IGCSE English Language

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Date and time to be confirmed in July

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Requirements:

Read all the books, poems, articles in advance of studying them in the short courses. (Examples of possible texts discussed together below, not an exhaustive or complete list)

Interaction required and your opinions ready to share.

Cameras on.

GC consulted weekly by both parents and students.

  1. 127 Hours, Between a Rock and a Hard place: Aron Ralston

  2. Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

  3. Disabled, Wildred Owen

  4. Whistle and I’ll Come to You (from The Woman in Black), Susan Hill (self-study, resources provided).

  5. Out, Out by Robert Frost

  6. Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah

  7. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

  8. Significant Cigarettes ( from the Road Home) by Rose Tremain

  9. Young and Dyslexic? You’ve got it going on? Benjamin Zephaniah

  10. A Passage to Africa by George Alagiah

  11. Night by Alice Munro

  12. A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat by Emma Levine

  13. The Bright Lights of Sarajevo, Tony Harrison

  14. The Explorer’s Daughter by Kari Herbert

  15. An Unknown Girl, Moniza Alvi

  16. The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin

  17. The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  18. H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald

  19. Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan is a memoir written by Jamie Zeppa

  20. Explorers or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill, Steven Morris

  21. Poetry Selection

IGCSE requirements:

The aims and objectives of the English Language IGCSE are to enable students to:

● read a wide range of texts fluently and with good understanding

● read critically and use knowledge gained from wide reading to inform and improve their own writing

● write effectively and coherently using Standard English appropriately

● use grammar correctly, punctuate and spell accurately

● acquire and apply a wide vocabulary alongside knowledge and understanding of grammatical terminology, and linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language

What this course is:

This is a two-year IGCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SPEC A Pearson Edexcel Course.

This is a complete course to consolidate and drill down what you already know but might need some more practice on!

Those specific skills are:

  • Reading: Understanding texts

  • Reading: Language and structure

  • Writing: Creative and Non Fiction

(imaginative writing, transactional writing, comparison of unseen texts, SPaG and comparison of perspectives).

I will provide more materials for further study for anyone who wants a deeper dive into any particular topic, dependent on when they are sitting their IGCSE and which exam board/ Spec they are doing, (via Google Classroom).

I am happy to guide you and supplement your own bespoke learning that you choose within your own educational set up, within the course time, (within the course I will be looking at some of the essays you’ve written) and towards exam time we will look at past paper and exam questions together.

You will be provided with plenty of past exam papers to practice as you need.

What you can do:

I would always advise that you look at the website of your awarding body for full details of the specific course you choose and find your complete GCSE/IGCSE specification.

Tailor your learning to that body specifically, alongside practicing the skills here.