hello and welcome to this free video Lesson by totally dot Co dot UK in this lesson we are going to go through the whole of first language English IGCSE paper one for Cambridge so I'm going to talk you through each of the three questions tell you what to expect and some tips and tricks for approaching them if you like this video Lesson and you want more then keep your eyes peeled because my next video coming out will be a full paper one walkthrough where you will do a paper one with me timed and then we'll go through a market so do subscribe if you want to see that you can download all the resources that you'll need at totally.co.uk my website you'll find a review quiz on there and you'll also find the worksheet plus other materials to help you for first language English and if you're a teacher then you'll also find teaching resources over there too that can help your students before we get stuck into the questions let me give you a little bit of information about paper one now paper one is worth 50 of your overall Mark for IGCSE with the other 50 being made up of either your paper 2 which is the writing paper or coursework depending on what your school has decided for you paper one is two hours long and it is worth a total of 80 marks it's split up into these three big questions with question one and two having some short answer questions and question three being the longest question so question one is when you'll have some comprehension questions some pretty basic straightforward retrieval questions who did this what did this explain this followed by a summary writing task question two is when you'll have again some more short answer questions but these are more vocabulary based followed by the language analysis question I have actually got a video for language analysis I'll try to remember to link it somewhere there and finally question three which is your extended response to reading this is the big one which is worth 25 marks that is when you'll have to read text C and based off what you've read there you'll have to respond to it in the form of a diary a letter a newspaper a magazine a speech or an interview and once again I also have got a very long 75 minute video Lesson all about how to write those six text types if you would like more information about that now one thing that students always ask me is timings how long should I take on each of these questions I think that a general rule of thumb is however many marks a question is were Earth you should roughly be spending that amount of minutes plus about 10 minutes reading time so if the question is worth 25 marks so 25 minutes plus 10 minutes reading time 35 marks roughly right because the comprehension questions and summary writing will probably take you a slightly less time than extended reading that is a Rough Guide though obviously because your comprehension questions will take you probably less than 15 minutes whereas planning for your language analysis might take you a little bit more than the 15 minutes plus 10. anyway here are my suggested timings so question one the comprehension questions about 15 minutes is worth 15 marks yes you'll have to read the text but I do recommend that you skin read through that then the summary writing question I recommend you spend about 20 minutes on it summary writing is worth 15 marks um so there it is only five minutes of reading but that's because you're only writing 120 words so actually probably won't take you 15 minutes to write that summary probably it will be closer to 10 minutes of reading and planning 10 minutes writing the vocabulary questions the short answer questions to question two again these are worth 15 marks so spend about 15 minutes on them then the vocabulary questions now I've given you a little bit longer for this one because this is when you'll have to read your text C for the first time which is the longest text and also the text that you'll have to answer language analysis and question three on so although vocabulary questions are only worth 10 marks and you're just writing down one word so it should be actually quite quick to answer those questions needing to tackle that Tech C for the first time I'm going to allocate you slightly longer next question two language analysis which is worth 15 marks so you can figure out from that okay 15 marks 15 minutes plus 10 minutes of planning time and then question three is worth 25 marks so 25 minutes of writing plus 10 minutes of reading um you do really want to make sure that you leave enough time for that question three I remember invigilating the second half of the first language exam for my year 11s last year so I was coming in as they were finishing their exam and walking down the roads and seeing some of them with just 20 minutes left of the exam just turning the page onto question three and thinking oh no so don't be like that question three is worth the most marks by itself right the other ones are kind of split up into two different halves so do make sure that you spend enough time on your question three and you'll also notice that I've put in there five to ten minutes of proof reading at the end I warned my students 10 minutes of proofreading at the end and once again as I was invigilating saw some of them they finished their question three there was 10 15 minutes to go there are some booklets were closed and they were staring off into the air and obviously as an invigilator I couldn't say anything I couldn't show any emotion but inside inside I was not a happy woman so make sure that you do spend a little bit of time proofreading at the end please great boundaries just so you're aware so these here are the great boundaries for summer 2023 the most recent exam as of the time making this video and if you're wondering what 11 12 13 refer to the one means paper one right and the second number means the variant because in each like different exam block there will be three different versions of the paper so that different time zones can't cheat ahead of time right so obviously all paper ones are out of 80 marks now if you were sitting very one or varying two then you only needed 47 out of 80 to get an a similar marks for a b 40 or 41 33 or 35 for a c 28 or 29 for a d and 23 for an e and then if you were sitting paper 1 3 this paper must have been harder because the grade boundaries are much lower you only need a 43 out of 80 just over 50 to get an A and you can have a look at the rest of the numbers right there if you're wondering what about an a star you can't actually get an A star in a single component like you can't get an A star on your paper one or an A star in your coursework it's only when those two marks are put together that you will be awarded an a star so to put this into percentages if we just have a look at paper one to get an A you needed 58 to get a B 50 that is it 44 for a c so you can see that these grade boundaries are actually really shockingly surprisingly low that's balanced by the fact that Cambridge are relatively harsh in their marking so I'm saying this to reassure you that if you don't