Year Plan for IGCSE English,KI5
2020-21 Year A
Themes, content, objectives and skills from
Cambridge IGCSE First Language English Curriculum,
Year A of a two year rolling program
Weeks
Weeks 33-37
Themes
Reading for Information
Active reading skills, skimming, note taking, annotating texts,
summarizing
Weeks 38 - 41
Reading - Comprehension and Summary One
Unit 1 - “A Matter of Time”
Main Skills: Comprehension, summary, writer’s effects
Secondary Skills: Persuasive Language, selecting Material, complex
sentences
Unit 2 - “The Gentle Touch”
Main Skills: Comprehension, summary, genres of response writing
Secondary Skills: Selecting material; Organising material
Week 38
Theme Week - Green Floor
Week 42
Autumn Break
Weeks 43-45
Directed Writing
Unit 13- Fur and Against
Main Skills: evaluative writing, selecting points, supporting views
Secondary Skills: summary, persuasive devices, interviewing, text
comparison
Unit 14 - Caught in the Web
Main Skills: evaluation, persuasive devices, selecting material
Secondary Skills: summary, comprehension, supporting opinions,
discursive writing
Weeks 46 and
47
Theme Weeks
Weeks 48 -51
Reading - Comprehension and Writers’
Effects
Unit 5- Colourful Characters
Main Skills: comprehension, identifying and analyzing writer’s
effects
Secondary Skills: narrative devices, punctuation revision
Unit 6- Hide and Seek
Main Skills: comprehension, identifying writer’s effects, inference
Secondary Skills: description, setting and atmospheres in
narrative
Weeks 52 - 1
Christmas Holiday
Weeks 2 - 5
Descriptive Composition
Unit 17- Close Observation
Main Skills: descriptive writing, viewpoints
Secondary Skills: figurative language, inference
Unit 18 - Seeing the Future
Main Skills: figurative language, descriptive writing, imaginative
writing
Secondary Skills: inference, structuring description
Week 6
Week 7
Weeks 8 -12
Whole School Theme Week
Winter Break
Response to Reading
Unit 9: Missing Persons
Main Skills: genre transformation, inferring, selecting material,
sequencing
Secondary Skills: paraphrasing, news reporting, formal register
Unit 6- Home and Away
Main Skills: comprehension, identifying writer’s effects, inference
Secondary Skills: summarizing, selecting material, style analysis
Week 11
Week 13
Theme Week - Science
Easter Holiday
Weeks 14 -20
Narrative Composition
Unit 21- Crucial Decisions
Main Skills: narrative writing, narrative viewpoint
Secondary Skills: narrative planning, inference
Unit 22- incredible tales
Main Skills: narrative writing, narrative structure
Secondary Skills: detecting irony, summarizing, inference, using
dialogue in narrative, creating humour, creating tension.
Week 16
Weeks 21 - 26
Project Week
Revision of the year’s work
Critical Essays
Mock Exams
Paul Jonathan Bish, August 2020