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Year 5 Edexcel English Language — Scheme of Work—2020-2021 

Weekly allocation of 6 English periods 

Please note that throughout the academic year, students will also be completing a variety of IGCSE comprehension passages, both fiction and non-fiction, in which they will practice their analytical skills regarding language, structure, style and comparison, specifically Questions 3, 6 & 7 of Section A.  Here, students will be able to successfully analyse and critically comment on the linguistic and structural devices the writer uses.  In addition, they will be able to identify the audience of a text, the purpose of a text and comment on how writers make texts appropriate for their audience and purpose (A01 A02).  This will run simultaneously with the writing syllabus.   

Also, please note that students will be practicing time management in class, giving them the allocated time for each specific task.   

Each term students will be assessed on class work, participation, homework and two  tests. At the end of the academic year they will also have an English final exam, which will be based on the IGCSE syllabus the students will have covered throughout the two-year course. 

Teaching Weeks  Description of Work  Objectives: 
2 weeks  Revision of Discursive Writing  Students will be able to: 

  • Revise the structure of a discursive essay; 
  • Revise the style, tone and language used in discursive essays; 
  • Consider approach, audience and purpose;  
  • Apply appropriate techniques when writing a discursive essay; 
  • Will use cohesive sentence structures, managing ideas with a wide and selective vocabulary, and with only very occasional grammatical and spelling errors and a well-controlled range of punctuation. 
  • Complete a discursive essay. 
3-4 weeks  Argumentative Writing & Debate  Students will be able to: 

  • Recognize the differences between a balanced essay and an argumentative essay; 
  • Describe characteristics of argumentative writing; 
  • Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically; 
  • Present their point of view in a debate and support it with concrete evidence and research ; 
  • Understand the importance of linking paragraphs into a coherent argument; 
  • Understand different types of evidence and how to use evidence to support their argument and improve their writing; 
  • Understand the difference between fact and opinion; 
  • Write a timed argumentative response  

 
5 weeks  Speech Writing (Section B of the IGCSE Examination)  Students will be able to: 

  • Learn to adapt the unseen texts from Section A for a specified audience and purpose, in this case writing a speech; 
  • Identify the purpose of a speech; 
  • Understand that form can reveal how and what to write; 
  • Recognize the linguistic devices used for different purposes of speech writing– to inform, to inspire, to persuade; 
  • Write clearly, using a range of vocabulary and sentence structures, with accurate spelling, paragraphing, grammar and punctuation. 
2 weeks  Drafting and Presenting Speech topic  Students will be able to: 

  • Observe and analyse a variety of effective speeches, focusing on body language, facial expression, intonation as well as content; 
  • Present a speech using accurate tone, style and intonation for their chosen topic. 
4 weeks  Descriptive Writing  Students will be able to: 

  • Build and enrich vocabulary skills; 
  • Understand how narrative viewpoint affects the way the ideas are presented; 
  • Understand purpose of writing to entertain; 
  • Read texts rich in description, analysing the different descriptive techniques used; 
  • Create imaginative and creative descriptions using sensory details, figurative language, descriptive language, structural techniques (zoom in/zoom out for example) 
1 week  Report Writing  Students will be able to: 

  • Show  a secure understanding of the conventions of writing to report; 
  • Identify the key features of writing to inform; 
  • Evaluate their effectiveness in an example response; 
  • Describe or classify the way things are or seem to be; 
  • Effectively organise and record information; 
  • Begin to use a range of features effectively in their own writing. 
2 weeks  Leaflets  Students will be able to: 

  • Read a variety of leaflets to inform, persuade, advise; 
  • Choose or be given a topic to produce a leaflet using the appropriate techniques and register, sentence variety, a mixture of informal and formal tone. 
2 weeks  2nd presentation of speeches  Students will be able to: 

  • Show confidence in presenting their speech a second time; 
  • Successfully answer questions to their topics; 
  • Have adequate knowledge of their topic; 
  • Use techniques learnt for presenting a speech. 
2 weeks  Revision of Narrative Writing  Students will be able to: 

  • Revise story elements; 
  • Establish writer’s narrative and descriptive techniques to capture the interest of readers; 
  • Plan and write an on-demand, timed narrative story by writing to a prompt using a rubric and stated objectives, specifically A04 & A05; 
1 Week  Revision of Letters  Students will be able to: 

  • Revise the difference between formal and informal letter writing; 
  • Consider audience and purpose for each type of letter; 
  • Implement information from the two unseen passages using their own style and register 
1-2 weeks  Revision of Magazine and Newspaper Articles  Students will be able to: 

  • Revise the difference between magazine and newspaper article writing; 
  • Consider audience and purpose for each type of article; 
  • Implement information from the two unseen passages using their own style and register. 

 

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