Greetings Mr Salles, I just wanted to question, out of curiosity, your guides for English Literature - An inspector calls, Romeo and Juliet and A Christmas Carol. Are all of these applicable and dedicated towards the AQA exam board? Or are these interweaved with different examination boards such as Edexcel? I just needed this information as I am going to be sitting the AQA English exam. Best wishes,
My school does the AQA board, so it is the board I am most familiar with. However, when I write the guides I include everything to get grades 7 - 9 no matter what exam board you are studying.
Yes, turn each of my descriptions into its opposite - day into night, hot into cold and so on. Then you will learn all the same techniques, with a very similar structure, but will have written something totally original.
Hi mr salles. after watching your videos on language paper 1 question five, i have written my own description. It would be wonderful if you could give me your thoughts and feedback. the question was 'describe an old person as suggested by this picture:(a picture of an old person)' Those eyes. Those dark, unfaltering eyes. I was yearning to know the secrets they held, locked up within the ever-expanding chasm. Every detail on his face intrigued me: the scar, just above his raised eyebrow; the shaggy beard ,dirt embedded within; the lack of emotion as if he had seen all that this world had to offer. Despite having borne the brunt of human life - his joints creaked almost audibly while his body decayed - he was shockingly peaceful, as if in harmony with the universe around him. Exuberance radiated outwards, perhaps a manifestation of his content as the whole of the bus glowed with light. Something drew me towards him. My legs moved out of their own accord, as if an ancient primitive instinct had been reborn, pulling me, dragging me to this man and when those eyes gazed back at mine, everything was revealed. Visions after visions flooded my mind” cries of men, cries of children; visions of blood of untamed greif; and then the innocent, pure memories of a childhood gone by. I saw the fighting, the bloodshed from the trenches. Misery hung in the dark, thick air as the winds flexed their muscles in the east, whipping the clouds into shape, forcing them along the sky. The soldiers shed more tears than the clouds that day, despite the black jackboots of rain that stomped across the horizon. The cold filled my body to its core - to the source of my happiness, my pleasure - corrupting it with savage, bitter rainfall, as if a long dead tyrant had been reborn, armed with a winter’s fury. The tyrant had built up his army overhead: the closest clouds wore a battleship grey while those behind were streaked with the black fumes of charred coal. They launched down volleys of thunder, the CRACK echoing, haunting us well after its body had left. And then the man next to me, both of us ankle deep in a horrid mixture of faeces and dirt, gazed down at me with dark unfaltering eyes’ with a scar above his eyebrow. I woke up amongst a forest of wheat, in a valley glittered in wonder, illuminated in light. The blanket of wheat wrapped itself over an ever-expanding valley, as the sun dripped warmth like hot wax upon my now rosy cheeks, both soothing and comforting. The valley glowed with light, as a warm, earthy breeze wafted over me, almost infused with pure ecstasy. The horizon looked like a golden shield beaten by a hammer, as if a great Greek God had been reborn to hurl shafts of glorious light upon my innocent spirit. Oozing elegance, the sky showed off it’s artist trickery: cobalt blue depths, azure outlines to the few white clouds, a sapphire halo around the sun. not even the most deceptive of serpents could lure me out of this Garden of Eden. And then the boy next to me, lying on his back with his hands cupped behind his head, gazed down at me with dark, unfaltering eyes, with a scar above his raised eyebrow. [551 words]
This is nearly brilliant. You plagiarise my description a little too often - at other times you borrow well. I like the description of the old man, but if he is the same figure as the young man in the past you appear to be falling for, his description should perhaps be less dirty. The reader shouldn't have to guess if you are travelling back in time - it should be explicit.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish yeah you caught me out on that one :) I will definitely adapt your descriptions more and make things more explicit. Thank you sir!
@@yunus3435 an extract made in 2005 called labyrinth by Kate Mosse, and the q5 picture was a guy sitting in front of some mountain thing surrounded by water
Do you have any tips on how to write English literature essays and how to get better
I have lots of videos on this
Greetings Mr Salles, I just wanted to question, out of curiosity, your guides for English Literature - An inspector calls, Romeo and Juliet and A Christmas Carol. Are all of these applicable and dedicated towards the AQA exam board? Or are these interweaved with different examination boards such as Edexcel? I just needed this information as I am going to be sitting the AQA English exam.
