GCSE-readyPearson Edexcel International GCSE English Language (4EA1)
46 free lessons that follow the International GCSE specification topic by topic. Each lesson has short notes, a worked example and a quick check with instant marking.
International GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 4EA1
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
1 lesson · about 12 minutes
Paper 1 Section A: Non-fiction reading
15 lessons · about 4 h
- Paper 1 Questions 1 to 3: reading the unseen text 15 min
- Identifying themes and summarising a text 14 min
- Reading non-fiction: viewpoint · video 15 min
- Reading non-fiction forms: letters, diaries, obituaries and more 15 min
- Analysing language · video 17 min
- Analysing structure · video 15 min
- Precise terminology for analysis 16 min
- Critical reading: bias, evidence and claims 16 min
- The non-fiction Anthology and Question 4 16 min
- Anthology Part 1: Adichie and Zephaniah, voices that challenge assumptions 18 min
- Anthology Part 1: Alagiah and Herbert, witnessing hard truths 18 min
- Anthology Part 1: Ralston and Morris, adventure and risk 17 min
- Anthology Part 1: Levine and Zeppa, travel writing 16 min
- Anthology Part 1: Macdonald and Yen Mah, memoir and turning points 16 min
- Paper 1 Question 5: comparing two texts 18 min
Paper 1 Section B: Transactional writing
7 lessons · about 1 h 45 min
- Paper 1 Section B: transactional writing 15 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
- Tone, register and audience · video 13 min
Paper 2 Section A: Poetry and prose texts
7 lessons · about 1 h 55 min
- Paper 2 Section A: the poetry and prose essay 16 min
- Analysing poetry: voice, imagery and form 16 min
- Anthology Part 2 poems: Out, Out- and An Unknown Girl 18 min
- Anthology Part 2 poems: The Bright Lights of Sarajevo and Still I Rise 16 min
- Analysing short stories: irony and endings 16 min
- Anthology Part 2 prose: Significant Cigarettes, Whistle and I'll Come to You, Night 20 min
- Analysing characters in fiction · video 15 min