When your doing your GCSEs in 5 months. Your crap at every subject and just seeing this video makes you want to cry in the corner

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In the November in paper 1 I had achieved a 4+. In the February mocks i achieved a 7. This was all because of this video. Thanks

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This is so helpful I have my GCSE mocks tomorrow and GCSE at the end of the year

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Couldn’t you use TEAR T: Technique E: Evidence A: Analysis R: Readers response

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Couldn't furious waves be personification?

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I need help! Pls help me by telling me how i can improvw this :) The writer uses the soft verb "twinkling" to describe the peacefulness of the scene, and the glow of the river. "Twinkling" gives connotations of a star suggesting the river is Bright and perhaps beautiful and that the atmosphere is all together "glamerous". As readers we feel that this river is pleasing to the eye as it's glowing and absorbing everything around, including the sun's heat. Normally, we see rivers as being mossy and dirty however, this particular river is fresh and luxuriously looking.

i always get told my answers are ‘vague’ and that i need to ‘develop’ them more, i’m really struggling with this and my teachers isn’t helping much. any tips?

At my school we use this and I find it quite useful: P: Point E: Evidence E: Explain Z: Zoom (on a particular word in the quote and use subject terminology for more marks) L: Link back to the question. I think it also helps to talk about the effect on the reader after you have done the zoom👍🏻

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Hi Mrs Whelan, For the particular question you were covering on this video, I noticed you had to focus on the effects of the storm. But it seemed like you were focusing on the storm in general. I had a similar question about the effects of weather come up in my test and I wasn't sure how to approach it. How should I go about answering it? Thanks

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i just wanted to read some feedback as i have my mock for english language tomorrow. i got this past paper off get revising and it had the extract attached so i answered the second question which is like this one and is about language techniques and key words, its also about weather, specifically a storm happening in Cornwall. i have one picked out one 1 word and only elaborated on it slightly. this is only a beginning and first draft of ideas and how to put my writing together, and not nesscarily a representation of my level of writing but just a basic version. If any teachers or tutors can read the beginning of my answer to question 2 and reply with some feedback tonight, before my mock exam tomorrow, much would be appreciated. The following is what i started to construct as an answer for question 2: The writer uses the vigorous verb “Shaking” to describe and imply the power of the gusts of wind and the level of forcefulness they have. The word “Shaking” has connotations of an argumentative behaviour, as a result this can suggest that the impactful wind is vicious and is therefor, making the coach seem helpless and vulnerable. Almost as if they are arguing, yet the coach is significantly losing. As an audience we feel that the weather and storm is very destructive, malevolently attacking every last thing that stands within its path, including the powerless individuals trapped within the coach. As a reader, we almost feel emotionally connected with their impotent desires. Coaches can conventionally withstand weather in the Cornwall setting, however, on this occasion, the coach is standing on its last legs as It persists through the storm. The fact that the weather is having such a big effect on the coach, identifies the scale of the storm and the large and domineering attributes the storm and weather consists of.

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OMG this is the exact paper that came up. thanks so much.

the writer uses language devices such as the verb "lashing" to portray how powerful the storm is compared to the trees. From the verb "lashing" we can infer that the storm is cruel compared to the trees. As a reader it makes me feel that the storm itself is more superior to the trees in this specific instance as the trees are usually quite capable of handling such weather. This is visible throughout the extract in which we notice nature portraying it's influence and rule. -( what i would write)

'lashing' has connotations to slavery

This is very helpful, however do I need to involve literal, symbolical or metaphorical reasonings?

Hi ive got a question, what grade would you consider this writing in terms of gcse?

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Great video. Worth pointing out that 'tangled' in that sentence is an adjective - 'was' is the main verb in the sentence :)

