Language Paper 1 Fiction

This extract gives weaker students a simplified and broken down way of accessing a fiction text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. This is an extract-based activity on a novel on the theme of vampires / Gothic fiction. Students will be able to bring lots of contextual knowledge to discussions about this text. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for any exam board - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract.

The lesson comes with a writing activity which allows students to imaginatively develop the ideas from the extract.