 Hello and welcome back to another English ECSE revision lesson. Lots of you guys absolutely loved my previous lessons where I did a live model response of if I was sitting in exam conditions, how I would answer the paper one exams. Lots of you guys absolutely said Barbara We love this. Please do more of this. So I'm back again and this time I will be tackling the 2018 English language paper one exam. Of course remember that for this exam You always have the question paper as well as the insert and with this particular paper. So this is the 2018 paper It's the sound of thunder by Ray Badbury. Okay, so that's the source that you're going to be receiving Receiving if you were to download this paper for yourself. Okay now, let's quickly begin by recapping on timings Remember for English language paper one the exam is one hour 45 minutes long in terms of how to allocate times For this entire exam remember to spend the first ten minutes on Reading through all of the questions within the paper. This is questions one all the way to question number five Highlighting also the extract so after you've read the questions and highlighted keywords within the question also read through the extract highlight them and Then afterwards with question number one you should spend a max of five minutes for question number two Spend a max of ten minutes for question number three spend max of ten minutes Question number four should be twenty minutes that you should allocate and that therefore leaves you if you do the max with about Fifty minutes left over for question number five I will suggest Allocate ten minutes of this fifty minutes of question number five on planning your response other the creative writing or the descriptive writing and then 35 minutes roughly on writing out your response in five minutes on checking back over your answers So now that you have an idea of how to use this one hour and forty five minutes What we're going to begin by doing is of course reading through the questions and highlighting it And I'll show you in live reaction how I would tackle this exercise So just to recap for English language paper one exam You're always presented with the question paper as well as the insert you have one hour forty five minutes in total For this entire exam okay, so for all five questions fight the temptation to just dive straight into okay Let me open the paper. Let me go straight for question number one Let me find the evidence for that question number two three four and five okay fight that temptation The strategic way to do this is begin by reading through the question paper Using your trusty highlighter and of course always make sure you have a highlighter pen a few backup pens ready Okay, in case you know, of course your primary pen runs out However taking your highlighter begin by reading through the question paper so that you have an idea of all five questions This includes the creative and descriptive writing exercise so that it can be at the back of your mind Okay, and once you've done once you're done with that Okay, so once you're done reading the question paper knowing the keywords then you read the insert because you Strategically would then be reading the insert to pick out the relevant things for the question Okay, so don't waste your time going for question number one then answering question number two and so one use your time strategically first start Off by reading the questions highlighting the keywords reading the insert and then dive straight into the answers All right now in terms of how you allocate this one hour 45 minutes remember that you spend 10 minutes Reading planning. Okay, if you need to all right, so you spend the first 10 minutes of this exam reading through the question paper And of course reading through the insert then spend five minutes on question number one This is maximum five minutes less if possible 10 minutes for question number two 10 minutes for question number three 20 minutes for question number four and then that will leave you with roughly around 50 minutes All right, so that will leave you with about 45 minutes to plan and write out question number five This is the creative or descriptive writing of course to spend 10 minutes of that time planning and then roughly about five minutes at The end you can maybe check through your answers. All right, so that's the timing now that we have this in mind Let's begin by reading through the questions and highlighting the keywords. Okay So if our obviously sitting this exam, I begin by reading question number one, of course All right, so question one asks read again the first part of the source from lines one to nine I haven't noted the source but I'm being asked to look at lines one to nine And of course always remember question number one you'd given specific line numbers. It's not the whole thing. All right so you just highlight lines one to nine and Find four things right about this jungle that therefore means this extract is going to be talking about the jungle So you list four things about this jungle from the part of the source Those are really the keywords. Remember keywords are the things that are easy to miss. Don't highlight things like read. That's obvious Okay, it's obvious that you expected to read. It's the stuff that's not obvious that are your keywords. All right So that's question number one. So I know that I'm going to be looking at elements and describing some jungle All right, so question number two This is the one that always gives you the extract in front of you now I'm not going to read the extract I'm going to read the question so look at the in detail at this extract from line 16 to 26 to be honest I probably wouldn't highlight this because it's already there. It's obvious. All right. I'm going to highlight the stuff That's not obvious. So here I'm asked how does the writer use language? So language is a key word. All right, not structure, but language elation metaphor similes nouns verbs adjectives all of that Okay, so how does the writer use language to? Describe the Tyronosaurus Rex. Okay, interesting. So this is about the jungle and it's also about a t-rex a dark type of Dinosaur right and how language is used now here We're also talk about the writer's use of words also language features, right? So actually I've highlighted languages I probably won't need to highlight that and then sentence forms, okay So that's question number two. I'm going to be so already this is telling