Cambridge IGCSE® First Language English Language and Skills Practice Book 5th Edition

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Cambridge IGCSE® First Language English Language and Skills Practice Book

Edition:

5th Edition

Author:

Marian Cox

Published:

May 2018

Format:

ISBN:

9781108438926

This Cambridge IGCSE First Language English series written by experienced examiner Marian Cox, has been updated in line with the revised syllabus (2018). It provides improved navigation across all three components and a choice of pathways which enable teachers and learners to tailor the course according to their particular needs. The coursebook follows a modular, spiral curriculum whereby skills are revisited more than once allowing students to progress with confidence. The book's structure ensures that every individual is supported throughout and is encouraged to achieve their full potential. This is a skills based resource enabling students to develop life skills beyond the exam. It follows a communicative, active-learning approach where speaking and listening are integrated throughout. There are also additional optional units devoted to speaking and listening. The resource includes a wide variety of international text types, in line with the revised syllabus, and clearly organised scaffolded writing sequences.

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Overview

Explore the mysterious River Congo in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, meet Noppakhoa – the elephant who loves to paint, and learn fiery facts about rockets. Through interesting topics and exam-style questions, this write-in language skills and practice book provides students with the grammar practice they need for the course and beyond. The clear layout of the book makes focussing on particular grammatical concepts easy, allowing teachers to tailor lessons to their class. Suggested answers to questions are at the back of the book.

Features

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.

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.