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English as a first language
• 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.
• Listen to, understand, and use spoken language effectively.
• Acquire and apply a wide vocabulary, alongside a knowledge and understanding of grammatical terminology and linguistic conventions.
Cambridge IGCSE (9–1) 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.
Candidates will develop both their speaking and their listening skills, delivering a presentation, and responding to questions and engaging in conversations. Candidates are encouraged to become appreciative and critical readers, writers, speakers and listeners.
In developing reading skills, candidates should engage with a range of genres and text types from the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries, including literature, fiction and non-fiction, and other forms of writing, such as discursive essays, reviews and articles. This study should include focus on writers’ use of language and style and the ways in which writers achieve effects and influence readers. Candidates should study how influence may include fact, ideas, perspectives, opinions and bias.
As developing writers themselves, candidates should be introduced to a range of writing skills, including the ability to create and compose texts with a variety of forms and purposes, e.g. descriptive, narrative, discursive, argumentative and persuasive. This study should include focus on the following text types: letter, report, article, journal, speech, interview and summary.
Candidates may do either the Core curriculum or the Extended curriculum. The highest grade in the core curriculum is a C. The highest grade in the extended curriculum is an A*
3 different exams- English as a second language
The 24th of September we open the doors to our biggest open house of the year! Stop by between 12.30 and 17.00. No sign-up needed! See you then!