AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1, Section A. Practise Question 1 (now multiple choice, explicit information), revise ten language techniques and practise Question 2 (language analysis, AO2) on an extract from The Pearl. About 90 minutes. Keep the extract open next to this page. Your answers save on this device as you type.
0 core activities done
Text:
Choose your pathway
Objectives
Identify explicit and implicit information.
Answer the new multiple-choice Question 1 accurately, using only the lines asked for.
Recognise and explain ten language techniques: metaphor, simile, alliteration, sibilance, assonance, sensory language, contrast, direct speech, list of three and verbs.
Explain what, how and why a writer uses language (AO2), using subject terminology.
Lesson map
#
Activity
Time
Type
“Extend” and “Higher” tasks are optional and do not count towards the progress bar.
Finish
Teacher notes
Extract: set SOURCE_URL in the script to the file students may read (the default is The-Pearl-Exam-Paper-text.pdf, to sit next to this page). The worksheet quotes only short phrases from the extract.
Q1: from 2026 Question 1 is multiple choice. The four questions here are my own, on lines 1 to 3, to practise the skill. The old “list four things” and “mark four candidates” tasks have been removed.
Techniques: the definitions, example sentences and effects are my own revision materials. The two extract examples are short phrases.
Q2: topic sentences for paragraphs 2 and 3 come from your Question 2 worksheet. The model paragraph, level summaries and sample responses are my own, to be used as guides only.
Pathways: Support = frames and word banks; Core = starters; Stretch = two quotations, second readings and sentence forms.