English Language & Literature Tuition
Fully qualified to teach English Language & Literature
Science Clinic Private tutors teach the following specifications in English Language & Literature:
Science Clinic Private Tutors work with a range of teachers from different schools who deliver English Language & Literature specifications from different exam boards. We have focussed on ensuring that the assessments from these Specifications are clear, accessible and discriminate effectively.
Our objective is to enable students of all abilities to develop their English language skills to their full potential, equipping them with the knowledge to communicate in a variety of contexts with confidence.
Our tutors are fully qualified to teach English Language & Literature, they are all educated to the minimum of a degree, some have postgraduate and others have doctorates in these subjects. Lessons will be structured around your child’s level and to their required specifications.
Our tutors are constantly updated and trained to keep in line with the national curriculum and any changes in educational standards.
We make the specification simpler and enables a variety of teaching and learning approaches. This exciting and relevant course studies English language & Literature in a balanced framework of physical and human themes and investigates the link between them.
Our way of teaching will enable students of all abilities to develop the skills they need to read, understand and analyse a wide range of different texts covering the 19th, 20th and 21st century time periods as well as to write clearly, coherently and accurately using a range of vocabulary and sentence structures.
We work with teachers who are subject experts, examiners and exam boards to include some exciting new topics for today’s world that will resonate with students, helping them gain new insights into the world around them.
To give you the choice and flexibility to learn the English Language & Literature you want, we’ve included the most popular and well-established topics, building on the skills and topics at Key Stage 3. Our tutors will prepare you for your GCSE and A-level exams and equip you with essential skills and prepare you for further study.
We work very qualified and experienced teachers to provide you with a range of resources that will help you confidently plan and prepare for your exams.
The specifications we use offer the attraction of two equally balanced papers, relating reading sources to the topic and theme of writing tasks. The reading sources act as stimulus for writing tasks, providing students with a clear route through each paper
Each paper has a distinct identity to better support high quality provision and engaging teaching and learning.
Our approach to spoken language (previously speaking and listening) will emphasise the importance of the wider benefits that speaking and listening skills have for students. The endorsed unit will draw on good practice to suggest how engaging formative tasks can lead to a single summative assessment.
The exam boards we use have designed assessments that will inspire and motivate students, providing appropriate stretch and challenge whilst ensuring, as far as possible, that the assessment and texts are accessible to the full range of students.
The specifications offer a skills-based approach to the study of English Language in an untiered context. Questions are designed to take students on an assessment journey through lower tariff tasks to more extended responses.
For AQA spec, GCSE students focus on the following for their exams;
What's assessed?
Section A:Reading
Section B: Writing
The written exam is 1 hour 45 minutes
What's assessed?
Section A:Reading
Section B: Writing
The written exam is 1 hour 45 minutes
What's assessed?
Section A:Reading
Students will answer one question on their play of choice. They will be required to write in detail about an extract from the play and then to write about the play as a whole.
Section B: Writing
Students will answer one question on their novel of choice. They will be required to write in detail about an extract from the novel and then to write about the novel as a whole.
The written exam is 1 hour 45 minutes
What's assessed?
Section A:Reading
Students will answer one essay question from a choice of two on their studied modern prose or drama text.
Section B: Writing
Students will answer one comparative question on one named poem printed on the paper and one other poem from their chosen anthology cluster.
Section C: Writing
Students will answer one comparative question on one named poem printed on the paper and one other poem from their chosen anthology cluster.
Written exam for 2 hour 15 minutes
We also teach the following Specifications :