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English Language (9093)
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Free English Language (9093) revision notes for Cambridge International AS Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Paper 1 Reading: Text analysis
Reading unseen texts: form, structure and language
Analysing form and text-level structure
Word classes, vocabulary and figurative language
Voice, tense, aspect, modality and narrative perspective
Tone, formality and pragmatics
Using quotations and evidence in analytical writing
Paper 1 Reading: Directed response
Rewriting a text in a new form
Choosing vocabulary, style and structure for a given brief
Comparing your own text with the original
Relating features to purpose, audience and context
Text types and their conventions
Persuasive and promotional texts: advertisements, brochures, leaflets
Journalistic texts: editorials, news stories, articles, reviews, investigative journalism, blogs
Spoken and scripted forms: podcasts, scripted speech
Personal forms: letters, diaries, (auto)biographies, travel writing
Essays, narrative writing and descriptive writing
Paper 2 Writing: Shorter writing and reflective commentary
Writing a short text to a brief (up to 400 words)
Fulfilling the brief: form, purpose and audience
Writing a reflective commentary on your own choices
Audience, purpose and register
Paper 2 Writing: Extended writing
Imaginative and descriptive writing
Discursive and argumentative writing
Review and critical writing
Structuring longer pieces of writing
Paragraphing, cohesion and discourse markers
Accuracy and expression at word and sentence level
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