GCSE-readyPearson Edexcel GCSE English Language (1EN0)
45 free lessons that follow the GCSE specification topic by topic. Each lesson has short notes, a worked example and a quick check with instant marking.
GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 1EN0
Starter: from Year 9 to GCSE
5 lessons · about 71 minutes
- Reading for meaning: explicit, implicit and inference · video 14 min
- Your toolkit: word classes and language terms · video 14 min
- Sentence control and punctuation for effect · video 15 min
- Writing an analytical paragraph: PEE and PETAL · video 15 min
- Audience, purpose and form in your own writing · video 13 min
Getting started
2 lessons · about 26 minutes
Paper 1 Section A: Reading 19th-century fiction
12 lessons · about 3 h 5 min
- Reading 19th-century fiction with confidence · video 15 min
- Finding information and inference · video 15 min
- Identifying themes and summarising a text 14 min
- Paper 1 Questions 1 and 2: short answers · video 12 min
- Analysing language · video 17 min
- Analysing structure · video 15 min
- Precise terminology for analysis 16 min
- Paper 1 Question 3: language and structure · video 16 min
- Analysing characters in fiction · video 15 min
- Evaluating a text: Paper 1 Question 4 · video 18 min
- Evaluation in practice: tension and suspense · video 16 min
- Critical reading: bias, evidence and claims 16 min
Paper 1 Section B: Imaginative writing
5 lessons · about 73 minutes
Paper 2 Section A: Reading non-fiction
9 lessons · about 2 h 20 min
- Non-fiction and literary non-fiction · video 14 min
- Reading non-fiction forms: letters, diaries, obituaries and more 15 min
- Paper 2 short questions: 1, 2, 4 and 5 · video 12 min
- Reading non-fiction: viewpoint · video 15 min
- Paper 2 Question 3: analysing non-fiction · video 18 min
- Paper 2 Question 3 in practice: a 15-mark answer 18 min
- Paper 2 Question 6: evaluating non-fiction · video 16 min
- Synthesis: Paper 2 Question 7(a) · video 14 min
- Comparing ideas and perspectives: Question 7(b) · video 18 min
Paper 2 Section B: Transactional writing
7 lessons · about 1 h 45 min
- Transactional writing forms · video 16 min
- Articles, speeches, reviews, guides and leaflets · video 16 min
- Planning and structuring an argument · video 16 min
- Persuasive and rhetorical devices · video 15 min
- Writing for impact: antithesis, parenthesis and more 15 min
- Writing to explain, instruct and advise 15 min
- Tone, register and audience · video 13 min