Course Description
This course is aimed at students sitting the Edexcel GCSE English Language (1ENO) examination. Over 4 days, this course will provide in-depth revision on 4 key question areas: language and structure, compare and evaluate, imaginative writing, and transactional writing. Students will revise the skills needed to target top band criteria on both Paper 1 and Paper 2 of the examination.
Course Outline
Day 1: language and structure
Students will learn how to identify and analyse writers’ language and structure choices for effect. Revision will include language techniques, structural features, sentence form, and subject terminology.
Day 2: compare and evaluate
Students will learn how to critically compare and evaluate a writer’s use of ideas, events, themes and setting. Revision will include planning, methods used, synthesising texts, and paragraphing.
Day 3: imaginative writing
Building on revision from Day 1, students will learn how to write adventurous narrative and descriptive writing responses. Revision will include, planning, literary devices, sentence variation, and punctuation.
Day 4: transactional writing
Students will learn how to write sophisticated and sustained responses to common transactional writing genres. Revision will include planning, form, tone, purpose, and persuasive writing techniques.
Mick McCory
Mick McCory is a CELTA-trained, ex-Head of Academic English, current examiner (CIE, AQA and Edexcel) and private tutor with over 15+ years experience. He has taught English from 11+ to post-graduate. Lessons are student-centred, ensuring work is palatable and resonant to maximise motivation, development and success within varying timescales and schedules. In recent years, Mick McCory has come to specialise in grade boosting and intensive study.