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Hii, can You mark this question 2 for me. Please give me a mark and some feedbacks for improvements pls. The writer uses powerful imagery to describe the effects of the weather in Cornwall. The writer uses a simile ‘rocking between…like a drunken man’ to contrast from a steady vehicle to an uncontrollable and an unpredictable vehicle, like a man who is being idiotically drunk. This shows how powerful the weather is, due to the fact that it controls a steady vehicle in such a strong force. The vehicle is being used as a personification, whilst being affected by ‘shaking’ from the gusting wind. The verb ‘shaking’ has connotations of a coach being terrified, traumatized and weak in Cornwall. The effect of this suggests the passengers are victims and are as objects or playthings of the weather, during this obscuring experience. As readers, we strongly feel that we have sympathy toward the passengers and the horses, due to the fact that the victims and the horses are ‘dispirited’ and frightened by the weather as acting cruel and brutal. Every reader would not think that the any vehicle would be affected as worse by any type of weathers, so the weather in Cornwall provokes us that this one is very powerful and strong. Through the effective use of verbs, the writer depicts an aggressive connotation of the coach being affected by the violence of the weather in Cornwall, through the minds of readers. The writer describes the weather as it has ‘blew’ the ‘whole body of the coach’ in a powerful strength. The verb ‘blew’ of the wind makes the reader think differently and become curious with the fact that a wind would blow in a care and slow motion, but this is from a reader’s perspective. However, in a writer’s perspective, the writer would see the wind as harsh and aggressive. The weather indicates the level of anger its strengths to be able to wreck and damage the ‘whole body of the coach.’ Additionally, the writer uses complex sentences in each paragraph to demonstrate the readers as the weather is being described as vivid and as an eternity, throughout the novel. The writer also includes onomatopoeia in the sentences, such as ‘creaked’ and ‘groaned’ to imply that the horses can no longer take any more, through this violent weather in Cornwall. As readers, we bring out sympathy towards the poor horses, because as we know that the weather is a never-ending moment and the horses are trying their best to get out of this wrecking situation but decides to stop, due to the tiredness and emotions of confusion.

Do you need to do that last bit describing it further to get the marks?

i know i’m really late (sorry) but i’ve attempted to do question 2 i don’t know if it’s any good (sorry if there’s any grammatical errors) the writer uses complex sentences to unveil the unlimited possibilities books provide. mr fisher described books as ‘golden’, this adjective symbolises something of great value and worth, perhaps suggesting they are much like treasure, rare and precious. however, when describing films, mr fisher associates them with ‘black and white’ typically quite dull colours that portray no excitement. this shows the contrast between how films and books are represented, books are described as something that ‘illuminated hearts and minds’ offering endless possibilities and allowing your imagination to ‘soar’, whereas films are simply just depicted as ‘black and white’. perhaps the writer has done this deliberately to show how the two juxtapose each other, beginning with something he feels so passionate about exaggerating it’s every aspect as opposed to something so limited and dim.

thank you so much this video helped me to get a grade 7 in my exam

You said about writing another 2 or 3 paragraphs, can you write those paragraphs about those other verbs and adjectives you highlighted or would that be too repetitive so would you have to write about another language technique instead?

Love your perceptiveness 💓

Does a rhetorical question come under sentence forms or language feature/technique?

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thanks so much! i have my real gcse tomorrow and didn't know how to answer question 2 but now i do!!

ive always had trouble with the language and structure question and i have my gcses next year wish i found your channel earlier

Thanks this video helped me alot🙌

This was so helpful!! Thank you

watching all the questions since my mock is tomorrow morning at 9:15 lmao

Tysm!! This helped me a lot xD

This is another great video thanks. However using the word roaring will not far off coax you to write about similar connotations. Would this have bearing on the examiners marking. Ie would it be better to write about the significance of a totally different technique? Thanks in advance.

😂time to revise 😂

Help..FULLLLLL OMDSSSS I’m in set 1 English right and sometimes the question just goes over my head and I don’t know how to go about writing an answer for it, like the ideas are there but the structural form isn’t... this helped so muchhhh :’)

this is so helpful but I wish I had found this video when I was doing my end of year exams because I did this exact paper for my English! if I would have seen this video then maybe I would have got a A instead of a B :(((( hopefully I don't do the same thing on my GCSE next year

Where can you find these questions so I could practise it.

Thank you so much miss this is really helped me.

Best video on the subject

wait how many paragraphs do we need to write for question 2 and 3?

Mrs Whelan, for that piece you wrote, how many marks would you receive?

How did you convey language devices in your PEE?

Thank you so much!!! Used this video as a sort of preference for langauge paper 2. The question was how does the writer use language to describe the storm. There was a word slashing, and used what you wrote to show connotations and meanings. E.g Whip, show forcefulness of wind, power of storm

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Thank you so much. i wish for my teacher to explain this clearly

thank u soo much u help to have 39/40 thank hope i can i make it in this year gcse.hope u have the best life and successful live ever.please can u make u go over papaer2 like the way u go over paper 1 please thanks

is it okay to talk about verbs in each paragraph? or look for adjectives and others

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Do u structure this question the same way as an english literature question?

You’re really helpful

Is this edxcel and would have u got full marks for that question ?

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This could be used for Scottish SQA right?