English Language IGCSE Edexcel

English Language IGCSE Edexcel

Easter Revision Course Dates 2026

• Week 1: Monday 30 March – Friday 3 April 2026
• Week 2: Monday 6 April – Friday 10 April 2026
• Week 3: Monday 13 April – Friday 17 April 2026

Please note – revision classes WILL take place on the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays, 3rd and 6th April 2026.

Boards

Edexcel 4EA1

Length of Course

5 half-day sessions

This course is suitable for Year 11 students sitting IGCSE English with Edexcel (Specification A).

Reading

• Reading and understanding texts with insight and engagement
• Developing and sustaining interpretations of writers’ ideas and perspectives
• Understanding and making some evaluation of how writers use linguistic and structural devices to achieve their effects.
• Revising how to answer questions that test understanding of an unprepared reading passage and a passage from part 1 of the Pearson Edexcel International IGCSE English Anthology.

Writing

• Communicating clearly and appropriately, using and adapting forms for different readers and purposes
• Organising ideas into sentences, paragraphs and whole texts using a variety of linguistic and structural features
• Using a range of sentence structures effectively, with accurate punctuation and spelling.
• Revising how to complete a 45-mark writing task involving a given audience, form or purpose. Paper 1 is compulsory for all students.