AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1: 12 Weeks to Grade 9

UNIT 1. START HERE. 11 Lessons

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1. CORE: INTERACTIVE: What Do the Lesson Labels Mean?

2. CORE: What You Need to Be Successful in This Program

3. CORE: STUDENT AGREEMENT: Time to Sign

4. CORE: PRODUCTIVITY: Picture in a Picture Videos

5. CORE: STUDY SYSTEM: Introduction

6. UNIQUE: STUDY SYSTEM: Pick One AQALANGP1

7. UNIQUE: STUDY SYSTEM: Paste Your Link into Your Profile

8. UNIQUE: PROGRAM ROADMAP & STUDY SYSTEM: Double-check LANGP1

9. CORE: PRODUCTIVITY: Turning Your Phone Into a Productivity Machine

10. CORE: PRODUCTIVITY: Syncing Whatsapp on Your Phone and Desktop

11. CORE. PRODUCTIVITY: Manganum

UNIT 2. Diagnostic Assessment LANGP1 6 Lessons

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1. DIAGNOSTIC: Objectives

2. UNIQUE: MAKE A COPY: Diagnostic Answer Paper AQALANGP1

3. UNIQUE: Share Your Work with Your Us

4. UNIQUE: Where to Put the Link for Your Diagnostic

5. UNIQUE: AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 Diagnostic and Benchmark Assessment Paper

6. UNIQUE: How to Self-Assess Yourself: Diagnostic

UNIT 3. MARK SCHEME MASTERY, EFFECTS & CREATIVE WRITING 29 Lessons

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1. CORE: INTERACTIVE: The Importance of Knowing the Mark Scheme: Introduction

2. CORE: INTERACTIVE: The Importance of Knowing the Mark Scheme: True/False

3. CORE: INTERACTIVE: What’s in The Mark Scheme?

4. CORE. INTERACTIVE: VOCABULARY: What’s in the Language Mark Scheme?

5. UNIQUE: READ: What’s in the Language Mark Scheme? P1

6. CORE: INTERACTIVE: Which Language Section A (Reading) Assessment Objective is Being Described?

7. CORE: INTERACTIVE: Vocabulary: Section A LANG

8. UNIQUE: INTERACTIVE: Label the Parts of the Model Answer LANGP1

9. UNIQUE: WRITE: Why Does This Model Answer Score Well? LANGP1

10. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing

11. UNIQUE COMMENT: Why Does The Model Answer Score Well? LANG

12. CORE: VIDEO: Why Might an Author Want to Affect the Reader?

13. UNIQUE: WRITE: Answering Key Questions LANGP1

14. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing

15. UNIQUE COMMENT: Answering Key Questions LANGP1

16. UNIQUE: INTERACTIVE: Complete a Model Analysis of Language LANGP1

17. UNIQUE: DOWNLOAD: Hunger Games Language Analysis Model Answer LANGP1

18. UNIQUE: CREATIVE WRITING: Crafting Your Own Alliteration LANG

19. UNIQUE: CREATIVE WRITING: Crafting Your Own Direct Address LANG

20. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing

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UNIT 4. EFFECTS OF AUTHORS’ METHODS: Introduction: LANGP1 37 Lessons

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1. CORE: INTERACTIVE: Which Area Are You Most Likely to Lose Marks in for Analysis?

1b. GENERATING IDEAS: How to Set Up Your Scrap Writing Document LANG

1c. The Benefits of Using an AI Writing Assistant: LANG

2. CORE: DOWNLOAD: Introduction to Effects of Authors’ Methods

3. CORE: PAY ATTENTION!

4. CORE: INTERACTIVE: What is Knowledge in English?

5. CORE: INTERACTIVE: The Importance of Exploring the Effects of Authors’ Methods

6. CORE: WHY I WRITE: Isabel Allende

7. CORE: WHY I WRITE: David Baldacci

8. CORE: WRITE: Why Do Authors Write? LANG P1

9. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing

10. UNIQUE COMMENT: Why Do Authors Write? LANG

11. CORE: What is Literature?

12. CORE: WRITE: What is Literature?

13. CORE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing

14. CORE: COMMENT: Defining Literature in Your Own Words

15. CORE: What is Story?

16. CORE: INTERACTIVE: What is Story?

20. CORE: VIDEO: What Do We Mean by ‘Effects of Authors’ Methods?

21. CORE: QUIZ: What are the 3 Main Categories of Effects?

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UNIT 5. MARK SCHEME MASTERY, EFFECTS & CREATIVE WRITING CONTINUED LANG 22 Lessons

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1. UNIQUE: INTERACTIVE: Where do Your Marks Come From in Section A of the Language Paper?

