English Language | 1123 O-Level | 0500 / 0510 IGCSE | May 2025 Exams | Live Class by Sabeen Rashid

Olevel (GCSE)

English language (1123)

Monday - Wednesday 

5 - 6 PM PST

Subject content

This syllabus gives you the flexibility to design a course that will interest, challenge and engage your learners. Where appropriate you are responsible for selecting texts, resources and examples to support your learners’ study. These should be appropriate for the learners’ age, cultural background and learning context as well as complying with your school policies and local legal requirements.

The skills covered in the syllabus are outlined below.

Reading

 • demonstrate understanding of written texts, and of the words and phrases within them

 • summarise and use material for a specific context

 • develop, analyse and evaluate facts, ideas and opinions

 • demonstrate understanding of how writers achieve their effects and influence readers

 • select appropriate information for specific purposes

 • recognise and respond to linguistic devices, figurative language and imagery.

 To develop reading skills, students should engage with a range of genres and text types from the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries, including literature, fiction and non-fiction. Other forms of Reading should include blogs, essays, reviews or articles, short stories in their entirety or extracts from a longer work of prose or drama. Learning should include focus on writers’ use of language and style and the ways in which writers achieve effects and influence readers. Students should study how influence may include facts, ideas, perspectives, opinions and bias.

Writing

 • express what is thought, felt and imagined

 • organise and convey facts, ideas and opinions effectively

 • demonstrate a varied vocabulary appropriate to the context

 • demonstrate an effective use of sentence structures

 • demonstrate an understanding of audience, purpose and form

 • demonstrate accuracy in spelling, punctuation and grammar.

As developing writers themselves, students should be introduced to a range of writing skills, including the ability to create and compose texts with a variety of forms and purposes, e.g. descriptive, narrative, argumentative and persuasive. Learning should include focus on the following text types: email, letter, report, article, speech, and summary