IGCSE ENGLISH

COURSE OUTLINE

English is available in two options - English and English Literature

English
Students will follow either the Core Curriculum (leading to a maximum grade of C) or the extended curriculum (appropriate for students aiming for grades a* to C).

Assessment is by terminal examination only.

Students will develop skills in the following areas -

Reading and Directed Writing
Continuous Writing
Usage
Oral/aural communication (optional)

English Literature

Assessment is by terminal examination only.
Option 1 - Paper 1 (open book) consists of questions on each of 3 set texts covering at least two genres.
Paper 2 examines responses to an unseen text.
Option 2 - One paper (closed book) with questions on each of 4 set texts which between them cover each of 3 genres.

Students will develop skills in the following areas -

Knowledge and understanding of literary texts
Critical Interpretation
Judgement and Personal Response

1999 Prescribed Texts

Prose
Jane Austen: Persuasion (World's Classics)
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (Longman)
Stories from Many Cultures (Longman)
J.G. Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur (Flamingo, Fontana)
Susan Hill: Strange Meeting (Penguin)
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World (Faber)
Katherine Mansfield: Short Stones (World's Classics)

Drama
William Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House (tr. M. Meyer, Three Plays, Eyre Methuen)
Arthur Miller: The Crucible (Heinemann)
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion (Longman)
Shelagh Delaney: A Taste of Honey (Heinemann)
William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing

Poetry
The Calling of Kindred: ed Adrian Barlow (CUP) Section B
Touched with Fire: ed Jack Hydes (CUP) Section B