IGCSE English

50% Exam 50% Coursework

Marks Unit Task Mark Grade Target to improve

 
50 (Mock) Exam: Answer 3      
Paper 1 Reading questions on 3
  passages

50 Component 3 Writing to /40     

Coursework: Describe
Creative Writing
Writing to  /40    
Argue/ /10
Persuaude in
response to a
text
Writing to  /40    
Narrate

30 Component 4 Presentation      
Coursework: (individual)
Speaking and  

Listening Role Play      

(paired activity)
 

Discussion      
/debate
(group activity)
 LO: Read, decode and evaluate a
writer’s point of view.
Read the article you have chosen again and consider the
following questions:
• What is the main topic of discussion?
• Who are the characters/people involved?
• What does the writer’s opinion seem to be? How do
you know?
• Are examples used? Are they effective?
• Do you agree or disagree with the main argument/s?

Challenge: How, if at all, are you being manipulated as a

reader?
 Think back to this lesson…
Who are you?
• Write your name on the mini-
whiteboard

• Write one thing on the whiteboard

that you are passionate about

• Discuss it with your partner

 And now the negative…
• What do you hate?

• Write the thing that you hate the most

on the back of the whiteboard

• Discuss it with your partner

 Your rant

• Choose a topic you feel strongly about.

• Or choose three to five objects that you fear/ irritate

you/you wish did not exist.

• Brainstorm your ideas.

• Organise your ideas into a logical order.

 ‘Don’t get me started’ planning sheet
Items/ people/ Reasons for their annoyance AFOREST technique showing
places/ ideas that your annoyance
annoy you
     
 

   
 
 

   
 

   
 
 Namely For example That is
EXPLAINING
Such as In other words For instance
IDEAS As already stated

PUTTING Firstly Secondly Then

Meanwhile Next Finally
IDEAS IN Initially Afterwards Later
ORDER Further Lastly Most importantly
In addition Moreover Furthermore
ADDING TO Also Too Besides
IDEAS Likewise Similarly In like manner
In a similar way
Nevertheless However But
Yet Still on the other hand
by contrast Rather on the contrary
COMPARE AND
All the same Notwithstandin Nonetheless
CONTRAST After all g At the same time
Conversely For all that Though
Despite this
Because In order that So that
CAUSE AND
Consequently For For that reason
EFFECT Thus As a result
Therefore So As a result
Hence In conclusion Thus
All in all Finally All this suggests that