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You guys have already done paper one question five so you know the kind of expectation but let's go over the entire question as though you've never been taught it before. Now guys this question we should all know it is question number five and it worth 40 marks in our exam and this makes up 50% of the GCSE so 40 marks 50 percent of the exam and on the day guys they can ask you to write maybe a speech it could be a letter it could be an article and so on now does it really matter what they give us no it doesn't matter because you're not really like you're not really writing a letter nobody is gonna go to the post office and post it off you're not really writing an article you're not really writing a speech you my friend are sitting a GCSE English language exam therefore what will be the structure of our writing regardless of the question guys this is the structure that we will use we're going to all start with a two and a half minute introduction i never talk about introductions because i hate them but for this one guys we need a two and a half minute introduction to begin our writing with and the purpose of the introduction guys is to make your intention clear what side of the fence are you sitting on are you are arguing for? Are you arguing against? Pick your side and stick to that side but your intention must be clear by the end of your introduction.
And guys can you all begin with a fact or a question? The reason I would like you to begin with a fact or a question is because two things. Number one, lots of students find it difficult to start. Using a fact or a question to begin with is a lovely way to begin so for example you might say in the past five years what's that about in the past five years people are traveling by traveling has increased by 70 percent just an example or you might start with the question now the second reason we do it guys is because we're going to repeat the fact or the question in the conclusion to get the marks for a cyclical structure but guys two and a half minute intro then we move on to our first first main paragraph guys then we move on to our first main paragraph and this is where we are going to present our first argument this is where we need the language the structure the vocab but for now we're going to talk about that later but this is our first main paragraph and after this guys we do Our one line paragraph. The exact same thing that we did in our paper one question five.
We insert a one line paragraph. Now then we do nine minutes. nine minutes and we do now our second and third main paragraph so we have main paragraph two and main paragraph three then guys we are going to insert another one line paragraph and then we have the final nine minutes guys and here we have main paragraph Number four, and we end our essay, guys, with a two and a half minutes conclusion.
And this is how we structure our work. In your conclusion, guys, you are going to summarize your key points. And I would like you to please. Repeat the fact or the question.
Guys, that is how we're going to structure. We're just getting warmed up, guys. We're just getting warmed up. Lots of students, guys. The reason I'm going over this is because lots of students, they get bogged down.
oh my God, what if it's a speech? What if it's a letter? Who cares?
Park that all to one side for now. The structure that I want you to go into your exam with is the following. We are essentially doing eight paragraphs.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. But four out of the eight paragraphs are tiny paragraphs. Intro, conclusion, and two one-line paragraphs.
Where our marks are is in paragraph one, two, three, and four. But when you... put all this together it's a beautiful essay time wise guys you've got 9 18 27 36 plus 5 minutes two and a half for the intro two and a half for the conclusion that takes you to 40 41 minutes that's how our writing time is that will give us about four to five minutes to plan should we need it but writing guys writing wise guys this is what you are doing now This structure is very important because we are doing a formal piece of writing.
So we need a strong, clear intro. Then four convincing paragraphs, conclusion, and we stick in the two one-line paragraphs to get the mark for structure. All right, guys, that's the timings and the percentages, and that's how we structure our work. Then, guys, the mark scheme.
We've been over this so many times, and I'll go over it again. Remember, remember, remember guys, we are doing an English language GCSE exam. We are not doing a speech writing or a story writing competition. Now in the paper one video, I said to you guys, don't worry about the word convincing yet.
But now we are very, very worried. The word convincing means that your arguments have to be persuasive. Don't come with weak arguments.
I'll give you an example guys. I remember once when I was an examiner. The question was, write a letter complaining about a train journey.
This kid wrote a story about how while they were on the train, terrorists came flying down on helicopter zip wires and they cut a hole in the train and they came into the train and hijacked the train. That was not convincing because that doesn't really happen. That was a bit over the top. So make sure your arguments are convincing. we have to make sure we answer the question.