2. UNIQUE: INTERACTIVE: Choose the 3 Key Skills for Language Section A

3. UNIQUE: INTERACTIVE: How Do You Make Your Writing More Perceptive? LANG

4. UNIQUE: INTERACTIVE: Identifying Themes LANGF

5. UNIQUE: WRITE: Analysing Alliteration LANGF

6. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing

7. UNIQUE: COMMENT: Analysing Alliteration LANGF

8. UNIQUE: INTERACTIVE: Completing Alliteration Model Answer LANGF

9. UNIQUE: VIDEO: WRITE: How to Put Together a Grade 9 Analysis of an Author’s Technique: Metaphor LANGF

10. UNIQUE: WRITE: Why Does This Answer Score Well? LANGF

11. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing

12. UNIQUE: COMMENT: Analysing Alliteration LANGF

13. UNIQUE: INTERACTIVE: Identifying Themes LANGF

14. UNIQUE: WRITE: Analysing Direct Address LANGF

15. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing

16. UNIQUE: COMMENT: Analysing Direct Address LANGF

17. UNIQUE: WRITE: What Are The 3 Key Skills for Language Section A?

18. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing LANGP1

19. UNIQUE: COMMENT: What Are The 3 Key Skills for Language Section A?

20. UNIQUE: CREATIVE WRITING: Story Project Steps 3 & 4: LOGLINE AND BRIEF OUTLINE

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UNIT 6. SECTION A ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES: GCSE English Language Mark Scheme 5 Lessons

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1. UNIQUE: WRITE: What is the Most Important Emotional Effect? LANGF

2. UNIQUE: Ask Your Tutor to Check Your Writing LANGF

3. UNIQUE: COMMENT: What is the Most Important Emotional Effect? LANGF

4. CORE. VIDEO. The Importance of Empathy in Stories

5. CORE: INTERACTIVE: What is the Most Important Emotional Effect?

UNIT 7. SECTION B OVERVIEW: GCSE English Language 2 Lessons

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1. SECTION B: Overview and Logic Behind the Exam

2. QUIZ: Section B Overview

UNIT 8. MEMORY TRAINING: Authors’ Methods & Their Effects 9 Lessons

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2. ACTIVE RECALL: Introduction to Memorisation Techniques

3. How Mnemonics Help Us Remember Key Information

4. Why Memorising MAD FATHERS CROPS Will Help You Score the Top Grades

5. MEMORY TRAINING: How Much Should You Challenge Yourself?

6. ACTIVE RECALL: How to Set Up Self-Quizzing Exercises

7. SPACED REPETITION: How to Set Up Revision Dates

8. SELF-QUIZZING: How to Test Yourself

9. PRODUCTIVITY: How to Set Reminders for Yourself

10. TEMPLATE: Grab Our Template to Speed Up Your Workflow

UNIT 9. 3 KEYS TO 100%: GCSE English Language 25 Lessons

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2. COMMENT: 3 KEYS TO 100%: Eng. Lang

3. 3 KEYS TO 100%: Eng. Lang

4. Literature is About Humanity

5. PERCEPTIVE SKILLS: What? How? Why? So What? What Next?

6. ANALYSIS: Literature is About Humanity LANGP1

7. ANALYSIS: Literature is About Humanity LANGP1 PII

8. Questions for Conceptual Analysis

9. 100% Key Principle 1

10. EXERCISE: 100% Key Principle 1

11. What is Literature About? Key Principle 1

12. A Key Idea about Being Perceptive

13. PREDICT THEMES: GCSE English Language P1

14. Stories and Universal Human Values

15. ANALYSING FICTION: Stories and Universal Human Values

16. The Protagonist: Key Principle 2

17. STRUCTURE: 3 Key Principles: Part 2

18. UNIVERSAL MESSAGE: The Ultimate Meaning of the Story

19. Analysis Should Cover the Following Questions

20. Q2 STUDENT EXAMPLE: Positives and Areas for Improvement

21. AQA LANGUAGE PAPER 1: Question 2 Student Answer: The Good and The Not-So-Good

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UNIT 10. STRUCTURE: CHARACTERISATION: Introduction: Language Paper 1 8 Lessons

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2. DOWNLOAD: Notes on Key Character Archetypes

3. Stories Aim to Evoke an Emotional Response

4. PERCEPTIVE ANALYSIS: Understanding Characters

5. EXERCISE: PERCEPTIVE ANALYSIS: Understanding Characters

6. CHARACTER ARCHETYPES: Introduction

7. EXERCISE: CHARACTER ARCHETYPES: Introduction

8. UNDERSTANDING CHARACTERS: External and Internal Goals

9. ANALYSIS: Character Internal and External Goals

UNIT 11. STRUCTURE: CHARACTERISATION: Character Archetypes 25 Lessons

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2. DOWNLOAD: Notes on Key Character Archetypes II

