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GCSE ENGLISH second
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in English as a Second Language (4ES1)
The poetry collection
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology.
If– Rudyard Kipling

Prayer Before Birth Louis MacNeice

Blessing Imtiaz Dharker

Search For My Tongue Sujata Bhatt

Half-past Two U A Fanthorpe

Piano D H Lawrence

Hide and Seek Vernon Scannell

Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare

La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats

Poem at Thirty-Nine Alice Walker

War Photographer Carol Ann Duffy

The Tyger William Blake

My Last Duchess Robert Browning

Half-caste John Agard

Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas

Remember Christina Rossetti
... modern prose
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera

The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
... modern drama
A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller

An Inspector Calls J B Priestley

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- time Mark Haddon (adapted by Simon Stephens)

Kindertransport Diane Samuels

Death and the King’s Horseman Wole Soyinka
... literary heritage
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare

Macbeth William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Great Expectations Charles Dickens

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Component/paper code: 4ET1/01 and 4ET1/02
Component 1 : Poetry and Modern Prose
Paper codes 4ET/01.
60% of the total International GCSE.
Written examination: 2 hours, 90 marks.
Availability: January and June.

Content summary:
  • The poetry collection from the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology.
  • One modern prose text.
  • Develop skills to analyse unseen poetry.
  • Develop skills to analyse how language, form, structure and contextual factors can be used to create meanings and effects.
  • Develop skills to maintain a critical style and informed personal response.
  • Develop comparison skills.

Assessment:
  • Section A – Unseen Poetry: one 20-mark essay question exploring the meaning and effects created in an unseen poem. The poem will be reproduced in the question paper.
  • Section B – Anthology Poetry: one 30-mark essay question from a choice of two, comparing two poems from the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology.
  • Section C – Modern Prose: one 40-mark essay question from a choice of two on each of the set texts.
  • Closed book: texts are not allowed in the examination. However, students will be provided with the anthology poems in the examination.


Component 2 : Modern Drama and Literary Heritage Texts
Paper code 4ET1/02.
40% of the total International GCSE.
Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes, 60 marks
Availability: January and June.

Content summary:
  • One modern drama text from the list of set texts.
  • One literary heritage text from the list of set texts.
  • Develop skills to analyse how language, form, structure and contextual factors can be used to create meaning and effect.
  • Develop skills to maintain a critical style and informed personal response.

Assessment:
  • Section A – Modern Drama: one 30-mark essay question from a choice of two on each of the set texts.
  • Section B – Literary Heritage Texts: one 30-mark essay question from a choice of two on each of the set texts.
  • The total number of marks available is 60.
  • The assessment duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
  • Open book: prescribed editions of set texts are allowed in the examination.
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