Revising An Inspector Calls

May 2015

The exam is in 1 week!

Scroll down through this blog for seriously useful resource and ways to revise.

I'd encourage:

• Watching AIC again, what an easy way to revise!  
• Ensuring that your navigation of the text is secure - use key quotes document and the Sheila/Eric/Gerald powerpoint below.  FOR MAY 2016 - SET 4 &5 SHOULD USE THEIR CUE CARDS! 
• Practice finding 6 quotes in 15 minutes for various past paper questions:

1.     How does Priestley present his views through his presentation of Mr Birling?

2.     How does Priestley present the struggles of the working class in the play?

3.     The play is full of suspense. How does Priestley create this suspense?

4.     Priestley presents British society as immoral. What methods does he use to present this immorality?   

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TEssay questions adapted from English@Turton

March 2015 

A good summary page for AIC:

With thanks Andy Tharby

Feb 2015 UPDATE:  Here are the key quotes for the Younger Generation that we worked on. KNOW your way around the text and your pages!

UPDATE: Knowing your text and quotes is the most important revision you can do at this stage. Use this key-quotes document to practice navigating around your text. 

Act 1: Dinner party/I.G arrives/Interrogation of Mr B/Interrogation of S
Act 2: Pause/Interrogation of Gerald/Interrogation of Mrs B
Act 3: Interrogation of Eric/I.G leaves/Gerald returns - "it was a hoax"/Phone call. 

UPDATE: Here are the character mindmaps that you worked on 11m1. See them for key quotes/pages/characteristics for the AIC characters:



Don't forget that you need to keep An Inspector Calls fresh in your memory also until the Literature exam on Tuesday 20th of May. 

1. Rusty on the plot?  Watch this handy video:  An Inspector Calls Summary - Bitesize   or this BBC film version:

2. And whilst your on Bitesize, use the rest of their AIC resources: BBC Bitesize AIC Menu.  Other good sites are:

• Universal Teacher
• Revision World

3. Can't remember anything about the early 19th Century context?  This is a good video:

4.  Utilise (carefully) the clips on youtube - once again Dominic Salles/Porchester School are reliable (see OMAM post for direct links).

5.  Actively revise by doing any of these activities - copies are in your AIC revision booklet. 

6.  Use any of the MANY revision booklets that exist on line (or the one you've been given!):

• Mr Johnson's (Turton School) - similar to the one you've got
• The Grange School 
• Devon (similar to Bitesize) 

7.  We know that revising English can be a bit tough, you can't just flick to the markscheme and check it yourself.  However, I WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING/ANYTHING (plans, PEA paragraphs, whole practice essays) FOR YOU!

8.  Here are some of your plans (from 11m1) on various essay questions on Mr Birling and Eva Smith/Daisy Renton.  Particular well done/thanks to Amber, Amy, Andrei and Bella who contributed detailed full plans.   

How can you revise?  Take one of these plans, set a clock for 30 minutes, write it up!


Here are the quotations you found for a variety of AIC past paper questions:




9. Click here for links to youtube for an audiobook copy of An Inspector Calls - listening to it would be a great idea!


10. As mentioned on poetry pages, I really rate these two teachers' vidoes:

J Brierley and Mr Bruff