Dawood Public School
Course Outline 2024-25
English Language (Syllabus Code:1123)
Grade XI
Month Syllabus Break down Reference Book/Resources
Revision of Previous Concepts
● Recaping all the mistakes
from the final exams the
students appeared for in May
2023
● Finding out possible solutions
for them.
Relearning: Paper 1 - Question 3a
Summary task ● PPT (Identifying Mistakes).
● PPT (Summary writing-Response Task).
1. Chapter 4: Summary Writing
● 4.1 Reading for ideas ● Worksheets/handouts.
August
● 4.2 Remodelling the text ● English Language for Cambridge O Level
● 4.3 Developing coherent Coursebook by Graham Eldson, Helen
writing Rees-Bidder and Helen Toner.
● 4.4 Summary writing practice
Paper 2: Question 3b Response Task
2. Chapter 2: Reading for
comprehension
● 2.6 Understanding a writer’s
opinions and attitudes
September 1. Paper 2: Composition
● PPT (How to develop and manage
● Learning to plan Planning).
● PPT (Introduction to directed writing +
● Various styles of planning
Writing letters and emails).
● Formatting plans for all types ● Worksheets/handouts.
of Composition.
Paper 2: Question 2 Directed Writing ● English Language for Cambridge O Level
Coursebook by Graham Eldson, Helen
Rees-Bidder and Helen Toner.
2. Chapter 7: Directed Writing (letters
and emails)
● 7.1 Key evaluation skills
● 7.2 Beginning to evaluate
● 7.3 Beginning to write
discursive
● 7.4 Giving a point of view
● 7.5 writing letters and emails
Paper 1: Question 1 Comprehension
Task
1. Chapter 2: Reading for
Comprehension
● 2.1 Focusing on vocabulary
● 2.3 Using your own words
● 2.4 Explicit and Implicit
Meaning
● 2.5 Exploring implicit
Meanings ● PPT (Types of questions).
● Worksheets/handouts.
2. Chapter 3: Analysis and explaining
writer’s craft
● English Language for Cambridge O Level
● 3.1 What is a writer’s effect? Coursebook by Graham Elsdon, Helen
October
Rees-Bidder and Helen Toner.
● 3.2 How language suggests
meanings ● PPT (Differentiating Magazine Article
and Report).
● 3.3 Responding to writer’s
effects
3. Chapter 7: Directed Writing -
Magazine Article and Report
● 7.3 Beginning to write
discursively
● 7.3 Giving a Point of View
● Phrasing a response
● Report vs Magazine Article
● Specimen paper 2024.
Revision for Mid-Term Exams ● Scheme of Work 2024 (SOW).
● Paper 1: Reading
● Reinforcement through discussion.
November
● Paper 2: Writing
● Practice exercises.
Discussion on Marking Criteria
● Exhibiting and build understanding of
Examiner’s Reports.
December MID TERM EXAMS
Paper 2: Question 1 Directed Writing
and Question 2 Composition
1. Composition
● Worksheets/handouts.
● Narrative
● English Language for Cambridge O Level
● Descriptive Coursebook by Graham Eldson, Helen
Rees-Bidder and Helen Toner.
January 2. Directed Writing
● Report Writing ● Reinforcement through discussion.
● Email ● Practice exercises from book.
● Letters
Exhibiting and build understanding of
● Magazine Examiner’s Reports.
● Speech
Paper 1: Comprehensions
● Worksheets.
● English Language for Cambridge O Level
1. Passage 1 (Explicit/implicit/writer’s
craft) Coursebook by Graham Eldson, Helen
Rees-Bidder and Helen Toner.
2. Passage 2(Summary/Short
February
Response) ● Reinforcement through discussion.
● Practice exercises from book.
● Exhibiting and build understanding of
Examiner’s Reports.
Mock Exams/CAIE Prep
March
August
Content Learning outcomes
● Recap of CAIE paper pattern.
● Recap concept of levels and success criteria.
