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As you may have heard, AQA’s Paper 1 Question 1 is changing. From 2026 it will no longer be “list four things” but instead it will consist of four multiple choice questions. These are ten “Do Now” activities for your class, which mirror the layout of the questions.

This is a sample. If you like it, please consider purchasing another ten here: /teaching-resource/-13210058

The sheet has two extra questions – I felt that four was not quite enough for a “Do Now” and there was space! Feel free to delete those if you do not want your class to do all six.

I have tried to make the texts varied and interesting. They are all out of copyright or in the public domain, so there is no need to worry about issues around using them. As such, the majority are 19th and early twentieth centuries. However, I have been careful not to use texts that contain language which is overly old-fashioned!

My students have enjoyed doing these (I have not included the ones that haven’t gone down as well).

This covers AO1: identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas