AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 Hardy extract
A valuable resource to help your students plan and prepare for the demands of AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1, this paper guides students through each typical question so that they understand the paper requirements.
This sample paper uses an extract from Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, in the expected style of previous papers for this section of the GCSE English Language specification.
Helpfully enabling students to extend their skills of language analysis and evaluation, the resource supports students to fully answer exam-style questions and build more confidence.
Included with the resource is a full writing section, enabling students to practise and develop their creative writing abilities for both an image-based response and writing inspired by a title.
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A sample extract from the resource:
3. You now need to think about the whole of the source.
How has the writer structured this extract to interest you as a reader?
You could write about:
- how the writer focuses your attention at the beginning;
- how and why the writer changes the focus as the source develops;
- any other structural features that interest you.
4. Now read paragraph 4 to the end of the source.
A student said, ‘This part of the story isn’t exciting at all. The sheep fair sounds really boring’.
To what extent do you agree?
In your response you could:
- consider your own impressions of the fair;
- evaluate how the writer conveys the atmosphere of the fair;
- support your response with references to the text.
