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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 - Ginger


GINGER - Ginger is a good friend Link makes after he becomes homeless. He helps Link survive on the streets, but he is killed by Shelter.
  • He is friendly, humorous and good natured. ‘He sounded laid-back, amiable.’ (41).
  • He shows Link how to survive – he helps him beg, he introduces him to places where you can get ‘an outstanding cheese roll’ (49), starts him smoking ‘you’ll not see sixty anyway, dossing in doorways’ (54) and takes him to ‘Captain Hook’s foetid hulk’ (77).
  • He makes jokes to keep their spirits up – he turns up wearing a bin bag and says it cost ‘Four hundred quid. Burlington Arcade.’ (60)
  • He is a loyal friend, and it is his loyalty and kindness that gets him killed. When Shelter tells him Link has been injured, he lets his guard down and says ‘have you killed my mate, you bastard…you better take me to him then’ (83).
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