Book excerpt: Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: GCSE English Language First teaching: September 2015 Next exams: November 2024 and June 2025 Help your students succeed in AQA GCSE (9-1) English Language, with resources to develop and practise the skills they need for every question in the Paper 1 and Paper 2 exams. Help students build and apply the key skills for each question with a carefully designed learning sequence, a step-by-step process for responding and plenty of opportunities to practise the question in focus. Assess progress and build confidence for the final exams with half-term progress tests, end-of-term mock exams and two further practice papers for revision. Show students how to improve their work, with annotated sample responses to exemplify Grade 5 achievement. Save time searching for texts with a fantastic selection of fiction and non-fiction extracts from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Trusted support from Jo Heathcote, a GCSE English Language assessment expert and an experienced teacher of GCSE and A-level.