English Language And Literature

Curriculum:

Paper 1 Writing

• Candidates primarily assessed on skills and techniques related to writing.
• Learners encouraged to explore and experiment with an extensive variety of genres, styles, and contexts in their writing.
• Aim to refine their ability to express themselves with precision and clarity of purpose.
• Become increasingly reflective writers, capable of adapting writing style to fit diverse forms, audiences, purposes, and contexts.
• Examples listed are suggested, not exhaustive ways, to demonstrate knowledge and understanding.
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Knowledge and Understanding Candidates should be prepared to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Conventions of a wide range of written textual forms, such as:
• Advertisements
• Brochures
• Leaflets
• Editorials
• News stories
• Articles
• Reviews
• Blogs
• Investigative journalism
• Letters
• Podcasts
• (Auto)biographies
• Travel writing
• Diaries
• Essays
• Scripted speech
• Narrative writing
• Descriptive writing
• Linguistic elements and literary features of texts, including:
• Parts of speech / word classes
• Vocabulary
• Figurative language
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Rhetorical devices
• Voice
• Aspect
• Tense
• Modality
• Narrative perspective
• Word ordering and sentence structure
• Paragraph- and text-level structure
• Formality/informality of tone
• Pragmatics
• Significance of audience in both the design and reception of texts.
• Ways in which genre, purpose, and context contribute to the meaning of texts.

Paper 2 Drama, Poetry, and Prose

Students read from a list of set books. Reading lists change on a rotational basis. Discuss with your tutor before choosing the list of books to read.

At UniHawk, our instructors will provide you with a wide array of resources alongside continual guidance. Here’s a sneak peak for you:

• Comprehensive Study Material: Our focus is ensuring mastery of concepts and not memorization. Our study materials bundle is simple to go over after class, yet concomitantly entails all essential knowledge needed for the subject.
• Organised Study Schedule: Students require individualised guidance, with constant motivation, clear expectations and deadlines to reach their maximum potential in a subject. Our instructors do so by directing them through personalised study roadmaps, and by fostering accountability and discipline in students through regular engagement and practice.
• Practice with past papers and mock exams: While students do fall behind in their grade due to gaps in knowledge of concepts, very commonly it’s also due to negligence of the following:
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Time management skills
  • Anxiety management

To develop these skills, students require guided practice. Here, a common way is working with past papers. It benefits them immensely when they receive expert insight and strategies while doing past papers.