GCSE English Language 2010 Fast-track One Year Course Planner
Term 1 / Texts / AssessmentUnit 1 Non-fiction Reading and Writing (Controlled assessment)
Develop skills of reading analysis via pre-released texts.
· Identify key points
· Audience and purpose
· Presentational devices
· Language
· Selecting details and comparing
Speaking and Listening – conduct first assessment by the end of term / Unit 1 continued
Writing short texts for film or web page to inform/advise/explain/persuade
· Audience, register and purpose
· Structure and form
· Ideas and planning
Unit 2 The Writer’s Voice (Exam)
Introduce text and skills
· Read chosen text
· Refer to Edexcel support on Teach-it / Edexcel Unit 1 pre-release texts
Unit 2 prose text / Obtain the Edexcel Unit 1 controlled assessment pre-release texts from
www.english10.co.uk choose English Language specification or cut and paste link below into your web browser address bar:
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse10/english/language/Pages/default.aspx
Set, mark and moderate the Unit 1
Tasks
See your Exams officer Dec/Jan about exam entries for June.
Term 2
Unit 2 The Writer’s Voice (Exam):
Continue with text
· Clarify format and scope of Language questions
· Practise exam techniques
- structured questions
Develop writing skills for practical writing
· Planning
· Audience and purpose
· Structure and organisation
· Vocabulary and register
· Use of rhetoric
· Range and variety of sentences/structures
· Paragraphing and cohesive devices
Speaking and listening – conduct second assessment by the end of this term / Unit 3 Spoken Language (Controlled assessment)
Introduce the study of spoken language
· Teach the differences between spoken conversational language and scripted language by using examples from
various sources such as YouTube, TV, radio, phone-ins, sound archives, Edexcel resource bank CD-Rom etc
· Students analyse and compare: form, purpose, formality, influence
· Students use Edexcel resource bank or create at least TWO examples for use in Controlled Assessment / Obtain Edexcel Unit 3 controlled assessment tasks from
www.english10.co.uk choose English Language specification or cut and paste link below into your web browser address bar:
http://www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse10/english/language/Pages/default.aspx
Term 3
Unit 3 Spoken Language(Controlled assessment)
Focus on scripting :
· Story and script genres
· Dialogue/monologue
Speaking and listening – conduct the third assessment by the end of this term / Unit 2 The Writer’s Voice (Exam)
Reading revision: Use past papers to time
Practical Writing revision: Use past papers to time / Submit online internally moderated marks for Units 1 and 3, including Speaking and Listening
Sit Unit 2 examination May/June.