Year 7 – Final Exam Portion – JUNE 2017
ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAPER 1 - PLAYS
Time: 55 Minutes
20 Marks
Plays from the book Stepping Up – Four Short Plays
1. First Day by Jane Liddiard
2. School Play by Jane Liddiard
3. Good Friends by Mollie Hemens
4. School Trip by Mollie Hemens
Questions will focus on:
Identifying, describing and explaining details about the characters, events, settings and themes .
Inferring; interpreting; deducing details from the play.
Commenting on the writer’s use of language, form and structure and their effect.
Expressing critical viewpoints and justifying with evidence.
PAPER 2 and PAPER 3
TIME: 1 Hour and 50 minutes
55 marks
PAPER 2 – PROSE - Tales from Shakespeare by Geraldine McCaughrean
PAPER 3 - POETRY
37 Marks
18 Marks
PROSE: 1. Romeo and Juliet
6. Twelfth Night
2. Henry the Fifth
7. Othello
3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
8. King Lear
4. Julius Caesar
9. Macbeth
5. Hamlet
10. The Tempest
PROSE - Questions will focus on:
Identifying, describing and explaining details about the main ideas, key events, characters, settings,
and themes.
Inferring; interpreting; deducing details from the play.
Commenting on the writer’s use of language and its effect.
Expressing critical viewpoints and justifying with evidence.
POETRY(Unseen poems) - Questions will focus on:
- reading to infer, interpret and deduce details from the unseen poems
- identifying and describing key points, themes, poet’s purpose and viewpoints
- commenting on the form and structure and the poet’s use of language along with identifying and
explaining poetic features such as repetition, metaphor, simile, personification, use of contrast,
rhyme and rhythm
- Exploring similarities and differences in poems with reference to themes, form and
structure including other features such as the use of figurative language, choice of words,
imagery, writer’s style, etc. with relevant textual details
- commenting on the form and structure and the poet’s use of language expressing personal
response