English Paper 1 Prediction

lou91

A blog, for one of the question Bs.

There was a website article last year and they're always trying to make the paper more relevant to real life.
So, just steal lots of ideas from all the good ole LC bloggers!

I'll probably be deleting this thread on Wednesday, just have a feeling though. *shrugs*

xOxSinéadxOx

is there a list of things they ask you in the B part?

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I'm going over a diary entry, letter, report and film review.

Just go over the layouts (easy) and you'll be fine. I'm 1% sure none of these will come up.

phic

in fairness even if you dont revise diary entries, letters etc., you could probably do it fairly easy on the day! like the layout of a letter isn't that hard!

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phic wrote: »

in fairness even if you dont revise diary entries, letters etc., you could probably do it fairly easy on the day! like the layout of a letter isn't that hard!

Very true. They'll take just a few seconds to go over! All I'm going over for paper 1 is that and the techniques. I'm really only studying paper 2 today.

mink_man

whats the format for a report? theres 4 things to do isnt there? information...and what else, i cant think! do ya put a headline on the report? or is dat just the article, whats the layout for that?

mufc4lfe

phic wrote: »

in fairness even if you dont revise diary entries, letters etc., you could probably do it fairly easy on the day! like the layout of a letter isn't that hard!

Paper 1 is more a test on your writing skills.Paper 2 is the real exam.ps.please make bishop come up lol

ImJohn

Something about hope will come up in the essay section

christina_x

:O how do you know??

ImJohn

Some guy I know said his teachers are high up and that something on hope in the essay section (short story) will come up. His teacher also said Longley, Keats, Bishop and Montague are coming up. Thats what he said anyway, I wouldn't take his advise as concrete, infact I'm not lol. I'm studying Walcott and small bits of Montague.

So if we see anything about hope on the essay section tomorrow than we know those are the poets that are coming up lol :pac:

rcaz

A guy in my school proposed that the theme of the English exam would be to do with supernatural/supersition-type-stuff, because there were a few Friday 13ths this year

christina_x

hmm.. i shall start thinking about a hope story so:D thank youu!:D

Remmy

i heard the theme of childhood is coming up.

Jammyc

ImJohn wrote: »

His teacher also said Longley, Keats, Bishop and Montague are coming up.

Walcott ftw!!
God I hope he comes up....

Remmy

yep walcott for me too!or bishop.i know rich but not as well as id like!

TanG411

I too am on the Walcott wagon He's so easy. It's all nature this, nature that. With a bit of lost love. . .

I'm gonna have a quick read over Montague aswell. Isn't his poets about a pig (Killing the Pig), a fish (The Fish), his mother (The locket) and his father (The cage)? He's all negative though so he's depressing

Pala!

I find Montague interesting.

But The Fish is a Bishop poem

TanG411

Pala! wrote: »

I find Montague interesting.

But The Fish is a Bishop poem

I know, but Montague did one aswell

Extrasupervery

Here are some blogs to copy http://www.leaving-cert.net

I don't think there will be any big surprises on paper 1 really...

Stev_o

World Problems most likely, more then likely globlisation problems economy etc.

ImJohn

The name of Montague's poem is "trout" I think. I'm just reading over him, hes so easy

degausserxo

ImJohn wrote: »

Some guy I know said his teachers are high up and that something on hope in the essay section (short story) will come up.

I dunno if we're talking about the same person, but my grinds teacher is pretty high up as well and made us do a load of stuff during the year on hope.

ImJohn

Interesting

VivaLaVida

Do your teachers think the personal essay will be on hope too?

Pala!

What is the personal essay structure?

What type of language etc.

Davaeo09

Hope? How the fook are you supposed to write an interesting essay on hope!
Christ I hope it aint about hope!

Also my predictions for poets are as follows

Keats, Bishop, Longley and Montague

Hope would be a brilliant theme.

It would be interesting to a write a short story, or even a personal essay, incorporating the theme of hope.

Dante

Didn't the theme of hope come up in a short story in the past 5 years? I'm almost 100% sure it did if that means anything!

degausserxo

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

Didn't the theme of hope come up in a short story in the past 5 years? I'm almost 100% sure it did if that means anything!

Yep, as far as I can remember it was something like 'Hope is a sustaining human gift'.

MrPirate

Hope or change will most likely come up. Remember who was elected in November around the time the paper was set.

Jello

MrPirate wrote: »

Hope or change will most likely come up. Remember who was elected in November around the time the paper was set.

Change was the theme in 2007 so that's unlikely.

Delta Kilo

I heard someone say that freedom could be the theme due to Obama. He symbolises democracy and has tried to close guantanamo and stuff.

xOxSinéadxOx

do many people have short stories prepared, or ideas, or characters prepared? I have nothing prepared, kind of ****ting it for the short story now!

Jello

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

do many people have short stories prepared, or ideas, or characters prepared? I have nothing prepared, kind of ****ting it for the short story now!

Apparently they're making it harder for people to go in with short stories prepared this year so I wouldn't worry too much. You could always do the personal essay too.

MrPirate

Jello wrote: »

Change was the theme in 2007 so that's unlikely.

Forgot about that.. <_<
I don't know why I'm worried to be honest, regardless of the theme, paper 1 is going to be the most fun in an exam possible; always is for me. I P1.

christina_x

Remmy wrote: »

i heard the theme of childhood is coming up.

childhood was up for my mocks so i doubt it will be up again:p

deisechap09

for the short story can you write on a first person narrative looking back on your life...say a footballer looking back on his career for example or must it be in third person narrative

christina_x

MrPirate wrote: »

Hope or change will most likely come up. Remember who was elected in November around the time the paper was set.

this could also mean a political speach could be up!:rolleyes:

CyberWaste

I hope Longely come up on P2. Find him handy.

Homicidal_jesus

why is everyone so worried about the theme..theres going to be a narrative essay on the paper which you can pretty much write whatever you want on...and the comprehensions are totally unpredictable

rcaz

I hate short stories. You could always just write a personal essay from the third person, like deisechap09 said.

I don't think it has to be in the third person, it just has to be a story as opposed to an opinion-style piece.

Pala!

How would you go about a personal essay.

Please help, just basic points on a personal essay.

sock puppet

christina_x wrote: »

this could also mean a political speach could be up!:rolleyes:

Tomorrows headlines

"50,000 students fall asleep during exam"

Nihilist21

deisechap09 wrote: »

for the short story can you write on a first person narrative looking back on your life...say a footballer looking back on his career for example or must it be in third person narrative

It can be either first or third person.

MrPirate

christina_x wrote: »

this could also mean a political speach could be up!:rolleyes:

Ooor you can write a political essay. :P
For the JC I wrote a 7 page essay about a revolutionary group that kidnapped Bush and began a complete overthrow of the country. Sadly, paper 2 brought me down a bit...

But tomorrow I shall write an essay about Tiananmen Square.*

*3:30pm our time 20years ago...

Homicidal_jesus

sock puppet wrote: »

Tomorrows headlines

"50,000 students fall asleep during exam"

lol i no id be one haha

Jammyc

Quick Question...

For the composition, are we supposed to answer with the Theme of the paper in mind?

Jello

Jammyc wrote: »

Quick Question...

For the composition, are we supposed to answer with the Theme of the paper in mind?

I heard it's not essential but you'll get more marks if you can relate it to the theme of the paper in some way.

Jammyc

Jammyc wrote: »

Quick Question...

For the composition, are we supposed to answer with the Theme of the paper in mind?

The question will be created in such a way as to incorporate the paper's theme. So, in answering the question properly you'll be answering under the scope of the theme.