 Hello, and welcome back to yet another GCSE revision lesson. Now this lesson is actually a highly requested video I'll put a poll asking you guys in advance of Mondays exam What would you like to see more of when it comes to the English language paper one exam and lots of you basically said we want to See more of question for practice. Okay, remember in language paper one question number four relates to this student statement Okay, a student having read this said blah blah blah. Do you agree? Okay. Now when it comes to this question Remember firstly that this question is worth 20 marks. So in terms of the timings for the exam Make sure you spend a minimum of 20 minutes on this question and try to aim to write at least three If not four pill paragraphs relating to this question now this question can be a little bit challenging because When it comes to what examiners are looking for how can you know if you're hitting the key? Touchpoints of this exam remember that this question tests your a04 A04 assessment objective for simply means are you able to demonstrate an awareness that you need to evaluate the student statement? In other words, do you agree? Can you say why you agree? Do you disagree to agree to an extent to be honest? What I tend to advise students is for this question because a student statement doesn't tend to contradict What is going on the extract simply agree and then also of course when you're then Evaluating you then refer to how the author uses language and structural devices to convey the student statement Or in other words to prove that the student statement is right What does that mean in terms of what you can talk about number one always make sure and make it very explicit that you agree Maybe you could disagree if you want to However, when you then say if you agree or you disagree make sure you allude to language techniques and language devices That means you need to talk about alliteration you talk about things like sibilants metaphors similes things like onomatopoeia pathetic fallacy Also advanced language techniques such as semantic fields Juxtaposition and so on if you're not clear on language techniques I would strongly advise you guys to watch my language and structure techniques summary Where I go over literally all the language devices you can look for in any text and all the structural techniques Okay, so of course you want to talk about language But also when you are showing to what extent you agree or disagree with the student statement You need to make sure you refer to Structure structure refers to sentence types repetition listing structure also refers to how does it start? How does it end if it starts and ends in a similar way or with the character doing something similar Then that's a circular structure again That's a really advanced the structural technique another advanced structural technique is things like anophora Okay, so when a subject is constantly repeated and referred back to other structural techniques could be for instance If the text starts in one way focuses our attention say on one character And then there's a change of focus that is structure structure also counts as Things like zooming in on one particular area and then zooming out Okay, so of course when you're answering the student statement, you need to make sure your answer is a mix of both language and Structure so with that being said what I'm going to do is now show you guys an actual worked model response when it comes to the 2019 aqa exam paper. This is just an example. This is not just how to answer this paper What want to do is to Demonstrate to you guys when you're setting the exam on Monday when you look at any text Here are some of the things that you can pay attention to and of course This is how it would look like when you're actually writing out your response Okay, so with that being said, let's now dive into how to actually answer this question in the 2019 paper Now remember question before is the fourth and final question that asks you to look at the insert and To select evidence from the second half of the source that backs or disagrees the student statement Okay, so remember this is going to be the final question where you'll ask to look at the insert and of course You're always presented with a student statement. So as you can see here, I've already pre-prepared this response I'm not going to read through the extract What you can do is go on to aqa's website download this and read however just to give you guys a top line summary This source basically describes a couple who are on holiday in the mountains It starts off very very silent and we find out that Zoe is really excited to be on this journey and on this adventure And she's looking at this very silent landscape and she's feeling alive. She feels almost like an eagle However, as the passage progresses and especially now as we get to the part that you're going to be asked to focus on for question before She notices that this tranquility is disturbed by some shifting in the ground She ignores it and then so she ignores the small slab of snow that slips beneath her Then this whisper grows into a rumble. She still ignores that And then her husband Jake is the one that snaps her out of her Mind and she basically tells her to try to escape this snow before they are caught up in this avalanche Okay, so just a quick summary of this extract as I'm not going to read it However, you can read it for yourself. The extract begins quite silent Zoe is really really excited to be on this This resort As it develops this silence is disturbed by slow movements in the ground. These slow movements turn from a rumble to a roaring Zoe still doesn't pay attention. It's up to her husband who tells her to get to the side But by this stage it's too late And they both get consumed and right at the end this silence returns But it's a really really eerie silence. Okay So if we go back to question