3. HERO ARCHETYPE: Introduction

4. What Causes the Hero to Take Action?

5. THE EVERYMAN: Introduction

6. THE EVERYMAN: Names

7. THE EVERYMAN: Functions of Names: PART 1

8. THE EVERYMAN: Functions of Names: PART 2

9. THE EVERYMAN: Settings

10. THE EVERYMAN: Emotional Effects: Part 1

11. THE EVERYMAN: Emotional Effects: Part 2

12. THE UNDERDOG: Introduction

13. THE UNDERDOG: Characteristics

14. Types of Underdog Stories

15. THE LOST SOUL: Introduction

16. THE LOST SOUL: Dramatic Effect: PART 1

17. THE LOST SOUL: Dramatic Effect: PART 2

18. THE REBEL: Introduction

19. THE REBEL: Dramatic Function

20. THE EXPLORER: Introduction

21. THE EXPLORER: Psychological Effect

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UNIT 12. STRUCTURE: GENRES: Introduction: Language Paper 1 4 Lessons

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2. EXERCISE: Key Skills for Section A of GCSE English Language

3. EXERCISE: Key Skills for Section A of GCSE English Language: TRUE/FALSE

4. EXERCISE: Why Do Genres Exist?

5. EXERCISE: Complete the Sentences

UNIT 13. STRUCTURE: GENRES: Going Deeper 18 Lessons

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2. DOWNLOAD: Notes on Genres General

3. Why Do Genres Exist?

4. EXERCISE: Effects of Author’s Methods

5. COMMENT: What Are Effects?

6. Genre = Categorisation of Emotion

7. Stories Aim to Evoke an Emotional Response

8. The Key Emotion Defines the Genre

9. Courage Genres

10. Action-Adventure

11. Common Elements in Courage Genres

12. Fear and Loathing Genres

13. Common Elements in Fear and Loathing Genres

14. Need to Know (Mystery) Genres

15. Common Elements in Need to Know (Mystery) Genres

16. EXERCISE: Genres

17. GENRE ANALYSIS: Extract 1

18. GENRE ANALYSIS: Extract 2

19. GENRE ANALYSIS: Extract 3

UNIT 14. STRUCTURE: Other Key Structural Elements 27 Lessons

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2. DOWNLOAD: Notes on Key Structural Elements

3. BEGINNINGS: 10 Core Components

4. Goals of Openings

5. How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods: Introduction

6. ACTION: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

7. EXERCISE: ACTION: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

8. DIALOGUE: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

9. EXERCISE: DIALOGUE: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

10. MONOLOGUE: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

11. MYSTERY: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

12. EXERCISE: MYSTERY: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

13. PREMONITION: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

14. EXERCISE: PREMONITION: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

15. PROFOUND STATEMENT: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

16. EXERCISE: PROFOUND STATEMENT: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

17. SETTING: How Authors Start Their Stories: 7 Methods

18. IRONY: Definition

19. IRONY: Effects

20. IRONY: General Techniques

21. EXERCISE: Irony Analysis

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UNIT 15. SECTION A: Question 1 Mastery AQALANGP1

UNIT 16. SECTION A: Question 2 Mastery AQALANGP1 2 Lessons

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2. EXERCISE: Language: Analysis

3. EXERCISE: Language: Analysis

UNIT 17. SECTION A: Question 3 Mastery AQALANGP1 1 Lesson

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2. EXERCISE: Structure: Analysis

UNIT 18. SECTION A: Question 4 Mastery AQALANGP1 1 Lesson

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2. EXERCISE: Evaluation

UNIT 19. SECTION B: Creative Writing Mastery: AQALANGP1 6 Lessons

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1. EMPATHY: What is its Purpose in Stories? LANGP1B

2. CREATING EMPATHY: 3 Main Ways Authors Create Empathy

3. STORY IDEAS & COMMENT: Read Other Students’ Work

4. CREATIVE WRITING: Writing an Empathetic Scene

5. DRAMATIC SITUATIONS: Ideas from Georges Polti’s 36 Dramatic Situations

6. STORY PLAN

UNIT 20. EXAM STRATEGY: Exam Mastery AQALANGP1 10 Lessons

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2. Exam Strategy Introduction: Language Paper 1

3. How Much Do You Write for Each Question: Language Paper 1

4. Pre-Reading Strategy: Language Paper 1

5. What Order Should You Answer the Questions in? Language Paper 1

6. Question 1 Strategy: Language Paper 1

7. Question 2 Strategy: Language Paper 1

8. Question 3 Strategy: Language Paper 1

9. Question 4 Strategy: Language Paper 1

10. Question 5 Strategy: Language Paper 1

11. Exam Strategy Re-cap: Language Paper 1

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1: 12 Weeks to Grade 9

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