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English Language A
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Free English Language A study notes for Pearson Edexcel IGCSE students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Anthology Part 1: Non-fiction Texts
From The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From A Passage to Africa, George Alagiah
From The Explorer’s Daughter, Kari Herbert
Explorers, or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill, Steven Morris
From 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
Young and dyslexic? You've got it going on, Benjamin Zephaniah
From A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat, Emma Levine
From Beyond the Sky and Earth: A Journey into Bhutan, Jamie Zeppa
From H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
From Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah
Anthology Part 2: Poetry Texts
Disabled, Wilfred Owen
‘Out, Out–‘, Robert Frost
An Unknown Girl, Moniza Alvi
The Bright Lights of Sarajevo, Tony Harrison
Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
Anthology Part 2: Prose Texts
The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin
The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant
Significant Cigarettes (from The Road Home), Rose Tremain
Whistle and I’ll Come to You (from The Woman in Black), Susan Hill
Night, Alice Munro
Unseen Non-fiction Reading (Component 1 Section A)
Selecting words and phrases from given lines
Explaining thoughts and feelings in your own words
Retrieving and describing information with brief quotation
Ideas, perspectives and implicit meaning
Non-fiction forms: articles, speeches, journals, travel writing, autobiography
Language and Structure Analysis
Word choice, imagery and figurative language
Sentence forms, punctuation and pace
Structural devices: openings, shifts, endings
Tone, voice and register
Poetic form, rhythm and rhyme
Narrative craft: character, setting and point of view
Comparing Texts (AO3)
Comparing writers' ideas and perspectives
Comparing methods and their effects
Balancing evidence across both texts
Structuring an extended comparison response
Transactional Writing Forms (Component 1 Section B)
Article for a magazine or newspaper
Speech
Letter
Guide
Review
Text of a leaflet
Audience, purpose and form: planning and proofreading
Imaginative Writing (Component 2 Section B)
Narrative writing from a title or topic
Descriptive writing and sensory detail
Given openings and closing lines
Image-stimulus responses
Shaping plot, viewpoint and endings
Grammar, Vocabulary and Accuracy (AO5)
Sentence structures and variety
Punctuation for meaning and effect
Paragraphing and cohesion
Spelling patterns and common errors
Vocabulary range and precision
Standard English usage
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