number four and how I tackled this as I mentioned You get the student statement and going to the student statement and just to recap the student basically stated In this part of the story was zoe and joker caught in the avalanche I can't believe zoe so slow to react to the warning signs because in the end the situation sounds really dangerous Now if you have a read through this extract We can definitely agree that zoe is incredibly slow to react to all the warning signs She gets lots of signs and especially if we look at line 28 to the end We're told that she gets a lot of indications that she's not in a safe place Because firstly the small slab of snow slips from underneath her. So the author uses Sibilance, which is a language technique that i'm going to include in my answer to show that the ground is becoming unstable Then this grows to a whisper. So onomatopoeia is used here whisper as well as rumble Indicating that this place is unstable and still zoe is slow to react to somebody That's maybe an experienced skier somebody that's probably been on these holidays before She should have done something right so we can still agree with the student statement Now as the passage progresses in the second half this rumble grows loud And instead of making her panic it actually makes her smile Now I highlighted this simple sentence because this is a really really interesting structural technique that you can mention And point out and the author is using this to still show that zoe is far too slow to react And this situation is getting dangerous. But rather than jumping into action. She's just there sitting Okay, and it's only when her own husband jake Shouts to her get to the side to the side that she realizes that this situation is really dangerous So of course i'm also going to talk about these two exclamatory sentences, okay Remember an exclamatory sentence is a sentence that ends with an exclamation mark showing Someone's shouting and it takes jake to highlight to zoe that they are both in danger However by that stage it's too late and zoe is Caught up in this avalanche the simile like a tsunami at sea shows how violent and dangerous this avalanche is as it consumes Both of them And there's a silence at the end when this mass of snow completely covers her But this silence rather than being peaceful is quite eerie, okay So let's have a look at my model responses and what i'm going to show you guys is how you incorporate In at least three if not four pill paragraphs Language and structure observation when you're showing whether you agree you disagree I would argue agree largely And then mention how this supports the student statement Remember when you're answering this question by the way You want to always refer back to the keywords and the question you're not repeating yourself You are simply showing the examiner that you understand the assignment, okay And of course when you're evaluating you then talk about how the author uses language And structure to reinforce what the student statement is. So here's my first pill paragraph and I say pill What I mean is point evidence explanation and link, okay? So here's my first pill paragraph where I dive straight into the statement. Here's my point To begin with it's clear that zoe is far too slow to react to the warning signs I reinforce the student statement. I'm showing that I am agreeing In fact the ground beneath her shifted yet She was not attentive to what was a really dangerous situation of opened here But basically saying that yes, I agree with the student statement, but I do so indirectly You don't always have to say I agree. You can say it is clear We can see this is also a way of indirectly basically saying yep, I agree with the student statement Here's the evidence There was a small slab of snow that moved and the whisper around her became a rumble So here I am referring and of course making sure that I'm selecting the correct bits of information I am referring to this sibilance here as well as this onomatopoeia in my evidence and I'm embedding it The author uses sibilance. So now I'm talking about language techniques in my explanation So the author uses sibilance coupled with onomatopoeia So I'm talking about two language techniques to convey the sudden change on the mountain as the warning signs began to mount So here I'm showing that zoe is slow to react I'm building an argument and evaluating by stating yes, I agree The verb rumbles and I was zooming on one particular word This is still my explanation is vivid and revealing to us as readers that the mountain was becoming dangerous Yet zoe was too slow to notice this sign So here in my explanation as you can see it's longer than the other bits of my pill paragraph Because this is where I go into analysis and this is where I evaluate to what extent I agree I'm basically saying yep. I agree and here's the language techniques that the author uses Here's my link back to the question Consequently it's clear that zoe was far too slow to react. She had plenty of warning signs However, she refused to heed which means to pay attention to to heed these fatal signs. Okay That's my first opening paragraph. Well, I'm basically saying yep I agree with this student statement rather than saying no and I've made it purely a language paragraph Now here's my second pill paragraph and what I'm going to do in this second pill paragraph Is I'm going to move through the extract of course I started with this bit in the extract Now I'm going to move through it and select other bits of evidence from elsewhere And show my examiner that I'm selecting a range of examples from the text So here's my second pill paragraph Furthermore, zoe receives numerous clues that an avalanche is imminent Nonetheless, she is still too slow to react and this puts her life as well as jake's life in danger I keep on referring back to the student statement to show the examiner that I completely