IGCSE English

7:55 Topic 1 Reading Skills Open the reading paper. You see a long text — six hundred words, maybe more — and a full page of questio… 7:50 Topic 2 Writing: Purpose, Audience and Accuracy Two students want the same thing: permission to use the school hall on Saturday. Both write to the head … 7:50 Topic 3 Writing an Informal Email Two students answer the same task: write to your friend about a place you visited. Here is the first one… 8:04 Topic 4 Writing a Formal Letter or Email A student finds that the new bus timetable makes her late for school every morning. She decides to write… 7:50 Topic 5 Writing a Report A club leader has to decide whether to run the school trip again next year. Two students send her an acc… 7:49 Topic 6 Writing an Article Two students write an article about sleep for the school magazine. Here is one opening: <slow>Sleep is v… 7:37 Topic 7 Writing a Review You are deciding where to eat, and you read two reviews of the same restaurant. The first review says: <… 7:56 Topic 8 Writing an Essay Two students answer the same essay question: should students have homework? Here is the first one. Homew… 7:00 Topic 9 Listening Skills Here is what makes listening different from every other paper. In reading, the text sits still and waits… 7:16 Topic 10 Speaking skills Ten minutes. Two people. One conversation, in English. That is the whole speaking test — no essay, no gr… 7:24 Topic 11 Vocabulary and Text Types Two students get the same task: a report for the head teacher about the school trip. The first student w…