Revision notes.

Try this with English as an Additional Language

1. Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
2. Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
3. Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Reading strategies that unlock meaning in a set text
• Character motivation, relationship tension and the function of setting
• Reading a set text through its historical context and values
• Building an analytical essay: structure, metalanguage and integrated evidence
• Express, explain, reflect, argue: choosing and holding a purpose
• Writing about country: place, belonging, migration and landscape
• Writing about protest: conflict, contest and the value of dissent
• Writing about personal journeys: whose story, told by whom
• Writing about play: games, make-believe, rules and rule breaking
• Turning the exam title and a single stimulus into a controlled text
• Reading past the surface: explicit and implicit ideas in a set text
• How a text conveys values and positions different readers
• How language features and text structures shape meaning in a text
• Planning and sustaining a 700-900 word analytical response
• Finding the contention and mapping the supporting arguments
• How written and spoken language positions an intended audience
• How images, graphics and captions support and augment argument
• Structuring an analysis of argument: movement, audience and effect
• How context and the author's identity shape an audience's reaction
• Analysing intonation, pace, pausing and stress in spoken persuasion