understand what I'm supposed to be answering Here's my evidence We learned that the rumble became louder now selected evidence from the extract yet It made her smile. So now this is taken from the second page of the extract. Okay So I'm moving and working my way through the insert. Here's my explanation These simple sentences now here are making a structural observation are somewhat infuriating for us as readers Given that zoe is clearly experiencing skiing She should have been more quick to react as the situation was getting more deadly here. I've now added Evaluation basically saying I agree, but also I've explained why I agree with the student statement before I then finish off I'm linking back to the question as a result. Zoey is certainly too slow to react to smile is inappropriate As this rumble was a clear warning sign This is my second pill paragraph My first pill paragraph focused purely on language and how this reinforces the student statement Now in my second pill paragraph, I'm using a structure point to reinforce and to say that I basically agree with the student statement I'm evaluating Third pill paragraph Additionally as the extract progresses and now I'm working through the extract some more It's clear that jake is quicker to react arguably zoe may not may not have been too slow As she was too caught up in the beauty of nature to notice the shift on the mountain And it was jake who noticed these warning signs So I included this paragraph to show you guys if you decided that you wanted to maybe weigh up And evaluate maybe show why you might partially disagree with this statement This is how you can Show a little bit of a counter argument. It's not very strong counter argument, but it's kind of I'm basically saying to an extent. I don't completely agree with the student statement Okay, you don't have to do this, but if you wanted to this is how you can do so Here's the evidence jake orders her to get to the side. That's my evidence Then here's my explanation. The right uses this exclamatory sentence to convey that it was Zoe's husband who noticed the warning signs Zoe was understandably too distracted by the beauty of nature Hence this made her slow to react and jake is the one who noticed this dangerous situation Clearly zoe was slow to react to this lethal situation. So here in my explanation I've now talked about how jake speaks and I've mentioned exclamatory sentences which is structure and I've basically said to an extent maybe zoe might not have been Slow to react. This is perhaps my counter argument, but it's not absolutely essential for you to do that I've just included that to show you if you wanted to balance your argument You can include it in that way then I'll link it back to the question. So I state thus zoe was certainly too slow to react some partially agreeing to the dangerous scenario that was unfolding However, we may empathize with her as she was so struck by the beauty of nature Nonetheless, this still made her ignore all the critical warning signs. That's my link back to the question I'm basically saying yep, I partially agree with the student statement But also we can see why maybe it wasn't completely and entirely her mistake that they found themselves in this dangerous scenario Now here's my final peel paragraph before I move on in the exam Finally, zoe is still debatably too slow to react to all the warning signs So now I'm going back to squarely agreeing with the student statement and saying no No, I still think the student is right When her husband warns her about the dangerous avalanche She reacts too slowly meaning she still gets swept up in the snow Final point. Here's my evidence zoe takes too long to accelerate from the avalanche That is like a tsunami at sea. So this I've selected from right at the end of the extract I've worked my way through the extract Joyce which is the surname of the author right so you can say the author But also you can refer to them by their surname Joyce employs this powerful simile to show how zoe underestimated the danger she was in simile language technique Evaluating by talking about how the writer is using the language technique the simile to illustrate the student statement is right So I'm going to go back So Joyce employs this powerful simile to show how zoe underestimated the danger she was in She was far too slow to understand the gravity the importance of the situation and the adjective tsunamis Now I'm zooming in on one particular word and doing some word level analysis Emphasizes how lethal this situation was okay So I've mentioned so this is purely language techniques I've mentioned the simile which is language But then I've also zoomed in on one particular word adjective And then I've basically said this is how it illustrates the student statement is right now Here's my link back to the question Consequently zoe is certainly far too slow to react to the warning signs It's clear that she had plenty of signals that could have alerted her to the danger Yet she chose to ignore them. So that's really how you can answer and tackle question number four Which basically to be honest You should see it almost as a blend of the skills that you bring together in question two Which is where you're talking about language the skills that you then bring together from question three Which is structure you're blending them together But then you're also talking about how in connection to this student statement To what extent do you agree to what extent do you disagree? You can purely agree because the student statement doesn't tend to contradict what goes on in the extract However, if you did want to have one counter argument statement or rather one counter argument Point you can then maybe use this type of language. Okay, where you say arguably But then still make sure you refer to language and structure when disagreeing So thanks so much for listening and I hope this helped