always get a very high Mark or you're not always getting in the top band right you can still get an A because sometimes you only need like 52 to get an A so if that makes you feel a little bit better going into your exam then cool and also do remember that if you have a hard exam you come out and they've asked you to write a report or something that everyone isn't quite prepared for no one else in your time zone is likely to be prepared for it and so you might have a nice low grade boundary like on summer paper one variant three so just use that to reassure yourself as you go in if you are finding it hard others are finding it hard which means great great boundaries extra super low for you probably now let's get stuck into the questions so firstly we are having a look at question one and the comprehension questions so the comprehension questions are questions one eight e and for this you'll have to read text a Now text a is usually the shortest and the simplest you have three texts and they get gradually more difficult as you go through the paper So based on the simplest text you will have to answer short comprehension questions so this should be a relatively easy section of your paper for you the question is worth a total of 15 marks therefore spend about 15 minutes answering it five minutes to skin read over text a and ten minutes to actually write my recommended technique is to skim and scan the questions and the text first before you methodically work through question by question now text a isn't going to be coming up again you don't need to know it in depth all you need to do is just find the answers write them down and move on so don't spend a long time deeply reading and deeply analyzing this text because you just need to quickly find some information and write it down on your exam paper um unless it says using your own words and it will say that and it will say in bold just directly copy from the text save time don't lose any marks do not write in full sentences unless it's for those last to explain questions all of the rest will be bullet points right so actually the mark scheme is usually the correct answer is like one two five words so don't waste time writing out big long sentences be more efficient if you can get the mark by writing down two words why on Earth would you write down 20 right this is all about maximizing time for later on in the exam so my last bullet point then don't waste too much time on this first question get your marks get out question one a is a simple retrieval find some information find one or two pieces of information from the text and copy it down directly so it will say something like this give two possible meanings of the dot languages found on cave paintings and you will just copy down a phrase from the text so you can see that it doesn't say using your own words so copy and we've got bullet points so there's no need for full sentences and you need to get both of the pieces of information to get one Mark if you get one of the bullet points wrong and the other one right sorry but you get zero marks question 1B is when you will have to explain the meaning of two phrases from the text so you need to make sure that you explain both parts of the quote it will always be like a phrase a short phrase so for example here you have to explain using your own words what track the migration means so you need to give a synonym of track and a synonym of migration now one thing that my students often get wrong with this question is because it's saying oh this phrase in the text they kind of go back and they look at it in the sentence and they think okay what does it mean in this sentence and they start to analyze it a little bit but actually it's not that deep you just need to define the words or give synonyms you do not need to analyze so you will literally give a synonym for track like follow and the synonym for migration movement of animals that's it because it says using your own words you must use your own words and do not reuse the word in your definition so for example to Define track you obviously shouldn't say by tracking the movement of birds because you're reusing tracking your own definition so make sure that you're using completely different words and you're just simply giving synonyms that's all this question actually is deceptively easy as long as you know what the words mean moving on for question 1C and 1D the first question in 1D this is once again a simple retrieval so you need to find two pieces of information from the text and because it doesn't say using your own words you should copy directly from the text because it's using bullet points we can see we don't need to use full sentences either so it will direct you to a paragraph here reread paragraph three and reread paragraph four and five this is why I'm saying you don't need to in depth read the text because you can just skin read over your questions and then say okay the answer to this question is in paragraph three now you read paragraph three in detail okay now I need to analyze paragraph four and five read that in detail see how it can help you go a little bit faster so here relatively simple as long as you can find the answer find the answer keep it short copy it down for the second part of question D you'll need to explain three pieces of information from the text now these pieces of information we can see it doesn't give us a paragraph so it could be from anywhere in the text it will probably be in the latter half of the text though and you can use keywords from the text so you can use short phrases from the text but it should be mostly in your own words so if for example it's about cave paintings and the dots we can say the phrase cave paintings dot scientists whatever the text says but most of it should be in our own words now we can see that it's worth three marks in order to get all three marks you have to make three different points so you have to give three different ways how scientists will approach decoding the significance of the cave dots so basically a mark per point so you need to make sure if the question is worth three marks you're saying at least three different points about it and actually there's no reason why to make sure that you're doing this you can't just do your own bullet points like why not and then you can make sure that you've definitely made three different points on the mark scheme remember that points that are a little bit similar might be grouped together so make sure that your three points are very distinct and individual so that you're not repeating the same idea finally question one e is quite similar you are once again explaining three pieces of information from the text but now it should be entirely in your own words because it's saying using your own words in bold once again it's worth three marks that's worth three different points you could still write in bullet points that would be fine as long as you are still using your own words and not copying from the text my key takeaways for question one comprehension questions are unless it says using