Guys, then we have to make sure we answer the question. This is a given. This is a common sense part of the mark scheme.
Your points must be engaging, must be compelling. Your points must be convincing. So your main paragraphs.
And you must make sure you answer the question. So if the question is about travelling, make sure you speak about travelling. That's that part done.
Then, guys... it's come up again they tell us that we must have a lot of big words we must have lots of ambitious words in our writing we must have lots of big vocabulary in our writing however this by itself is not enough we must have big vocabulary big words in our writing with language devices but these language devices must be good they must be crafted you Now this looks at the quality of our language. Don't just have he ran like a cheetah. Don't just have the trees were dancing in the wind.
Think of good quality language devices. My advice is whichever ones you use in paper one, bring them over to paper two. Then guys, we look and it tells us that we must have structural features. Repetition, listing. dialogue, cyclical structure.
We must include that in our writing. Then guys, that's a repeat of the first one, but this is important. It says here that we must link our paragraphs.
If you're struggling, just say in addition, furthermore, but make sure you build, make sure you're building a nice convincing argument. Now guys, if we do this stuff, we will have a good chance of getting 24 out of 24. But look at what they're marking us on. They're marking us on the quality of our language, our vocabulary, our language, our structure, and so on.
Then your work is sent to a different examiner. And this person marks your work out of 16. And the first thing that they mark your work for, guys, is your use of full stops, commas, and punctuation. Have you used it correctly?
Then they want to check your work to see Have you got a wide range of punctuation? Unfortunately, at the big age of year 11, commas and full stops are not enough. You need to make sure in your writing you have question marks, exclamation marks, speech marks, brackets, colon, semicolon.
All that beautiful, lovely stuff we need it in our writing. Then guys, we must make sure that we are writing correctly, have long and short sentences and use standard English and we must spell correctly. And then they tell us one more time, please make sure you have lots of big words.
Now guys, the reason I went over this mark scheme very quickly is because of the following. There is no other mark scheme. There is no hidden mark scheme.
I say that because too many students stress about things that are not important. You are being marked on the quality of your language, just the way you are marked on the quality of your language in paper one. Same skills, just different form.
In paper one, you are writing the story or describing the picture. Now you are doing the speech or the letter or the article and so on. And here we have this even more.
This is the key produced by AQA to show what they are marking you on. And they tell you very clearly, guys, in your exam, you are being marked upon your vocabulary, your language devices, your structural devices, your sentences and your punctuation. I can't spell this out anymore.
Now, whilst now it's clear to us what we are being marked upon for this exam. Now I want to speak about a few niggling issues that students tend to get stuck with. Do I do a heading? Do I do a subheading? What do I do here?
Guys, if you get a speech, then you write as normal. You just write normal intro, paragraphs, conclusion. If you get a letter, please, I'm begging you, please don't do the...
your address and their address. You don't need to do that. All you do is write dear sir madam, put a comma and begin your intro. Then you do your normal essay and after you finish your essay at the end just write regards.
Please don't be messing around with addresses. Now article. Do you need a heading or do you need a subheading? Guys this is not going to make or break your exam but there's a few things I want to go over.
These are four articles, guys, these are four articles. Can you guys see this? These are four articles that were model answers published by students.
Guys, these are four articles that were model answers published by students. Now, in 2017, this kid got grade 9. Yes, they had a heading, but they had no subheading. In 2018, they got a grade 9. Is that a heading or is that a one-line paragraph?
I'm not sure, but they've got no subheading. I wouldn't really count that as a heading, but fair enough, if you wanna count it, you can, but they got a grade nine. In 2019, this kid had no heading, no subheading, and they got a grade eight.
In 2020, this kid had no heading, no subheading, and they got a grade eight. What's my point? Your heading isn't gonna get you a grade nine.
