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English Language 2.0 (1EN2)
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Free English Language 2.0 (1EN2) study notes for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Paper 1 Section A: Reading 19th-century non-fiction texts
Identifying and interpreting explicit and implicit information and ideas
Summarising ideas and information from a single text
Analysing language: word choice, formal and informal language, tone and imagery
Analysing form and structure
Evaluating how successfully a text achieves its purpose
Writers' views in factual texts: use of evidence, bias and misuse of evidence
Victorian views and contemporary views: reading in context
Functional non-fiction forms: articles, reviews, instructional texts, speeches, journals and reference books
Paper 1 Section B: Transactional writing forms
Writing an article
Writing a blog
Writing a formal email or letter
Writing a report
Writing a review
Writing a text for a speech
Writing a section for a guide, textbook, leaflet or booklet
Paper 2 Section A: Reading contemporary fiction and literary non-fiction
Identifying and interpreting information and ideas
Drawing inferences and justifying them with evidence
Analysing language: word choice, tone, dialogue, imagery and metaphor
Analysing structure: narrative voice, characterisation, word order, sentence type and paragraphing
Synthesising from more than one text
Comparing writers' ideas and perspectives across two texts
Narrative voice: the writer as narrator versus fiction
Literary non-fiction forms: autobiography, biography, memoir, letters, speeches and travel writing
Paper 2 Section B: Imaginative writing
Narrative writing
Descriptive writing
Creative writing techniques: vocabulary, imagery and figurative language
Openings, endings and shaping an imaginative response
Writing craft, vocabulary and technical accuracy
Writing for purpose and audience: argue, persuade, inform and explain
Writing for impact: rhetorical devices and citing evidence
Planning, structuring and proofreading an extended response
Sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect
Punctuation
Spelling and vocabulary
Subject terminology for language and structure analysis
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