Curriculum Links 

We would like to take the opportunity to inform you of the curriculum to be studied by your child in Year 11 English Second Language. 

The IGCSE 2-year course follows the requirements of the Cambridge English Second Language syllabus 0510.

Students and parents have access to the syllabus and other information via the CIE's website.  www.cie.org.uk

Term 1

Week 1: Welcome back

• Syllabus Overview

• Course Overview

• Expectations and goals 

Week 2: Unit 17: Environment 

The skills that will be covered this week are

• Speaking and vocabulary skills

• Skimming and scanning 

• Understanding ideas, opinions, and attitudes

• Communicating information/ideas/opinions clearly, accurately, and effectively

• Understanding and selecting relevant information 

• Note-taking 

The students will have a short assessment in reading comprehension and note-taking on Monday, September 11, 2023.

Week 3

• Read various texts to select relevant information

• Understand the purpose, audience, and form of reports, and use this in their own writing

• tips for writing a report

• Practise writing a report, then revising and editing their work.

Week 4

• Practise report writing 

• Read a text and explain the connections between ideas and understand the implied meaning,

• Listening practice

• Report writing short assessment

Week 5

Project 

Week 6

Use appropriate language and vocabulary to express their views about fast food

Write restaurant review

Week 7

The students will practise movie review writing

The students will practise reading comprehension exercise 2

Review writing and reading comprehension ex 2 test

Week 8

Practise answering Note-taking and reading comprehension questions

Listening Practice

Week 9

-The students will judge the tone and register for different purposes, make appropriate vocabulary choices, structure work in coherent paragraphs, and use a variety of grammatical structures and tenses to write an email.

-Demonstrate understanding of specific factual information.

-Demonstrate understanding of implied meaning.

-Practise answering reading comprehension Exercise 4

English test on November 13, 2023, in article writing

Week 10

-Understand the purpose, audience, and form of articles and use this in their own writing.

-Organise their writing into a coherent structure that matches the appropriate style and format of writing an article.

-Practise writing articles

Week 11

Article writing test (November 13, 2023)

listening Practice

Essay writing 

Week 12

-Essay Writing and Reading Comprehension EX 2

-Short assessment in essay writing and reading comprehension 

Week 13

-Listening Assessment

-This week we will focus on speaking skills and exam-style questions 

Term 2

Week 1 

Vocabulary, reading comprehension and email writing.

Week 2

Reading comprehension 

Note-taking

review writing and creating word banks

Week 3

Practise exam-style questions 

Week 4

Listening Practice

Writing for accuracy

Week 5

Report writing revision

Note-taking revision

Week 6

Report writing and note-taking test on January 21, 2024

The students will practise exam-style questions