- ISBN:9781108438926
- Format:Paperback
- Subject(s):First Language English
- Qualification:Cambridge IGCSE
- Author(s):Marian Cox
- Available from: May 2018
Fully updated, flexible resources taking an active-learning approach that encourages students to aim higher in the 0500, 0524 and 0990 syllabuses.
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By using this practice book, students become familiar with a range of exam-style questions while gaining practice in writing in different voices and styles.
As requested by teachers, there is a strong focus on grammar, vocabulary and spelling, as well as a new grammar reference section.
The directed writing tasks give opportunities to practise a range of exam response genres: letter, news report, magazine article, interview, speech, formal report and journal.
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- Unit 1 Rocket science: Language: parts of speech, passive voice
- Writing: news report, internet article
- Unit 2 Bear essentials: Language: parenthesis, writer's effects
- Writing: school magazine article, speech
- Unit 3 Simply flying: Language: spelling, prefixes, dashes and hyphens
- Writing: interview, job application letter
- Unit 4 On the ball: Language: apostrophes, semicolons, spelling, speech punctuation, prefixes
- Writing: dialogue, evaluative letter
- Unit 5 Great rivers: Language: parts of speech, commas, sentence structures, fact v. opinion, writers' effects
- Writing: dialogue, complaint letter
- Unit 6 Elephant tales: Language: prefixes, synonyms, punctuation
- Writing: news report, letter/email journal entry
- Unit 7 Bricks and stones: Language: past tenses, relative clauses, prepositions, sentence punctuation, writer's effects
- Writing: dialogue, news report, informative letter
- speech
- Unit 8 Aiming high: Language: punctuation, homophones, spelling, writers' effects
- Writing: news report
- appeal letter
- journal entry
- formal report
- Unit 9 In deep water: Language: writer's effects, inference, speech punctuation
- Writing: encyclopedia entry, journal entry
- formal report
- Unit 10 Losing sleep: Language: writers' effects, raise/rise/arise, prepositions, conditionals, grammar structures
- Writing: informative leaflet
- formal report
- Unit 11 Sub-zero: Language: synonyms, sentence structures, writers' effects, paraphrase
- Writing: advertisement, letter/email, magazine article
- Unit 12 Seeing double: Language: writers' effects, identifying bias, sentence structures
- Writing: interview
- letter
- formal report
- Grammar and Punctuation Reference.
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