● Identifying the mistakes.
● Use grammar correctly, punctuate and spell
CAIE Exam Pattern-Recap + Discussion on
accurately.
Final Exam Papers (held in May 2023)
● Acquire and apply a wide vocabulary, alongside a
knowledge and understanding of grammatical
terminology, and linguistic conventions for
reading, writing and spoken language.
Key Terms : Paper 1 Reading, Paper 2 Writing, Directed Writing, Composition, Descriptive Writing,
Narrative Writing, Text A, Text B, Section A, Section B, articulate, deliberate effect, Consider, Describe,
Evaluate, Explain, Identify, Summarise
Types of questions:
● Sample questions from
● Exam papers (set up from IGCSE papers)
● Specimen paper 2024
● Marking scheme 2024
● Understand the nature and purpose of selective
Chapter 4: Summary Writing summary tasks.
● Select and use specific ideas or details relevant to
the question set in an organised manner
(planning).
● Differentiate between facts and opinion (advice,
criticism, argument etc.).
● Extend and extrapolate the range of relevant
content through development of ideas.
● Identify and highlight given content points where
they occur in the text of a short passage.
● Identify redundant content.
● Use ‘topic sentences’ for the summary task.
● Show evidence of clear and concise summary style
throughout with precise focus and the use of own
words.
● Aim to use complex and compound sentences
containing more than one point with cohesive
devices (transitions and linking words).
● Recast content to be clear and concise, not vague.
● Respect the word count and understand concept
of self-penalisation in writing.
● Imagine the role, and address audience directly.
● Specifically identify the purpose of the task.
● Formulate an opening that introduces clearly the
situation and purpose of the task, with the reader
in mind.
● Present reasons for the opinion given in response
to the question and justify it.
● Use clear and persuasive tone, though avoiding
being overtly casual.
● Assimilate and modify relevant ideas from the text
to support opinion identified.
Key Terms: summary, purpose, adjective, metaphor, convey, quotation, passive voice, active voice,
structure, note-making, written expression, content, implicit meaning, explicit meaning, concession,
objective, impersonal, register, first person, interpret
Online Resources:
http://www.laspositascollege.edu/raw/summaries.php
https://edtechbooks.org/academic_a_writing/writing_a_summary
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
September
Content Learning outcomes
● Write for a specific audience.
● Understand the uses of different voices for effect.
Chapter 6: Writing Skills (Planning) ● Understand the use of different sentence types for
effect.
● Explain how texts can be structured in different ways
for different effects.
● Understand audience, register and tone, awareness
of situation and audience in directed writing.
● Examine printed copies of exemplar emails and
letters and write short commentaries on its merits.
● Identify similarities and differences between the
different types of letters and emails.
● Read and identify relevant content from text 1 and
text 2 making note of the points in two columns.
● Probe ideas in the text and begin to evaluate.
● Use and develop the ideas contained in the passages,
Chapter 7: Directed Writing (letters and add own original details.
and emails)
● Note where points in each text are similar/support
each other or contrast / seem to disagree.
● Identify a claim or assertion in each text which that is
unconvincing, or that could be challenged.
● Use rhetorical devices.
● Sequence the paragraphs to achieve a balanced
discussion overall.
● Use vocabulary and sentence structures appropriate
to context.
● Edit own work for inaccuracies.
Key Terms:
Articulate, deliberate effect, Consider, Describe, Evaluate, Explain, Identify, Summarise, Audience,
Tone, Register.
Online Resources:
https://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/difference-between-email-and-report/
https://www.totalsuccess.co.uk/letter-and-report-writing-skills-how-to-deal-with-letters-of-
complaints/
https://www.totalsuccess.co.uk/letter-and-report-writing-skills-checklist-for-writing-letters/
https://www.totalsuccess.co.uk/top-tips-for-writing-effective-emails/
https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/ace/downloads/tipsheets/persvsargu.pdf
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
October
Content Learning outcomes
● Identify different genres of fiction texts and the
elements of fiction (character, setting, theme, plot).
