RUAE check-point

RUAE check-point

In Your Own Words questions

Multiple Select

Which of these is an approach to answering an IN YOUR OWN WORDS type question?

• Step 1: Find the answer in the passage.

  Step 2: Use your own words to restate it.

• Step 1: Find the answer in the passage.

  Step 2: Quote it.

• Step 1: Write the number of the paragraph down first.

  Step 2: Quote the right answer.

• Step 1: Locate.

  Step 2: Translate

Multiple Choice

What is a common trap people fall into when answering IN YOUR OWN WORDS questions?

• They look for the answer in the wrong lines of the passage.

• They quote or just rearrange words instead of using different words.

• They don't check how many marks a question is worth so might not do enough to get full marks for the question

• They find the right bit but then forget to change it into their own words.

Open Ended

In the box below, tell me the formula for how to answer an IN YOUR OWN WORDS question.

Poll

How confident do you feel about answering IN YOUR OWN WORDS questions?

Imagery questions

Multiple Select

What approach should you take to answering a question about IMAGERY?

• Quote the image, explain the literal root of the image and then analyse how it is being used by the writer.

• Find and translate.

• 1.) Quote the image.

  2.) Say what is being compared to what, using "Just as... so too."

  3.) Say what the image reveals - "This therefore shows that..."

• Say what you think that bit of the passage means.

Multiple Select

What are common mistakes when answering IMAGERY questions?

• Forgetting to actually select and quote the image

• Forgetting to discuss the connotations of the image

• Forgetting to do enough analysis to get full marks for the question

• Quoting whole sentences instead of just the key part

Poll

How confident do you feel about answering IMAGERY questions?

Poll

Do you want to do more IMAGERY questions practice?

• Yes

• No

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