Best wishes,
My school does the AQA board, so it is the board I am most familiar with. However, when I write the guides I include everything to get grades 7 - 9 no matter what exam board you are studying.
Do you know how I can improve from a grade 5 to a 7 in descriptive writing, without memorizing parts of work
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Yes, turn each of my descriptions into its opposite - day into night, hot into cold and so on. Then you will learn all the same techniques, with a very similar structure, but will have written something totally original.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish Thank you so much Sir. I have a mock in 2 weeks and really want to get that 7.
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Hi Sir - could you do a video on how sixth formers should independently work the wisest and most effective way?
I did this is school is there any way you can mark it?
hi sir, How come you don't have any videos for how to write a grade 9 story for Q5? is doing the description the only way to get a good mark?
I have several
Hi mr salles. after watching your videos on language paper 1 question five, i have written my own description. It would be wonderful if you could give me your thoughts and feedback. the question was 'describe an old person as suggested by this picture:(a picture of an old person)'
Those eyes.
Those dark, unfaltering eyes.
I was yearning to know the secrets they held, locked up within the ever-expanding chasm.
Every detail on his face intrigued me: the scar, just above his raised eyebrow; the shaggy beard ,dirt embedded within; the lack of emotion as if he had seen all that this world had to offer. Despite having borne the brunt of human life - his joints creaked almost audibly while his body decayed - he was shockingly peaceful, as if in harmony with the universe around him. Exuberance radiated outwards, perhaps a manifestation of his content as the whole of the bus glowed with light.
Something drew me towards him. My legs moved out of their own accord, as if an ancient primitive instinct had been reborn, pulling me, dragging me to this man and when those eyes gazed back at mine, everything was revealed.
Visions after visions flooded my mind” cries of men, cries of children; visions of blood of untamed greif; and then the innocent, pure memories of a childhood gone by.
I saw the fighting, the bloodshed from the trenches. Misery hung in the dark, thick air as the winds flexed their muscles in the east, whipping the clouds into shape, forcing them along the sky. The soldiers shed more tears than the clouds that day, despite the black jackboots of rain that stomped across the horizon. The cold filled my body to its core - to the source of my happiness, my pleasure - corrupting it with savage, bitter rainfall, as if a long dead tyrant had been reborn, armed with a winter’s fury. The tyrant had built up his army overhead: the closest clouds wore a battleship grey while those behind were streaked with the black fumes of charred coal. They launched down volleys of thunder, the CRACK echoing, haunting us well after its body had left.
And then the man next to me, both of us ankle deep in a horrid mixture of faeces and dirt, gazed down at me with dark unfaltering eyes’ with a scar above his eyebrow.
I woke up amongst a forest of wheat, in a valley glittered in wonder, illuminated in light. The blanket of wheat wrapped itself over an ever-expanding valley, as the sun dripped warmth like hot wax upon my now rosy cheeks, both soothing and comforting. The valley glowed with light, as a warm, earthy breeze wafted over me, almost infused with pure ecstasy. The horizon looked like a golden shield beaten by a hammer, as if a great Greek God had been reborn to hurl shafts of glorious light upon my innocent spirit. Oozing elegance, the sky showed off it’s artist trickery: cobalt blue depths, azure outlines to the few white clouds, a sapphire halo around the sun. not even the most deceptive of serpents could lure me out of this Garden of Eden.
And then the boy next to me, lying on his back with his hands cupped behind his head, gazed down at me with dark, unfaltering eyes, with a scar above his raised eyebrow. [551 words]
This is nearly brilliant. You plagiarise my description a little too often - at other times you borrow well. I like the description of the old man, but if he is the same figure as the young man in the past you appear to be falling for, his description should perhaps be less dirty. The reader shouldn't have to guess if you are travelling back in time - it should be explicit.
@@MrSallesTeachesEnglish yeah you caught me out on that one :) I will definitely adapt your descriptions more and make things more explicit. Thank you sir!
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What was the paper theme of q1234 and what was the q5 picture ?
@@yunus3435 an extract made in 2005 called labyrinth by Kate Mosse, and the q5 picture was a guy sitting in front of some mountain thing surrounded by water
Does your revision guide cover edxcel or only aqa
Which guide?
hi sir i got my results back i got a 3 in english language what can i do to get better result
Ask your teacher