your own words you should directly copy from the text skim and scan the text do not waste time the number of marks means the number of separate points that you should make and remember that when you are defining words don't reuse the original word in your definition always try to say everything in your own word without repeating from the text moving on now to the second half of question one which is summary writing summary writing also known as question one f is when you will have to write a short Focus summary based on the text that you've read so we'll be moving on to the second text now text B which will be a little bit harder than text a but still not too difficult and you will have to write a summary based on this now Cambridge will give you a question so you're not just summarizing the whole text you are only summarizing information that relates to the question this question is worth 15 marks you should spend about 20 minutes answering it 10 minutes to read and plan and 10 minutes to write because you only need to write 120 words now depending on the size of your handwriting that I would expect to be about this much right certainly you should not be writing more than the first sheet of paper you can see that the question takes up about a third of the page so this is about enough 120 words but please do not waste time counting your words The Examiner doesn't count it is a complete and utter waste of time it is pointless don't do it simply eyeball it you should write about this much like my drawing about this much on your paper as an examiner that's what I would look for here is my recommended technique for summary writing first read the summary question so that as you're reading the text for the first time you already know what you're focusing on what is relevant and what isn't relevant to the summary that you will need to write as you read through the text do be highlighting for the answers as you go along remember that this is a focus summary so it only includes relevant information to your question after you've read through and you've highlighted and you think you found all of the answers then you need to quickly decide which points Belong Together which points will flow together which points do you think should go next to each other which points do you think blinking belong in paragraph one and paragraph two if you're going to paragraph right you might want to think okay so these points are all about I don't know the physical body and these points are all about mental health and then you might do a quick little uh like key at the side and go okay a star means physical and a heart means like mental and then as you go through the margin just quickly star heart star heart and that will act as a plan so you know which point you're going to put together you should be aiming to get around 10 individual points in order to answer your question the mark scheme will usually have between 10 to 15 possible correct answers and so in order to maximize your chance of getting 10 out of 10 content points you should try to make sure you've got 10 individual points that answer your question for summary I know it's tempting but please no introduction no conclusion they are not only not needed a waste of your word count but you will get a lower Mark for including irrelevant information so just directly get into your summary every single sentence that you write in your summary should have a purpose in other words it should have a point from The Mark scheme if I'm reading your summary and I see a sentence that doesn't have any content points in I'm already thinking irrelevant excess right so you're going to get a lower Mark so make sure every single sentence you think has got an answer in that answers the question now a big part of summary writing is paraphrasing in other words writing things in your own words it's really important that you try whatever possible to use your own words and do not copy so general advice you must try to write in your own words wherever possible it's not always possible right so if you don't know a synonym you think okay the word glittering I don't know a synonym for it ER maybe it could be dazzling but I'm not sure if you're not 100 sure just write glittering because otherwise you could lose the content point because you've changed the meaning so unless you're sure don't use this in them and also sometimes it's not actually possible to use a good synonym for very precise nouns think about words like Mammoth or cave painting well synonym could you possibly do there right a synonym of mammoth ancient prehistoric elephant-like mammal I've lost meaning right so it's better in that case just to copy down mammal uh Mammoth right don't over complicate things similarly cave painting artwork crafted on the walls I can't even I can't think of sitting in for Cave of Rocky in a rock rock your boats see then not only have I made it longer I've made it less precise I've lost the content point and everyone is confused so sometimes just copy so as I said that is for very precise nouns usually well how do you even paraphrase use synonyms where possible you can even switch around the sentence structures if you don't know a synonym you can just say if the original quote was woolly mammoths lived in prehistoric times which scientists are just discovering more about today you can switch it around and go scientists are discovering more today about woolly mammoths that lived in prehistoric times so I've just switched the sentence order around but most of the words the same but The Examiner knows okay they've kind of tried you're at least not going to get like two out of five right you might be able to get a three out of five because you've tried a little bit you should also change around the order of ideas from the original text so don't just copy chronologically from the text if like your first point shouldn't be from the first paragraph and then second point from the second paragraph and third point from the third paragraph try to change around the idea so that similar points are grouped together like I was saying before all of these points relate to mental health so I'm going to put them together and all these points relate to physical health so I'm going to put them together to make sure that you keep the meaning the same really the aim of the summary is to give a concise short piece of text that explains something right and if you're changing the meaning you've not really completed the task so that's really important too you're being short you're being accurate you're grouping points which are similar you're switching around the sentence structures and you're using synonyms where possible that is basically good paraphrases and good summary writing here is an example question now let's have a look read text B the world's oldest Pig painting in the insert and then answer question 1f according to text B what makes the cave painting So remarkable and what the scientists hope to learn by studying the cave painting we've got 10 marks for content and five marks for our writing so quite often I