 Hey guys, welcome back to yet another GCSE revision lesson and in the run up to your final GCSE exams Of course, it's really really important to ensure that you are prepared for the language paper one exam Now what Stacy and I want to do is to go over the top three mistakes that GCSE students make in the language paper one exams especially in section a and How you can correct these mistakes? Okay, so that you try and avoid these common errors that drive examiners crazy So Stacy what is the first thing that students make the first thing guys that we encourage you not to do in question 2 Which is a language question is to start using the wrong technique So labeling something is simply if it's not or using the wrong and my adverb noun adjective We have to be accurate in this response So you're going to have to be sure that you know how and to label the things that are in the extract And if you don't know don't label it and I'm actually curious to know you'll take on Repetition as a structural technique So there's often a little bit of confusion as to whether repetition counts as language or Structure I want to sit on the fence here because I think it will answer both If I'm in a language credit if I'm on a question 2 and something is repeated a couple of times I will refer to it as the language devices repetition But it's a very very powerful in question 3 is a structural device and in terms of what we think the author and the Writer is trying to do okay, so aside from the question of repetition This is what you should do instead for question number 2 Make sure you mention language techniques when you're picking out quotations from the little text box that you're given Make sure you mentioned stuff like alliteration simile, sibilance, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, hyperbole All of these language devices are really really important Of course also remember the third bullet point which is to do with sentence forms, right? An easy way to address sentence forms is to either refer to a declarative sentence Which is just any sentence that states a fact feeling or mood or you can say this short sentence Okay, that addresses a sentence form bullet point for question number 2. So what's the second mistake that students make? Number 2 for dawn's is question 3. So this is your structural question What you will find guys is that actually students forget the user quotation because I think that's not actually language based But if you are telling me that there's a structural device being employed Or you want me to focus at the beginning of the extract give me the reference that I am focusing on as a reader That you are telling me to focus on as a reader So support what you're seeing structurally with the reference you are referring to It obviously it's kind of a better response in that way and you need evidence as to what you're seeing Oh, here we go. We hear it. I speak for all English teachers here It makes the reader want to read on because it doesn't let me tell you any person That's written a book wants you to read it. So you need a better Responses here about what the reader feels how the reader responds to that not about whether we do or don't want to read Okay, and this is what you should do instead for question number three of language paper one Make sure you mentioned you mentioned the structural technique right if it's beginning middle or end of its flashing back It will flash back flash forward zooming in zooming out if there's a sudden or gradual introduction of a character All of these are structural devices Mention that but you need to also tie it with a quotation Don't just mention it to the beginning or the middle of the end You need to use a quote to support that okay, and this is for question number three So what's the final mistake that students tend to make for this paper question for guys We need to spend a lot of time on it's 20 marks and what's happening is we as a collective on misreading the question We hear the word evaluate and we think oh my god, what do I do and remember? Don't misread it in terms of what the examiner is asking you to do because the exam is asking you to do what they've been asking You to do through the entire paper. So what should they do? Okay? So for question before this is a student statement What you should do is analyze the statement Okay, and a really easy way of analyzing and evaluating is literally using the skills that you have shown for question two and three Well, you mentioned mentioning for example of the student statement says, you know This shows how hot up is a really horrible corp father for example You then say okay actually this adjective or this simile illustrates how he is indeed a cruel horrible father or this You know this shift to Alice's character, right, which is structure this illustrates that maybe heart up might not be as cruel Right, obviously you can also balance the argument or simply just agree with the student statement Okay, but just make sure as part of your analysis when you're evaluating to what extent you agree with the student statement You're referring to language and structure, which is skills that you already know from questions two and three So guys, thank you so much for tuning in to watch this revision video Don't forget that on Stacy's channel We're gonna be doing the top three mistakes that students make when it comes to the language with a two exam and how you can avoid it So make sure you head over to her channel to watch that video. 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