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In your English lessons, you are studying for TWO GCSEs.

English
and English Literature.

English
60% exam (2 2-hour papers, Paper One and Paper Two)
20% speaking and listening coursework
20% written coursework (four essays: creative writing, transactional writing, Shakespeare, poems from other cultures)

English Literature
70% exam (one 2.5-hour paper consisting of three sections - one on a play, one on a novel, one on an unseen poem)
30% coursework (four essays: Shakespeare, poems from other cultures, pre-1914 poetry, pre-1914 prose)

The exam board is WJEC, the Welsh board.

This blog has been designed to help you understand and revise for all three papers. There is lots of information, tips, practice questions and links.If you look on the right, there is a list of labels. Click on these and it will direct you to all the information about that particular label. For example, click on An Inspector Calls and you will get four posts about the play, how to answer a question on it, key quotes, etc. Or, if you are worried about answering Section B type questions, click on that and you will get all the posts helping with that.

Sunday 10 May 2009

Stone Cold - Gail


Gail turns up after Ginger is killed. Link falls in love with her, but it turns out she isn't homeless after all - she is an undercover journalist trying to get a story for her paper.
  • She ‘was the best looking dosser’ Link had ever seen. Her hair is ‘chestnut, spilling from under her green knitted cap like fire’
  • Link and Gail ‘hit it off from the word go’ (93) and Link is ‘well in love’, which means he doesn’t question some of the odder things she does.
  • She is ‘terminally curious…about life on the streets’ (96) and very often rushes off to the phone box to ring her sister.
  • At the end, it turns out she is an undercover reporter and was only pretending to be in love with Link. Her real name is Louise and her real boyfriend is a photographer called Gavin. However, when she has to leave Link, she is ‘in tears’ (131) and she gives him some money before she leaves.