see these days that the summary question will be this and this right so here we've got what makes the cave painting So remarkable and what do scientists hope to learn by studying the cave painting if that happens what I recommend you do is you have just two short paragraphs that you are grouping your ideas it is making logical sense it is a good structure so just very simply have two short paragraphs it's not always necessary to have two paragraphs like one focused paragraph is absolutely fine but certainly if the question is this and this two paragraphs is best I just said that you get 10 marks of content and five marks for writing how is that my oxide what does that mean so for Content points it's basically how many points from The Mark scheme did you identify so it's not directly like if you get 10 marks from The Mark scheme you get 10 different points from the original text you might not actually get 10 out of 10 if you've not organized your work well if you've included lots of excess information right so yes you need to have roughly about 10 different points to get 10 out of 10 but like you could copy down the whole text and get all 10 points that isn't necessarily a good summary so it's a rough rule of thumb yes you need to get 10 points to get 10 marks but you also need to have a good summary where you're focusing on the question so how well did you stay focused on the question and was there excess irrelevant information when I mark this and mock exams for my students any sentences that do not have a point from The Mark scheming I cross out like this sentence was excess you did not answer your question you did not achieve anything with this sentence and that has made some of my students very sad because they did have 10 or in one student's case 13 points on the mark scheme but also half of their summary was like totally irrelevant so they didn't get 10 out of 10. sorry and then next writing which is worth five marks so this is did you write in your own words how well did you paraphrase and use synonyms and did you effectively group The ideas together so that your summary flowed it should feel like a natural progression through this summary this point links to this point links to this point and not just copying down in a chronological order my key takeaways for summary writing question one f so you are writing a focused summary of a specific aspect of the text not just summarizing the whole text generally aim to get between 10 to 12 individual points for your summary don't repeat points or you will lose marks for focus and concision because you are not focusing on the question and you are not being concise remember to group together similar ideas you can group those together by putting them in the same paragraph one sentence after the other you could even join them together in the same sentence by using a conjunction or a semicolon don't include irrelevant information that does not answer the question remember that you should not be copying or quoting use your own words wherever possible so it should be 99 your own words don't change the meaning of the original text be short and concise and usually it's best not to use synonyms for very precise nouns or you might lose the content point because you might have changed the meaning too much we have one third of the way through now on to question two looking at those short answer vocabulary questions the vocabulary questions on question two will be based on text C which as I said earlier is the big text because you will answer these vocabulary questions on it your language analysis on it and your big question three on it so it is the most important text therefore I'm going to give you a little bit more reading time on this so five minutes to read and 10 minutes to write the question is worth 10 marks for the first four questions in question two that's two a you need to find the correct word or phrase from the text and just copy it down directly so it will say something like this identify a word or phrase from the text which suggests the same idea as the words underlined smoothly drifted across so you will go back to taxi and you will just find those words or phrases and you will copy it down some students make the mistake here of defining it using in their own words no no no no no you need to copy it down or you will not get the mark you also need to make sure that it is the same as the words underlined if you include any excess information extra information that isn't the same as the words underlined you will lose that Mark even if you have the correct phrase there as well so make sure you're really careful not to copy down anything extra that isn't underlined so question 2a was here's a phrase find it in the text copy it down question 2B is kind of the reverse it's here's a phrase from the text Define it in your own words so you are literally just going to give a synonym for the word in the text in your own words remember the same as for question one you must not reuse the word in your own definition so for rugged you can't say someone looks very rugged and outdoorsy right because you've reused the word rugged in your own definition do make sure that you read the word in context because it might have a slightly different meaning in the extract that's why they've given you the paragraph so you can Define it according to its meaning in this paragraph so for example down here for rugged I might write rough but handsome and that would be correct so it might take more than one word to Define it in some cases like this sometimes it's literally just one word so once again you don't need full sentences you don't need to write the word rugged means literally write down your synonyms move on you're trying to save time for later on with these short answer questions ah and then we're into question two c i I feel like out of all of the questions this is only worth three marks but it's the one that my students get the most stressed and confused about and I'm like it's a three marker so let me try to explain it as clearly as I can for question 2C you will have to explain the effect of a short quote so let's look at an example it says use one example from the text below to explain how the writer suggests Jake's experiences and feelings that night use your own words in your explanation and then we've got a couple of sentences so okay it says use one example so that means that I need to find one quotation so I need to find one quotation about how Jake's experiences and feelings that night so let's see okay we puzzled on in silence each lost in our own thoughts so maybe I'm going to do the quote lost it out of thoughts cool so now what I need to do is I need to say three different things about lost in our own thoughts so I could say that they are all contemplating that they're together but they are alone because they're they're so consumed by their own thought process um and I could say it's quite a peaceful somber scene so literally I've got this quote and I'm just going to say three different things about it that's all they don't need to be particularly