These are my notes from my English Booster sessions at school in preparation for my GCSE AQA English Exams (literature, language and the speech component). I hope that these notes are as useful to you as they were to me.
Speech Notes
Introduce yourself
Be authentic
Weave in comedy
Persuade (I will try and persuade you too...)
Short introduction
Have research to back up points
Tell a short story and quotes
Rhetoric questions (2x max)
Paint a picture
Do POR (Point, Objective, Response)
Have a good ending (Summarise, Hope/Fears/Solutions)
A good one liner
Create memory cards
Write, Record and Review
Notes on Booster (Q3)
Do not do language
Beginning: Exposition and Conflict
Middle: Rising Action, Climax
End: Falling Action, Resolution
Dialogue: learns more about the character
Foreshadowing is a STRUCTURAL FEATURE
Repetition of THEMES (Motif)
Contrast in setting
Most exam inserts has a cyclical structure
FOCUS QUOTE INTEREST
Make everything cyclical
If out of time, just do beginning and end
Break it down source to Beginning, Middle and End
Set the scene (explain it)
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