IGCSE English Language Edexcel

IGCSE English Language Edexcel

Easter Revision Course Dates 2025

• Week 1: Monday 31 March – Friday 4 April
• Week 2: Monday 7 April – Friday 11 April
• Week 3: Monday 14 April – Friday 18 April

(Good Friday is 18 April; Easter Monday is 21 April 2025)

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.