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Question 2: Foxcote Manor is initially described in terms of neglect, as it is ‘Behind a tall, rusting gate’, which conveys a sense of secrecy as well as abandonment. Such… Read More »AQA GCSE English Paper One 2024: Questions 2 and 3 Example Responses.
GCSE English Language Structure Question: Ideas and an Example from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. A convincing response to the structure question demands that you consider the entire extract… Read More »GCSE English Language Structure Question 3 AQA : Ideas, Advice and an Example from The Great Gatsby.
Context. This poem evolved from a series of interviews conducted by the current Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, who listened to Army veterans of the Gulf War discussing their harrowing experiences.… Read More »GCSE English Literature: Remains by Simon Armitage( Analysis and Notes) Bolton Tuition
Tiger tiger burning bright. Stephen Soames preferred fear to all other emotions. He liked to smell it on his guests who pretended they preferred his collection of roaming wild animals… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton: Phoenix Writers ( Bolton English Tuition)
In Act One Scene 7, Macbeth leaves the King’s feast for the refuge of another part of the castle presumably because he cannot sustain the hypocrisy of entertaining Duncan when… Read More »GCSE Macbeth : The effects of the Witches who tempt Lady Macbeth through the letter from Macbeth . ( Bolton Tuition)
Violence dominates Macbeth from the opening scene where the use of pathetic fallacy in the setting: thunder and lightning’ confirms that the audience is entering into a disruptive universe where… Read More »GCSE English Revision Macbeth : Violence in Macbeth( Physical, Mental and Verbal) Bolton Tuition
Stevenson’s exploration of what it signified to be a Victorian ‘gentleman forms an essential aspect of the novel. Like Dickens in the earlier Great Expectations with Pip, the desire for… Read More »GCSE English Literature: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde- Friendship among the Gentlemen. ( Bolton English Tuition)
Tiger tiger burning bright. Stephen Soames preferred fear to all other emotions. He liked to smell it on his guests who pretended they preferred his collection of roaming wild animals… Read More »GCSE English Language Creative Writing Task: Inspired by a Prompt involving A Tiger and Stephen King’s favourite question- What if? ( GCSE Exams Bolton)
‘ …look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.’ Lady Macbeth’s advice to her husband indicates her familiarity with deception. Her use of the imperative ‘look’ underlines her… Read More »Macbeth GCSE English Literature Revision : ‘ look like the innocent flower/But be the serpent under’t.’ ( Bolton English Tuition )
At the front of the shed, two eyes held onto hers. A huge Alsatian dog lay on the floor too cold to even shiver. Despair had long ago reached… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: Conflict and Resolution. Make your Protagonist Suffer! ( English Tuition Bolton)
I am currently studying on the Curtis Brown Boot Camp ( Two) which is terrific good value – as always! The idea of a Prologue is useful for GCSE Creative… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: How to create a compelling story. ( Bolton Tuition)
Question 3: The writer creates interest for the reader by structuring the text to reveal the burgeoning surprise of Mr Fisher when he reads Tibbett’s unexpectedly ‘original’ work. This surprise… Read More »GCSE AQA 2018 English Language Paper One: Mr Fisher and the structure question with an example response. ( Bolton English tuition)
‘The lorry’s back again mum. It’s even bigger than last time. ‘ Lorries don’t grow I wanted to say but instead, I just passed Fred another sandwich with… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: An unusual event based on the appearance of a gritter lorry. ( Bolton English Tuition )
The Playground. Nina disinfected the playground at 8 am every morning undeterred by wind, rain or snow. ‘Dettol is my life,’ she told Gloria when she’d visited the store… Read More »GCSE English Descriptive writing AQA Bolton Private Tuition /Tutor: The Playground
Here are a few things to think about when revising Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The advice works for A Christmas Carol too. 1) Make your quotations work for you.… Read More »GCSE English Mocks: Revision Ideas and Checklist. Bolton English Literature Tuition Private English Tutor.
Try not to overthink the opening. Simplicity can be effective too. Remember that you can show the relevance to the question in your opening line which will impress the examiner… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Tuition Bolton: How to Open Your Story. ( Hooks)
A few thoughts on her soliloquy in Scene 5. 1) This is the audience’s first encounter with LM. She is on her own territory and at ‘home’ yet is clearly… Read More »Lady Macbeth’s Letter: Macbeth Act One Scene Five Thoughts and Analysis. ( Bolton English Tuition)
1) Think about the role of the soliloquy in the development of a character. In this scene the audience encounters a solitary Macbeth who has withdrawn from the celebrations feast… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Act One Scene Seven Two: How to analyse an extract if it involves a soliloquy. ( Bolton English tuition)
1) Remember that any extract you have to analyse must be pivotal to the play or novel. Think about the importance of the scene structurally. What is its role in… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Act One Scene Seven: How to attempt an extract question confidently and successfully.
Here is a Ghost Story with a cyclical structure and charcters whose profession is supported by a perfectly unbreakable alibi: they are time- travelling thieves! There were two of them… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: Ghost Story Writing Bolton English Tuition
Washing dishes has never thrilled me and as a child I regularly hid books in toilets to avoid being roped in for lengthy stints in the kitchen, particularly when our… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: How Memories Generate Vivid Impressions( Bolton English Tuition)
‘She wasn’t my friend. She was my-nearly- mother. But not quite. ’ Cora lifted her elbows off the table so the waitress could clean it. The clock in the shape… Read More »Creative Writing Example: Use a timer and keep going for your assigned time of 20 minutes ( Bolton GCSE English Tuition)
Lancashire storms battered early Christmas shoppers risking the high street, and the Victorian cherubs above Whitaker’s Department store spat icy water onto passing heads like vengeful gargoyles. Sales were… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: How to write a story with a beginning, middle and end in around 100 words!
Paper Two. Always make a note of the POV and tone of both passages. And think about the intended effect of the passages too. This helps you to understand the… Read More »GCSE AQA English Language Paper Two November 2021: Brief notes! (Bolton English Tuition)
I preferred profits to smiles in those days. Then something I’d no defence against, no words for, fell out of the sky and flattened me. I didn’t know what day… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing English Task: Use a Literature Text/ Literary Character to Inspire a Story. ( Bolton English Tutor)
Hark! The sound of fallen angels: pitiful given the circumstances. My days of naivety are behind me: eschewed forever. I’m not taken in. Why should I pretend I don’t… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: Examination Tips-Use a Dramatic Monologue. ( Bolton English Tuition)
Storm on the Island: look at the representation of displacement. Maybe the poet believes it is easier to talk about the weather than political instability. Initial language offers the illusion… Read More »GCSE Heaney’s Storm on the Island : Final Notes ( Bolton Tutor English Literature Tuition)
Here’s a useful exercise. Take a text you have studied for GCSE Eglish Literature and turn it into another story. An exercise with Phoenix Writers asked us to write about… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing TIPS: Use Macbeth to Create A Story or Scene. Phoenix Writers Bolton
Macduff. A trusted member of Duncan’s inner circle, Macduff’s vigorous knocking at the gates of Macbeth’s Castle signals the return of some emphatic, residual morality,’ here’s a knocking indeed.’ The… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Final Revision Notes: Women, Banquo’s Complicity, Macduff and Husbandry in Heaven.
‘Marley was dead, to begin with. ‘ The novella opens with a succinct focus on the death of Scrooge’s business partner, Marley, who is miraculously presumed resurrected in the first… Read More »GCSE Dickens A Christmas Carol: Stave One Notes and Brief Analysis. ( Bolton English Tuition)
