This photocopiable pack and CD provides you with ready made, interactive revision lessons and materials to help your students revise effectively for their exams. The pack includes lesson plans, teacher notes and engaging activities on all the key specification topics, plus a 'revision journey' so students can track their progress. An accompanying VLE-compatible CD-ROM contains all the content in the pack in pdf and Word format PLUS extra content including visual topic summaries, PowerPoints and MP3 podcasts. For recent film animations by Peter Morrisson which further support the teaching and learning activities in AQA GCSE English and English Language Unit 1 Revision Lessons, please go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/petermorrisson

 

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 105 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Hodder Education .

Peter Morrisson has been a GCSE English teacher since 1988, and is currently teaching at the Isle of Man College. In 2006, two of his GCSE students scored within the top 5 in the UK out of a cohort of 330, 000. He has an MA in Victorian Literature. The series editor Jeanette Weatherall has been a Head of English and an Assistant Headteacher in two large secondary schools in the UK and is Chair of Examiners for A-level Literature for one of the UK's major examination boards.

This book has the following chapters: Reading revision lessons 1 Read all examination instructions and questions carefully 2 (PEE) Point, evidence, explanation 3 Using quotations 4 Fiction and non-fiction 5 The different purposes of non-fiction texts 6 Fact and opinion 7 Similes, metaphors, personifications, literal statements and the five part formula 8 Devices for creating humour 1: figurative language, informal language and puns 9 Devices for creating humour 2: anecdote, repetition, compacted sentences, contrast, dialogue and alliteration 10 Devices for creating humour 3: irony, satire and ridicule 11 Presentational features 12 Advertisements and information leaflets 13 Picking out the main points in a text 14 Writing about an author's thoughts and feelings 15 Comparing and contrasting texts Writing revision lessons 1 Punctuation: full stops, question marks and exclamation marks 2 Punctuation: apostrophes and capital letters 3 Punctuation - commas, semi-colons, colons, dashes and ellipses 4 Common spelling errors 5 Simple spelling rules 6 Sentence structures 7 Common grammar errors 8 Planning, paragraphing and topic sentences 9 Openings and endings 10 Personal writing (including letter layout and formal/informal language) 11 Descriptive writing - appealing to the five senses 12 Using effective vocabulary 13 Informative writing 14 Rhetorical devices 15 Argumentative, persuasive and opinionated writing