● Understand the difference between literal and
inferential comprehension questions.
● Understand the difference between explicit and implicit
meaning.
Chapter 2: Reading for ● Understanding precise meaning (own word questions).
Comprehension
● Move beyond understanding of general literal meaning
(own word questions).
● Skim read the passage for the gist of the text before
identification of questions.
● Notice how many marks there are for each question
● Formulate answer without question stem.
Key Terms: Informative writing , fact, non-fiction, content, convey, evaluate, Passive and active
reading, implicit meaning, Structure your argument, Note making, Summary , Purpose, Skimming,
Scanning, Gist, Key words, Topic sentence, Structure.
Online Resources:
https://students.dartmouth.edu/academic-skills/learning-resources/learning-strategies/reading-
techniques
https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/reading-techniques/
https://www.iedunote.com/reading-techniques
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/descriptive-text-examples.html
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
● Identify and appreciate writer’s crafts.
● Understand and how vocabulary choice affects the
reader.
● Explore how and why devices are used.
● Explain more than literal meaning.
● Understand connotations and denotations.
Chapter 3: Analysis and explaining
writer’s craft ● Sequence words with similar denotations according to
intensity.
● Recap/ research the use of literary devices such as
simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration,
onomatopoeia.
● Consider two explanations of an example of a device at
work in a fiction text.
● Justify choice with intended effects.
Audience, Tone, Register, Key words, Content, Note making, Skimming, Gist, First person.
Online Resources:
https://freedomtoteach.collins.co.uk/packing-a-punch-how-a-writers-use-of-language-can-create-
effects/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zn8tkmn/articles/zmt2vk7#:~:text=Language%20choice%20is
%20key%20when,words%20and%20phrases%20all%20count.
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
Chapter 7: Directed Writing -
● Write for a specific audience.
Magazine Article and Report
● 7.3 Beginning to write ● Understand the uses of different voices for effect.
discursively
● 7.3 Giving a Point of View ● Understand the use of different sentence types for
effect.
● Phrasing a response
● Explain how texts can be structured in different ways
● Report vs Magazine Article for different effects.
Audience, Tone, Register, Key words, Content, Note making, Format,
Online Resources:
https://blogswithwg.com/article-writing-format-sample-o-level-english/
https://blogswithwg.com/o-level-report-writing-sample-directed-writing/
https://www.differencebetween.com/what-is-the-difference-between-article-writing-and-report-
writing/
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
November- Mid-Term Revision
December- Mid-term Exams
January
Content Learning outcomes
● Write for a specific audience.
● Understand the uses of different voices for effect.
Chapter 6: Writing Skills ● Understand the use of different sentence types for
effect.
● Explain how texts can be structured in different
ways for different effects.
Articulate, deliberate effect, Consider, Describe, Evaluate, Explain, Identify, Summarise, Audience,
Tone, Register.
Online Resources:
https://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/difference-between-email-and-report/
https://www.totalsuccess.co.uk/letter-and-report-writing-skills-how-to-deal-with-letters-of-
complaints/
https://www.totalsuccess.co.uk/letter-and-report-writing-skills-checklist-for-writing-letters/
https://www.totalsuccess.co.uk/top-tips-for-writing-effective-emails/
https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/ace/downloads/tipsheets/persvsargu.pdf
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
● Understand audience, register and tone, awareness
of situation and audience in directed writing.
● Examine printed copies of exemplar speeches and
write short commentaries on its merits.
● Identify similarities and differences between the
different elements of speeches. For example: ethos,
pathos, logos, daforest, quotations, etc.
● Read and identify relevant content from text 1 and
text 2 making note of the points in two columns.
Chapter 7: Directed Writing
● Probe ideas in the text and begin to evaluate.
● Speech
● Use and develop the ideas contained in the
● Report passages, and add own original details.
