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Topic Title | Unit 1: Traveller’s Tales | Unit 2: The world of nature | Unit 3: Points of view | Unit 4: All the world’s a stage | Unit 5: Family and Friends |
| | Unit 4: All the world’s a stage | | Mock exams |
Key Skills and Content | ● Writing to summarise | • Exploring the elements of myths | • Writing an interview script | • Analysing Greek tragedy and modern soap operas | • Comparing and contrasting tone and register |
● Features of travel articles | • Writing folk tales | • Analysing mood and tone in fiction and poetry | • Writing a script | • Writing to inform and entertain |
● Writing descriptive compositions | • Giving a talk on a trip | • Writing a descriptive composition | • Examining classic British Drama | • Writing to express, feel and imagine |
● Writing to persuade | • Writing to argue and persuade | • Writing an account of an incident | • Exploring different types of comedy | • Writing to entertain in a short story |
● Writing a holiday brochure | • Writing to express thoughts and ideas | • Exploring different theatre forms | • Discussing the setting of a play | • Distinguishing implicit and explicit meanings in texts |
| • Writing to inform and discuss | • Analysing the language of theatre | • Identifying different points of view | • Preparing for mock exams |
Summative Assessment | Teacher choice of assessment including writing descriptive accounts, extended analytical essays, articles, and travel brochures | Teacher choice of assessment including preparing talks and writing articles | Teacher choice of assessment including writing interview scripts, creating posters and PPT presentations | Teacher choice of assessment including writing extended analytical essays and producing video soliloquies | Teacher choice of assessment including writing creative pieces and practising exam-style questions |