GCSE English: Analysing an Unseen Poem

[hellojmister]

thank you!



[TheExpressiveworship]

I thought this was very interesting and saved it to my favourites, but need to slow down man is talking way too fast...

[arnod92]

really dude?!



[MsVanessa995]

Quite useful, but you talk really really fast!

[kaurageous24]

its way tooo fast to understand!!!!

[bm124]

@kaurageous24 It is a little speedy I admit- was trying to fit it all into three minutes. That said, you can always pause it or watch it again!

[footballjmaster]

Thanks your video's helped me for my exams which were in May. I had passed!! Thanks once again

[carlosjrp815]

thanks alot, very useful

[trillonyt]

brilliant thanks very much!

[irrelevantconcepts]

you're a genius thank you so much

[LukeJohnston95]

I've got my poems from other cultures exam in 3 hours, and you have just saved it!

[joosiejoo]

This was so helpful, thank you! :)

[YOUNGDON72]

@bm124 can you help me please, i'm stuck on what poem to compare with "what were they like " can you tell me another poem which is really good to compare with "what were they like" from cluster 1 till cluster 2 please. GREAT VIDEO :)

[YOUNGDON72]

for some reason argue is easy i did persuade and i did worse. but sometimes u don't always have to argue for both sometimes it's just for or againt's

[JamesGameplay]

Thanks, this really helped, im revising for my exam at the moment as im ill, so this is exellent to help people understand how they can use certain words to create evidence in an unseen poem, thanks!

[bm124]

@JamesGameplay Glad to be of assistance!

[aimeesummer8]

awesome, wish my teachers were as good as you haha :)

[jellybeangravy]

Yes, I was going to ask about the "Writing to persuade" section as well. Well did a mock back in November and had no revision, I came out with a B but not really sure how. How can you revise for this section?

[bm124]

@jellybeangravy Really difficult to revise for- key thing is practice and plan. Watch my videos on planning and paragraphing and on writing to persuade as these will be helpful but, if you got a B in the mock, sounds like you're on the right track technically. Maybe a bit more confidence with your vocabulary and a bit more flair in your content will help to lift this grade further.

[jellybeangravy]

@bm124 Ok cheers. *EDIT* Just watched them, they helped so much. Thanks so much for your help, there's now sticky notes with English tips up everywhere!

[footballjmaster]

Thanks a lot for this video, It would really help in my exam!! Could you kindly do a video on Writing to Argue and Advice?

[bm124]

@footballjmaster Glad you like. I'm not planning to do argue or advise simply because, in my opinion, students always write better when they choose the persuade option (presuming you're doing AQA GCSE?- see my persuade video for hints on this). Argue is similar but you have to cover both sides of the argument equally, beginning with your counter argument (and I touch on this in my video on paragraphing and structure) and I would avoid advise like the plague! Hope that's not too unhelpful.

[gillingham45]

that's very helpful, thanks =)

[bm124]

@gillingham45 My pleasure!