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AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2: Boats & the sea Grade 9 response to June 19 paper 2 exam Compare Viewpoints & Perspectives
This lesson is based on the AQA spec English Language Paper 2 comparing writers’ viewpoints and perspectives looking at the June 2019 Summer paper on Boats. Achieve a grade 9!
Packed full of engaging activities: Do now activity, starter activity, full paper assessment activities and plenaries, with every question modelled with a grade 9 responses for questions 1 to 5.
The two sources that follow are:
Source A: 21st Century non-fiction The Crossing An extract from James Cracknell and Ben Fogle’s autobiographical account of crossing the Atlantic, published in 2006
Source B: 19th Century literary non-fiction Idle Days in Patagonia An extract from W.H Hudson’s travel writing, published in 1893

It breakdowns each question on the reading section 1-4 giving tips and strategies and grade 9 model responses to answer these questions on boats and the sea.
-Q1 Select true statements
-Q2 Summarising similarities and differences adding inference
Q3 Commenting and expanding on language techniques
Q4 Comparing viewpoints and perspectives, using contrasting connectives
Q5 writing gives a grade 9 model response looking at tips and an ideas builder.
Q5 writing task will focus on article writing, expressing viewpoints and developing ideas on celebrities and role models. Grade 9 model letter response included.
Self-assessment marking task, highlighting the language techniques.
This lesson will focus on the paper 2 reading and writing tasks.
This lesson is full of activities and covers 41 slides, using images to summarise the differences and building inference, discussion points, exploding inference, reflect and review, using exit cards to review learning.
Lesson objectives:
• Discuss & argue your opinion to the question on celebrities?
• Summarise the differences and infer between two images
• To familiarise ourselves with two unseen (21st and 19th Century) texts The Crossing by James Cracknell & Ben Fogle’s and Idle Days in Patagonia by W.H Hudson
• Identify true statements using the text as evidence
• Summarise the differences between two texts applying ‘quotes’ and inference
• Develop language techniques and explode inference
• Compare viewpoints and perspectives identifying how the writer feels
• Review and discuss a grade 9 piece of writing
• Share and discuss opinions and viewpoints
• Complete a writing task and plan to hit grade 9 criteria
• Express our own viewpoints and perspectives
• Demonstrate your learning & understanding of Paper 2 with your exit card