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IGCSE English First

Language – CAIE

Assignment 1: A matter of time

Learning Outcomes:

■ Main skills: comprehension; summary; writers’ effects


■ Secondary skills: persuasive language; selecting material; complex sentences
■ Outcome: summary; magazine article; comparison of texts
■ Materials: Summary writing process handout
■ Texts: Text 1A: Time management; Text 1B: Time travel; Text 1C: Time

1 Create a mindmap for the topic of ‘Time’.

Example content could include any of the following:


dates, diaries, schedules and calendars, routine, seasons,
ageing, change, decay, healing, regrets, hopes, prophecy,
promises, horoscopes, memory, sport, examinations,
travel (5)

2 Read Text 1A and give definitions for the five verbs in


bold. (10)

3 Identify and list the characteristics of argumentative


language in Text 1A. (10)

4 Refer to your summary writing process, located in your


assignment resources section. Identify and list the points
in Text 1A to use in a summary of ‘recommended
strategies for improving time management’. (There are
15.)

5 Read Text 1B. Identify / highlight relevant points for a


two-paragraph summary of:
IGCSE English First
Language – CAIE
a) What the time-traveller observed on the journey in the
machine.
b) What the time-traveller observed after the machine
landed.

List the points in your own words. (15)

6 Identify effective language in the description of the crabs


in Text 1B, paragraph 5. Provide explanations for your
choices and how they contribute to an overall
atmosphere. (10)

7 Write the two summaries, using your points from Task 4


and Task 5, in not more than 120 words each, in complex
sentences. Check your work for accuracy, clarity and
concision of expression before submitting it. You will be
marked out of 10 for content and out of 5 for style. (15)

Help: What is a mind map?

A mind map is an illustration with a keyword or phrase in the


middle, lines connecting from the middle to a main idea, and even
more lines connecting from main ideas to details. Building out from
the centre, mind maps are often said to look like sunbursts or even
spiderwebs. Mind maps can have more than three levels (middle,
main ideas, and details), but most stick with this model.
friends are the
rest family you make
family and friends along the way
holidays
journeytravel education
seasons festivites
Art estimated time schoolday
hours corporate 9 5
days months of arrival
creativity Schedule

grandfather works order salary


music clocks discipline
beats ticking sound conformity
time Age
hurt time heals all birth
and healing death
love
prophecy history 9months of
betrayal anniversary pregnancy
warsand
injustice genocide ancientcivilizations roman empire

world wars ancientgreeks indus civilization


and worldwar 2
diaryof AnneFrank culture

literature
Procrastinate to delay tasks out of unwillingness to
perform them

Optimise to use resources or time effectively and

efficiently

Negotiate to agree on something via a persuasive


discussion

Delegate To assign tasks to one's subordinates to


improve efficiency

Prioritise Ordering tasks responsibilities and performing them


in the order of importance and urgency

An engaging introductions with the use


of rhetorical
questions and an anecdote Followeddebatable
by a

claim that presents the issue being argued about


it uses emotive language to remind readers about
the common isue time management via the guilt
one feels unsuccessful at
after procrastinating or being
managing time The text then presents solutions and
attempts to prove the point by using statistics
Recommended strategies for time management
1 Start with a to do list to help us better plan the

day
2 Making a list shouldn't take away time from doing the tasks
itself
3 Organize tasks in the order
of due dates over importance
helps us reach all deadlines
4 To do list should consist short
of realistic
term goals
5 List should be realistic avoid transferring tasks
to the next day
6 Create clear goals to follow so
you manage time
productively rather than just do unproductivetasks becausethey
are easier
7 Avoid procrastination by starting of a dreaded task
making it easier to return to than to start
8 Optimise
your schedule so
that
you are working
at
your sharpest hours this ensures efficiency
9 Focus on one task at hand avoid multi tasking as it
allows for more errors lower quality work of
107 If possible delegate tasks than micro mange in order
to be able to finish it quicker
11 Negotiate lesser tasks more time than overworking
and overstressing yourself
12 Take a physical break at least every 2 hours
and step away from your worstation return
with renewed focus
13 sleep well eat well to avoid burn out
14 Being frantic for long can cause burnout
even
if you like to keep busy
15 A break is necessary if you're stuck as
a rested brain provides better solutions and
ideas

A greyness dulled the atmosphere


Sun setting and rising grew infrequent and infinitely
lengthened each day until the sun rose and
fell in the west
The moon was no longer visible

550 Part of the previously blue sky turned jet


black right above had turned carmine and
the rest was brighter red where the
large
and deep red sun sat idly
The areas had been consumed by
greenery

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