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AITCHISON COLLEGE (Senior School) CURRICULUM GUIDE
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CURRICULUM GUIDE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Content overview:
Cambridge IGCSE First Language English offers
candidates
the
opportunity
to
respond
with
understanding to a rich array of reading texts during the
course as a whole. Candidates will use these texts to
inform and inspire their own writing, and write in a
range of text types for different purposes and audiences.
AIMS
The aims describe the purposes of a course based on this
syllabus. The aims are to enable students to:
• read a wide range of texts, fluently and with good
understanding, enjoying and appreciating a variety
of language.
• read critically, and use knowledge gained from wide
reading to inform and improve their own writing
• write accurately and effectively, using Standard English
appropriately.
• work with information and with ideas in language by
developing skills of evaluation, analysis, use and
inference.
Reading:
Candidates will be assessed on their ability to:
demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings
demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and
attitudes
analyze, evaluate and develop facts, ideas and opinions,
using appropriate support from the text
demonstrate understanding of how writers achieve effects
and influence readers select and use information for
specific purposes.
Writing:
Candidates will be assessed on their ability to:
articulate experience and express what is thought, felt and
imagined
organise and structure ideas and opinions for deliberate
effect
use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures
appropriate to context
use register appropriate to context
make accurate use of spelling, punctuation and grammar
All candidates take:
Paper 1
Duration
Reading
2 Hours
50%
80 marks
Structured and extended writing questions
Questions will be based on three reading texts
Externally assessed
Paper 2 Writing
Duration
Directed Writing and Composition
2 Hours
50%
80 marks
Extended writing question and composition task
Externally assessed. 50 marks
and
Cambridge IGCSE™ First Language English 0500