IGCSE CORE PAPER LESSON ONE
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Transcript IGCSE CORE PAPER LESSON ONE
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:
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.
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:
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
As a group work through the June 2012 CORE
PAPER.
First read the passage My Tutor Kralefsky and
then begin to answer Question One.
You must complete D, E, G and H on your
own, the rest of Question One will be
completed with your peers.
55 Minutes
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