ADVANCED LEVEL ENGLISH LANGUAGE: SYLLABUS HIGHLIGHTS & PAPER STRUCTURE




A-LEVEL ENGLISH LANGUAGE: SYLLABUS HIGHLIGHTS & STRUCTURE OF THE PAPER


SYLLABUS HIGHLIGHTS


I. Grammar (parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, active - passive voice, direct - indirect/reported speech, question tags, etc.)

II. Vocabulary (synonyms, homonyms, antonyms, affixes, idioms, analogies, etc.)

III. Pronunciation (syllabification, stress, intonation, vowel sounds, etc.)

IV. Essay writing (narrative, descriptive, argumentative, explanatory/discursive, etc.): writing an introduction, a paragraph, etc.

V. Text Summary (how to reduce a long passage to a shorter one)

VI. Text Reconstruction (letters, reports, rejoinders; articles, minutes, biographies; talks, speeches, debates; changing from direct to indirect speech, from the active to the passive voice, from a drama text to prose; rearranging a jumbled passage, correcting errors in a text, etc.)

VII. Prescribed Texts or Literature

Prescribed texts to be studied:

1. Across the Mongolo, John Nkemngong Nkengasong

2. Lake God, Bole Butake

3. A Walk in the Night, Alex La Guma

4. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

5. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

6. The Prince, Nicolas Machiavelli

7. Walls of Agony, John Ngong Kum Ngong 

8. The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe

9. Collection of Essays by Francis Beacon


N.B.: The GCE Board wants you to master just 3 prescribed texts.


STRUCTURE OF THE PAPER


PAPER 1 : 50 MCQs

Section A - Reading Comprehension (16 questions)

Section B - Grammar (22 questions)

Section C - Vocabulary (12 questions).

Rate: 30 %


PAPER 2

Section A - Text Summary and Text Reconstruction (15 marks × 2)

Section B - Essay writing (20 marks)
You're given 6 topics to choose 1 and write between 500 and 550 words.

Section C - Prescribed texts (20 marks)
You're given 4 questions to answer 1. (You must have a mastery of 3 texts to answer the question).

Rate: 70%


Good news! A-Level English language still paper 1 & 2 only.


Contact me on Telegram/WhatsApp for tutorial: 651954553 (Séverin Ateba)

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