Course information for the Cambridge iGCSE English Language video course (with tutor-marked assignments)
What is covered in this course
The complete Cambridge iGCSE interactive video course is self-paced and ideal for independent learners. The course is comprehensive and comprises over 40 interactive video lessons, totalling over 60 hours of content. A breakdown of what’s included in each of the course units is provided below.
The first three blocks of this course focus on mastering skills and consist of 30 video lessons each of which is 1-1.5 hours in length. Each lesson is aligned to a specific syllabus area. Students do not need to purchase any additional materials – all resources are provided. Students can pause the video at key points and attempt questions before comparing their answers with model responses I have written so they can self-assess and check they’re on track.
Each lesson maps onto a section of the syllabus, building all the core skills gradually, and a range of supplementary resources are provided for students to extend their reading, develop their skills and consolidate their understanding.
A suggested time frame for the whole course of four units is 1.5 years, so you could start in January and comfortably complete the tutorials working across four terms in time for the Easter break before the summer series exams the following year. However, as this is a video course, you have complete flexibility to decide your timescale and work through the material at your own pace. You can start at any point in the year and complete the course over six months or two years.
This course option includes grading and in-depth feedback on ten assignments taken from past papers and detailed guidance on how to strengthen responses. I recommend students complete all the modules a month before the exams, so they have the opportunity to put all they have learnt into practice and can use past papers to hone their skills. There are two sittings available each year.
Once you have placed your order, you will receive an email with details on how to access all the course content via Google Classroom. You can also join a closed Facebook group where you can connect with other learners and I will share ideas, advice, hints and tips.
Course content
The consists of the following four units:
CAIE IGCSE Unit 1 self-study course Unit 1 English Language interactive video course: Building Key Skills
CAIE iGCSE Unit 2 Self-study: English Language interactive video course: Key skills and writing forms
CAIE iGCSE Unit 3 self-study English Language interactive video course: Practising skills
CAIE Unit 4/EPC English Language video course: Exam preparation
Detailed course information
Unit 1 includes three past paper marked assignments and covers the following aspects of the syllabus:
* Skimming, scanning, explicit and implicit meaning
* Emotive and sensory language
* Recognising and distinguishing fact, opinion and bias (looking at feature articles, opinion pieces etc)
* Analysing and evaluating, looking at form and purpose in a range of texts
* Deducing audience
* Understanding how to match tone to audience and purpose.
* Technical skills – grammar, punctuation, use of reported and direct speech, structuring writing, paragraphing and paragraph cohesion, audience and levels of formality, assuming voice and role.
Unit 2 includes three marked past paper assignments and focuses on the following:
Key writing forms & the conventions of different text types, including:
* Speeches/talks
* Interviews
* Diary journal entries
* Reports
* News reports
* Magazine articles
* Letters
This awareness is crucial for the extended writing response and directed writing task, for which candidates must be prepared to write any of the text types listed above.
We will also look at writing for different purposes including:
* Writing to inform, explain, persuade, argue, explore and discuss.
We will touch on descriptive and narrative writing, which will be examined in more detail in Units 3 and 4.
Unit 3 includes four marked past paper assignments and covers the following:
Applying skills – locating and selecting information, literal and inferred meaning, practising exam-style comprehension questions and looking at sample responses
Summary writing – identifying the focus of the question, selecting and ordering points for a summary, writing a summary, practice questions, sample answers
Analysing language – synonyms and literal meaning, explaining connotations and associations
Extended response to reading and directed writing exam tasks – how to plan, structure and write pieces, including understanding the question’s focus, assuming a role, practising with exam-style questions
Composition – descriptive and narrative tasks, organising ideas, structuring your piece, using imagery, including sensory details, varieties of focus, developing elements fully, the importance of using varied sentence types and starters and punctuation.
Unit 4
The last ten video lessons comprise recordings from my Exam Preparation Course, (which can also be taken as a live webinar-style class on its own from mid-January through to Easter by students who would like support in the run-up to the exams). In these lessons, I guide students through how to interpret and make sense of mark schemes and examiner reports, so they are able to develop their understanding of how exam tasks are marked and self-assess their work, helping them tailor their responses to the specified criteria.
This part of the course focuses on a different past paper question each week which students can complete in advance of/after watching the relevant recording to help them grasp what’s required. The tutorials recap the examiners’ criteria, features of each text type and exam task and ‘walk students through’ the task, demonstrating how to break down the question, analyse and evaluate the material to produce a well-structured, sequenced response.