deep things so you've got one quote say three different things about that quote you don't need to analyze its inferences what does it suggest three different things that the quote could suggest now a common mistake that students make is they do more than one quote you should only have one quote or they don't write a quote for at all so if you don't have a quote at all you cannot get even one Mark so no quote no marks right if you write more than one quote The Examiner will just take whichever one is your best quote and Mark you for that and ignore the other ones so my advice for this question is one quote only and then just say three different things about it they don't need to be that deep three different things that it suggests my key takeaways for the vocabulary questions in question two for question 2a just copy the phrase from the text for question 2B remember that when you are defining don't reuse the original word in your definition for question 2C number of marks means the number of separate points you need to make so it's worth three marks say three different things about the quotation and also for the question two c you must only have one quote now on to our brief Whistle Stop tour of question two language analysis once again there is a link to my longer more detailed video about this question if you are interested language analysis also known as question 2D So based on text C you will need to analyze the use of imagery in two paragraphs from Taxi so this text we might remember is the most important text because we're going to answer questions through in it you know this now and language analysis is worth 15 marks so I recommend that you should spend about 20 minutes writing and five minutes rereading and planning but do make sure that you have a quick chance to reread those paragraphs highlight the quotations that you're going to analyze and make a few notes about the arguments that you're going to make I don't know if you guys can see about my cards my cat has got the Zoomies right now okay so here is an example question 2D um so it will look something like this reread paragraphs one and two paragraph one begins lights up in New York City paragraph two begins in a design spin explain how the writer uses language to convey meaning and to create effect in these paragraphs choose three examples of words and phrases from each paragraph to support your answer your choices should include the use of imagery right about 200 to 300 words and there are 15 marks available for the content of your answer so you will be given two paragraphs to analyze some taxi you must only answer from those two paragraphs do not answer from elsewhere in the text you're picking three images from each paragraph so that means you have to pick six images in total and you're explaining the meaning of the quote literally what does it mean and you're analyzing the effects of the image you should analyze word choices what powerful words have been used and what is their effect on the reader and you do not need to pick out any language devices which brings me nicely onto my do Nots for this question do not try to be too clever I'm going to give you a structure in a second you use this structure you do not deviate from it you do not try to use your own brain because Cambridge does not appreciate that for this question you just need to follow the structure that I give you remember that you do not need to look for language devices so you don't need to pick out similes or metaphors or as my year 11s once did hi jigsaw can you see what he's doing August my year 11 Swan State you do not need to look out for semantic Fields right it is not that deep you are just saying here is an image this is what it means this is the effect move on do not analyze the other paragraphs do not give more than three images per paragraph and do not deviate from the structure that I am about to teach you here is the structure there this is how to answer question 2D firstly you will give an overall effect sentence where you say what is the overall effect of the paragraph what is the writer trying to make the reader feel in that paragraph as a whole one sentence then you will give a quotation your quotation should be a strong juicy image from the text because you have to have the quotations that are in the mark scheme otherwise you lose the marks so make sure when you're picking out these quotations that you're like surely this has got to be in the mark scheme right this quote is too wonderful for Cambridge not to have included it so be careful that you need to tell me what is the meaning of the quotation the literal meaning right think about all of these definition questions we've had so far Cambridge really wants to see that you understand okay what is an image what does it literally mean and what does it implicitly mean what does it suggest so they're looking for those layers of understanding so you'll give a definition or a synonym um to explain the meaning of the quotation that you've picked then you'll do connotations so pick out a powerful word and say it's connotations remember connotations means what you associate with a word what it makes you think of right and finally you will say the effect what is the effect of the quotation what does it suggest what would the reader feel and why now you'll see here that obviously you've got to do three images so this is a paragraph right you'll do overall effect sentence and then you'll do this bit times three and then you'll repeat the whole thing again for your second paragraph what does that look like here is an example of what a a star responds to question two looks like the overall effect of paragraph 10 is to show a magical and romanticized view of the underwater world firstly the image of shell encrusted means that the doorstep was completely covered by shelves this has connotations of being decorated by gems showing how precious the location is and how the hotel Blends in with its natural surroundings so here I've Got My overall effect sentence then I've got my first image so this is my image my quotation Dan I've explained what it means right so what is the literal explicit meaning then I've picked out the connotations you know what does the quote have connotations of what does it have associations with and then finally in the underlying bit I've said the effect carrying on secondly the image of clownfish darting means that the fish are rapidly zigzagging all over darting has connotations of being agile light and free and this might reflect Jenny's own excitement finally the image of the inanimate I don't I hate this word an enemies swirling fingers means that they are twisting and wrapping around swirling has connotations of magic and dancing suggesting that even the landscape is performing for Jenny so if you're looking here this is like the explicit meaning right and then this is the implicit effect technically you don't need to do connotations to get an A star but I find that connotations are like a safety net for students because when they do the connotations they're either