IGCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
GRADE 10
JUNE EXAMINATIONS 2014
I encourage you to study your work thoroughly in order to achieve the best possible mark.
Time management is crucial; therefore going through exam papers (given out in class) under
timed conditions will help greatly.
What to study for the June 2014 exams:
1. Literature
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Stories of Ourselves
The Son’s Veto
Thomas Hardy
Her First Ball
Katherine Mansfield
The Fly in the Ointment
V.S Pritchett
The Custody of the Pumpkin P.G. Wodehouse
The Destructors
Graham Greene
A Horse and Two Goats
R. K. Narayan
My Greatest Ambition
Morris Lurie
At Hiruharama
Penelope Fitzgerald
Sandpiper
Ahdaf Soueif
(Sandpiper to be done in 2014, do
not study for November examinations)
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Songs of Ourselves
1 Sujata Bhatt, A Different History
2 Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
3 Allen Curnow, Continuum
4 Edwin Muir, Horses
5 Judith Wright, Hunting Snake
6 Ted Hughes, Pike
7 Christina Rossetti, A Birthday
8 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Woodspurge
9 Kevin Halligan, The Cockroach
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Margaret Atwood, The City Planners
Boey Kim Cheng, The Planners
Norman Maccaig, Summer Farm
Elizabeth Brewster, Where I come from
William Wordsworth, Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
The Literature paper will consist of nine questions. You will have to choose one out of the
three questions for each section. There are three questions. There are empathic, essay and
passage-based questions. You must do at least one passage-based and one essay
question. However, you will not be allowed to do more than one empathic question.
2. Language
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Reading passages
Directed Writing
Composition
Comprehension
To select, analyse and evaluate passages
To summarise
GOOD LUCK!
REVISE, REVISE, REVISE