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In this section you can find a huge range of past papers, practice papers, mark schemes and manuals to work through.

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GCSE English manual-this will tell you everything you need to know about answering all questions on both papers

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GCSE English manual-this will tell you everything you need to know about answering all questions on both papers

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GCSE English Language P1P2 manual SUMMER 2025 2026- PRINTABLE

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If you're not sure how to revise, use this section to get tips and advice on revision strategies.

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EITHER
Describe a journey by bus as suggested by this picture.

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Write a story about two people from very different backgrounds.

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Read lines 19 to the end.

A student said "This part of the story, set in the hat shop, shows that the red-haired girl has many advantages in life, and I think Rosabel has a right to be angry".

To what extent do you agree?

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Read the whole of the source.

How has the writer structured the text to interest you as the readder?

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Read lines 6 to 14.

How does the writer use language here to describe Rosabel's bus journey home?

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Plan your answers before writing them up

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Plan your answer before writing it up

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Paper 1: try a full paper 1 question by question

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Paper 1: try a full paper 1 question by question

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Full Paper 1 including mark scheme and model answers

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Full Paper 1 including mark scheme and model answers

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Pick a task to use with any past paper and focus on one skill at a time

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Paper 1 revision: small tasks, how to videos and practice questions.

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Paper 1 revision: small tasks, how to videos and practice questions.

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Work on one key skill at a time before working up to answering a full exam style question

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The Tiredness of Rosabel - Grade 4 Student Example

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The Tiredness of Rosabel - Grade 4 Student Example

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The Tiredness of Rosabel - PPT with example answers

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The Tiredness of Rosabel - PPT with example answers

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Spelling, punctuation and grammar are all assessed as part of Q5. This section is full of quizzes, tips, lessons, videos and more to help you improve your SPaG acccuracy.

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If you want to do some work but not a whole paper, use these takeaway tasks.

These are short, practice questions.

There are no mark schemes or examples attached. They are simply, short tasks to build your skills.

Once complete, send to your teacher on Teams for feedback

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The vocabulary you choose in your creative writing goes a long way in improving your marks. Use this section to learn new words and upgrade your vocabulary to get those extra marks.

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GCSE English manual-this will tell you everything you need to know about answering all questions on both papers. Use it to help you to complete the takeaway tasks

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GCSE English manual-this will tell you everything you need to know about answering all questions on both papers. Use it to help you to complete the takeaway tasks

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GCSE English Language P1P2 manual SUMMER 2025 2026- PRINTABLE

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GCSE English manual-this will tell you everything you need to know about answering all questions on both papers. Use it to help you to complete the takeaway tasks

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GCSE English manual-this will tell you everything you need to know about answering all questions on both papers. Use it to help you to complete the takeaway tasks

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GCSE English Language P1P2 manual SUMMER 2025 2026- PRINTABLE

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Not sure where to start with revision?  Look at this sheet to pick a focus/task.

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Paper 1 skills padlet-practice individual skills ready for the mock

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Paper 1 skills padlet-practice individual skills ready for the mock

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Read lines 1 to 5.

List four things about Rosabel from this part of the source.

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Q4 The DO YOU AGREE Question task - Goose Fair

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Q4 The DO YOU AGREE Question task - Goose Fair

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Read through the information on the PPT to help you answer the matching question.

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Question 3 THE STRUCTURE QUESTION Task - The Edge of Tomorrow

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Question 3 THE STRUCTURE QUESTION Task - The Edge of Tomorrow

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Use the PPT and the text below to practice P1Q3.  Send the completed task to your tutor.

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Question 2 THE LANGUAGE QUESTION Task - The Pedestrian

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Question 2 THE LANGUAGE QUESTION Task - The Pedestrian

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Use the matching text to complete the task. There is support and further guidance on the PPT

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Use the image and upgrade the sentences to write a description suggested by the image.

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Use this text and the matching PPT to answer the question.

