JC English

Plan and deliver a clear talk using voice, pace, eye contact and structure.

Listen actively, take turns, build on others' ideas and disagree respectfully.

Write and deliver speeches that persuade an audience, and follow debate conventions.

Find information, make inferences and explain a writer's choices in unseen texts.

Work out meanings from context, roots, prefixes and suffixes, and choose precise words.

Tell facts from opinions and spot bias and one-sided language in texts.

Identify imagery, sound effects, form and structure in poems and explain their effect.

Write a personal, well-supported response to studied and unseen poems.

Analyse character, conflict, stagecraft and theme in a studied play.

Analyse plot, character, setting, narrative voice and theme in fiction.

Analyse how advertisements, news and online texts target audiences and shape opinion.

Use film language (shots, angles, sound, editing) to analyse a film.

Recognise nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions.

Use full stops, commas, apostrophes, colons, semicolons and speech marks correctly.

Write simple, compound and complex sentences and avoid run-ons and fragments.

Spell common words correctly and choose between homophones such as their/there/they're.

Keep tenses consistent and make subjects and verbs agree.

Write short stories with a strong opening, developed characters, tension and a satisfying ending.

Create vivid description using the senses, precise vocabulary and imagery.

Argue a point of view using rhetorical techniques, evidence and a clear structure.

Explain a subject clearly and accurately for a reader, using headings and logical order.

Use the layout, register and conventions of formal and informal letters and emails.

Write structured reports with terms of reference, findings and recommendations.

Review a book, film, game or event, combining information with a reasoned judgement.

Write reflective personal pieces with an authentic voice.