me all right So the answer I'm going to be reading is about a jungle and it also includes a Tyronosaurus Rex a prehistoric creature This is question number two. So now I'm going to move on to question number three So what does this question ask me to do? Now question number three of course if you've seen other lessons, right? We always know that question number three is a structure question. All right So this question is asking you need to think about the whole of the source. This is important Okay, so this is not obvious It's the whole source because sometimes question number three can I'll give you specific line numbers? So this is important information now then you're told this text is from the middle of a short story That's important information So I would probably highlight that the fact that the text that I'm going to be reading is taken from the middle of a Brief story. How has the writer structured very important? This is not language to structure sentence types interesting punctuation Repetition to you. So how's the writer structured the text to interest you as The reader actually I'll probably say just interest you because it's interesting me. I'm already the reader So it's obvious that I'm already reading this Okay, so it's from the whole of the source keywords middle of a short story important keywords And how is this structure to interest you as a reader? You could write about how the what the writer so what what elements what things the writer focuses your attention? So my attention at the beginning of the source So I'm gonna have to pick out something from the beginning. That's important and then how and why The writer changes this focus Okay, so that's important keywords how and why and how do they change this focus the how would be? You know what structural techniques what sentence types and so on and Because my the first bullet point in the same beginning the change of focus could either be I'll take something from the middle to contrast it with The beginning in the same paragraph or something from the end to directly juxtapose them because I can use the whole source And then any other structural features, okay again here because to be honest have already highlighted structure This kind of goes with that. All right. So this is the keywords I would highlight for question number three. So now let's have a look at what question number four requires of me So this question which is worth 20 marks states focus this part of your answer on the second part of the source Okay, so this is the second part of the source not the whole source from line 31 To the end I'm gonna highlight that line 31 to the end because this is not obvious information This is really important to focus on a student said this part of the story where the men encountered the tarant and run a Soros Rex. Okay, so now I'm finding out that this dinosaur the T Rex Has some men who are in the jungle with it and they come across it Okay, so this part of the story where the men encountered the tarant and soros Rex. That's important keywords Shows equals. Okay, so the key character is right to panic. So I'm gonna highlight right so he's correct He's doing the right thing when he panics the monster. So this tarant and soros Rex is a bad dinosaur It's a monster. It's terrifying. So I'm gonna highlight that. Okay So piloted men encounter the tarant of Soros Rex equaled. So this is one of the characters I guess right to panic monster terrifying These are really important keywords that the stuff that's not obvious from the question to what extent you agree to be honest I probably will agree because I don't really want to argue or want to say that the writer does Probably successfully show this. I haven't yet read the extract, but probably I will likely agree Okay, and usually for this question. I would say just agree So you're asking your response you could consider your own impressions of equals's reaction to the tarant and soros Rex So here it's your own impressions. I'm going to highlight own impressions So what I think of excellent equals's reaction So this is the same equals to the tarant and soros Rex. So this is the dinosaur So those are key words and then evaluate talk about how the writers I'm going to highlight evaluate to an extent how vivid is the imagery how vivid is the language structure and so on Evaluate how the writer describes The monster so how is it described for me as a reader? Okay, and then support your response with references to the text to be honest I'm not gonna highlight that because it kind of is obvious that you need to quote from the text All right, so there's a key words for question number four now Let's have a look at the Section B and what came up for this particular paper the creative writing and the descriptive writing question All right, so I've got this really interesting image and I'm told your local newspapers This is important. So local newspaper and writing for a local audience your local newspapers Running a creative writing competition and the best entries will be published. Wow. Okay, so I'm gonna highlight that so either write a story about time travel important as Suggested by this picture. Okay, so key words time travel picture So I'm either gonna go for this where you've got this really interesting picture It looks like either a really massive haul but to be honest from my perspective I'll probably say this this kind of looks like an old King's Cross St. Pancras station Okay, so if you've ever been to King's Cross at this huge huge train station in central London This kind of reminds me of that train station Maybe, you know in the 1950s and so on and so of course this is good in terms of what I'm thinking about time travel So I'm looking at this image. However, I've not yet made my decision. Let me look at this scripture of question or Describe life. Okay, so describe life as you imagine it from my imagination in 200 years time So this one actually is telling me to imagine the future But give a really good description of how the future would look like in 200 years this time So this descriptive writing is is giving a static image, but of a time in 200 years All right, so now I've got all of the questions and I know now No, of course obviously here in the question number five. That's all the writing space Now I have an idea of all the different questions And what I should anticipate. So of course now I've got of highlighted all the keywords What I'm now going to do