Essay structure help with A level English language!!

I’m really struggling with this new style of writing we do for A level. I had my mocks and didn’t do the greatest and i learn from home due to medical issues. For GCSE i used to use PRTEZEL to structure my paragraphs and i want to find a similar structure to tick off the AO’s. As i’m good with AO3 for paper 1 for example but struggle to link it to language. Any tips?? 🙏🏽

Reply 1

Orange Blossom

Try Paul Heselton's videos. Download the essay examples from the AQA website. Tom Hollins Revision guide is great too. I will have to go through my posts to find the one I made for English advice as I've already forgotten a lot 😭. I'll do that asap :smile:

Reply 2

p.elisha

Original post by Hannahblossom

tysm!!

Reply 3

Orange Blossom

Original post by p.elisha

tysm!!

@anelpe gave me these months ago https://smallpdf.com/file#s=48b76e60-c7f9-44c1-994b-930dda991bea

Reply 4

Orange Blossom

Found my old post:

I did AQA English Language. Watch Paul Heselton's yt videos. I assume you have the Oxford Course Book? Also, get Tom Hollins' Ultimate Guide to ALevel English Language. It is soo good, has the theories nicely written out and has example answers. Look on the AQA website fir exemplars, mark schemes etc. Firstratetutors, Mr Smith english, mr bruff, "alevel english Language" and alice preece yt videos are also good. Some of them focus on explaining theories, some are on AOs. Watch them all. Alice Preece has a video with a googledocs link to all her mindmaps, exemplars and A*/A model answers. I can't think of anything else atm but do ask if you have any questions!I also recently posted a thread called Anybody have Model Answers for English Language ALevel?. Anelpe replied with a link to their own model answers. https://smallpdf.com/file#s=48b76e60-c7f9-44c1-994b-930dda991bea . Please thank them if you find those useful!

Definitely download wll the mark schemes and examiner reports (don't look at all of them at once bc you need some to test yourself on). Stick to one. The examiner reports say what top students mentioned.

Also, I understand how hard the Alevel is. Any questions, just ask. I might not remember how to do it lol but I'll try :smile:

Reply 5

Orange Blossom

Have a look at the old chat forums for the subject from 2023 and 2024. Some ppl on there will have offered to share model answers etc. There might be a lot of postal e to trawl through but rn it might be worth it, idk. :smile:

Reply 6

p.elisha

Original post by Hannahblossom

Found my old post:
I did AQA English Language. Watch Paul Heselton's yt videos. I assume you have the Oxford Course Book? Also, get Tom Hollins' Ultimate Guide to ALevel English Language. It is soo good, has the theories nicely written out and has example answers. Look on the AQA website fir exemplars, mark schemes etc. Firstratetutors, Mr Smith english, mr bruff, "alevel english Language" and alice preece yt videos are also good. Some of them focus on explaining theories, some are on AOs. Watch them all. Alice Preece has a video with a googledocs link to all her mindmaps, exemplars and A*/A model answers. I can't think of anything else atm but do ask if you have any questions!I also recently posted a thread called Anybody have Model Answers for English Language ALevel?. Anelpe replied with a link to their own model answers. https://smallpdf.com/file#s=48b76e60-c7f9-44c1-994b-930dda991bea . Please thank them if you find those useful!
Definitely download wll the mark schemes and examiner reports (don't look at all of them at once bc you need some to test yourself on). Stick to one. The examiner reports say what top students mentioned.
Also, I understand how hard the Alevel is. Any questions, just ask. I might not remember how to do it lol but I'll try :smile:

Thank you so much! 😊 May i ask what you grade you got?

Reply 7

Orange Blossom

Tes resources are good too for a few things like model answers though you have to pay for them. Some of the stuff on the site isn't great but a few really helped me and were well worth £5 :smile:

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Reply 8

p.elisha

Original post by Hannahblossom

Tes resources are good too for a few things like model answers though you have to pay for them. Some of the stuff on the site isn't great but a few really helped me and were well worth £5 :smile:

Thank you so much for the tips/materials!!