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AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Achieve a grade 9!

Full lesson on Paper 1 The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham looking at the AQA’s May 2025 paper with grade 9 model answers for the reading and writing sections. Achieve a grade 9 jam packed with plenaries, AfL, TLA activities and fun tasks.

53 slides of a breakdown of the reading and writing sections, with grade 9 model answers and top tips to achieve a grade 9. Lesson focuses on exploding and developing inference and word banks. Starter task, discussion activity, build up tasks highlighting and analysing text to draw out inference, structural techniques and effect plotting on a tension graph, evaluating, review and self assessment looking at EBI and WWW with a self assessment exit card activity.

Lesson objectives:
• Solve the 1% Club questions
• Develop your use of synonyms and sentence starters to gain marks for SPAG.
• Define the word ambiguous and think of other synonyms for the word
• Deliberate how colour symbolism can foreshadow events to come
• Analyse a section from The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham for Paper 1
• Identify and discuss the difference between language and structural techniques
• Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference
• Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis
• Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure from start, middle, end looking at effect
• Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4
• Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEEL
• Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task
• Read and review a piece of grade 9 descriptive writing
• Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
• Review your writing task, highlighting techniques
• Complete self-assessment exit card on The Midwich Cuckoos lesson