not doing it correctly and giving definitions but that's showing that you understand the meaning or they are doing it correctly which shows that you understand the effect so I I really highly suggest that you do do connotations pick out one word give three different things that it suggests that you associate with it that will help you to get a better Mark in my experience and here are some sentence starters feel free to take a screenshot if you like um or you can download the PowerPoint for my website linked below so you can just use these sentence starters in your exam like I said you don't need to be clever for this question Cambridge don't want you to be clever for this question so the overall effect of this paragraph is to suggest firstly the image of quote means that give your explanation your definition the word has connotations of blah blah and blur which suggests that effect and you'll repeat that three times and then you'll do it again for your second paragraph you are welcome now how are you marked for this question um I tried to boil it down a little bit for you basically to get in the top band you need to have six quotations from The Mark scheme right so three for each paragraph that are in the mark scheme you need to have five or more meanings of those quotations and you need to have five or more effects of those quotations which are imaginative so basically you're doing everything basically perfectly you've got your quotations you explain the meaning for all of them and you have imaginative insightful points about the effect of all of them maybe one of them doesn't quite hit but all of us the rest do then to get into band four you'll have five or more quotations um you'll have four or more meanings and four or more effects which are no longer that imaginative but they're clear it makes sense not particularly clever but yeah sure it means that moving down we've got five or more quotations we've given three meanings and we've got zero to three effects and the effects are pretty basic so see now we still need to have the quotations you still can't get a good Mark unless you've got these big juicy quotes in your answer but here we're not really getting the effect as much and we're not always seeing the meaning and then down here we've got four or more quotations maybe you're given the meaning of one or two words and again it's basic and you've got no effects so you need to really follow my structure and do it well do it clearly and if you do it all accurately you should be able to get in the top band but if you don't do it if you forget to say the meaning if you don't say the effect if your quotes are on the mark scheme you're really going to struggle to get into that band 4 or band five here are my key takeaways for question 2D your language analysis question firstly very importantly the overall effect my structure so we're going to go overall effect plus quote meaning connotations effect times three reminder do not analyze language devices it is not needed the examiner wants to see that you understand both the literal meaning of the image and also the deeper implicit meaning the effect analyze only from the two paragraphs that you've been assigned so don't analyze elsewhere and make sure that your quotes are powerful enough to definitely be on that Mark scheme finally now we are on to question three the extended response the big question on your first language English paper one so question three is also called the extended response you're right about two to four sides of writing depending on your handwriting size responding to text C in the format of one of these following text types so you could be asked to write a letter a newspaper report a journal a speech a interview or a magazine article Journal diary say meaning also if you are doing paper two then a magazine article a speech or a letter could also come up in your paper too so well worth revising these um different text types when I say two to four sides I mean sides of A4 paper right so if this is your exam booklet I would expect to see as a minimum that you have filled two sides of paper for this question depending on your size of handwriting I think lots of students do write two or three sides some students with big handwriting might write three sides occasionally every student has got very big handwriting or they're just a quick writer you might see four sides but certainly two sides of A4 is what I would expect to see question three is your biggest question so make sure that you save plenty of time for it don't leave yourself with like 10 minutes at the end to try and make two sides of A4 and have no time to plan no time to skin read do not do that so it's worth 25 marks so obviously at least 25 minutes on the question plus reading and planning time so therefore I suggest that you spend between 35 to 40 minutes answering it 10 minutes to reread and plan 30 minutes to actually write your response in an Ideal World now for this question you get 10 marks for reading and 15 marks for writing beginning with writing markza in the top band in order to get 10 out of 10 for writing which of course we all want you have to have an effective rate register for audience and purpose so do you actually sound like the character you've been asked to write as do you actually sound like you are writing a school magazine for a school audience right you need to sound like you are the right character writing the right text type for the right purpose your language needs to sound convincingly and consistently appropriate for example one of the mock exams that we did recently had a waiter a weight a waiter in it and the waiter was like seemed about 30-ish just a normal lady and one of my students wrote her her diary where she was saying so anyways oh my God and nowhere in the text did that way to ever use that language so it wasn't cons it wasn't convincing it didn't sound like the character so the top two bullet points stand out all about sounding like the character sounding convincing being appropriate next then is about the quality of your writing so are your ideas firmly expressed with a wide range of effective and or interesting language so are you explaining yourself very clearly in an interesting way maybe some nice sentence types some nice punctuations some sophisticated vocabulary and have you structured and sequenced your work well so basically have you paragraphed correctly and do your paragraphs flow nicely from one to the next now this is the mark scheme for 2024 paper one because on from 2024 onwards you are no longer marked for spelling punctuation and grammar but if you are sitting this exam in November 2023 which a few of you might be you are also marked for spelling punctuation and grammar to be aware of that but if you're from 2024 onwards very nice just make sure that you're sounding like the text type and character you're trying to use some interesting vocabulary and that you paragraph correctly now to help you do that I do recommend that you think about your Vault again I've got a video on this Volk stands for voice