AQA GCSE English Language - Writing a Speech - teaching resource

AQA GCSE English Language – Writing a Speech 

AQA GCSE English Language – Writing a Speech is a clear, detailed and fully editable teaching resource designed to help Year 10 and Year 11 students develop the skills needed for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Section B: Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives.

This ready-to-teach GCSE English resource guides students through the process of planning, structuring and writing an effective speech for the AQA English Language exam. It explores G.A.P. — Genre, Audience and Purpose — and helps students understand how to adapt their tone, vocabulary and content for different audiences and purposes.

The resource teaches students how to produce a successful exam-style speech, including how to create an engaging opening, develop clear and convincing paragraphs, use rhetorical and persuasive techniques, include a counterargument and rebuttal, and finish with an effective conclusion. Students are also supported with model responses, planning grids, examiner-style feedback, mark scheme activities and opportunities to reflect on and improve their own writing.

Content includes:

• A detailed, fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource
• Step-by-step guidance on speech writing for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Section B
• G.A.P. activities to help students identify genre, audience and purpose
• Speech-writing conventions and structure
• Guidance on openings, developed paragraphs, counterarguments and conclusions
• FOREST techniques: facts, opinions, rhetorical questions, emotive language, statistics and triples
• Model speech responses at different levels
• Mark scheme activities and examiner-style comments
• Planning practice and exam-style speech-writing tasks
• Opportunities for self-reflection, redrafting and improvement

Perfect for whole-class teaching, revision, intervention and exam preparation, this AQA GCSE English Language speech-writing resource gives teachers everything needed to help students approach Paper 2 Section B with confidence.

The resource is fully editable, allowing teachers to adapt the lessons, tasks and examples to suit the needs of their classes.

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