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English Language - J351
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Free English Language - J351 study notes for Cambridge OCR GCSE (9-1) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Component 01 Section A: Reading information and ideas
Identifying and interpreting key ideas and information
Summarising a single text and synthesising from more than one text
Commenting on writers' choices of vocabulary, form and grammatical features
Exploring the effects of writing to persuade, inform, instruct or advise
Drawing inferences and justifying points of view with evidence
Evaluating usefulness: identifying bias and misuse of evidence
Using context to inform reading of 19th-century non-fiction
Comparing ideas, attitudes and values across two texts
Non-fiction forms: essays, journalism, travel writing, speeches and biographical writing
Component 01 Section B: Writing for audience, impact and purpose
Writing to describe, explain and inform
Writing to instruct
Writing to argue and persuade
Non-fiction forms: articles, speeches and letters
Organising ideas coherently and maintaining a consistent viewpoint
Adapting tone, style and register for audience and purpose
Rhetorical devices, emotional impact and citing evidence
Component 02 Section A: Reading meaning and effects
Identifying the main themes and ideas in texts
Analysing writers' choices of vocabulary and grammatical features to create meaning
Evaluating how form and structure contribute to effectiveness and impact
Interpreting writers' meanings and effects: inference and close evidence
Analysing and comparing writers' use of language across two texts
Setting, genre and context in prose fiction and literary non-fiction
Component 02 Section B: Writing imaginatively and creatively
Organising and structuring narrative writing to create deliberate effects
Narrative point of view and maintaining a consistent viewpoint
Vocabulary, imagery and grammatical choices for deliberate effects
Short stories and autobiographical writing
Technical accuracy: sentence structures, punctuation and spelling
Grammar in use
Sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect
Punctuation
Spelling and Standard English
Grammatical features and their effect on the reader
Spoken language (Component 03 or 04)
Planning and delivering a presentation
Listening and responding in spoken Standard English
Vocabulary & functions
Linguistic and literary terminology for analysis
Rhetorical and persuasive language functions
Descriptive and figurative vocabulary for creative writing
Register, tone and audience-appropriate word choice
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