Product Description
Cambridge IGCSE™ and O Level First Language English Exam Preparation and Practice with Digital Access (2 Years)
Author/s: Graham Elsdon, Helen Rees-Bidder
Format: Hardcopy + Digital
Designed to increase your confidence, help you identify and develop different skill areas, recognise different question types, understand connections between concepts, reflect on progress and manage test anxiety.
A wealth of questions and activities improve your ability to recall knowledge and answer effectively. Your awareness and familiarity with exam language is increased by the focus on command words, time management and how the marks are broken down within and across exam papers.
Self-assessment checklists and sample student responses also help to deepen your learning. The digital resource includes over 100 auto-marked multiple-choice and flip card questions.
This series supports the Cambridge IGCSE™ First Language English syllabuses (0500/0990) for examination from 2027
Features:
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Organised into two sections, one for reading and one for writing to reflect the structure of the coursebook.
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Each unit develops a range of skill areas, including a focus on general English skills, exam specific skills and questions, recall and connect questions and support for understanding key terms.
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Build useful exam skills through active learning and focusing on questions rather than content summaries.
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Recognise effective learning techniques to become a critical thinker and apply your knowledge beyond the exam.
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Reflection opportunities and self-assessment checklists help you to process your own learning.
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Understand key command words, the variety of question types, how your time should be distributed throughout the exam paper, and how the marks are broken down within and across exam papers.
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The Exam Practice sections give you opportunities to draw your knowledge of several topics together.
Contents:
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How to use this series
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How to use this book
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Exam skills
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PART 1: READING
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Unit 1: Reading skills and strategies
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1.1 An introduction to reading skills
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1.2 Reading strategies
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1.3 Types of text
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Unit 2: Reading for comprehension
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2.1 Focusing on vocabulary
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2.2 Putting reading strategies into practice
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2.3 Using your own words
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2.4 Explicit and implicit meaning
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Exam practice 1
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Unit 3: Summary writing
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3.1 Reading for ideas
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3.2 Remodelling the text
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3.3 Developing a coherent summary
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Exam practice 2
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Unit 4: Analysing and explaining writers' effects
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4.1 Understanding meaning and effects
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4.2 Language chosen for deliberate effect
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4.3 Exploring figurative language
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4.4 Explaining how writers achieve effects and influence readers
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Unit 5: Extended response to reading
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5.1 Conventions of text types
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3.2 Remodelling the text
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3.3 Developing a coherent summary
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Exam practice 2
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Unit 4: Analysing and explaining writers' effects
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4.1 Understanding meaning and effects
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4.2 Language chosen for deliberate effect
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4.3 Exploring figurative language
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4.4 Explaining how writers achieve effects and influence readers
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Unit 5: Extended response to reading
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5.1 Conventions of text types
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5.2 Evaluating and using ideas from a text
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5.3 Developing ideas
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Exam practice 3
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PART 2: WRITING
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Unit 7: Writing skills
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7.1 Content and style
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7.2 Text structures
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7.3 Word and sentence choices
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Unit 8: Directed writing
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8.1 Evaluating views
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8.2 Responding to a task
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8.3 Presenting your views
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8.4 Writing letters and reports
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8.5 Writing a speech
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Exam practice 4
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Unit 9: Descriptive writing
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9.1 Describing places
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9.2 Describing details
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9.3 Using the senses
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9.4 Describing events
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9.5 Describing people
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9.6 Improving descriptive writing
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Unit 10: Narrative writing
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10.1 Story elements and ideas
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10.2 Story openings
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10.3 Characterisation
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10.4 Improving narrative structure
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10.5 Refining your storytelling
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10.6 Endings
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Exam practice 5.
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