The teacher apologizes for being absent and encourages the student to practice for their exam, focusing on mastering four key sentence structures. The teacher provides success criteria for a skilled and excellent exam response, including using a variety of sentence structures and ambitious vocabulary, as well as organizing paragraphs to support an argument. Students are then instructed to peer assess a practice response based on the success criteria and improve one paragraph with feedback.

1. Cover Y11

2. Dear Y11,
I am very sorry not to be with you. However, you
should also know that I would be if I could.
This lesson you need to practice your Section B, Q6
exam.
Think about the four sentence structures I have
drummed into you (if you don’t know these, this
should be a crucial part of your revision this week).
See you tomorrow.
Ms 
P.S. This is my first actual absence this year – work
hard: it’s your exam. You only have 7 lessons left
after this

3. Learning Objectives
We are learning to...
 Control language, organisation and
sentence structure in preparation
for Q6 of the Language exam

4. 40 minutes in exam conditions
Your school is going to have a longer
school day, but with a three day
weekend.
Write a letter to the Headteacher to argue
for or against this change.

5. How do you do this well?
Skilled Q6 will 1. Include clear points to support your argument
… 2. Write in accurate sentences using a range of
structures
3. Choose ambitious words and rhetorical
devices
4. Organise paragraphs to support your
argument
Excellent 1. Come up with original points and show
Q6will… increasing development and precision
2. Show an increasing variety of sentence
structures for impact
3. Choose some increasingly ambitious and
impressive vocabulary and rhetorical devices
4. Have clear links throughout the text including
between paragraphs

6. Now peer assess against success
criteria.
Give area of success and target for improvement.
Do not say this is great target write a bit more....
It needs to be specific and precise against success
criteria.
Then improve one paragraph using this feedback.

7. How do you do this well?
Skilled Q6 will 1. Include clear points to support your argument
… 2. Write in accurate sentences using a range of
structures
3. Choose ambitious words and rhetorical
devices
4. Organise paragraphs to support your
argument
Excellent 1. Come up with original points and show
Q6will… increasing development and precision
2. Show an increasing variety of sentence
structures for impact
3. Choose some increasingly ambitious and
impressive vocabulary and rhetorical devices
4. Have clear links throughout the text including
between paragraphs