AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Helen Millman Jones
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Ensure your students are well prepared for AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 2: Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives.

Based on the themes of the sea, travel, money and the environment, AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack will give your students all the exam practice they need.

What's inside

Targeted activities help students understand how to improve their responses to the questions

  • eight non-fiction and literary non-fiction text extracts
  • reading and writing sections for each theme
  • exam tips on assessment objectives for each question
  • exam-style questions and suggested answers.

It includes analysis of assessment objectives to help students understand exactly what they need to do to gain marks, and targeted activities to improve their responses to each exam question. 

What's included

Teacher introduction (pages 4-5)

Reading: Student introduction (pages 6-34)

  • Source 1A: ‘How to stay safe at the beach’ by Karl West (2017) with activities
  • Source 1B: ‘The Pleasures of Life’ by John Lubbock (1890) with activities
  • Practice exam questions

Writing: Student introduction (pages 35-49)

  • Activities
  • Practice exam question

Reading: Student introduction (pages 50-72)

  • Source 2A: ‘The Guardian view on over-tourism: an unhealthy appetite for travel’ (2018) with activities
  • Source 2B: Francis Kilvert’s diary from the 1870s with activities
  • Practice exam questions

Writing: Student introduction (pages 74-88)

  • Activities
  • Practice exam question

Reading: Student introduction (pages 89-110)

  • Source 3A: A Girl Called Jack by Jack Monroe (2014) with activities
  • Source 3B: Letter from George Dunlop (1813) with activities
  • Practice exam questions

Writing: Student introduction (pages 111-123)

  • Activities
  • Practice exam question

Reading: Student introduction (pages 124-143)

  • Source 4A: ‘Squids and octopuses thrive as "weeds of the sea" warm to hotter oceans’ by Alan Yuhas (2016) with activities
  • Source 4B: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1839) with activities
  • Practice exam questions

Writing: Student introduction (pages 144-157)

  • Activities
  • Practice exam question

Exam-style questions from the teaching pack: 

Q2. You need to refer to both Source 1A and Source 1B for this question.

Both writers explore the changes which can occur at sea.

Use details from both sources to write a summary of the different changes which can occur at sea. [8 marks]

Q3. You now need to refer only to paragraph two of Source 1A.

How does the writer use language to describe the view from his window at Lyme Regis? [12 marks]

Q4. For this question, you need to refer to the whole of Source 1A, together with the whole of Source 1B. 

Compare how the writers convey their different perspectives about the sea.

In your answer, you could:

  • compare their different ideas and perspectives
  • compare the methods used by the writers to convey their different ideas and perspectives
  • support your response with references to both texts. [16 marks]
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