Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Welcome back podders! After a beautiful summer break, we hope you are all ready to get your teeth into some serious revision. This week, we embark on the other AQA poetry cluster: Love and Relationships. Specifically, we have a look at this summer's exam question and talk about how doomed (or perhaps not) romantic feelings are reflected in the bleak landscape of the two poems. As ever, you can download the ...
Sep 08, 2019•31 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe In the absence of his dear friend Mr Forster, Mr Gallie takes you through everything you need for Language Paper 2, Question 5. Download the all-important pack right here: https://tinyurl.com/y449jfl9 Click here for examples of opinion based writing: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree And click here for some great speeches: https://americanrhetoric.com/ Follow us @GRevisionpod Email us englishrevi...
Jun 06, 2019•17 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Almost there! Keep on revising, revisers. Here’s a podcast to help you where we tackle AQA Language Paper 2, Question 4. Download the essential pack here: https://tinyurl.com/y449jfl9 Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Support the show...
Jun 06, 2019•18 min•Season 9Ep. 3
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Our second pod of the day looks at question 3 in AQA’s Language Paper 2 and gives you an opportunity to practise those analytical skills. You will need the revision pack which can be downloaded here: https://tinyurl.com/y449jfl9 Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: Englishrevisionpod@gmail.com Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Support the show...
Jun 04, 2019•17 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Welcome back, revisers! Today we take on AQA Language Paper 2, Question 2. You will need the revision pack which you will find here: https://tinyurl.com/y449jfl9 Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Support the show...
Jun 04, 2019•19 min•Season 9Ep. 1
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe In an ideal world, you would improve your writing by reading many novels over a period of many years. But do listen in to get some advice on what you can do to revise for this question. The handout is crucial this week: https://tinyurl.com/y46ovdrx And do also download the general Language Paper 1 revision guide: https://tinyurl.com/y4uganwu Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gm...
May 24, 2019•23 min•Season 8Ep. 4
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Hope you are all feeling good and ready for literature paper 2 tomorrow. Here is a last minute podcast to help you out. Best of luck! Follow us @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Support the show...
May 22, 2019•18 min
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Best of luck for tomorrow! Here are some last little bits and bobs to help you with your final day’s revising. Follow us on Twitter @GRevsionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Support the show...
May 14, 2019•13 min
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe All aboard the language train. In this episode we tackle question four. Lots of marks available and we tell you how to get them! Download the essential hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_0orantjC4iKTi5CFkEQ6HWy2axgS4k3 And the Paper 1 revision pack here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rJ5zh4MVU2FT3QZyWDwpQ8koW7nVU-Sb Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com...
May 10, 2019•27 min•Season 8Ep. 3
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe It’s time to step back, waaaaay back. So far back that you can observe the overall shape and structure of the extract. Put down your language analysis microscope, step back and enjoy the view. Forget about the effect of individual words and phrases and think about where the writer is pointing that focus and where and why that changes. Sounds like fun... right? Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: en...
May 02, 2019•29 min•Season 8Ep. 2
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe It’s time to make the leap—the leap across borders and boundaries into a new world both beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. That’s right, we speak, of course, about the leap from literature to language. This week we tackle AQA language paper one, question two. Make sure you download the resources below as you listen along; they should really help you! Here is the handout for this episode: https://dri...
Apr 25, 2019•26 min•Season 8Ep. 1
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe We all need to take more responsibility--both for those around us and, equally as crucially, for our GCSE revision. This Podcast will help, perhaps not so much with the former but certainly with the latter. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us at englishrevisionpod@gmail.com And, of course, download the hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vLoSqatyeHV0CO7YsrpO-gXhq5WjQHbE Subcsribe to GCS...
Apr 04, 2019•19 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Happy last day of term! A little treat to send you off on your holid... revision break! Here we take a look at perhaps the most important character in the whole play--even though we never actually see her onstage. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Contact us englishrevisionpod@gmail.com And, of course, you can download the handout here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Bb3U1nuJPy-C87rLxgbK5coq-voIQf2X Sub...
Apr 04, 2019•18 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Back we plunge into the murderous world of Scottish power games. This week, we take a look at Shakespeare’s presentation of Lady Macbeth. Is she a witchlike being, consumed completely by evil thoughts, or a victim of a cruel patriarchal society? Or perhaps a bit of both? Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com And, of course, download the all important hand out here: https:...
Apr 01, 2019•29 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe A man governed by fate or an ambitious demon who makes his own choices? But enough about Mr Forster, today we are looking at an essay about choice in 'Macbeth'. You will also learn about our favourite weather systems. N.B. if you go to the school where we teach, your text is 'Romeo and Juliet' so ignore this pod! Follow us on Twitter @grevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com Download the hand out...
Mar 18, 2019•28 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe For the third time, we plunge into murky waters aboard the good ship Unseen Poetry. This week's poem features some quite explicit material, although it is nowhere near as disgusting as Mr Forster’s onomatopoeia and for this we can only apologise. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com And download not one, but two(!) hand outs below: Here is the handout for analysing any u...