Each lesson is accompanied by an annotated model response I have written to illustrate what makes a good answer and what examiners are looking for. Each tutorial for this section of the course is 1hr 30-1hr 45 minutes long and recordings can be watched in more than one sitting.
Once you have placed your order, you will receive an email with details on how to access the course content via Google Classroom. You will also be able to join a closed Facebook group where you can connect with other learners and I will share ideas, advice, hints and tips.
A bit about me: I am a qualified English tutor with a MA degree in English Language and Literature and a PGCE. I’m also a long-standing home educating mum to three. I have taught the Cambridge iGCSE English Language syllabus for many years, supporting hundreds of students to realise their potential and achieve academic success. My two older daughters also sat this specification and achieved percentage uniform marks, (PUMs), of 97% and 96%.
Cambridge iGCSE English Language video course (with tutor-marked assignments)
£325.00
Description
Course information for the Cambridge iGCSE English Language video course (with tutor-marked assignments)
What is covered in this course
The complete Cambridge iGCSE interactive video course is self-paced and ideal for independent learners. The course is comprehensive and comprises over 40 interactive video lessons, totalling over 60 hours of content. A breakdown of what’s included in each of the course units is provided below.
The first three blocks of this course focus on mastering skills and consist of 30 video lessons each of which is 1-1.5 hours in length. Each lesson is aligned to a specific syllabus area. Students do not need to purchase any additional materials – all resources are provided. Students can pause the video at key points and attempt questions before comparing their answers with model responses I have written so they can self-assess and check they’re on track.
Each lesson maps onto a section of the syllabus, building all the core skills gradually, and a range of supplementary resources are provided for students to extend their reading, develop their skills and consolidate their understanding.
A suggested time frame for the whole course of four units is 1.5 years, so you could start in January and comfortably complete the tutorials working across four terms in time for the Easter break before the summer series exams the following year. However, as this is a video course, you have complete flexibility to decide your timescale and work through the material at your own pace. You can start at any point in the year and complete the course over six months or two years.
This course option includes grading and in-depth feedback on ten assignments taken from past papers and detailed guidance on how to strengthen responses. I recommend students complete all the modules a month before the exams, so they have the opportunity to put all they have learnt into practice and can use past papers to hone their skills. There are two sittings available each year.
Once you have placed your order, you will receive an email with details on how to access all the course content via Google Classroom. You can also join a closed Facebook group where you can connect with other learners and I will share ideas, advice, hints and tips.
Course content
The consists of the following four units:
Detailed course information
Unit 1 includes three past paper marked assignments and covers the following aspects of the syllabus:
Unit 2 includes three marked past paper assignments and focuses on the following:
Key writing forms & the conventions of different text types, including:
This awareness is crucial for the extended writing response and directed writing task, for which candidates must be prepared to write any of the text types listed above.
We will also look at writing for different purposes including:
* Writing to inform, explain, persuade, argue, explore and discuss.
We will touch on descriptive and narrative writing, which will be examined in more detail in Units 3 and 4.
Unit 3 includes four marked past paper assignments and covers the following:
Unit 4
The last ten video lessons comprise recordings from my Exam Preparation Course, (which can also be taken as a live webinar-style class on its own from mid-January through to Easter by students who would like support in the run-up to the exams). In these lessons, I guide students through how to interpret and make sense of mark schemes and examiner reports, so they are able to develop their understanding of how exam tasks are marked and self-assess their work, helping them tailor their responses to the specified criteria.
This part of the course focuses on a different past paper question each week which students can complete in advance of/after watching the relevant recording to help them grasp what’s required. The tutorials recap the examiners’ criteria, features of each text type and exam task and ‘walk students through’ the task, demonstrating how to break down the question, analyse and evaluate the material to produce a well-structured, sequenced response.
Each lesson is accompanied by an annotated model response I have written to illustrate what makes a good answer and what examiners are looking for. Each tutorial for this section of the course is 1hr 30-1hr 45 minutes long and recordings can be watched in more than one sitting.
Once you have placed your order, you will receive an email with details on how to access the course content via Google Classroom. You will also be able to join a closed Facebook group where you can connect with other learners and I will share ideas, advice, hints and tips.
A bit about me: I am a qualified English tutor with a MA degree in English Language and Literature and a PGCE. I’m also a long-standing home educating mum to three. I have taught the Cambridge iGCSE English Language syllabus for many years, supporting hundreds of students to realise their potential and achieve academic success. My two older daughters also sat this specification and achieved percentage uniform marks, (PUMs), of 97% and 96%.
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