Chinese Cinderella is currently taught on the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language Paper 1 curriculum. It is one of the 10 non-fiction texts which students answer on in Section A. This blog is a guide for teaching this text based on my Chinese Cinderella GCSE Scheme of Work. The first thing that I notice when teaching …
A Passage to Africa is currently taught on the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language Paper 1 curriculum. It is one of the 10 non-fiction texts which students answer on in Section A. This is a guide to how to teach this text based on my A Passage to Africa GCSE resources pack. George Alagiah is often …
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A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat tends to intrigue students immediately with its strange title – odd images that don’t match up. This is one of the more light-hearted and fun extracts from the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language Paper 1 Section A: non-fiction texts, so always a pleasure to teach. This is a …
‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’ IGCSE Lessons and Activities Between a Rock and a Hard Place, as well as being a popular idiom, is the title of a book written by Aron Ralston. An extract from the book – the part in which his hand is crushed – is currently studied as part …
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‘The Danger of a Single Story’ Lessons with Activities ‘The Danger of a Single Story’ is a Ted Talk speech by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. At the time of writing, it has been viewed 10 million times. It is currently studied as part of the IGCSE Edexcel English Language A exam Section A: Non-fiction texts. It’s engaging …
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