English language underpins all your other subjects; knowledge of how to evaluate, analyse and critique texts is important in all subjects. In this course, you will learn how to assess fiction and non-fiction texts from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and investigate language, structure and form. You will also develop your skills in creative, descriptive and transactional writing. GCSE English language AQA 8700 is taught over 1 or 2 years dependent on whether you take one class over two years or two classes over one year.

Wednesday – Paper 2

Section B – transactional writing – speeches/ letters/ articles ( September to Easter) Speaking and Listening (Easter) Section A – Non-Fiction textual analysis(Easter to Summer)

Friday – Paper 1

Section B – creative writing ( September to Easter) Paper 1 Section A – Fiction textual analysis (Easter to Summer)

For this course you will need to complete a speaking and listening assessment prior to taking your written GCSE paper. This will be in the form of a speech, which you will prepare in class. This assessment can be completed at a Tutors and Exams centre or you may find a centre need you that will also offer this.

Unlike all our other courses, the price for GCSE is £5.00 +VAT a week per student to reflect the amount of work the teacher will need to do to successfully guide you through your GCSE. All marking and feedback are included in the price. You will be expected to do 1 – 2 hours of independent work each week.

Due to some of its themes and content of this course, the age for this class is 14 – 16. If your child is younger than 14 but you would like them to study this course, please make sure that you are aware of the content and either watch the recordings before your child watches them or watch the lessons with your child to ensure that you are happy with the content and can talk it through with your child.

GCSE English Language has no set texts, however, the following may be helpful:

GCSE English Language AQA Complete Revision & Practice – includes Online Edition and Videos: for the 2024 and 2025 exams (CGP AQA GCSE English Language)

ISBN-10 1782944141
ISBN-13 978-1782944140
Publisher: Coordination Group Publications Ltd (CGP)
Publication date 6 Jun. 2022

Please note:

If a class with exactly the same name is on more than once a week it is a repeat lesson with the same content. As places are limited and so you don’t have duplicate lessons please only sign up for the one class per week. This will leave spaces for other customers and stop any additional cost to yourself as we will be unable to give a refund.

On occasions we may have to change the day or time of a course or on rare occasions the course is cancelled. This maybe due to a teacher leaving or low numbers. We do try to do this only when absolutely necessary and will always give advance warning and try to offer an alternative for you.

Standard classes are £3 and numbers are limited to 40. Smaller classes (e.g. GCSE) are £6 are per student and classes are kept smaller at 25 maximum. If there is more than 1 child joining a £6 class you need to make sure you have added the correct amount to your basket. We reserve the right to ask for back payments if this does not happen.

For safeguarding purposes, every Zoom lesson includes a brief visual registration at the beginning which requires children to have their webcam switched on and their correct name (the one used on their LLP child profile) displayed on Zoom. If your child would like to join lessons but is anxious about this or needs to have their face covered during lessons for religious or any other reason please get in touch, and we can arrange a password for them to use instead.

We are now offering some courses as pre recorded lessons in topic blocks on llpextralearningspace.co.uk This then allows you to buy previous lessons in topic packs either for revision purposes or to do a topic yourselves. We recognise that this will have some issues for those that do not wish to be on camera so the new format of the class is that the visual register and any informal discussions happen before and after the lesson itself is recorded. The teachers will all have their settings set to speaker view so that the thumbnail of whoever is speaking will only be highlighted when or if they speak. If you do not want your child to appear in the recording it is your responsibility to ensure the camera is switched off after the visual register unless they have an agreed password then it can remain switched off at all times.