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RevisionPod - English revision made easy.Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEvery week, Mr Forster and Mr Gallie bring you a dose of high energy revision to help you achieve the best possible marks in your English GCSE's. Each episode will look at a different question from your set texts and explore how we would analyse the language and contextual factors and how you can then use this knowledge to boost your essay writing. Click on the bio of each episode to download your GCSE RevisionPod handout, complete with the question we are discussing, the quotations and vocabulary we use in the pod and some extra contextual information.
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Two poems today that explore the changing nature of parent child relationships, featuring one of Mr Forster’s top ten favourite words ever - you have been warned. Download the hand out here: https://tinyurl.com/y2qsrszkEmail: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter @Grevisionpod Englishrevisionpod.co.uk
Welcome back podders! After a beautiful summer break, we hope you are all ready to get your teeth into some serious revision. This week, we embark on the other AQA poetry cluster: Love and Relationships. Specifically, we have a look at this summer's exam question and talk about how doomed (or perhaps not) romantic feelings are reflected in the bleak landscape of the two poems.As ever, you can download the hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1r0bUu4KL3Jczxm3LshbWnR_oEQ-kHeSzEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter @grevisionpod
In the absence of his dear friend Mr Forster, Mr Gallie takes you through everything you need for Language Paper 2, Question 5. Download the all-important pack right here: https://tinyurl.com/y449jfl9Click here for examples of opinion based writing: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfreeAnd click here for some great speeches:https://americanrhetoric.com/Follow us @GRevisionpod Email us englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
Almost there! Keep on revising, revisers. Here’s a podcast to help you where we tackle AQA Language Paper 2, Question 4. Download the essential pack here: https://tinyurl.com/y449jfl9Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
Our second pod of the day looks at question 3 in AQA’s Language Paper 2 and gives you an opportunity to practise those analytical skills. You will need the revision pack which can be downloaded here: https://tinyurl.com/y449jfl9Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEmail us: Englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
1Welcome back, revisers! Today we take on AQA Language Paper 2, Question 2. You will need the revision pack which you will find here: https://tinyurl.com/y449jfl9Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
This week, we use the same extract to look at how the writer has structured the text to interest us as a reader. Remember that magic question: when do things change and why?Here is the handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10NfhujHJ-9H6U2f_Xiq67vgDCBtIPsgC/view?usp=sharingAnd here is the revision pack: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rJ5zh4MVU2FT3QZyWDwpQ8koW7nVU-Sb/view?usp=sharingFollow us on Twitter @GrevisionpodEmail us englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
In this episode, we take you through how to analyse the writer's use of language for AQA Language Paper 1, question 2.Here is a link to the handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HxXHR--EtLV6wzh-GaylEhijPm9E2lt0/view?usp=sharing And here is a link to the revision pack: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rJ5zh4MVU2FT3QZyWDwpQ8koW7nVU-Sb/view?usp=sharingFollow us on Twitter @GrevisionpodEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
In an ideal world, you would improve your writing by reading many novels over a period of many years. But do listen in to get some advice on what you can do to revise for this question.The handout is crucial this week: https://tinyurl.com/y46ovdrxAnd do also download the general Language Paper 1 revision guide: https://tinyurl.com/y4uganwuFollow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
All aboard the language train. In this episode we tackle question four. Lots of marks available and we tell you how to get them!Download the essential hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_0orantjC4iKTi5CFkEQ6HWy2axgS4k3And the Paper 1 revision pack here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rJ5zh4MVU2FT3QZyWDwpQ8koW7nVU-SbFollow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comHappy revising
It’s time to step back, waaaaay back. So far back that you can observe the overall shape and structure of the extract. Put down your language analysis microscope, step back and enjoy the view. Forget about the effect of individual words and phrases and think about where the writer is pointing that focus and where and why that changes. Sounds like fun... right? Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comDownload the handout below: https://tinyurl.com/yxnxk4bnAnd a revision guide for Language Paper 1: https://tinyurl.com/y4uganwu
It’s time to make the leap—the leap across borders and boundaries into a new world both beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. That’s right, we speak, of course, about the leap from literature to language. This week we tackle AQA language paper one, question two. Make sure you download the resources below as you listen along; they should really help you! Here is the handout for this episode: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fZ-iYUI_CzkxrA8O6anaSUJLZ2atrfU8Here is a pack going through the whole of Language Paper 1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rJ5zh4MVU2FT3QZyWDwpQ8koW7nVU-SbEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodHappy revising!
What does it mean to be brave? Neither Mr Forster nor Mr Gallie have much of an idea, but thankfully Shakespeare does!Download the hand out here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tEDN-LstVhctUSOQHwH6Vorr4Zw-Pgn_/view?usp=drivesdkFollow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodemail us englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We hope you have all had a fantastic festive period and are super excited to get back to some hardcore revision. And what better way to start than with a look at Shakespeare's seemingly obvious portrayal of morality in 'Macbeth'? As with all RevisionPod topics, however, things are perhaps not as simple as they first seem...Download the all important hand out here: https://tinyurl.com/u6nsr4oFollow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com
Back we plunge into the murderous world of Scottish power games. This week, we take a look at Shakespeare’s presentation of Lady Macbeth. Is she a witchlike being, consumed completely by evil thoughts, or a victim of a cruel patriarchal society? Or perhaps a bit of both? Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comAnd, of course, download the all important hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DZ7ZB2lpyblHzGD7MP01XaEEx1oAWo0F
A man governed by fate or an ambitious demon who makes his own choices? But enough about Mr Forster, today we are looking at an essay about choice in 'Macbeth'.You will also learn about our favourite weather systems. N.B. if you go to the school where we teach, your text is 'Romeo and Juliet' so ignore this pod!Follow us on Twitter @grevisionpodEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comDownload the hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wO9izQ9fUI2dPirD32R-fUlzDJonwH8p
For the third time, we plunge into murky waters aboard the good ship Unseen Poetry. This week's poem features some quite explicit material, although it is nowhere near as disgusting as Mr Forster’s onomatopoeia and for this we can only apologise. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comAnd download not one, but two(!) hand outs below: Here is the handout for analysing any unseen poem: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EmvEG6IwYzv8tLWxdy1YDBes14xIROc-And here is the handout for the two poems we are looking at today: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hUo1tjXDHilimAXHREOPaTMpyYduZ0-b
Unseen poetry round two! Make sure you pause the podcast and have a go at analysing the poem before you listen to us to make sure you get the full unseen experience. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comDownload the two hand outs below: Here is the handout on how to analyse any unseen poem: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EmvEG6IwYzv8tLWxdy1YDBes14xIROc-Here is the handout looking at the unseen question we study today: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ymcuuIfduo-urgAwMCl2YKCst-WOlu0u
It's big, it's bold, it's fresh... it's unseen. New format this week to help you with the skills you need to face the unseen poetry section of your literature exams. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodemail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comAnd download the two... that's right! TWO handouts here:How to analyse unseen poetry: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EmvEG6IwYzv8tLWxdy1YDBes14xIROc-Today's handout on two unseen poems about love: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mauMZUXuSentMnjQm_UT-8DuqBd8H7dH
We made it! It's been a journey, one filled with endless power struggles and conflict... and that was just us arguing over who got to host the pod. Our final Power and Conflict pod looks at the representation of identity in 'Checking Out Me History' and 'The Emigree'. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEmail us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.comAnd, of course, you can download the all important hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S_0rICZVi5e_X1zU1gjHnU16qAucvKh1
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Thank you so much! This really helped with my revision!