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Watch the clip to help you annotate and answer the question.

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Use this text and the matching Powerpoint to complete the task. There are videos in the PPT to guide you.

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Full walkthrough of Paper 1  - Crime and Punishment

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Full walkthrough of Paper 1  - Crime and Punishment

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Paper 1 - Crime and Punishment Walkthrough

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TOP TIPS Never end your story with a cliffhanger. It just feels unfinished and you will get more marks for a well structured ending. To end your story, try to return to/or make a reference to where you started. This will give your story a carefully crafted feel and a circular

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Full Paper 1 Questions - Crime and Punishment

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Full Paper 1 Questions - Crime and Punishment

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I Asked 75 Examiners for their Number 1 GCSE Exam Tip (Part 1)

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100% Full Marks Real Language Exam Answer 1: English Language Paper 1 Question 5 (no spoilers!)

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GCSE English Language - AQA - BBC Bitesize

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Easy-to-understand homework and revision materials for your GCSE English Language AQA '9-1' studies and exams.

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Use this app to build vocabulary and practice finding the connotations of words. Also available on the apple store.

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Word to Word: Fun Brain Games, Offline Puzzle Game - Apps on Google Play

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Test your mastery of English words, crossword puzzles, idioms, trivia, anagrams!

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Hints, tips, guides and prompts to improve reading and writing skills.

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Laura Maines (lauramaines4591) - Profile | Pinterest

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Laura Maines | English Lecturer Riverside College

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Stuck on how to start? There are tons of sentence starters and story prompts to get you writing creatively.

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35 Creative writing ideas | book writing tips, creative writing, writing

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May 22, 2020 - Explore Laura Maines’s board “Creative writing” on Pinterest. See more ideas about book writing tips, creative writing, writing.

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Contains all key ambitious vocab from each reading lesson, sorted by genre

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Watch this video to upgrade your descriptions of emotions.

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PAPER 1 Propping Up The Line MARK SCHEME

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A Sound of Thunder (T-rex) PPT with example answers

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A Sound of Thunder (T-rex) PPT with example answers

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Investigate the text by picking out any interesting language devices or word types. Explore the connotations of words and consider the writer's word choice.

Have a go at the Blooket quiz to help you dig deeper!

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Work through the White Fang practice paper in this revision booklet.

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Contains all key ambitious vocab from each reading lesson, sorted by genre

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Use this for the example questions!

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Full practice paper plus mark scheme and example answers

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Full practice paper plus mark scheme and example answers

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Complete each quiz to help make your vocabulary more ambitious

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Complete each quiz to help make your vocabulary more ambitious

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QUIZ 1

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This KS2 English quiz challenges you in improving vocabulary. One part of improving vocabulary is learning to spell correctly. Have you ever looked at a dictionary and wondered if anyone could possibly know all the words it contains? There are at least 250,000 words in English - so you'll have quite a task to learn them all! English uses so many words that, although a word might have many synonyms, each has a slightly different meaning. You can nearly always find a word to say exactly what you want to say. So, no more excuses for boring word choices!

By improving your vocabulary, you will have a better understanding of the English language and be able to write much more interesting stories.

Stretch your vocabulary by trying this English quiz.

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KS2 Improving Vocabulary | How to Spell Correctly

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It's good to improve your vocabulary but make sure that you learn how to spell new words correctly! This can make all the difference to any piece of writing.

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Click on the link to see the word of the day. Use this word in a sentence today!

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What It Means

Pandemonium refers to a situation in which a crowd or mass of people act in a wild, uncontrolled, or violent way because they are afraid, excited, or confused.

// Pandemonium ensued when a power failure knocked out the city's traffic lights during rush hour.
See the entry >
pandemonium in Context

I went to the ______ store to buy a birthday card.

Did You Know?