audience register purpose and format so Voice who are you writing as whose voice are you trying to take on which character have you been asked to write as audience who are you writing to okay so if I am a 30 year old waiter but I'm writing for a local newspaper that's a very different audience too if I was writing a letter to my mother right so that would really affect the vocabulary and language choices for register you're thinking about how formal or informal should your language be purpose why are you writing are you writing to discuss to persuade argue inform entertain describe narrate analyze not going to come up right so you really need to think why you are writing and how that affects your language choices and finally what format have you been asked to write a letter magazine diary interview speech so on and so forth so by unpicking the Vault this will help you to decide what writing style will work best for the tasks that Cambridge have given you let's look at an example question through then what is the vault so reread text C face to face with a Royal Bengal in the insert and then answer question three on this question paper you are the agua after a near Miss in lalpani you have been asked to write a report for the Village Council offering an explanation of what went wrong on the hunt and how you can avoid it in the future you should cover the following three points in your report the conditions which led to the attack your role in Saving binard what recommendations you would make for future hunts write your report base it on what you have read in text C but be careful to use your own words address each of the three bullet points okay so Voice who am I writing as so my voice is agua right so I will need to go back through the text and carefully look what sort of Personality they have how do they speak in the text in terms of dialogue what kind of voice do I think that they would have audience so the audiences for the Village Council right so that is my audience so that makes it quite formal right it's quite a professional context people that might be of a higher status than me more professional context so I need to make sure that my language is nice and formal for that so therefore my register is going to be more formal the purpose okay so I'm giving an explanation so my purpose is to explain and also how we can avoid it in the future so also perhaps to make some suggestions so purpose explain and suggest and then my format I have been asked to write a report so again report is quite a formal text type to be asked to write you're being very factual very unemotional very unbiased so all of these come together in My Vault to help me figure out what language choices Cambridge are looking for to help me to get that 10 out of 10. now how about structure this is basically how you should always structure your question three except if they ask you to write an interview if you are asked to write an interview you do not need an introduction and you do not need a conclusion but for all of the other text types follow this structure so you need to make sure that you write about the bullet points equally if we go back and have a look at the question Cambridge will always give you three bullet points now what my students do is they fight loads for bullet point one maybe five sentences for bullet point two bullet point three they've run out of time they've written one sentence bye bye and unless you get three separate ideas on the mark scheme for each of the three bullet points you cannot get Beyond 10 out of 15 right it is not possible so you have to write about the three bullet points equally you have to give them all the same amount of time and consideration that's why planning your time leaving enough time for question three is so important my suggestion to make sure that you do this is to write one paragraph per bullet point and that way you can very visibly see I've written loads about bullet point one but not very much about bullet point three right so one paragraph per bullet point um you can write a very short introduction and conclusion that can literally be two sentences long like don't spend too much time on this it's not super important um it's just to kind of help you get started maybe show off a little bit of your warp right but you're getting all of your reading points from bullet point one two and three your three big paragraphs in the middle so this structure super important I think almost if you remember nothing else about this video Lesson for all of the questions like if you could only take away one thing it would be this this is this is your 25 mark question and so if you can really maximize your marks in this 25 mark question this would be how I would say that you would do it this is what I drill over and over again and my own students of answer all three bullet points equally one paragraph per bullet point do you remember it now remember it very important take a screenshot stick it up on your bedroom wall this structure is now your God it is the shrine the holy Shrine to first language English okay let's move on so for reading which is worth 50 marks this is what the top band looks like you have got a thorough evaluation and Analysis of the text now you can't be thorough if you have ignored one of the bullet points right so important you have developed ideas that are well related to the text we're going to talk about this more later on but it's basically you need to take some of the ideas and develop them but it has to be realistic and it you can't make things up but you do have to develop a little bit implicit details you've got a wide range of ideas so you've got lots and lots of little details from the text supporting detail throughout which is well integrated you have got all three bullet points well covered see that's why my structure is so important and you have got a consistent and convincing voice if they have asked you to write as jigsaw the cat but instead you write a Sarah the teacher you have not got a convincing voice you are going to lose marks right so make sure you read that question really carefully a common mistake is students just assume okay I have to write as the main character actually usually it's the opposite it's too easy to write as the main character Cambridge will usually have you write as a side character or a local journalist or something like that so make sure you double triple quadruple check who the voice is so then I've said you need to have details and development and also the content points right so here developed details what does that mean so content points is basically the points in the mark scheme that you need to get so if the question was why nighttime photographs can be better than those taken in the day the answer would be the light of the moon and the effects of artificial light these are your content points right now the content points will be summarizing your own words you will never be able to copy this from the text it has to be something that you write yourself a synonym or summary in your own words has to be or you will