Your heading isn't gonna ruin your grade nine. If you have time, then chucking i would i advise chuck in a small heading couple of words that gives the reader an indication of what the extract is about but don't sit there for five minutes trying to think of a lovely statement you're going to ruin your exam behind me on the board you have top band answers some have a heading some don't have a heading it varies depending upon the student but the point that the exam board is showing us is that that is not what dictates your grade nine is the quality of your writing. Now I want to talk about a cheat code for this question. Lots of students guys they message so you guys contact me saying sir what do I do if I get a question that I have no clue about. For example I know nothing about global warming.
What do I do if they give me a question on global warming? What do I do if they give me a question about I don't know nuclear warming? I have no clue about this subject.
Guys, the answers are always in the question. The answers are always in the question. Let's go through 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. The question for 2020 guys was, parents today are overprotective and that they should let their children take part in adventurous, even risky activities to prepare them for later in life. I could care less what your personal beliefs are.
The exam boards don't care what your personal beliefs are. But there's answers in the question. So you can say I 100% agree. Paragraph 1, I'm going to talk about how yes, parents today are way, way, way overprotective.
Paragraph 2, parents should let their kids take part in adventurous activities. Paragraph 3, parents should let their kids take part in risky activities. And paragraph 4, Parents should prepare them or should allow their kids to prepare for later in life.
There are four paragraphs waiting for you. you in your answer let's try for june 2018 all sports should be fun fair and open to everyone these days sports seem to be more about money corruption and winning at any cost i you know what i agree 100 sports should be fun and fair as you know paragraph one sports should be fun paragraph two sports should be fair and open to everyone there should not be a kind of entry requirement for certain people paragraph three these days unfortunately sports is all about money and paragraph four unfortunately now there's loads of corruption people are cheating and so on guys there you go the answers are in the statement let's do this one guys no november 2020 people have become obsessed with traveling further and faster however travel is expensive dangerous damaging and a foolish waste of time oh man can't get any easier paragraph one i agree 100 travel these days is far too expensive paragraph two travel is so dangerous so dangerous what if what if what if what if what if i don't know they're playing trashes or you're out at night and you're getting a taxi god knows paragraph three it is damaging it's damaging the world and so on and paragraph four why is my pen not working and guys paragraph four we can talk about how traveling is a waste of time instead of traveling all around Why don't you just go to the beach or why don't you spend time at home with your family or do other things? Pick up a skill.
But do you get my drift, guys? The answers are always in the statement. Let's do the last one.
People protest about the cruelty of keeping animals in captivity, but they seem happy enough to eat meat, keep pets and visit zoos. All animals should be free. Alright, I agree. I love animals. And I agree that all animals should...
be free we should not eat animals as food we should not keep animals in pets sorry as pets and we should not visit zoos because these these zoos exploit our animals guys i'm getting carried away now for this one guys i've got three paragraphs the fourth one i can plan it on the day and my point being guys is this sometimes you will find all four normally you will find all four sometimes you may find three to be honest with you this one i could do i could do a fourth one and talk about in my last one as how animals should be free and allowed to roam wild but my point being guys there will never ever be a situation where you will have nothing to say because as i've proven in 2017 2018 2019 2020 and you can do this with all papers the question of the exam always gives you stimulus It always gives you things to talk about and don't try to push your personal belief. Forget your personal belief. Whichever side the statement is leaning towards, go that way because that is easier for you. So this one, it's easier for me to agree.
It's easier for me to agree. It's easier for me to agree and it's easier for me to agree. So why am I going to make my life hard and go against it?
So follow the tide. Take these points. and make them your own. So guys, let's recap on a few things. Number one, this question is worth 50%.
You're doing a speech, a letter, article, and so on. You have 45 minutes. This is what we're doing in our exam, guys. Eight paragraphs, four really big ones, and then four really, really small ones. This is what you're marked upon.
You're marked upon your language. You're marked upon your vocabulary. You're marked upon your structure.
You're marked upon your punctuation, as you can see clearly behind me. and as is reinforced by the examples on this key that they publish. Then here you can see that when it comes to the writing, if you're given a speech, you write as normal. If you're given a letter, just put this, madam and regards at the end. Don't mess about with the address. And if you get an article, if you have time and you're able to chuck in a heading, if you can't leave it, it's not a big deal.
