Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide to GCSE English Language written by Andrew Bruff and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, I began creating online tutorial videos on Youtube, with a vision to share my GCSE expertise in English language and literature. As I write, these videos have been viewed over 10 million times across 214 different nations. My GCSE English Youtube channel has over 60,000 subscribers. To accompany these videos, I have published over 20 revision guide eBooks-one of which you are currently looking at! My guide to the previous GCSEs in English language and literature sat at the top of the Amazon bestseller's list for over 45 weeks and achieved huge acclaim; this book aims to build on those strengths.In this ebook, you'll receive detailed guidance on every question in the AQA GCSE English Language exams. Please note that this ebook is not endorsed by or affiliated to any exam boards; I am simply an experienced teacher using my expertise to help students. However, if you read some of the 100+ reviews for this guide, you will see that it has already helped students, teachers and parents across the UK.As an extra bonus, this ebook contains links to five special video tutorials which are only available to those who purchase this guide. These links appear later in the text. I hope you enjoy the ebook. You should also purchase the accompanying eBook which covers the English Literature exams.

Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide to A Level English Language written by Lyndsey Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations on making the exciting decision to study English Language at A' level. Make no mistake, regardless of the title of the course, you are about to embark on a scientific study of language and its structures- don't let that put you off! This qualification will take you on a sociolinguistic, dialectological, psycholinguistic, and historical journey in one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world.Whether you have chosen to take the AS or A Level route, this guide will be both relevant and useful to you as the topics taught and assessment objectives covered are applicable to all examination boards.English Language at AS and A Level is different to the GCSE that you have been studying throughout KS3 and 4. There is lots of terminology to remember and apply in the analysis of the texts given, but don't let that phase you. Just as you once did not know the terminology for GCSE - yet have managed to learn it, apply it and succeed - you will do the same with AS and A Level.This guide has been designed to support you in your new learning and help make all the exam requirements explicit.

Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide to A Level English Literature written by Kerry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you studying A' Level English Literature? Are you keen to do well? Mr Bruff's Guide to A' Level English Literature explains everything you need to know about the assessment objectives.* After all, how can you tailor your ideas unless you know what the examiner's looking for?At A' level, you're expected to develop informed opinions of your own. But how? Use this book as a starting point. It discusses contexts and introduces literary theory, literary movements and literary genres. It also shows you how to blend the views of others into your writing. Mr Bruff's Guide to A' Level English Literature models practical examples...there's even an essay in a bonus chapter!This handy resource explains the writing skills that you need. It also reviews and builds on your knowledge of terminology, structure, form and language.Struggling to plan and write a comparative essay? There's a chapter on how to do this. Doing the full A' level and confused about how to cite your wider reading in your coursework? Mr Bruff's Guide to A' Level English Literature has a detailed chapter on how to how to write footnotes and a bibliography.This guide is a must for any serious student of English Literature: at �4.99, it's a sound investment in your future!

Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide to GCSE English Literature written by Andrew Bruff and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, I began creating online tutorial videos at youtube.com/mrbruff, with a vision to share my GCSE expertise in English language and literature. As I write, these videos have been viewed over 7.5 million times across 214 different nations. To accompany these videos, I have published over 15 revision guide eBooks-one of which you are currently reading! My guide to the previous GCSEs in English language and literature sat at the top of the Amazon bestseller's list for over 45 weeks and achieved huge acclaim; this book aims to build on those strengths. In this ebook, you'll receive detailed guidance on every question in the AQA GCSE English Literature exams. Please note that this eBook is not endorsed by or affiliated to any exam boards; I am simply an experienced teacher using my expertise to help students. Over the past five years, I have received thousands of messages of praise and support like those you've just read in the preceeding pages. I've heard from students, teachers, parents and the authors themselves, all of whom have offered gratitude for my work. As an extra bonus, this ebook contains links to five special video tutorials which are only available to those who purchase this guide. These links appear later in the text. I hope you enjoy the ebook. If you want to contact me for any reason, please do not hesitate to do so. My personal email address is [email protected] You should also purchase the accompanying eBook which covers the English Language exams, available here on Amazon or at mrbruff.com.