● Note where points in each text are similar/support
● Magazine Article
each other or contrast / seem to disagree.
● Letters ● Identify a claim or assertion in each text which that
is unconvincing, or that could be challenged.
● Email
● Use rhetorical devices (speech).
● Use catchy heading (article/report).
● Differentiate formal and informal tone
(email/letter).
● Sequence the paragraphs to achieve a balanced
discussion overall.
● Use vocabulary and sentence structures appropriate
to context.
● Edit own work for inaccuracies.
Chapter 8: Descriptive Writing ● Use figurative language to describe places, events
and people.
● Use different points of view and perspectives.
● Plan and think of ideas for descriptive writing.
● Write a variety of engaging opening sentences.
● Use sense descriptions to develop the content of
their writing.
● Make effective verb choices to describe characters.
● Use different techniques to generate and plan story
ideas.
● Write a range of different story openings.
● Use different sentence types for variety.
Chapter 9: Narrative Writing (review)
● Create engaging characters and give them dialogue.
● Use different techniques to shape and structure a
story.
● Write effective story endings.
Key Terms: Evaluate, Expression, Summary, Speech, Fact, Structure your argument, Hyperbole,
Litotes, Colloquial.
Online Resources:
https://www.differencebetween.com/what-is-the-difference-between-article-writing-and-report-
writing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkd2Eu7xDSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuNHe6Fhomc
https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/cambridge-college/english/0511-writing-a-report-for-
examination-from-2024/28169653
https://uniontestprep.com/act/blog/argumentative-vs-persuasive-writing
https://www.thoughtco.com/writing-topics-argument-and-persuasion-1690533
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
February
Content Learning outcomes
● Explain how texts can be structured in different
Chapter 6: Writing Skills
ways for different effects.
Key Terms: Audience, Tone, Register, Key words, Content, Note making, Skimming, Gist, First person.
Online Resources:
https://freedomtoteach.collins.co.uk/packing-a-punch-how-a-writers-use-of-language-can-create-
effects/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zn8tkmn/articles/zmt2vk7#:~:text=Language%20choice%20is
%20key%20when,words%20and%20phrases%20all%20count.
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
● Describe how writers use figurative language to
create atmosphere and setting.
Chapter 3: Analysing and explaining
● Explain the effects of writers’ language choices to
writer’s effect
describe characters and people.
● Analyse how and why writers use sensory language.
Key Terms: chronological order, fiction, non-fiction, third person, omniscient narrator, direct speech,
Tone, Syntax, Non-fiction , Fiction , Explicit meaning, Implicit meaning , Interpret , Fact , Purpose,
Attitude, Structure, Convey, Summary, Quotation, Passive reading, Scanning, Simile, Persuasive
Writing, Evaluate.
Online Resources:
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/types-of-narrative-writing#4-types-of-narrative-writing
https://www.thoughtco.com/narrative-composition-term-1691417
https://self-publishingschool.com/narrative-writing/
https://www.allassignmenthelp.com/blog/descriptive-writing/
https://www.scribbr.com/academic-essay/descriptive-essay/
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/descriptive-text-examples.html
Other Resources:
Cambridge O level English Language Second Edition by John Reynolds and Patricia Acres (Hodder
Education)
Revision for Final Exams/Mocks ● Think about how best to approach exam preparation
and revision.
● Read about good examination practice and techniques.
● Learn about common mistakes.
Key Terms: Articulate, deliberate effect, Consider, Describe, Evaluate, Explain, Identify, Summarise,
Audience, Tone, Register
Types of questions:
● Sample questions from
• Specimen paper 2024
• Cambridge IGCSE First Language English (0500)
• Cambridge IGCSE First Language English (9–1) (0990)
• Cambridge IGCSE First Language English (US) (0524)
• Cambridge IGCSE English as an Additional Language (0472)
• Cambridge IGCSE English as an Additional Language (9–1) (0772)
● Examiner’s Reports
March/April: Mocks Examination CAIE