It's not going to ruin your grade and never, ever ignore the question because the question always has the answers in it. As we proved in 2017, 18, 19 and 20. Now, how do we go about pre-planning this question? Can we pre-plan paper two, question five? Boy, oh boy, guys.
Boy, oh boy. Boy, oh boy. Yes, you can.
I love pre-planning. So how can I not pre-plan? First things first guys over here can we please draw a little curve and can we write introduction And over here, guys, can we draw a little curve and can we please write conclusion?
And then can we please label this up? So this will be paragraph one, paragraph two, paragraph three and paragraph four. And after paragraph number one, we're going to put a one line paragraph. And after paragraph three, we are going to put a one line paragraph.
There is our structure of our essay. Guys, here is our structure of our essay. Can you guys see all that nice and clear? So, remember guys, we're doing eight paragraphs. We're starting with a two and a half minute intro, then we're doing four main paragraphs, after paragraph one, we do a one line paragraph, after paragraph two, we do a one line paragraph, and then at the end, we put a conclusion.
That is the base structure for this question. I think it's important that we get the mark scheme done. Now in paper one question five This was the story that I planned.
So for those of you who watched that video This was the story that I planned that was my content. This is my language and my vocabulary Guys, all we're gonna do is we're gonna steal all of this and use it one more time So in my story in paragraph one, I use this for my speech or letter or my article Guys, i'm doing the exact same thing Nothing has changed. So in paragraph one, I'm going to use indignant paradoxical. So so guys, we're going to use indignant and indignant means angry.
We're going to use paradoxical and paradoxical means strange. We're going to use an exclamation mark just as we did here. And we will use simile. And we will use personification. Why would you reinvent the wheel?
Why would you make life difficult for yourself? So whatever you used in paper one, guys, reuse it now in your exam. Then in paragraph two over here, I used morose and exasperated. So morose meant sad.
Exasperated means fed up. Then we had rule of three. Then we had a question mark. And I had a one word sentence.
And in paragraph three, guys, I had lackadaisical and malevolent. So, guys, in paragraph three, we've got lackadaisical. We've got malevolent. We've got what was my punctuation?
We've got oxymoron, juxtaposition and semicolon. So we've got oxymoron. We've got juxtaposition.
Remember guys, lackadaisical is when you're lazy. Malevolent is when you're evil. And the last one, guys, let's go for benevolent and gargantuan.
So guys we have benevolent which means good We have gargantuan which means really really big We have colon We have colon We have zoomorphism We have cremomorphism And we have our one word sentence. Now over here, can we please add a fact or a stat? And over here, can we please add an expert opinion?
Alright guys, there we have it. There we have it. We're not reinventing the wheel.
I'm going to go over what I've done in a second. But guys, we're not re... Inventing the real.
Now what have I done here guys? What have I done here? Firstly.
I used everything that I used. In paper 1 question 5. I took the same. For cap.
I took the same punctuation, I took the same language devices, I took the same structure devices. You can do the same thing. For those of you who pre-planned your question 5, whatever you used in paper 1, you use it again in paper 2. Why?
Number one, you can't plagiarize yourself. And number two, it's the exact same mark scheme. So why would you go now and learn brand new language devices? Why would you learn brand new words and brand new punctuation when you've done it all already? So this is the pre-planning done.
So I now know that when I walk into my exam for paper two, question five, I'm doing an intro. Then in paragraph one, I'm using all of this. Then I'm doing a one-line paragraph.
In paragraph two, I'm doing all of this. Paragraph three, all of this. And paragraph four, all of this.
In between paragraph three and four, one line. And then I'm doing a conclusion. This is how much we can pre-plan.
We can't pre-plan more than this. But this is beautiful. Why is it beautiful? Because if you can really learn it off by heart, that in paragraph one, I'm doing this. Two, three, four, I'm doing this.
