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Drama
Details of exam
The exam will last 1 hour and will include a mixture of mix and match and short and long written answers.
Topics to revise
• What is a Production Element?
• Lighting terminology
• Set design terminology
• Writing to evaluate • Analysing effects of lighting choices
• Identifying sound effects in a script
• Designing your own lighting
Revision tasks to be completed
• Make flash cards with key terminology · Visit this sites to experiment with lighting: http://scenicandlighting.com/ academic/light-labs-and-more/
• Watch these videos on lighting and set design:
3 ways to create a space that moves you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8JYKGekXo
Design challenge: designing and making a set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLw-QapkxnA
Extension: behind the scenes of designing the set of ‘Wicked’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DHcON8JKhY
Behind the Emerald Curtain: How ‘Wicked’ uses lighting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUKDU3r6MYY
Lighting ‘War Horse’: The Royal Opera House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY4oNW6s_y0&feature=emb_title
• Watch online videos of professional productions from National Theatre at Home, The Globe theatre, RSC online, Digital
Theatre.
• Find pictures of theatre sets and practise evaluating using the structure used in class.
Details of exams
Exam 1: Reading (45 minutes)
1 Section A: The Modern Novel • A question about one of three extracts (provided in the exam) from the twentieth-century novel that you studied. • In your answer, you could also refer to other parts of the novel. 18 5minutes to plan 40 minutes to write = 45 minutes
Exam 2: Creative Writing (30 minutes)
2 This exam assesses your ability to narrate and/or describe. You will choose ONE of two written tasks:
A) Either respond to a question that asks you to describe.
Marks Timing (planning & writing)
18 5 plan + 35 write + 5 check = 45 minutes
You are assessed on your ability to produce: • A developed response, with structure and vocabulary chosen for effect • Accurate use of a range of punctuation beyond full-stops, commas, capital letters and apostrophes • Accurate spelling of all words, including some ambitious vocabulary • Accurate use of paragraphs, which are shaped for effect
Total marks: Papers 1 and 2 36 1 hour, 30 minutes
Reading and writing tasks linked to the 20th-century novel and three extracts that you studied. Creative writing General: Vocabulary, spelling, punctuation and grammar
Reading and Comprehension Revision
1. Read the practice exams that you have already done, including CATs. 2. What are your targets? 3. Write a list of targets (e.g. use quotation marks, zoom in on words, and answer in more detail). 4. Learn terminology: simile, alliteration, metaphor, personification and onomatopoeia (SAMPO). 5. The best way to develop your comprehension skills is to read as widely as possible outside the classroom.
Creative Writing Revision
1. Revise planning. Remember: one character, one place, one event. 2. In your plan, include: • SAMPO (see above) • The senses (sight, sound, touch, smell and taste) • At least one interesting structural feature. Examples: A) A flashback B) A sentence of one paragraph for emphasis. C) A maximum of two lines of dialogue. • The punctuation marks that you have revised this academic year. • Sequencing words and phrases e.g. Then, The next day, I remember when… etc. 3. Scatter the ideas from your plan into your writing, remembering to vary your sentences. 4. Keep your eye on the clock so that you finish your creative writing 5 minutes before the end of the exam. 5. Check your work and correct any errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Topics to revise
General Topics to Revise
Vocabulary
1. Read through your homework in your exercise book. Do you repeat the same words (e.g. ‘nice’)? Use an online thesaurus to make lists of other words that you might use. 2. Make a list of new vocabulary that you come across in your regular reading in your exercise book. Try and use these words. 3. The best way to increase your vocabulary is to read as widely as possible outside the classroom.
Spelling
1. Read through your homework in your exercise book. 2. Review classwork on spelling rules, advice on how to learn spellings, homophones, etc. 3. Learn the spelling of a few words a day.
Punctuation and Grammar
1. Read through the work from your VSPaG lessons. Learn terminology. 2. Read through your homework in your exercise book: • If you have done additional VSPaG work (e.g. revising TipTop paragraphing rules), review that. • If your teacher has corrected your use of grammar, learn the correction(s). 3. Give yourself grammar targets, so that you do not repeat the same mistakes.
Other tips
Look at interesting pictures and practise planning for ten minutes. Further revision for spelling, punctuation and grammar is in ‘Mr Bruff’s Guide to Grammar’, which is on the DLS.
Free Rice is a very useful website for developing your vocabulary. The quizzes adjust to accommodate your ability, growing gradually harder as you become more accomplished. Free Rice also provides grammar quizzes. It is also a social enterprise; the more questions you answer correctly, the more rice they donate to charity! http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1950
Oxford Dictionaries: Spellings is an invaluable website for practising tricky and/or irregular spellings. A small notebook and committing to learning around five of the spellings from this list per week could significantly help you in your English attainment. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/common-misspellings
BBC Bitesize contains a range of activities and resources to support your development in English:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z3kw2hv
The VSPaG support is also fantastic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english
General grammar: https://www.grammarbook.com/#google_vignette
