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“But you can’t revise for English!” Yes, you can! Complete a task every day to 28 th April 2014 Write a paragraph and in each new line use a different 29 th April 2014 Learn three famous quotes you could use in your writing. 30 th April 2014 Read a blog and copy out the informal expressions they 1 st May 2014 Find a famous speech and highlight all the interesting 2 nd May 2014 Learn how to use a semicolon (;) 3 rd May 2014 Find a piece of writing designed to shock, amuse or inform. Analyse what the writer did to 4 th May 2014 Write 2 sentences where you use the weather to 5 th May 2014 Find a travel blog and list all the emotions you find. 6 th May 2014 Find a song lyric which expresses feelings and 7 th May 2014 Learn how to use dashes instead of brackets and brackets instead 8 th May 2014 Write a sentence beginning with an -ly word. 9 th May 2014 Make a poster of all the different connectives you 10 th May 2014 Write a paragraph and make each sentence have a 11 th May 2014 Read a famous letter and think about how it ends.

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“But you can’t revise for English!”Yes, you can! Complete a task every day to prepare for the exam.28th April 2014

Write a paragraph and in each new line use a different piece of punctuation.

29th April 2014

Learn three famous quotes you could use in your writing.

30th April 2014

Read a blog and copy out the informal expressions they use.

1st May 2014

Find a famous speech and highlight all the interesting techniques the writer has used.

2nd May 2014

Learn how to use a semicolon (;)

3rd May 2014

Find a piece of writing designed to shock, amuse or inform. Analyse what the writer did to make the reader feel that emotion.

4th May 2014

Write 2 sentences where you use the weather to persuade or describe an

5th May 2014

Find a travel blog and list all the emotions you find.

6th May 2014 Find a song lyric which expresses feelings and explain what it means.

7th May 2014

Learn how to use dashes instead of brackets and brackets instead of dashes.

8th May 2014

Write a sentence beginning with an -ly word.

9th May 2014

Make a poster of all the different connectives you can use in a sentence.

10th May 2014 Write a paragraph and make each sentence have a different tone.

11th May 2014

Read a famous letter and think about how it ends.

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27th May 2014

Find a famous speech and copy out some of the phrases the speaker uses to link or develop ideas.

28th May 2014

Find three original words to start a sentence with.

29th May 2014

Pick a newspaper article and highlight all the facts and opinions.

30th May 2014

Learn what a pun is and practise writing and inventing puns, and be ‘punny’.

1st June 2014 Pick a topic and try to think of 5 funny puns you could use if you were writing about it.

2nd June 2014

Experiment with using inverted commas to be sarcastic. That’s ‘cool’!

3rd June 2014

Eat breakfast and take lots of pens to the exam!