Responding to key images in an unseen extract from Akala's 'The Dark Lady' | English

Starter quiz

Which time period was Elizabethan England?
- Mostly 16th century ✓
- Mostly 12th century
- Mostly 20th century
- Mostly 18th century
What does 'unseen text' mean?
- a text you are familiar with
- a text you have not seen before ✓
- a text you are partially familiar with
- a text you do not enjoy
What does predict mean?
- to know what will happen in the future
- to say what you think will happen in the future ✓
- to analyse a writer's use of structure
To form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have is to ______.
- 'infer' ✓
A feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning is a ______.
- 'connotation' ✓
What does symbolise mean?
- where something represents something else ✓
- where something is said to be something else
- where something is said to be like something else

In Akala's 'The Dark Lady', Henry is forced to steal to survive. From this, we can infer that his life is ...
- safe
- dangerous ✓
- mundane
In Akala's 'The Dark Lady', we find out that Henry has the ability to ...
- read or translate anything in front of him ✓
- turn invisible at will
- make people trust him implicitly
A summary is ...
- the introduction to your argument
- when you use evidence from the text
- a statement of the most important facts ✓
- a statement giving your opinion of a text
To change words into a different language means to ______.
- 'translate' ✓
In Akala's 'The Dark Lady', the image of a __________ is used before Henry uses his magic.
- butterfly ✓
- unicorn
- rose
- lion
In Akala's 'The Dark Lady', Henry describes the process of using his magic as seeing different "colours" and images. What are the connotations of this?
- using his magic is a positive experience ✓
- using his magic is a negative experience
- he doesn't feel anything when using his magic

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Making predictions about a text is useful because it allows you to consider the impact of a writer’s choices.
You should use the first read through of an unseen text to establish information about plot and characters.
You should use the second read through of an unseen text to consider the writer’s choices.
When we read, we must make inferences about a text to help us understand what the author is really saying.

That it's impossible to guess what will happen in a text.

While we can't know for certain, we can pick up on clues that the writer gives us to make predictions about what will happen in a text.

Predict - to say what you think will happen in the future
Infer - to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have
Translate - to change words into a different language
Connotation - a feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning
Summary - a brief, clear statement giving the most important facts about something