When John Milton needed a name for the gathering place of all demons for Paradise Lost, he turned to the classics as any sensible 17th-century writer would. Pandæmonium, as the capital of Hell is known in the epic poem, combines the Greek prefix pan-, meaning "all," with the Late Latin daemonium, meaning "evil spirit." ( Daemonium itself traces back to the far more innocuous Greek word daímōn, meaning "spirit" or "divine power.") Over time, Pandæmonium (or Pandemonium) came to designate all of hell and was used as well for earthbound dens of wickedness and sin. By the late-18th century, the word implied a place or state of confusion or uproar, and from there, it didn't take long for pandemonium to become associated with states of utter disorder and wildness.

Test Your Vocabulary

Fill in the blanks to complete a word meaning "hell" or "eternal damnation": p _ r _ i _ _ o n.

VIEW THE ANSWER

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When John Milton needed a name for the gathering place of all demons for Paradise Lost, he turned to the classics as any sensible 17th-century writer would. Pandæmonium, as the capital of Hell is

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QUIZ 2

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This KS2 English quiz challenges you in improving vocabulary. One part of improving vocabulary is learning to spell correctly. Have you ever looked at a dictionary and wondered if anyone could possibly know all the words it contains? There are at least 250,000 words in English - so you'll have quite a task to learn them all! English uses so many words that, although a word might have many synonyms, each has a slightly different meaning. You can nearly always find a word to say exactly what you want to say. So, no more excuses for boring word choices!

By improving your vocabulary, you will have a better understanding of the English language and be able to write much more interesting stories.

Stretch your vocabulary by trying this English quiz.

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KS2 Improving Vocabulary | How to Spell Correctly

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It's good to improve your vocabulary but make sure that you learn how to spell new words correctly! This can make all the difference to any piece of writing.

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QUIZ 3

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This KS2 English quiz takes another look at improving vocabulary. Knowing and using synonyms for 'ordinary' words can really improve your vocabulary. It's not enough just to have a collection of wonderful words in your vocabulary. You also need to know when to use them! Are you able to select exactly the right word for any occasion?

It's important to know the meaning of words before you use them. If you are not quite sure of the meaning, your writing or speech may not make much sense! So when you discover a new word that you like, ensure that you double-check its meaning in a dictionary as well as learning how to spell it correctly.

Improve your vocabulary by trying this challenging picture quiz. If you haven't played our first two quizzes on the same subject, you might want to try them first. Good luck!

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KS2 Improving Vocabulary | How to Learn New Words

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The best way for children in KS2 to learn new words and improve their vocabulary is to read as often as they can. The more words they know, the better their own writing will be.

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Punctuation: complete the punctuation quiz to see how to make your sentence structure secure

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Punctuation: complete the punctuation quiz to see how to make your sentence structure secure

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This KS2 English quiz takes a look at punctuation. Punctuation includes commas, question marks, full stops and exclamation marks. Punctuating properly is very important if you take care with your punctuation your reader will easily understand what you've written - Wait a minute! That's not right. How about this: Punctuating properly is very important. If you take care with your punctuation, your reader will easily understand what you've written.

When composing a piece of writing, don't forget to read through to make sure you have added punctuation where needed. Otherwise, your teacher will have a hard time reading your work.

Test your punctuation skills with this quiz.

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The use of punctuation marks like commas, apostrophes and full stops makes your writing easy to read. Without them it can be quite a challenge! This fun KS2 English quiz, created especially for children in Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6, asks them to correct the mistakes in the given sentences.

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Scan the QR codes to visit websites to support you with SPaG

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Spelling: complete the homophone quiz to make sure you know the difference between their, they're and there

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Spelling: complete the homophone quiz to make sure you know the difference between their, they're and there

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This KS2 English quiz challenges you on the words their, they're and there. 'Their', 'they're' and 'there' are same sounding words or homophones, although they are spelt differently and have different meanings. 'Their' is a possessive pronoun - it means that something belongs to 'them'; 'they're' is the contraction of 'they are'; and 'there' is used to mean a place or position.

