Creative Writing
Language paper 1 question 5
About Question 5:
Question 5 on Language Paper 1 is worth 25% of your entire GCSE (40 marks).
You should spend around 45 minutes on this question.
Question 5 tests your ability to write creatively and imaginatively as well as use accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar.
You will have a choice of two different questions to answer. The first will be based on a stimulus such as an image and it may ask you to write a descriptive piece or narrative in response to the image. The second will be a statement asking you to write a description or narrative.
Here is an example of how the task will be laid out:
Example of how this can look:
The five part plan:
Part 1: start big- wide lens - (description of the sky or landscape)
Introduce your character at the end of this paragraph, if you have one.
Part 2: Contrast (introduce a very different idea)
Part 3: Zoom in to a smaller detail (shorter paragraph)
Part 4: Flash back
Part 5: Return to the beginning - wide lens - have a clear change (cyclical structure).
One sentence paragraph to end
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