English Language study guides

A deep-dive overview of CCEA GCSE English Language Unit 4: the personal or creative writing task and the reading of unseen literary and non-fiction texts, the AO2, AO3 and AO4 skills tested, and how to write and analyse for the top grades.

A deep-dive overview of the reading section of CCEA GCSE English Language Unit 1: the non-fiction and media texts, the AO2 skills tested, and how to move through retrieval, inference, purpose and audience, presentation, language, fact and opinion, and comparison under exam conditions.

A deep-dive overview of CCEA GCSE English Language Unit 2: the Speaking and Listening endorsement, the individual presentation, group discussion and role play, the AO1 skills assessed, and how the endorsement is reported separately as Pass, Merit or Distinction.

A deep-dive overview of CCEA GCSE English Language Unit 3: the controlled assessment studying spoken and written language, the two analytical tasks, the AO2 analysis skills and the terminology of language variety, spoken features and media texts.

A deep-dive overview of the writing section of CCEA GCSE English Language Unit 1: the transactional writing task, the AO3 and AO4 skills tested, and how to match form, purpose and audience, control register, structure a whole text, use rhetoric and protect technical accuracy.