Join Exam Practice: Week Five
A self-paced one-week pre-recorded class for IGCSE/GCSE students
Printable resources
Worksheets and activity sheets to print for every lesson.
Video lessons
Pre-recorded lessons to watch whenever suits — as many times as you like.
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The book we’re reading
A revision-focused literature session that blends set-poem comparison with exam technique. Students read and compare Rudyard Kipling's "If—," a poem of steady, stoic advice on how to meet life's trials, with Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," a passionate villanelle urging the dying to resist death rather than accept it — two very different takes on courage, endurance and how to face what life brings. The class then builds practical revision skills: how and why to make effective cue cards for poems, followed by a strategy for tackling unseen poetry and a chance to apply it to Grace Nichols's "Island Man."
Class contents
"If—" and "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night": comparison discussion
Reading of both poems
How to make cue cards, and why
Making cue cards for the poems
How to tackle unseen poetry
Practice unseen poem: "Island Man"
