AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack

Ensure your students are fully prepared for the updated AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2: Writers' viewpoints and perspectives exams (2026 onwards). This comprehensive digital teaching pack has been refreshed to align with the latest specification changes.

Based on engaging themes including the sea, travel, money and the environment, this AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack provides everything your students need to excel in their exams. This downloadable resource can be printed for classroom use or shared digitally with students.

Key features of this digital teaching pack

This AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack has been updated to reflect the 2026 specification changes, offering teachers a flexible resource that can be downloaded, printed or shared digitally with students.

The pack provides comprehensive exam preparation through focused practice on engaging themes, with structured activities designed to develop reading and writing skills, clear guidance on assessment objectives and mark schemes, and model answers with examiner tips to support student improvement.

What's included

• Eight non-fiction and literary non-fiction text extracts for exam practice
• Reading and writing sections organised by theme
• Exam tips, model answers and assessment objective analysis
• Targeted activities designed to improve responses to each exam question

What's inside

Teacher introduction

Reading: Student introduction

• Source 1A: ‘How to stay safe at the beach’ by Karl West (2017) with activities
• Source 1B: ‘The Pleasures of Life’ by John Lubbock (1890) with activities
• Practice exam questions

Writing: Student introduction 

• Activities
• Practice exam question

Reading: Student introduction 

• Source 2A: ‘The Guardian view on over-tourism: an unhealthy appetite for travel’ (2018) with activities
• Source 2B: Francis Kilvert’s diary from the 1870s with activities
• Practice exam questions

Writing: Student introduction 

• Activities
• Practice exam question

Reading: Student introduction

• Source 3A: A Girl Called Jack by Jack Monroe (2014) with activities
• Source 3B: Letter from George Dunlop (1813) with activities
• Practice exam questions

Writing: Student introduction

• Activities
• Practice exam question

Reading: Student introduction

• Source 4A: ‘Squids and octopuses thrive as "weeds of the sea" warm to hotter oceans’ by Alan Yuhas (2016) with activities
• Source 4B: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1839) with activities
• Practice exam questions

Writing: Student introduction 

• Activities
• Practice exam question