Sunday, 22 November 2015
Writing Exam Revision Homework: Speech
For those students without a Yellow WJEC Revision Workbook, here are the copies of the pages you need to complete for homework.
Friday, 16 October 2015
11B4: What makes a speech successful?
Brilliant speeches are the ones where the speaker connects with the audience. You can use personal anecdotes to make it sound important to you, but the best way is to speak with conviction about a topic you can be passionate about.
Picking the topic can be hard. Use things you read or hear about to inspire you.
Watch the BBC documentary A Good Smack? This is about laws against smacking children and is a good example of a topic that people have a certain views about.
Watch
the TED talks – some of which are really inspiring. They are also good examples of successful speeches because they use certain techniques to engage the audience.
The features of a successful speech include:
•Using
the right tone for the audience
•Rhetorical
devices, for example, “I am sure you will agree”
•Humour
•Repetition
•Statistics
•Memorable
Phrase or a quotation
•Anecdotes/personal
experience
•Being
controversial
Homework Task: Write your Speech.
Homework Task: Write your Speech.
11C7 Narrative Writing Task
This is the handout that you need to complete during the half term holiday.
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
11C7 and 11A5 Spelling, Punctuation and Paragraphing
As part of our writing focus in class, you should be trying to improve your spelling knowledge. I am revising key spelling rules in lessons and you will have to learn a list of spellings for tests in class. These are common mistakes found in your work for the recent descriptive writing task.
11C7 Homework Task: Learn the spellings above for a test on Monday 14th September.
- Excited, Excitable, Exciting
- There, Their, They're
- Were, Where, We're
- Queue
- Themselves
- Father, Farther, Further
- Travelled, Travelling and Travel
- Family, Families
- Lose, Loose
- Weird
- Definitely
- Weather, Whether
Tuesday, 4 August 2015
Happy Summer Holidays! Here's a homework reminder....
Summer Holiday Reading...
Spend your time wisely this year and grab a good book. Preparing for Year 11 is easy.Read. It is that simple.
Reading a book from our Year 10 classes' recommended book list is the intelligent way to get ready for next year.
How will reading help me in English?
- Improve your spelling
- Push you to use ambitious vocabulary
- Inspire you to be more imaginative
- Help boost your concentration skills
- Push you to be more perceptive
- Help you use writing techniques to better effect

So what is our final list? This list of 16 has been compiled by you. Pick one title to read over the summer holiday. You can read as many as you like, but you must read at least one.
When you have read it, you can make recommendations for other students in the class.

- The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- Harry Potter Series, J K Rowling
- Divergent, Veronica Roth
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
- The Host, Stephenie Meyer
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
- The Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
- Never Eighteen, Megan Bostic
- My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
- The Vampire Diaries, L J Smith
- The Maze Runner, James Dashner
Homework Task: Write a review
Write a review (one A4 page) about your favourite book and why you have chosen to review the novel. You are writing for an audience of Year 11 students. Remember to include;
- A summary of the book
- The book title and author name
- Your opinion
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Monday, 27 April 2015
Revision Session Reminder
English Revision sessions
Remember to sign up for these final sessions on the L6 classroom door.
Sessions will run
on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3.15-4.30pm in L6. You must book a place to be
able to attend.
Sign up on the
sheet for the sessions you would like to attend. They are open to all students
in 11L1, 11G1 and 11J6, on a first come basis.
Tuesday
|
Thursday
| |
13th April
|
14th
April
Of
Mice and Men
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16th
April
Of
Mice and Men / Unseen Poetry
|
20th April
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21st
April
Never
Let Me Go
|
23rd
April
Lord
of the Flies
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27th April
|
28th
April
An
Inspector Calls
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30th
April
Extract
Question Skills for A/A*
|
4th May
(Tuesday start)
|
4th
May
Unseen
Poetry
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6th
May
Theme/Character
Skills for A/A*
|
11th May
|
12th
May
Unit 1
Reading
|
14th
May
Unit 2
Writing
|
These sessions are designed to help you structure your revision and recap the exam skills ahead of your examinations:
Monday 18th May: Literature Unit 1 (Of Mice and Men and Unseen Poetry)
Friday 22nd May: Literature Unit 2 (Prose and Play texts)
Tuesday 2nd June: Language Unit 1 (Reading) and Unit 2 (Writing)
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Sunday, 19 April 2015
Past Papers
Use this website to find a database of downloadable exam papers for the English exam.
Exam board website - Past Papers
Exam board website - Past Papers
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Friday, 9 January 2015
Reading and Writing Revision Task.
Read the article and answer the exam-style questions to help revise for your mock examination.
Reading Paper: Foxes
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