This presentation is actually meant to guide O Level students & their parents - especially UAE & GULF Region - regarding course outline, paper pattern & exams. I Owe my gratitude to all the participants & my team.

1. IGCSE ENGLISH
language
ORIENTATION SESSION 2016-2017
ISLAMIYA ENGLISH SCHOOL
ABID ALY

2. PARENTS – TEACHERS - STUDENTS
Parents and teachers play an active role in a child's
education…
TOGETHER
we help them reach their fullest potential.

3. ENGLISH LANGUAGE – 4EBO/01R
ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES
• AO1 – Read and understand a variety of texts,
selecting and ordering information, ideas and
opinions from the texts provided.
• AO2 – Adapt forms and types of writing for specific
purposes and audiences using appropriate styles.
• AO3 – Write clearly, using a range of vocabulary and
sentence structures, with accurate spelling,
paragraphing, grammar and punctuation.

4. BOOKS & RESOURCE MATERIAL

5. ENGLISH LANGUAGE – 4EBO/01R
E.Language Paper 2015 –
4EBO/01
E.Language Paper 2016 –
4EBO/01R

6. ENGLISH LANGUAGE – 4EBO/01R
Grade Boundaries - 2015
• A* 76
• A 70
• B 64
• C 58
• D 47
• E 37
• F 27
• G 17
• U 0
Grade Boundaries – 2016
• A* 83
• A 77
• B 71
• C 66
• D 54
• E 43
• F 32
• G 21
• U 0

7. IGCSE ENGLISH
LITERATURE
ORIENTATION SESSION 2016-2017
ISLAMIYA ENGLISH SCHOOL

8. THE INITIATIVE OF 21ST CENTURY
• I.E.S introduced “Advanced English” from
Gr. 4 to GR. 7 for Sri Lankan Students in
the Academic Year 2014-15.
• Advanced it as “IGCSE ENGLISH
LITERATURE” in Gr. 9 & 10 in the Academic
Year 2015-16
• Added online e.Exam for “Advanced
English” Students in the same year.
• In the year 2016-2017, Gr. 10 (Sri-Lankans)
is the FIRST Edexcel IGCSE English
Literature batch.

9. IGCSE ENGLISH Literature – 4ETO
Paper 1 – Drama & Prose
• Section A - Drama
• Arthur Miller: A View from The
Bridge
• J B Priestley: An Inspector Calls
• William Shakespeare: Henry V
• William Shakespeare: Much Ado
About Nothing
• William Shakespeare: Romeo and
Juliet
• Oscar Wilde: The Importance of
Being Earnest
• Thornton Wilder: Our Town
Section B – Prose / Novels
• Jane Austen: Pride and
Prejudice
• Harper Lee: To Kill a
Mocking Bird
• R K Narayan: The English
Teacher
• John Steinbeck: Of Mice and
Men
• Mildred Taylor: Roll of
Thunder, Hear My Cry

10. IGCSE ENGLISH Literature – 4ETO
Unseen Texts and Poetry
Anthology
• Unprepared poem or
prose extract
• imagery
• descriptive skills
• language choice
• tone and mood
• structure and form.
Anthology poems
• If — Rudyard Kipling
• Prayer Before Birth — Louis Macneice
• Half-past Two — U A Fanthorpe
• Piano — D H Lawrence
• Hide and Seek — Vernon Scannell
• Sonnet 116 (‘Let me not to the marriage ...’) —
Shakespeare
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci — John Keats
• Poem at Thirty-Nine — Alice Walker
• Telephone Conversation — Wole Soyinka
• Once Upon a Time — Gabriel Okara
• War Photographer — Carol Ann Duffy
• The Tyger — William Blake
• My Last Duchess — Robert Browning
• A Mother in a Refugee Camp — Chinua Achebe
• Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night — Dylan
Thomas
• Remember — Christina Rossetti

11. IGCSE ENGLISH Literature
Paper 1 : Drama & Prose
4ETO/01 (1hr 45mins)
Paper 2 : Unseen Texts & Poetry
Anthology 4ETO/02 (1hr 30mins)

12. IGCSE ENGLISH Literature – Sample Answer Script

13. IGCSE ENGLISH Literature – Sample Answer Script

14. IGCSE ENGLISH Literature