ENGLISH OVERALL REVISION NOTES

READING 

multiple choice

• locate the word/ phrase in the text
• read around the word
• eliminate answers you know are wrong

summarise question

• use bullet points
• own words
• dont use evidence
• highlight key information
• look at marks available
• dont repeat ideas
• short points

how/feelings questions

• range of relevant short evidence
• PEE -  group point and evidence together
• point- sum up feeling
• how - explain language techniques 
• writers feelings
• track logically
• look at marks
• openers
• connectives

techniques for how questions

• opinions
• emotive langauge
• humour
• adverbs 
• colloquial language
• verbs
• sentence structures

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