AWE Club – English as a Second Language IGCSE

Lindsey is an experienced teacher and has worked with many Home Educated students. She understands her students are all individuals and will endeavour to help them to get the best out of the course and aim for a successful outcome. She is used to students with anxiety and will gently encourage them and help to build their self-confidence. We are happy to accommodate children’s preferences around webcams and microphone being on or off or similar needs.

Course Details

2 years of two weekly lessons for one hour each.

Lindsey has many years of experience teaching English as a Second Language to students from around the World. Lindsey is a lovely teacher who is very gentle and kind so great for anxious children or those worried by online learning. Lindsey will email resource pdfs dependant on the abilities and ages of the students- clue cards, consonant and vowel digraphs can be used so that words can be built up and introduced as parts of books and everyday sentences. This leads on to reading comprehension and grammar. 

Lesson recordings are available after each lesson.

Qualification Aims

• Understand written and spoken English language in a range of practical, familiar and unfamiliar contexts, and for a variety of purposes
• Communicate effectively in written and spoken English using a range of vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structures
• Effectively use English language grammar, sentence structures, and vocabulary

Specification

Pearson Edexcel (IGCSE) International GCSE in English as a Second Language (9-1) (4XES2)

LINK: https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-international-gcses/english-as-a-second-language-2023.coursematerials.html#filterQuery=category:Pearson-UK:Category%2FSpecification-and-sample-assessments&filterQuery=category:Pearson-UK:Document-Type%2FSpecification

Exams

AWE students can get a discount for T&E exam centers.
Exams are optional, students are welcome to join the course regardless of their future plans around exams. Homework is set weekly and gently encouraged by Lindsey but we recognise that Home Educated students may choose for themselves. Parents are responsible for booking exams.

Assessments

It is a four exam qualification where the four individual assessments may be taken over one or more examination series, or all assessments may be taken together in a single examination series in June or November.

• Reading skills are assessed in Unit 1.
• Listening skills are assessed in Unit 2.
• Writing skills are assessed in Unit 3.
• Speaking skills are assessed in Unit 4.

Textbook

Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) English as a Second Language (ESL)
Student Book
Publisher: Pearson
Author: Nicky Winder, Laurance Gardner
ISBN: 9780435188948

Useful link https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/