Pearson Edexcel IGCSE Paper 1 Non-fiction reading

This unit contains everything you need to teach Paper 1 reading at IGCSE. This unit of work teaches the students how to answer questions on the writer’s thoughts and feelings, describing events, perspective and writer’s use of language and structure . It includes 16 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, newspaper articles, speeches, autobiographies, travel writing and two past papers for practice.

Lesson 1: Introduction to non-fiction reading

Lesson 2: Perspective

Lesson 3: Thoughts and feelings

Lesson 4: Perspective

Lesson 5: Gervase Finn

Lesson 6: Language

Lesson 7: Structure

Lesson 8: Thoughts and feelings

Lesson 9: Language and structure

Lesson 10: Perspective

Lesson 11: Boomers vs Millennials

Lesson 12: Analysing JFK’s speech

Lesson 13: Leonardo DiCaprio’s UN Speech

Lesson 14: Muhammad Ali’s speech

Lesson 15: Malala Yousafzai’s speech

Lesson 16: Emma Watson’s speech on equality