Language Paper 1.. MODEL ANSWER! 😃

Hi there,

HAPPY FRIDAY! If this was your first week back in school – how was it? Exhausting? Tiring? Fun? Well done for surviving! 😊

I’m feeling generous this week and I’m back with another freebie – the PERFECT GCSE MODEL ANSWER for Language Paper 1, Question 2.

This is the “Language” question – it tests your:

✅ Terminology (A02)

✅ Essay writing (PEEL Paragraphs always!)

✅ Analysis (fewer paragraphs, more DEPTH)

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know I have NEVER wavered from PEEL paragraph structures (point, evidence, explain, link). They’ve never let my students down and in August – I literally had emails, texts, comments – from past students GRATEFUL to get Grade 6, 7, 8 and 9 in their final GCSEs.. and they did this the EASY WAY!

 

So let’s get to it – how do we write the PERFECT “Language” GCSE Essay with a simple PEEL paragraph? Here’s how..

PS: Don’t forget that on Sunday 14 September at 5pm – I’ll have a live GCSE class going over Language Paper 1 – specifically going over the insert and Question 1 & 2. Sign up here – ask me all the questions you have: https://www.firstratetutors.com/masterclass

LANGUAGE PAPER 1 MODEL ANSWER:

AQA 2021 Exam Paper:

This was the question (download my freebie which includes the insert, question and my model answer if you want a printable version): https://www.firstratetutors.com/offers/A97Gex9f

2) Look in detail at this extract, from lines 5 to 15 of the source:

Ugwu did not believe that anybody, not even this master he was going to live with, ate meat every day. He did not disagree with his aunty, though, because he was too choked with expectation, too busy imagining his new life away from the village. They had been walking for a while now, since they got off the lorry at the motor park, and the afternoon sun burned the back of his neck. But he did not mind. He was prepared to walk hours more in even hotter sun. He had never seen anything like the streets that appeared after they went past the university gates, streets so smooth and tarred that he itched to lay his cheek down on them. He would never be able to describe to his sister Anulika how the bungalows here were painted the colour of the sky and sat side by side like polite well-dressed men, how the hedges separating them were trimmed so flat on top that they looked like tables wrapped with leaves.

How does the writer use language here to describe Ugwu’s impression of the city?

MODEL ANSWER:

Step 1 – PLAN 2 PARAGRAPHS:

 

Step 2: Develop your answer with 2 PEEL paragraphs

PS: I’ve colour coded to show you each step

• blue for point

• red for evidence

• green for explanation

• purple for link

 

 

🚨Pay attention to how the “green” section (the “explanation”) is the longest part of a winning GCSE Grade 9 paragraph as that’s the ANALYSIS – this is where the marks reside.

If you struggle with analysis, if you want to know the BEST terminology you’re guaranteed to find in any Language Paper 1 exam.. I’ll go over this in my Sunday Masterclass on 14 September – sign up here: https://www.firstratetutors.com/masterclass

It’s my personal mission to ensure ALL of my students in my masterclass get Grade 6, 7, 8 and 9 in their mock exams and final GCSE Exams. I’m super proud of my students who achieved this (well above their predicted GCSE Grades) and I hope I can do the same for you. 😊

Have an awesome Friday!

Barbara