English

Build an argument that actually convinces someone.

1. 1Building an argument that holds25 min
2. 2Rhetorical devices that actually work25 min
3. 3Answering the other side30 min

Read closely, infer meaning and weigh reliability.

1. 1Reading a source closely20 min
2. 2Comparing two viewpoints20 min
3. 3Comparing two viewpoints30 min

How sound, image and structure carry meaning.

1. 1Imagery and sound in poetry25 min
2. 2Structure and form25 min
3. 3Form, structure and poetic convention28 min
4. 4Your reading, and other people's25 min
5. 5Romantic poetry: nature, imagination and change35 min

Building a reading habit across genres and appreciating Shakespeare, world literature and poetry.

1. 1Building a reading diet25 min
2. 2Why Shakespeare and world literature still matter28 min
3. 3Reading with context in mind25 min

Planning, drafting and adapting writing for different audiences, purposes and levels of formality.

1. 1Plan, draft, edit, proof-read25 min
2. 2Choosing the right level of formality22 min
3. 3Vocabulary and sentence variety for effect25 min
4. 4Writing formal essays that build an argument28 min

Extending grammatical knowledge and vocabulary, and understanding how spoken and written English differ.

1. 1Analysing challenging texts with grammar25 min
2. 2Growing your vocabulary from reading22 min
3. 3Spoken English versus written English25 min

Speaking confidently in Standard English and performing scripts and poetry with impact.

1. 1Speaking confidently in Standard English22 min
2. 2Performing play scripts and poetry28 min

Read closely, analyse choices, compare viewpoints, then craft and improve an original article.

1. 1The evidence trail: retrieval and inference28 min
2. 2How language and structure steer a reader30 min
3. 3Compare two viewpoints fairly30 min
4. 4Sentence craft: control pace and emphasis28 min
5. 5Plan for purpose and audience26 min
6. 6Draft an article that earns trust34 min
7. 7Edit like a reader, proof-read like a detective30 min

Read Shakespeare's language with confidence, track character and conflict, place a play in its context and perform a scene.

1. 1Unlocking Shakespeare's language30 min
2. 2Character, conflict and the shape of a play32 min
3. 3Context and stagecraft: writing for a real audience28 min
4. 4Rehearse and perform: making a scene land26 min

Read a whole nineteenth-century story, analyse setting and characterisation, weigh its context and write a GCSE-style critical response.

1. 1Reading a whole nineteenth-century story30 min
2. 2Setting, plot and characterisation under pressure32 min
3. 3Social and historical context in the novel28 min
4. 4Your critical response: a GCSE-style essay34 min

Control register, speak confidently in formal contexts, debate a motion and move ambitious vocabulary from reading into your own writing.

1. 1Register: spoken and written English26 min
2. 2Speaking confidently in formal contexts26 min
3. 3Formal debate: building on what has been said30 min
4. 4From reading into writing: ambitious vocabulary that works28 min

Plot, character and theme in Dickens's 1843 novella: Scrooge's journey from miser to redeemer, set against Victorian poverty.

1. 1Scrooge and the structure of redemption28 min
2. 2Victorian context: poverty, pity and Dickens's purpose26 min

Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel of ambition, creation and responsibility: narrative structure, the doubled creature, and Romantic context.

1. 1A story inside a story: narrative structure28 min
2. 2Creation, responsibility and the Romantic context28 min

Homer's epic of journey and return: the structure of nostos, the tests of Odysseus, and the oral tradition behind the written text.

1. 1Nostos: the shape of a homecoming26 min
2. 2The oral tradition behind the written poem24 min

Orwell's 1945 fable of revolution betrayed: allegory, the corruption of language, and how a fairy story becomes political satire.

1. 1Allegory: how a fable becomes politics26 min
2. 2Squealer and the corruption of language24 min

Golding's 1954 novel of boys on an island: symbolism, the descent from order to chaos, and the novel's post-war context.

1. 1The island and the descent from order26 min
2. 2Post-war context: the beast within24 min

Palacio's novel of a boy with a facial difference: first-person narration, multiple viewpoints, and the ethics of empathy.

1. 1First-person narration and seeing through August24 min
2. 2Comparing viewpoints: whose story is it?24 min

Susan Hill's modern ghost story in the Gothic tradition: setting, suspense, the unreliable narrator and the haunted past.

1. 1Setting and suspense in the Gothic tradition26 min
2. 2The haunted past and the Gothic tradition24 min

Malorie Blackman's dystopian romance: inverted racial hierarchy, first-person dual narration, and how form carries theme.

1. 1An inverted world: form carries the theme26 min
2. 2Comparing prejudice: Noughts & Crosses and Animal Farm24 min

Literature Paper 1 Section A. Ambition, guilt, kingship and the supernatural, read closely from extract to whole play, with a full essay.

1. 1Macbeth 1: ambition and the seed of an idea30 min
2. 2Macbeth 2: guilt, kingship and the supernatural30 min
3. 3Macbeth 3: writing the full Section A essay35 min

Literature Paper 1 Section B. A Christmas Carol and Jekyll and Hyde: structure, character change, Victorian context and whole-text argument.

1. 1A Christmas Carol: structure as argument30 min
2. 2Jekyll and Hyde: duality, secrecy and the Victorian city30 min
3. 3Nineteenth-century novel: the whole-text essay35 min

Literature Paper 2 Section A. Responsibility, staging and structure in a modern play, and how to build a conceptual essay from memory.

1. 1Modern text 1: responsibility and structure30 min
2. 2Modern text 2: building the conceptual essay30 min

Literature Paper 2 Sections B and C. Comparing power and conflict poems, and reading unseen poetry under timed conditions.

1. 1Anthology poetry: comparing power and conflict30 min
2. 2Unseen poetry: reading a poem cold30 min

Unseen fiction reading — information, language, structure and evaluation — then crafted descriptive or narrative writing.

1. 1Language Paper 1: language and structure on an unseen extract30 min
2. 2Language Paper 1 Question 5: descriptive and narrative writing35 min

Two non-fiction texts from different centuries: summary with inference, language analysis, comparison of attitudes, and viewpoint writing.

1. 1Language Paper 2: summary, comparison and two centuries30 min
2. 2Language Paper 2 Question 5: writing a viewpoint35 min
3. 3Spoken language endorsement: presenting and responding25 min

Setting, plot and characterisation, poetry across time, personal and critical response, context, formal essays and structured debate.

1. 1Setting, plot and characterisation30 min
2. 2Romantic poetry and the natural world30 min
3. 3Making an informed personal response30 min
4. 4Context, audience and literary tradition30 min
5. 5Writing the formal academic essay30 min
6. 6Formal debate and structured discussion30 min

Rehearsing and performing scripts and poetry, and giving short, well-shaped speeches.

1. 1Rehearsing and performing script and poetry30 min
2. 2Giving short speeches and presentations30 min