Download or read book An Inspector Calls written by John Boynton Priestley and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The members of an eminently respectable British family reveal their true natures over the course of an evening in which they are subjected to a routine inquiry into the suicide of a young girl.

Download or read book The Moonstone written by Wilkie Collins and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home — with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.

Download or read book AQA English Language Paper 1 Practice Papers written by Grainne Hallahan and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're at this point, you must be getting ready for your English language exams, so we have a few words of advice for you: Exams aren't bad. They're your opportunity to show off just how much you know about English--and you have been studying it since you were five, so you definitely know a thing or two! Don't worry about your exams--worry never changes anything--instead, try and see them as an opportunity to show off what you know. Practising exam papers is a good way to revise and, because this exam is still relatively new, there aren't that many past papers out there. The papers in this book have been created to try and replicate the exam experience for you. Some people might suggest using your literature texts for practice, but the whole point of this exam is that it is unseen: it's best to work on extracts you've never read before. There is more than one way to tackle an exam paper. You could sit it in one go and complete it in exam conditions from start to finish. You could go at the papers gently, with modelled examples in front of you to help (check out the videos at youtube.com/mrbruff). Another method is to try three question threes all in a row, slide tackling your way through the paper. You might want to complete all of the Section B questions before beginning Section A. However you do it, take your time, and use the indicative content at the end to check your work. The indicative content isn't everything. You might make a point that we haven't included. Marking your own work is quite difficult so, although these are good to practise on, you should share with someone who understands the marking system to mark your work and give you feedback. This book is not a guide to the exam: it is a set of practice papers. For a detailed question-by-question guide to AQA English language, you should pick up a copy of 'Mr Bruff's Guide to GCSE English Language' in paperback on Amazon, or eBook at mrbruff.com. Please note: we are not endorsed by or affiliated to the AQA exam board. We are simply two experienced teachers creating resources.

Download or read book Spies written by Michael Frayn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect that all is not what it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for. 'Bernard Shaw couldn't do it, Henry James couldn't do it, but the ingenious English author Michael Frayn does do it: write novels and plays with equal success ... Frayn's novel excels.' John updike, New Yorker 'A beautifully accomplished, richly nostalgic novel about supposed second-world-war espionage seen through the eyes of a young boy.' Sunday Times 'Deeply satisfying . . . Frayn has written nothing better.' Independent

Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide To Macbeth written by Peter Tobin and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed English teacher Andrew Bruff has achieved twenty million views on YouTube with his English revision videos. This eBook sets out to explain, in detail, everything you need to know in order to understand William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. This eBook contains the complete original text, a translation into modern English and a detailed analysis of every scene.

Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide to Grammar written by Kerry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever felt that you need to brush up on your spelling, punctuation and grammar? Mr Bruff's Guide to Grammar has everything you need to know for your GCSEs.Containing jokes, fascinating facts and lots of useful examples from a wide range of literature, this lively, conversational self-study guide is like no other grammar book ever written. It even has optional extension activities for those of you who want to take your writing further!After you have revised spelling, punctuation and grammar, the ebook doesn't stop there! Learn how it all fits together to help you--not just with your GCSEs but in the real world. Enjoy playing with words and developing the skills to get your own way!This guide contains 20 detailed chapters* and is an absolute bargain. Some people think that grammar is boring...not any more!*Chapters include: punctuation, active and passive sentences, nouns, determiners, interjections, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions and adverbs, simple and compound sentences, complex sentences, conjunctions, paragraphs, spelling and rhetorical devices.

Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide To Othello written by Lyndsey Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Lyndsey Dyer, This guide contains the complete original text, with a line by line translation into modern English. As if that's not enough, there's also detailed analysis of everything you need to know for your A' level exams, including language, structure, form, themes, context and a sample exam answer. At nearly 80,000 words, this is the definitive guide to Shakespeare's classic play.