It's easy to get these three words mixed up, but once you remember what each of them mean, you'll never make the mistake again. If you don't get full marks first time in this quiz, try it again until you know for sure which of the three options is correct.

Play this quiz all about the use of their, they're and there.

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Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Three words that are often confusing for KS2 students are Their, They're and There. In this quiz written specifically for children in Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 we clarify their meanings so they don't make the same mistake.

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Spelling: complete the homophone quiz to ensure you know the difference between your and you're

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Spelling: complete the homophone quiz to ensure you know the difference between your and you're

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This KS2 English quiz will test you on the words your and you're. Your is a possessive pronoun whilst you're is a contraction of 'you are'. In writing, people often confuse 'you're' and 'your' because they are homophones - the two words sound the same. But 'you're' is a contraction of the words 'you are', whereas 'your' is a possessive pronoun meaning something belongs to you.

Just like the words in our KS2 English quiz titled Their, They're and There, it's important to know which one to use correctly. Once you fully know the meaning of each, then you'll have no trouble using the right one every time!

See if you know the difference by trying this English quiz.

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The words Your and You're are homophones. They sound the same but have different meanings. One is the possessive form of You (Your mum) and the other is a contraction of You are (You're silly). This KS2 English quiz for Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 pupils finds out if they know the difference.

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A06: Commas (an easy way to impress the examiner)

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Q5 planning grid: how to plan to write a story or describe an image

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Q5 planning grid: how to plan to write a story or describe an image

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Help with your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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May 20, 2020 - Explore Laura Maines’s board “SPaG” on Pinterest. See more ideas about english writing, english vocabulary, english grammar.

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A06: Commas (an easy way to impress the examiner)

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I Asked 50 Examiners About The Most Obvious Exam Spelling Mistakes

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GCSE English manual-this will tell you everything you need to know about answering all questions on both papers. Use it to help you to complete the takeaway tasks

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GCSE English manual-this will tell you everything you need to know about answering all questions on both papers. Use it to help you to complete the takeaway tasks

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Question 3 THE STRUCTURE QUESTION: 'how to' video (Sound of Thunder). Text below.

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Question 3 THE STRUCTURE QUESTION: 'how to' video (Sound of Thunder). Text below.

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'A Sound of Thunder' text to go with 'how to' video

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'A Sound of Thunder' text to go with 'how to' video

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Q4 The DO YOU AGREE Question recap/ 'how to' video ("The Mill")

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Q4 The DO YOU AGREE Question recap/ 'how to' video ("The Mill")

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Read lines 28-34. List 4 things we learn about the child.

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Q2 THE LANGUAGE QUESTION recap video ("The Mill")

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Q2 THE LANGUAGE QUESTION recap video ("The Mill")

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Q3 THE STRUCTURE QUESTION recap video ("The Mill")

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Q3 THE STRUCTURE QUESTION recap video ("The Mill")

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Q5 THE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING QUESTION Part 1; how to plan and describe an image using DROP/SHIFT/ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT 

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Q5 THE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING QUESTION Part 1; how to plan and describe an image using DROP/SHIFT/ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT 

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Q5 THE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING QUESTION PART 2: How to plan and write a story recap

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Q5 THE DESCRIPTIVE WRITING QUESTION PART 2: How to plan and write a story recap

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Practise the online comprehension quizzes to improve your reading skills

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 1 (2025 only)

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Past Paper 1 - A sound of Thunder - Walkthrough PPT

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Past Paper 1 - A sound of Thunder - Walkthrough PPT

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Paper 1 - A Sound of Thunder - Questions

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Paper 1 - A Sound of Thunder - Questions

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Summer exam dates. NOTE: these dates cannot be changed!

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Summer exam dates. NOTE: these dates cannot be changed!

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PAPER 1: Thursday 21st May 2026, 9am

PAPER 2: Friday 5th June 2026, 9am