not get the content point the details then are explicit information that you could highlight in the text this is usually your who what where why when sorry your who what where how so you can see here in the mark scheme details Harvest Moon glowing cast Celestial pumpkin amazing colors these are all things that the text says I could read the text and I could highlight them they are my details then I'll take those details and turn it into a Content Point okay so Harvest Moon The Glowing cast of the Moon the celestial pumpkin the amazing colors of the Moon how am I going to summarize that light of the moon right finally development which is developing implicit information that you need to infer this is usually why someone did something like their motivations how they felt about something or their reactions so stuff that it won't Clearly say but that you can probably figure out so you can't highlight the development that comes from you but it needs to be sensible you can't completely make stuff up for example one of my students who in a question three all about a geography teacher who pulls the fire alarm Bell because she's so stressed that she doesn't want to teach her students one of my students like five years ago wrote it was actually quite funny and well written but he wrote this piece all about how the teacher had done it on purpose as a Revenge because these students would just mess with her too much and it was their turn to learn who Miss salmon really was but there was no evidence anywhere in the text that she was that type of character or felt that way so he developed incredibly inaccurately and lost a lot of reading marks because it made me feel like he didn't actually understand the text so for example development in this Mark scheme says okay the moon varies according to the season or it's beautiful you know how do you feel about it light of the Moon Moon is beautiful not that deep right so basically you should try to annotate to get to this so what I recommend you do is when you get into the exam Hall and you've got your question get a highlighter three different highlighters highlight bullet point one in one color bullet point two and another color bullet point three and another color then as you read through the text have your three highlighters ready and just highlight anything related to bullet point one in yellow anything related to bullet point two in pink anything related to probably point three in green and then you can very clearly see okay this these points belong together in my first paragraph and so on so assign a highlighter color to each bullet point and highlight for each of the three bullet points now remember as I said anything that you can highlight these are your details next you will need to think about how these details you could summarize into a broader idea in your own words this will become your content point so for example here is one that I did so um as well stepped out of the dining room she met two further guests um and then a description of the guests so I summarize that as there are guests in the garden right then over here they're talking about room four is upstairs summarized in my own words there is guest accommodation right so you need to take those details and just put them in your own words it's usually a bigger broader idea details are usually quite specific finally you'll need to think about what these ideas show about how or why something happened or how a character felt about it and that will be our development so for example down here the details are that the hotel is near a river and a newly built theater the development might be it's a very beautiful town that is up and coming right so that's some relevant development based on the text it's not completely random but it's also not clearly said either one final thing to note is that for bullet point three that is often implicit so it's often not clearly said in the text so if you can't highlight a lot for bullet point three Please don't panic it might be something like suggest plans for the future suggest how you will improve and that won't be said in the text so you will need to have a look and see okay what are the problems so how might those be solved in the future so what might she do next right so don't panic if you can't highlight too much for bullet point three here are my key takeaways for question three in bold answer all three bullet points equally remember that you should not copy from the text it says using your own words right so if you copy from the text you will lose marks equally do not quote from the text either bullet point three is often implicit not clearly stated you will have to use your own brain and guesswork for it do not make anything random up um remember that you get marks for Content points which is the information from the text summarized using your own words for details which is the explicit information from the text that you could easily highlight the who what where when and for development which is inferred information such as how something happened why something happened or your feelings remember to identify the Vault of your question before you get going so that you use an accurate register for the context and remember if it's an interview you do not need an introduction or a conclusion and for an interview they will give you just three questions only use those three questions don't add anything extra on aim to write at least five different things for each bullet point so that you can try to maximize your marks in order to get a very good Mark you need to have three correct content points for each of the bullet points you must try to sound like the character or voice that you've been asked to assume check that very carefully who have you been asked to write as what evidence is there in the text for how they write a Hint it will never be very informal it will never be sung it will never be oh my God anyways it will never be that it will either be formal or semi-formal and remember to write just one paragraph per bullet point so that you can quite clearly see whether or not you have actually answered those questions equally I hope that my tips and tricks were useful for you um there will be a walkthrough video coming up so in my next video I will do a full timed paper one so the video will be like two and a half hours long at least so make sure that if you do do that walkthrough that you've got lots of time to do that print off the paper and we will do it together timed I will remind you of all of these tips as we go along and it will also help you stay on Pace with some timers like okay now we're moving on to this question now we're moving on to this question and then at the end of the video we will actually Mark the paper together so you can try to figure out what Mark you might have got and you can also ask any questions in the comments for that walkthrough too like if you're not sure if you would have got a mark for question 2C or whatever just comment below and I can try and help you there so I 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