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English Syllabus 1123 (2024-2026) - Coggle Diagram
English Syllabus 1123 (2024-2026)
Syllabus Aims
• read a wide range of texts, fluently and with good understanding, enjoying and appreciating a variety of
language
• read critically, and use knowledge gained from wide reading to inform and improve their own writing
• work with information and with ideas in language by developing skills of evaluation, analysis, use and
inference
• write accurately and effectively, using standard English appropriately
Paper 2
50 Marks
2 Hours
Writing
Composition
25 Marks
350-450 words
One
question from a choice of four: two descriptive and two narrative
Directed writing
25 Marks
15
marks for writing assessment objectives
10
marks for reading assessment objectives
One
compulsory question
250-350 words
Assessment and Objectives
AO2 Writing
W4 use register appropriate to context
W3 use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures appropriate to context
W2 organise and structure ideas and opinions for deliberate effect
W1 articulate experience and express what is thought, felt and imagined
W5 make accurate use of spelling, punctuation and grammar.
AO1 Reading
R2 demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and
attitudes
R3 analyse, evaluate and develop facts, ideas and opinions, using appropriate support from the text
R4 demonstrate understanding of how writers achieve effects and influence readers
R5 select and use information for specific purposes.
R1 demonstrate understanding of explicit meanings
Paper 1
Reading
2 hours
50 Marks
Comprehension
25 marks
16 marks for comprehension task
9 marks for use of language
understanding of explicit and implicit meanings
Try to write in your own words
Summary
20 Marks
150-180 words
write in your own words
5 marks for short response
Command words
Consider
(review and respond to given information)
Identify
(name/select/recognise)
Describe
(state the points of a topic / give characteristics and main features)
Evaluate
(judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something)
Give
(produce an answer from a given source or recall/memory)
Explain
(set out purposes or reasons / make the relationships between things clear / say why
and/or how and support with relevant evidence)
Summarise
(e select and present the main points, without detail)