because I've got this brewing at the back of my mind I'm going to read through the insert, okay So now I'm going to read through the insert highlight as I'm going through it All right, so remember, of course, you always get a blurb make sure you begin by reading through the blurb, okay? Using a time machine an organization called time safari transports clients to the past to take part in hunting Expeditions a group that includes mr. Equals together with their guide Travis is visiting a prehistoric jungle in order to shoot a Tyronosaurus Rex I'm going to highlight the some key words from this box because this is important context. Okay, so here I'm told that there's a time machine There's an organization called time safari. So this is interesting time travel. All right It takes clients to the past is taking us to the past and actually this is thematically linked to question number five Where you've got the creative and descriptor source rather the descriptive writing which is to do with time travel Okay, so it takes clients to the past to take part in hunting expeditions. All right now a group This includes mr. Equals. So this is the same equals that's mentioned in question number four Okay, so ready that's at the back of my mind and it's also got the tour guide who's called Travis and they're in a Prehistoric jungle, of course, it's because they are traveling to the parts of travel to the prehistoric times to shoot a Tyronosaurus Okay, so now I know why the t-rex is being mentioned so frequently. Okay So I'm going to begin by reading through the first half of this page all right up until line 15 The jungle was high the jungle was brought. So I'm going to highlight high and broad because I'm thinking about question number one Sounds like music and flying tents filled the sky and these were protect drills Soaring with huge gray wings. So unfortunately, I can't pronounce this But I know that these are probably also prehistoric creatures. Okay, and there's musical sounds. Okay Sounds like music and also flying tents I've hunted tiger wild buffalo elephant, but now this is it said echoes. I'm shaking like a kid So here I'm probably gonna highlight what echo says. He's so excited to shaking like a kid This is an interesting simile. Ah said Travis everyone stopped Travis raised his hand Ahead he whispered in the mist there. He is there's his royal majesty. Okay So missed pathetic fallacy and his whispering. So there's a build-up of tension and royal majesty. Who's the royal majesty? So I'm gonna highlight that The jungle was wide and full of Twittering's rustling murmurs and sighs Okay, so again here I'm being told that the jungle a bit more information Twittering's murmurs sighs on a matter pair interesting Suddenly all sees as if someone has shut a door silence a sound of thunder So really booming sound out of the mist 100 yards away came Tyronosaurus Rex. Okay It whispered echoes it All right, so here we've got really interesting openings So we've got Travis the tall guide and we also can see echoes He's someone that is used to hunting lots of different exotic creatures So here he's really excited to be shooting what we realized is now the T-Rex And I'm probably gonna highlight this because this is the first time we learn about this Tyronosaurus Rex Okay, so it's kept a mystery up until now and this is what we would call actually cat a foreign reference So probably we'll also add this. Okay So cat a Rick reference this is when The main focus of a story or a narrative is not introduced immediately It's kind of there's a buildup before it finally is introduced, okay So it was mentioned as a royal majesty and then finally we learn it's a T-Rex. So let's carry on It came on great old resilient striding legs. This is interesting description really powerful adjectives It's our 30 feet above half of the trees a great evil God folding its delicate watchmakers claws close to its oily reptilian Chest it's a great evil God and it's got a reptilian chest important information Each lower leg was a piston a thousand pounds of white bones sunk and thick ropes of muscle sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled Skin like the armor of a terrible warrior. So that's powerful imagery Each thigh was a ton of meat ivory and still mesh and from the great breathing cage of the upper body There's two delicate arms arms dangled out in front Arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys or the snake neck coils So these men are like toys are so tiny inconsiderate in contrast to this huge Tyrannosaurus Rex, okay, so it's weighs tons and It has these really interesting description of its little tiny arms. Okay in contrast is huge body and Head itself a ton of sculptured stone lifted easily upon the sky It's math gaped exposing a fence of teeth like daggers powerful imagery It's eyes rolled ostrich eggs empty of all expression save hunger it closed its mouth in a death grin It ran its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes its talon feet clawing damp up leaving prints six inches deep wherever It's settled its weight. Okay, so it's hungry really scary and It's crushing trees is pushing trees out of the way Okay, and it's got these talent feet It ran with a gliding ballet step far too poised and balanced for its 10 tons it moved into sunlit area Where really it's beautifully reptilian hands feeling the air. So again here. There's this reference to Reptilian, okay, like a reptile and it has this ballet steps so there's this juxtaposition constantly between Delicate elements of the Tyrannosaurus's body so it has delicate arms and ballet step versus its huge Intimidating appearance which of course makes it even more scary Why why Eccles switched his mouth? It could reach up and grab the moon Travis jerked angrily. He hasn't seen us yet. So here. We can see there's a tension between Travis and Eccles Eccles can't keep he can't shut up. He keeps on talking keeps on talking Okay, and twitching so I probably would also annotate hair the onomatopoeia sh is repeated. Okay, so repetition of onomatopoeia A sound word Haring on it can't be killed Eccles pronounced this verdict quietly as if there could be no argument He had weighed the evidence and this was his considered opinion The rough on his hands seemed like a toy gun. We were forced to come. This is impossible So here we can see Eccles is casting doubt over these guys's minds He's like really really scared and they're speaking now