2023 AQA GCSE English Language is fast approaching. How confident are you with English Language Paper 1?

Question 4 is nationally the weakest link for most students. It doesn’t have to be. Examine my resources and practise.

1. To start, identify the focus of the statement. Sometimes it can have 2 or more parts to it. Lead with the focus and make links consistently in every paragraph of your response.

2. Support your views with relevant textual details; direct quotes from the section the task tells you to, and/or paraphrase.

3. State the methods used (language and/or structural techniques)

4. Give extended inference of the effects of both the techniques and the language of the quotes.

Examine the example below that uses the November 2022 paper. This is not a full response. It simply models how to follow the 4 steps above to effectively respond to the task.

Below is a full mark response from the real exam.