AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 practice exam questions

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Steph Atkinson
AQA GCSE Paper 2 Section B revision writing tasks.
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Writing skills: Writing for purpose and audience
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A detailed resource guiding students through the choice of language and forms for a variety of GCSE English Language writing tasks.

Designed for students taking AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Section B, this helpful resource explores language choices and technique use students can apply to any exam question for this section.

Useful as a support structure enabling students to examine form, structural features and organisational aspects of appropriate GCSE English Language Paper 2 writing tasks, such as an article for a broadsheet newspaper, the text of a speech or a letter to be featured in a local newspaper.

This resource includes a range of questions to build students' confidence around their use of language techniques, such as simile, emotive language, direct address and rhetorical questions.

The activities also allow students to experiment with their use of structural features, such as subheadings, bullet points, discourse markers and effective sentence structures within point of view and non-fiction writing.

Working through these typical GCSE English Language exam Paper 2 tasks can help students to examine and summarise writers’ viewpoints by expressing their own in an organised and thoughtful way.

Relevant answers are also included.

You can find more supportive resources to help your students in the GCSE English Language writing skills resource collection.

A sample extract from the resource:

The two questions below are very similar but their forms differ (one is a letter and one is a leaflet). Whilst different forms of writing can have different features, the ideas covered and the language techniques used are often very similar. Work your way through the tasks in this resource and then choose one of the questions to answer.

  1. ‘The environment is precious. There are many habitats and animals we must take steps to protect. We have a responsibility to future generations on Earth.’

Write a formal letter to the editor of a broadsheet newspaper in which you argue your point of view on this statement.

(24 marks for content and organisation

16 marks for technical accuracy)

[40 marks]

 

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12/06/2019

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06/03/2019

Great resource. Thank you.

Dora Osei

02/09/2020

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09/10/2019

5

12/06/2019

I am currently revising with my year 11 and has exhausted the resource I had. Teachit has helped me in this area to continue preparation fo the exam with amazing resources.

georgia cole

06/03/2019

I am currently revising with my year 11 and has exhausted the resource I had. Teachit has helped me in this area to continue preparation fo the exam with amazing resources.

georgia cole

06/03/2019

5

20/02/2019

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