Exam Essentials - English (AQA)

Everything you need for the exam… and nothing else

A series of SAM Learning Activities to support teaching of the largest English Exam Specifications: AQA English Language and English Literature.

Focus Activities are theme or topic-based questions that come up a lot in exams.

English Language

Creative Reading and Writing - 4 Activities

Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives - 4 Activities

Each language activity includes:

• Response to brief text extract/s
• Technical questions about writing
• Review of short written pieces linked to the text extract

English Literature

Shakespeare Plays - 6 Activities

19th Century Novels - 7 Activities

Modern Prose - 6 Activities

Drama - 6 Activities

Poetry - 6 Activities

Each literature activity includes:

• Response to brief text extract/s
• Questions about the piece as a whole

These activities can be used in a range of ways:

• Homeworks - to follow up from lessons.
• Revision - to prepare for assessments or examinations.
• Diagnostics - to find the gaps in learning (with QLA) and support planning of teaching.

You can find these activities either by:

• Selecting English Language or Literature and AQA as the exam board, then filtering to the Exam Essentials activity type:

Or:

• Looking for Exam Essentials in the Catch-up, English menus:

...or you can search for ‘Focus English’.