: Putting it into practice | 81 | ||
| 82: Sentence variety 1 | 82 | ||
| 83: Sentence variety 2 | 83 | ||
| 84: Sentences for different effects | 84 | ||
| 85: Putting it into practice | 85 | ||
| 86: Ending a sentence | 86 | ||
| 87: Commas | 87 | ||
| 88: Apostrophes and speech punctuation | 88 | ||
| 89: Colons, semi-colons, dashes, brackets and ellipses | 89 | ||
| 90: Putting it into practice | 90 | ||
| 91: Common spelling errors 1 | 91 | ||
| 92: Common spelling errors 2 | 92 | ||
| 93: Common spelling errors 3 | 93 | ||
| 94: Proofreading | 94 | ||
| 95: Putting it into practice | 95 | ||
| 96: Extract 1 – Rebecca | 96 | ||
| 97: Extract 2 – Every Man for Himself | 97 | ||
| 98: Extract 3 – My Son’s Story | 98 | ||
| 99: Extract 4 – About a Boy | 99 | ||
| 100: Extract 5 – Who’d Be a Paper Boy? | 100 | ||
| 101: Extract 6 – Victorian Child Labour | 101 | ||
| 102: Extract 7 – The History of London’s Black Cabs | 102 | ||
| 103: Extract 8 – Victorian Cab Drivers | 103 | ||
| 104: Extract 9 – The Hungry Cyclist | 104 | ||
| 105: Extract 10 – Letters from Sydney | 105 | ||
| 106: Answers | 106 |