Mar 12, 2019•23 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Unseen poetry round two! Make sure you pause the podcast and have a go at analysing the poem before you listen to us to make sure you get the full unseen experience. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com Download the two hand outs below: Here is the handout on how to analyse any unseen poem: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EmvEG6IwYzv8tLWxdy1YDBes14xIROc- Here is the ha...
Mar 08, 2019•24 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe It's big, it's bold, it's fresh... it's unseen . New format this week to help you with the skills you need to face the unseen poetry section of your literature exams. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com And download the two... that's right! TWO handouts here: How to analyse unseen poetry: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EmvEG6IwYzv8tLWxdy1YDBes14xIROc- Today's handout...
Mar 05, 2019•29 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe We made it! It's been a journey, one filled with endless power struggles and conflict... and that was just us arguing over who got to host the pod. Our final Power and Conflict pod looks at the representation of identity in 'Checking Out Me History' and 'The Emigree'. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com And, of course, you can download the all important hand out here: h...
Mar 01, 2019•26 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe We are almost there! Keep with us, dear listener, as we near the end of our journey into power and conflict. This week, we look at the presentation of regret in both 'Remains' and 'War Photographer'. Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpod Email us: englishrevisionpod@gmail.com And, of course, download the all important handout here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_1iFcsSjkGUA9W7lvilq4ORn9n6ox-OU Subcsribe to...
Feb 27, 2019•25 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Happy half term! What better way to relax than by easing your worries about the hardest (and, arguably, the worst--at least according to Mr Forster) poem in the anthology: 'Tissue'? Will you let the 'light / shine through' your revision notes? Will the pages of your anthology be 'smoothed and stroked / and thinned to be transparent' as you stress over what these poems explore? Never fear, that is why we are...
Feb 19, 2019•23 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Happy half term! Enjoy your time off but don't slack off that all important revision. Here's a little something to help you. This episode, we look at how we would compare the chaos and confusion of war in 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'Bayonet Charge'. They both have 'charge' in the title for goodness sake! What more do you want? Download the hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1F7yp37OekgFN...
Feb 15, 2019•23 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Welcome to your Monday dose of GCSE English RevisionPod. Today we look at how power can be abused, and we're not just talking about the fact that Mr Forster has seized control of the podcast! <b> Download the hand out here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZtcIc4W1rJoXazcHZ8t-yrJdFGZ2mNyD <b> And you can contact us at gcserevisionpod@gmail.com Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https...
Feb 11, 2019•23 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Happy mocks day to those of you who have just got your results! Today we continue our whirlwind ride through Power and Conflict, looking at the way nature is represented as both beautiful and dangerous. How does one stand tall in the face of a storm? Why, by sticking together of course--something Wordsworth might wish he had known before setting out on that little boat! <b> Download the hand out here:...
Feb 08, 2019•21 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe These next two episodes of GCSE Revision Pod are going to work slightly differently. Mr Forster and Mr Gallie take the same poem, 'Kamikaze', and explore two different ways of answering the same question. Hopefully this will show how important it is to think about multiple different ways that you would connect the poems in this section of the anthology together. In this episode, Mr Gallie argues that there ...
Feb 04, 2019•22 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Two podcasts in one day! You lucky, lucky people. As promised, Mr Forster now has a go at exactly the same question that Mr Gallie did earlier. It's not a competition (Of course! But we would like to know which one you preferred ;)). Instead, what we hope to show is that having multiple ideas for the same poem is the best way to approach the exam. The more slightly different comparisons you have revised, th...
Feb 04, 2019•24 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe This week on GCSE Revision Pod, we delve into the world of poetry. With two texts to cover, the analysis comes thick and fast (two words sometimes used to describe Mr Gallie and Mr Forster, respectively) so make sure you have downloaded the hand out here: <b> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OUlawxj14tpeeKdEjHJkXS-Gxgxm6ugg Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2274...
Feb 01, 2019•23 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Welcome back to Dickensian London -- a world that Mr Forster wishes he was from. As we delve back into the miserly behaviour of Scrooge, we examine how one would write a top level essay exploring change. Find out how both oysters and flint may seem hard and lonely but offer sparks (pun definitely intended) of optimism, how light and heat ultimately must overcome the cold that seems to emanate from Scrooge's...
Jan 27, 2019•20 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe What better way to spend Friday evening than getting deep into the heart of J.B. Priestley's didactic drama 'An Inspector Calls'? None, I hear you cry, and right you are! Find out in this episode how the Inspector functions as a mouthpiece for Priestley to the extent that it is as if the author himself has wandered into the pages, what the word 'quasi' means and how one tiny word hidden in the stage directi...
Jan 25, 2019•18 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe In our second exploration of J. B. Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls', Mr Gallie and Mr Forster look at how class division is presented as the root of society's problems. From the comfort of the recording studio (A.K.A. Mr Forster's car), we evaluate how Priestley shows a world in which those with privilege never look down at those they could help, and instead think only of climbing further up the twin ladder...
Jan 18, 2019•22 min•Season 4Ep. 2
