GCSE English Language Tuition
English language tuition for students in years 7 to 11 to develop writing and critical analysis skills. It focuses on preparing for GCSE English exams through practice with past papers, with attention to spelling, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, and understanding texts. The tuition aims to build skills needed for the exams step-by-step.
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English Language Tuition
offered for students in years 7 to 11
PLEASE NOTE: English Literature Tuition is not offered.
Exam preparation for internal tests and end of year exams.
Exam preparation for GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (all exam boards).
The GCSE English language tuition is carefully structured and uses a variety of source material as well as Philip Kay’s own specially designed help notes.
Develop Writing Skills by:
- Revising spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Introducing a wider, more vivid vocabulary
- Adding variety in sentence structure (simple, compound, complex)
- Learning the art of persuasive writing
- Planning technique for argumentative writing
Develop Critical Analysis for Unseen Texts, Prose and Poems by:
- Working out the meaning of the content section by section
- Identifying the underlying theme
- Relating the language to the content
- Relating the form to the content
- Commenting on the variations in structure, especially in poems
GCSE English Tuition – Final Stage by Using Past Exam Papers
- First doing 1 or 2 questions at a time, carefully timed
- Then doing a whole paper, all questions being carefully timed