ABOUT THIS CONFERENCE

This new conference is designed, by practicing and experienced examiners and advanced learning practitioners, to support and inspire students to achieve outstanding grades in AQA English Language. This specially designed, interactive and innovative conference will provide students with motivational, informative and effective techniques which will allow them to gain clear understand in the exam board’s specifications and assessment objectives. The knowledge gained by students at this conference will allow them to confidently articulate the extended, perceptive, critical, conceptual and focused responses needed to achieve a grade 8 or 9 in the exam.

KEY FOCUS AREAS

• Enjoy a memorable, varied, informative learning experience
• Unpick exam board requirements for reaching grades 8 – 9
• Gain strategies, ideas and approaches to develop convincing and critical responses
• Gain first hand guidance and crucial insight from examiners and leading experts
• Learn how to judiciously use quotations and evidence in exam responses
• Techniques to show the examiner that students can show perceptive and detailed understanding of language and structure
• Understand what is required to demonstrate a sophisticated and accurate use of subject terminology
• Understand what is required in a compelling style using extensive and ambitious vocabulary with sustained crafting of linguistic devices

PROGRAMME

Paper 1: Succeeding in Q1 and Q2

• Q1: simple, focused and explicit strategies
• Reading approaches: before, during and after reading the text
• Q2: What is the ‘effect’ of language? Show perceptive and / or detailed understanding of language
• Understanding perceptive inferences and making perceptive and developed comments
• Make sophisticated and accurate use of subject terminology
• How to select a range of judicious textual detail
• Empathy – empathising with characters in order to deepen and develop analysis write perceptive responses
• ACTIVITY – questions and question types and level 6 and 7, responses and how to move these up to level 8 or 9 – examiner advice

Paper 1: Writing about structure – developing skills for Q3

• Getting students to engage with the big themes of a text – consider the social and historical context
• Analyse the effect of structure and structural shifts, demonstrating perceptive and detailed understanding in responses
• Make sophisticated and accurate use of subject terminology
• Selecting a range of judicious examples
• Exemplar responses- features of ‘perceptive’ in practice.

Paper 1: Evaluating texts – combing skills for Q4

• Perceptive understanding of genre and structure
• Key skills in the mark scheme- how to use the mark scheme as a checklist for perceptive analysis
• Develops a convincing and critical response to the focus of the statement
• Show perceptive understanding of writer’s methods
• Selecting a range of judicious textual detail
• Evaluating critically and in detail the effect(s) on the reader

Paper 1: Creative writing – expanding skills for Q5

• Exploring the typical features of ‘convincing and compelling’ writing
• Using extensive and ambitious vocabulary with sustained crafting of linguistic devices
• Using varied and inventive structural features
• Making writing compelling, incorporating a range of convincing and complex ideas
• Exploring fluently linked paragraphs with seamlessly integrated discourse markers

Paper 2: Comparing texts – combing skills for Q4

• Writing perceptive and detailed comparisons
• Compares ideas and perspectives in a perceptive way
• Analysing how writers’ methods are used
• Selecting a range of judicious supporting detail from both texts
• Showing a detailed and perceptive understanding of the different ideas and perspectives in both texts.

Transactional Writing

• Communicating in a convincing and compelling manner
• Making sure tone, style and register are assuredly matched to purpose and audience
• Using extensive and ambitious vocabulary with sustained crafting of linguistic devices
• Organising responses showing varied and inventive use of structural features
• Making writing compelling, incorporating a range of convincing and complex ideas
• Using fluently linked paragraphs with seamlessly integrated discourse markers
• Using extensive and ambitious use of vocabulary

Paper 2: Ten Top Tips for Q1, Q2 and Q3

• KEY POINTS from each of the expert presenters on how to improve your final grade
• What’s live in you?