Then on the day of your exam, all you... actually have to plan in the four to five minutes is what you're going to say for each paragraph but remember the trick that i gave you you can take your answers from this question so if i was doing this one all i would do guys is this in paragraph one traveling is presented as expensive in paragraph two traveling is dangerous in paragraph three you Travelling is damaging. And in paragraph 4, travelling is a waste of time. Now, I've taken these four points literally from the question. That's exactly what you would do on the day of your exam.
But you wouldn't stop there. For each of these points, you would think of what are two arguments I can make. What are two ways that travelling is expensive? that traveling is dangerous that traveling is damaging that traveling is a waste of time and these two ways will show you if your paragraph is worth pursuing if you can't think of two ways then maybe you want to change your point so for example what are two ways that traveling is expensive guys flight tickets are so crazily out of this world you got flight tickets and you've got hotels it costs a wage it costs like two three months of wages just booking a hotel and getting some flights for what four days then paragraph two travel is dangerous i would talk about the dangers of public transport whether you're on a taxi or a train late at night you're not in control of the environment you're not in control of what other people are doing and what other way is traveling dangerous guys i'm gonna think of some fake statistics about the rate of accidents in cars and so on then traveling is damaging guys i'm going to talk about is damaging because of global warming and then i'm going to make an interesting point i'm going to talk about mental health i'm going to talk about how people are damaging their mental health because they spend so much time sitting on instagram and tiktok watching other people go on holidays that they're going crazy and my last part guys traveling is a waste of time instead of traveling guys spend time with your family locally have quality time quality memories and maybe pick up a hobby because a lot of people travel to escape problems in life rather than doing that maybe think of a hobby or spend time with your family and guys there you have it if you follow the method that i've just given you guys then on the day of your exam guys on the day of your exam you would have planned everything the only thing you would plan is your arguments is the top hot and this you can steal from the question because what i want you all to do guys is go into your exam knowing exactly what you're going to say in each paragraph i would even learn my arguments so if we look at this essay guys guys i'm sorry guys i would even learn my examples so what is the sibilance you're going to use what is the rule of three what is the oxymoron What is the zoomorphism?
But I would really learn the examples of my language devices as well. Now you might say to me, sir, you know what? Your plan's good, but I can't do oxymoron.
I've tried a thousand times, I can't do it. Fine, all you got to do is visit, get rid of oxymoron and add a different one. If you think, sir, I like all your words, but I hate the word gargantuan. Fine, remove it and put a different word in there.
But what I need... before you go into your exam is for you to have a plan that has the language, the vocab, the punctuation, the structure all done. You should know walking into your exam, I'm going to do an intro. After my intro, I'm doing my first main paragraph and in that paragraph, I'm going to use two language devices.
What are they? Two ambitious words. What are they?
One piece of punctuation. is it and do that for each of the main paragraphs then guys before i forget paragraph one and paragraph two put a one word sentence for structure paragraph one put a fact or a statistic and paragraph three use an expert opinion don't say i spoke to the professor at harvard because harvard is in america and we live in england but talk about the expert in that field so my essay here was about traveling maybe i'll speak to the director of transport for london but make sure your expert opinion is an expert in the field of the question and make sure your expert opinion supports your argument and all you would do is you would include the interview i had the privilege of speaking to to the director of transport for London. And he told me that traveling has, sorry, sorry, that car emission has increased global warming by 25.2%. Ridiculous. This must stop.
But do you see, I bring in the expert opinion to elevate and support my argument. And guys, that's it. That's all you do for paper two, question five. Pre-plan this bottom part, steal your points from the question, and then just...
Elaborate on them to see if your points are worth pursuing and then you write your answer. Guys, on your exam, guys, on your exam that's coming up, just make sure you understand that this is what you're marked upon. paper two question five isn't a hard question it's a straightforward question the structure i've given you guys the structure that you're doing is that structure over there learn it guys learn the structure and test it out do lots of past papers plan your answers and see how you get on guys any questions drop them in the dms in the dms this is not instagram this is youtube drop them in the comments it's bmr everything english peace