Transcript IGCSE CORE PAPER LESSON ONE

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1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES
ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS ON ONE PASSAGE
QUESTION ONE IS WORTH 30 MARKS
QUESTION TWO IS WORTH 20 MARKS
ELIGIBLE GRADES C-G
40% OF THE COURSES TOTAL MARKS
 Spend
10 minutes reading the
passage
 Question One 55 minutes
 Question Two 40 minutes
 To
develop the understanding and
approach needed for Question
One on the exam
 To improve close reading skills
Question One is worth 30 Marks.
It tests the following reading objectives:
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understand and collate explicit meanings
understand, explain and collate implicit
meanings and attitudes
select, analyse and evaluate what is relevant
to specific purposes
understand how writers achieve effects.
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Read the questions carefully-some of the
most important instructions are in BOLD
Do not use quotations when it asks you to
explain a part of the passage IN YOUR OWN
WORDS
Spend more time on the parts of the Question
that are worth more marks. These are D, H
and I.
Overall you have around 55 minutes to
answer this question
Put these three sentences taken from nonfiction articles in your own words:
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The force of the wind was too much or him
Yesterday was a bad day for the worst off in
Britain.
Money is something people can easily be
obsessed with.
 Summarise
in a paragraph what
you learn in this clip from the film
‘Little Miss Sunshine?’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=6-44SDd6pts
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As a group work through the June 2012 CORE
PAPER.
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First read the passage My Tutor Kralefsky and
then begin to answer Question One.
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You must complete D, E, G and H on your
own, the rest of Question One will be
completed with your peers.
55 Minutes
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November 2013 Paper
Read carefully the passage Things Go Wrong
and then answer Question One.
55 minutes
 Write
down three tips you would
give one to one of your peers to
successfully answer Question ONE