English First Language 0500 Coursebook , IGCSE | Free PDF

1. Reading Comprehension: Skimming, scanning, selecting key points, summarization, analyzing writers’ language choices, expanding notes, sentence structure, persuasive techniques, collation, and punctuation.

2. Response Writing: Writing journals, letters, audience consideration, choosing styles, transforming information, analyzing techniques, writing reports and articles, supporting viewpoints, collating data.

3. Continuous Writing: Descriptive compositions, imagery, informative and descriptive structuring, narrative writing, plot development, setting, atmosphere.

4. Speaking and Listening: Conducting a dialogue, preparing a talk, answering questions, engaging in discussions, delivering speeches.

5. Analyzing Writing Techniques: Publicity material, persuasive techniques, drawing inferences, writing for specific audiences.

6. Group Discussion and Debating: Facts vs. opinions, defending positions, speech delivery.