GCSE English Language: Rhetoric & Persuasion Workbook is a five-mission activity book that teaches persuasive language through real, public-domain speeches printed on the page for close reading. Students analyse Mark Antony’s funeral oration from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the closing lines of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and the abolitionist voices of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, learning to name and explain the devices that persuade: ethos, pathos and logos, direct address, the rhetorical question, the tricolon (rule of three), repetition, metaphor, irony and antithesis. Close-reading questions are auto-marked on screen, while open tasks ask students to write their own persuasive paragraph and plan a short speech, building the writing the GCSE English Language exam rewards. Mapped to the DfE subject content and Assessment Objectives for reading and for writing to persuade. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and student notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
GCSE English Language Skills Workbook is a five-mission activity book mapped to the DfE GCSE subject content and assessment objectives for English Language (AO2 analysis of language and structure; AO5 and AO6 writing craft). Working from one short original non-fiction extract, students identify language techniques such as metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, sibilance, rhetorical questions, imperatives and emotive language; analyse structural features including topic sentences, discourse markers and single-sentence paragraphs; judge purpose, audience, tone and register; and then practise DAFOREST persuasive devices, varied sentence types and punctuation for effect. Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, and two open missions build real analytical and persuasive writing. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key, and it is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
