IGCSE English First Language

Reading

Texts have power – and this unit is about learning to see exactly how they work. Analysing travel writing and guidebook extracts, the focus falls on skimming and scanning for information, making inferences, and developing a sharp eye for the craft behind a writer’s choices.

Directed Writing

A chance to find a voice across a range of real-world formats – from blog posts and letters to persuasive talks and presentations. Work explores genre, develops audience awareness, and uncovers how the same idea can land very differently depending on how it’s written.

Composition

What separates ordinary description from writing that truly brings a place or moment to life? This unit explores the craft of descriptive writing – original images, structured planning, and the techniques skilled writers use to open and close their work to maximum effect.

Reading

From interviews and instructions to informative articles, non-fiction writing does a remarkable range of jobs in the world. The focus is on reading between the lines, identifying attitudes, and presenting ideas in a clear, logical sequence across diverse text types.

Directed Writing

Writing with authority and purpose is a skill – and this unit builds it. The work involves crafting magazine articles, formal reports and appeal letters, with a focus on selecting and using evidence effectively and transforming the same content across different genres.

Exam Prep

Everything comes together here. A focused, practical walkthrough of both IGCSE papers – what each question is really asking and how examiners are answered precisely, from short comprehension tasks to extended creative and argumentative writing.

Composition

Stories shape how we understand the world – and this unit is about learning to shape them. Studying how autobiography, fiction and poetry use language to build tension and create meaning, the unit develops skills in planning, pacing and editing sustained narrative work.

Reading

Advertisements, editorials, travel writing, web articles – non-fiction texts are everywhere, and they all want something from their reader. This unit develops the analytical precision to see how they work: comparing texts, selecting evidence, inferring attitudes and building the vocabulary examiners reward.

Directed Writing

How do you change someone’s mind? This unit studies argument and persuasion in action – news reports, editorials, blog posts and radio discussions – before turning the focus to constructing convincing non-fiction pieces, deploying rhetorical devices and anticipating counter-arguments.

Exam Preparation

Precision, confidence, timing. This unit revisits both IGCSE papers with a sharpened focus on technique – working through every question type, from summary and language analysis to extended original writing, with an eye firmly on exam conditions.

Exam Preparation & Exams