quietly This is in contrast to how he was talking about of wanted hunted all of these wild boars elephants and so on okay And he says this is impossible. So he's now annoying Travis as we can see here shut up his Travis So this is interesting lots of tension nightmare Turn around commanded Travis walk quietly to the machine. We'll remit half your fee So Travis is talking to him in lots of imperative sentences turn around walk. I Didn't realize it would be this being said Eccles. I miscalculated. That's all and now I want out it sees us There's a red paint on its chest. So now it's got red paint. Okay, so kind of like an area for it to shoot okay The tyrant lizard raised itself its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins the coins Crossed with slime steamed in the slime tiny insect wriggled so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate Even while the monster itself did not move it excelled the stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness and now here We've got really powerful and terrifying imagery of the lizard. It's a tyrant. Okay, like a really evil tyrant It's armored so its body is almost bulletproof and it also glitters like a thousand green coins and It's crusted with slime. So there's this horrible horrible Disgusting imagery of all of these little tiny insects that are living on its body and then it excels and it stinks Right. So and of course this raw flesh could foreshadow Maybe how the raw flesh could also be it's gonna eat the human beings. So these men and they're also gonna stink in a similar way Get me out of here said Eccles. It was never like this before I was always sure I'd come through alive. I had good guides good safaris and safety this time. I figured wrong I've met my match and I admit it. This is too much for me to get hold of so now here We've got Eccles. He wants to leave. Okay, so he's saying I was always sure his chickening out and He states and he uses rule of three good guides good safaris Safety, okay, and here he's building up the tension Don't run said Lesperance turn around hide in the machine. So there's a new character. He's also really annoyed by Eccles. He tells him go away Yes said Eccles seems to be yes Eccles seemed to be numb. He looked at his feet as if trying to move He gave a grunt of helplessness Eccles he took a few steps blinking shuffling. So here he's hesitant and He's annoying those people not that way The monster at the first motion launched forward with a terrible scream It covered 100 yards and 60 seconds the rifles jerked up and blazed fire when storm for the beast's mouth and golf them in the Stench of slime and old blood the monster roared teeth glittering with sun So of course, we know that the monster was really hungry. So it's now coming at them It's running towards them and it goes really quickly. So when it's running it literally covers this huge You know space between them in just six seconds and the rifles now these guns Blazing fire, but remember it's armored. Okay, so will the rifles really do anything and the monster roared and Its teeth are glittering with Sun The rifles cracked again But the sound was lost and shriek and lizard thunder the great level of the reptiles Tail swung up lash sideways trees exposed in clouds Exploded in clouds of leaf and branch the monster twitched its jewelers hands down to fondle at the men to twist them in half To crush them like berries to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat It's bolder stone eyes leveled with the men. They saw themselves mirrored They fired at the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris Like a stone idol like a mountain avalanche the Taranosaurus fell So this is really powerful ending. So here again the guns are cracking again, right? They're shooting but they're not getting any closer and there's shriek and lizard thunder so the Taranosaurus is shouting shouting shouting and We can see that the Monster it's twitching its jewelers hands. This is really interesting metaphor and it wants to Crush these men like little berries. Okay, so this is contrasting the size of this Monster with the men and they're still screaming this animal scream and its eyes leveled with them And they see themselves mirrored. So this is really powerful And then suddenly this metallic eyelids they fire Straight into its eyes the only part that's not armored. Okay, and they fire straight into the middle the center of the eye and then suddenly the Taranosaurus falls like a stone idol so it goes really really still like a stone idol Similarly like mountain avalanche and then suddenly it falls. So this is a really really powerful and interesting story Okay, about these men's encounter and we can see there are three main characters that included okay So we know about Travis all right, so the tour guide. We've also got echoed. So he started off You know being really really showy off, you know showing off all done this look at how amazing I am look how amazing I am and then Suddenly he changes his tone when he finally sees the t-rex here Okay, so we see this shift in tone and dynamic We also see the tour guide is getting really angry at echoed and there's a third person We don't quite know who he is However, he seems to have some form of authority because he also tells echoed go away. Don't run. Just go go off hide Okay, let us let us do the rule work and then the men who have traveled to see this t-rex Fortunately for them they end up killing it. Alright, so now that we've read the extract and of course as I was reading Hopefully you've noticed I was literally highlighting all of the key words Okay, the relevant information as you can see there's lots of highlighting and of course even as I went through there were certain really interesting parts Which are highlighted but also compelled to annotate okay, because the annotations is just kind of reminding me All right, so something like catechoric reference is an interesting structural technique where for example the main Kind of character. This is of course the t-rex. It's hidden Okay, so the main focus isn't really introduced until later on. This is catechoric reference This is in contrast to Anaphora preference or Anaphora where the main focus is repeated and talked about repetitively from the opening, okay? So now that we've read this and also we have an idea of all the questions We're going to dive into answering the paper starting of course off with question number one