IGCSE Pre-boards Syllabus March 2011

Subject: English

Paper – 1 (Language)
Reading and Comprehension of unseen passages

Paper – 2 (Language)
a) Reading and Comprehension of unseen passages and comparing two of them
b) Writing about the effect that writer creates through the use of language and
certain phrases.
c) Informal and Formal Letter Writing
d) Diary Writing
e) Newspaper Report Writing
f) Persuasive Writing
g)Summary Writing

Paper –3 (Language)

g) Directed Writing
• Report Writing
• Article Writing
• Transcript Writing (Including Dialogue Writing)
• Persuasive Writing

d) Composition Writing:
• Descriptive
• Narrative
• Argumentative

Paper – 4 (Literature)
Drama – Much Ado About Nothing – Act 1 to Act 5 (Entire Book)

Poetry – Songs of Ourselves – a) On the Grasshopper and the Cricket by John Keats
b) Report to Wordsworth by Boey Kim Cheng
c) So We’ll Go No More A-Roving by Lord Byron
d) First Love by John Clare
e) Marrysong by Dennis Scott
f) The Voice by Thomas Hardy
g) Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes
h) Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth B. Browning
i) Dover Beach by Mathew Arnold
j) The Flower Fed Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay
k) Time by Allen Curnow
l) Sonnet 29 by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Prose – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte – Chapters 1 to 34 (Entire Book)

Paper – 5 (Literature)

Prose – 1984 by George Orwell – Part I, II and III (Entire Book)