Edexcel GCSE English Language
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Writing questions: an overview
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GCSE English Language Paper 1 Overview
Writing for a purpose: transactional
Skimming for the main idea
Questions 1 & 2
Ideas and planning: transactional
Annotating the texts
Question 3
Writing for impact: transactional
Explicit information and ideas
Questions 4 & 5
Question 4
Openings: transactional
Implicit information and ideas
Question 6
Questions 5 & 6
Conclusions: transactional
The writer's viewpoint
Question 7
Paper 1: The extract
Form: articles and reviews
Inference
Questions 8 & 9
Question 1
Form: letters and reports
Connotations
The extracts
Question 2
Form: speeches, emails and blogs
P-E-E paragraphs
Question 5
Vocabulary for effect: transactional
Word classes
Ideas and planning: imaginative
Figurative language
Writing for an audience
Creation of character
Writing for a purpose: imaginative
Creation of atmosphere
Question 8/9
Writing for impact: imaginative
Whole text structure: non-fiction
Structure: imaginative
Identifying sentence types
Beginnings and endings: imaginative
Commenting on sentence types
Vocabulary for effect: imaginative
Synthesising two texts
Paragraphs
Comparing ideas
Linking ideas with adverbials
Comparing perspective
Language for different effects 1
Comparing structure
Language for different effects 2
Comparing language
Starting a sentence
Evaluating a text
Sentences for different effects
Using evidence
Formal and informal language
Commas
Apostrophes and speech punctuation
Colons, semicolons, brackets and dashes
Common spelling errors 1
Common spelling errors 2
Proofreading
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