GCSE2000

Subject: English Language
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 14 - 16
Order Number: 5006

A homework course for GCSE English.

GCSE2000 a homework course for GCSE English. The stimulus material, drawn from a wide variety of sources, is designed to be challenging and engaging.

As well as literary sources, material is drawn from non-fiction and media texts such as newspapers, biographies and diaries and encompasses both modern and pre-twentieth century sources and material from other cultures and societies.

GCSE2000 avoids the obvious and offers assignments that are fresh and appealing. Its units are progressive in difficulty, but offer plenty of opportunities for teachers to mix and match work to their own teaching programme. The assignments encourage students to:

• test their reading for gist and detail
• argue a point of view
• discuss and persuade
• select and summarise
• comment on content and style
• support comment and conclusions by reference to the text
• comment critically on what they have read
• explore a writer's intentions, techniques and choice of words
• appreciate the language and style of a passage
• keep their responses detailed and relevant
• explore stories from other cultures
• explore the appeal of nonfiction texts
• explore how writing can be dramatically effective
• use a text as a stimulus for their own writing
• appreciate the pleasure to be had from reading