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How to prepare for English Paper 1?
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16-02-2008 4:04pm#1
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Cokehead Mother wrote: »Read a bunch of crap. Write a bunch of crap.
Ha yeah that's all I've had in mind, almost makes me feel guilty though, doesn't seem like proper studying! Cheers for the response
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The Walsho wrote: »Ha yeah that's all I've had in mind, almost makes me feel guilty though, doesn't seem like proper studying! Cheers for the response
Ehm...Im suprised your teacher hasn't explained anything to you.
Ok You do not STUDY for paper one thats impossible... What you do do is PREPARE ( and its a little late for that...) preparation is the key: Read books, articles, magazines, speeches, novels, tourist guides, cereal boxe's...anything! Listen to the radio, watch the news ( none biased news that is ) and just keep in touch with literatute in general! Pick up a book on anything, something you dont know a thing about and read it...all of this should have been done throughout the course of the year.
Read a bunch of crap. Write a bunch of crap. Thats all their is too it. And this preparation is a natural proccess. Admiteddly I havnt prepared for paper one much this year as I didnt really have time to read, but I watch the news often, watch documentaries and read articles and the occasional novel...thats basically it, and picking up vocabulary.
All you can do now is time yourself for paper 1. Practice a few Part As and Bs... but really Im sorta suprised you are even asking this question. But hey, I suppose everyone needs to be told about something!0 -
Fufu is making me depressed about paper I now. I have read a lot but I don't feel like it had improved my vocabulary much. As a last minute thing, I'm reading random sample answers on e-xamit. I'm probably just bad at appreciating good literature but I don't think they're A standard
. Their vocabulary sometimes are very repetitive (the word interesting was used 3 times in 2 lines for example). 0 -
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Fufu is making me depressed about paper I now. I have read a lot but I don't feel like it had improved my vocabulary much. As a last minute thing, I'm reading random sample answers on e-xamit. I'm probably just bad at appreciating good literature but I don't think they're A standard. Their vocabulary sometimes are very repetitive (the word interesting was used 3 times in 2 lines for example).
Im sorry. Really don't stress about vocab, just don't. Its not that important, sure it will show your demand in language but your sentence structure is important too. Just know a few basic words... like Lear is '' egocentric '' '' emotionally volatile '' ''Immoral'' that sorta stuff...
Like just think of this sentence: At dusk, I sat on my front porch and listened to the crickets chirping.
Its sorta a lame sentence really...bring it to life like... '' Dusk had settled across the landscape, painting the sky in hues of a vermillion dusk. Stars were beginning to reluctantly peak and glimmer from the cloud strewn sky. As I sat on my front porch, I gazed into this mesmerising horizon, listening to the elegant cacophony of the crickets.''
It doesnt have to be like the above but you get me, just bring it to life, be random and show off. Just say things that you wouldnt say in real life...because if you said the above in real life you would sound like a plonker.
go right now and type in a bunch of words that you might use in an essay into Microsoft Works and fiddle around with the thesaurus...really fancy words are not that important though...
Why say something in a complicated way when you could say it in an easy way? Just use your skills you been reading as you said you will be fine! Seriously! I find it hard to come up with something nice on the spot and I find I too tend to use the same thing alot...but its only an exam! They arent gonna know if you used this phrase prior to the exam...just chill!0 -
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what's the layout of a letter????
Are u kids do any stuff in free time at all?
Latter:
Spend time in detail on audience, the context, is it public or private
then Register , language is formal, best language of argument, kno the genre of language, u can include askin questions make strang statement and supporting argument, this make it solid
add emotions, emotive phrases and exaggeration for the effect sake, suits language os persuasion
and the last is form, openin closin, u kno, intro outro, greetin, around 3 paragraphs each got piont and topic santance or main point
dont forget to sign out (ur sincerelly -ii- and ur signature ) its a letter0 -
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what's the layout of a letter????Your address on the right, without your name
The date goes below your address, on the right
Their address starts on the line after the date, goes on the left. If it's formal you go:
Name
Job title
Address
If you don't know their name just put their job title and the address.
Start with Dear whoever. If it's a woman, unless you're sure they're married, you put Ms. whoever.
If you don't know their name, you put dear sir/madam
For the finish, Yours sincerely if you know their name ('s' for 'some' clue who they are) Your faithfully if you don't know who they are ('f' for not a 'f*cking' clue
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Then your signature here,
Then your name (written normally) here.0 -
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Brody Delightful Fish wrote: »For the finish, Yours sincerely if you know their name ('s' for 'some' clue who they are) Your faithfully if you don't know who they are ('f' for not a 'f*cking' clue)
brilliant! 0 -
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why do you need a letter.
For what bit do you need it for.Brody Delightful Fish wrote: »Your address on the right, without your name
The date goes below your address, on the right
Their address starts on the line after the date, goes on the left. If it's formal you go:
Name
Job title
Address
If you don't know their name just put their job title and the address.
Start with Dear whoever. If it's a woman, unless you're sure they're married, you put Ms. whoever.
If you don't know their name, you put dear sir/madam
For the finish, Yours sincerely if you know their name ('s' for 'some' clue who they are) Your faithfully if you don't know who they are ('f' for not a 'f*cking' clue)
Then your signature here,
Then your name (written normally) here.0 -
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