Welcome Day: Intro to GCSE English

What does the sign on the left seem to be suggesting?

• People should always leave their bikes in the bike stands

• People should always use the product 'bicycle stance'

• People should adopt a bicycle riding posture at all times

What is the correct spelling?

• aingel

• angle

• angel

• ainejell

a) Let's eat kids!

b) Let's eat, kids!

Which one is suggesting cannibalism?

• a

• b

• Both a and b

• What is cannibalism?

Which word is mis-spelled?

• private

• customer

• parking

• toad

Do you think he meant to boast about his digestive organs?

• yes definitely

• no it's unlikely

• maybe?

What does the lack of punctuation here lead the reader to imagine?

• There are people walking in an area where there is hunting

• Hunters need to be careful in case walkers attack

• People hunting walkers need to be careful

Ex. Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson didn’t see the point in having a lever on the dash to adjust its suspension. He said, “It really is about as useful as putting a snooze button on a smoke alarm.”

What figurative language techniques has he used here?

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

"What you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you’re going.”

What figurative language is Caitlin Moran using here?

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

It is topped with a boiled egg, allowed to come to room temperature, but still with a sunset of runny yolk that pours out across it when you cut in.

Restaurant critic Jay Raynor uses the metaphor 'sunset' here. What does this suggest? (3 correct answers)

• The yolk is yellow/orange

• It looks beautiful

• The yolk splays out in several directions like the rays of the sun

• He is eating it at night-time

What could a 'Christmas threat' be? (2 correct answers)

• a nice Christmassy gift

• a suggestion of violence on Christmas day

• a spelling mistake

• what King Herod did in the Nativity story