Download or read book The Mr Salles Guide to 100 in AQA English Language Exam written by Dominic Salles and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide takes you through Paper 1 and Paper 2 of the new AQA GCSE English Language Exam. Mr Salles teaches you how to aim for the top level 8 and 9 grades. In fact, he shows you how to get 100% and beyond.

Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide to an Inspector Calls written by Georgina Bottomley and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about the popular play. Chapters include:The PlaywrightSocial and Historical ContextSetting and StructureTimeline of the play, how to read a play rather than a novelCharacters - Mr BirlingCharacters - Edna and SheilaCharacters - GeraldCharacters - Mrs. BirlingCharacters - EricCharacters - Eva Smith/Daisy RentonCharacters - Inspector GooleAge - Old vs Young - who accepts responsibility and why?The Opening Stage Directions - an analysis.Act One - A SummaryAct Two - A SummaryAct Three - A SummaryThe Inspector's Final Speech - an analysisThe End of the Play - Unanswered Questions and FAQKey themes: Class, love, relationships, selfishnessStructure: Dramatic Irony, time, conflict and tensionSample essay - How does Priestley reveal a message of socialresponsibility in the play?Sample essay - How does Priestley present the characters of Mr.Birling and Sheila in 'An Inspector Calls'?Key quotes (who said them and what do they mean?

Download or read book Ozymandias written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley like you've never seen it before. With strange illustrations that breathe a new life into the poem, this book is something different for you to add to your bookshelf.

Download or read book Mr Bruff s Guide to a Christmas Carol written by Andrew Bruff and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include:The Author: Charles DickensHow are Dickens's beliefs reflected in "A Christmas Carol"?Is "A Christmas Carol" still relevant today?Structure: Understanding the title & What is a novella?What is a stave? & The structure of the storyWhat is an allegory?Context - A Victorian Christmas & Poverty in Victorian BritainA summary of the storyCheck your understanding - a quick quizAnalysis of the Characters - Ebenezer ScroogeAnalysis of the Characters - Fred ScroogeCheck your understanding - compare Scrooge and FredAnalysis of the Characters - The Cratchit FamilyAnalysis of the Characters - Fan, Fezziwig, Ignorance and WantAnalysis of the Characters - Belle, Jacob MarleyAnalysis of the Characters - The Three SpiritsCheck your understanding - compare the three spiritsKey themes and techniquesCheck your understanding - Dickens's use of descriptionWriting about the novellaSample essay - Explore the transformation of Ebeneezer ScroogeSample essay- Discuss the ways in which Dickens presents wealth and poverty in "A Christmas Carol"Check your Understanding - some answers!

Download or read book Lord of the Flies written by William Golding and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.

Download or read book The Mr Salles Guide to Awesome Story Writing written by Lee Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So 500,000 English students a year are examined on how to write a short story. Well, this should be brilliant, because being able to write a short story is an art, a gift, a talent that will last long after the GCSE is replaced by who knows what. And do the exam boards give us examples of how to write them? Well, I couldn't find any that my students could write in 45 minutes, and still get top marks. Seriously, not one. So, I wrote some. And then some more. It was more than fun, it was playful, and I felt (I know, we're English and I'm not supposed to talk about feelings) a sense of joy. I was already an author, but now, I was becoming a proper writer. And here they are, over 20 short stories which will teach you to become a writer. Oh, and yes, how to get the top grades in an exam. Then I asked my friend Lee, another teacher and a writer, if he could help me out, so you now have a collection of stories which are awesome. Some of them show you how to get a grade 5 or 6, because you aren't all ready for grade 7, 8 and 9.But follow the tips in this book, and you will be. Because after every story, I show you 10-15 skills in the story. They'll train you to be a writer.And it's OK if you don't want to be brilliant at writing stories, you just want to pass the exam. Because you can just remember a couple, and reproduce them in the exam. Yes, really. That's totally ok, and legal. And you'll find your brain changes them anyway as you write because that's what brains do.So, if you feel the exam grind has drained all the creativity out of education - I've got the cure. Try it.