1. IGCSE CORE PAPER LESSON ONE QUESTION ONE: EXAM PRACTICE

2. EXAM FORMAT 1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS ON ONE PASSAGE
QUESTION ONE IS WORTH 30 MARKS
QUESTION TWO IS WORTH 20 MARKS
ELIGIBLE GRADES C-G
40% OF THE COURSES TOTAL MARKS

3. EXAM TIMING Spend 10 minutes reading the passage
Question One 55 minutes
Question Two 40 minutes

4. Learning Objectives
To develop the understanding and approach needed for Question One on the exam
To improve close reading skills

5. QUESTION ONE ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES
Question One is worth 30 Marks.
It tests the following reading objectives:
understand and collate explicit meanings
understand, explain and collate implicit meanings and attitudes
select, analyse and evaluate what is relevant to specific purposes
understand how writers achieve effects.

6. Question One Exam Tips
Read the questions carefully-some of the most important instructions are in BOLD
Do not use quotations when it asks you to explain a part of the passage IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Spend more time on the parts of the Question that are worth more marks. These are D, H and I.
Overall you have around 55 minutes to answer this question

7. STARTER ACTIVITIES
Put these three sentences taken from non- fiction articles in your own words:
The force of the wind was too much or him
Yesterday was a bad day for the worst off in Britain.
Money is something people can easily be obsessed with.

8. STARTER ACTIVITY
Summarise in a paragraph what you learn in this clip from the film ‘Little Miss Sunshine?’
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9. EXAM PRACTICE As a group work through the June 2012 CORE PAPER.
First read the passage My Tutor Kralefsky and then begin to answer Question One.
You must complete D, E, G and H on your own, the rest of Question One will be completed with your peers.
55 Minutes

10. TIMED EXAM PRACTICE November 2013 Paper
Read carefully the passage Things Go Wrong and then answer Question One.
55 minutes

11. PLENARY
Write down three tips you would give one to one of your peers to successfully answer Question ONE