Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language
2Writing
Overview
AO2 Writing (35% of the qualification), tested in Component 1 exercises 5 and 6: an informal email and a more formal article, report, essay or review, each of 120-160 words.
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Argumentative and persuasive writing
35 min
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Discursive writing: weighing both sides
35 min
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Informative and expository writing
30 min
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Conjunctions and discourse markers: joining ideas
35 min
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Planning and paragraphing a composition
30 min
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Sentences, clauses and phrases: building and transforming sentences
35 min
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Active and passive voice
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Adjectives: forming, comparing and ordering them
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Adverbs and adverbials: how, when, where and why
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Articles and determiners: a, an, the, some, few and each
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Auxiliary and modal verbs
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Conditional sentences: if, unless and I wish
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Direct and reported speech
40 min
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Nouns: types, plurals and noun formation
30 min
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Phrasal verbs in context
30 min
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Prepositions of time, place and movement, and fixed pairs
30 min
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Pronouns: case, reference and agreement
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Punctuation: from full stops to speech marks
35 min
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Questions, question tags, commands and exclamations
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Spelling rules and commonly misspelt words
30 min
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