Step-by-step WJEC GCSE English Language lessons by topic, building up to exam-style questions. Start with the reading and comprehension skills for description, narration and exposition texts before tackling the more evaluation-heavy argumentation and persuasion unit, since technical accuracy in writing carries half the marks in each written unit.

1 Subject content: oracy, reading and writing skills

1.3 Reading skills

1.4 Writing skills

2 Unit 1: Non-examination assessment — Oracy (20%)

2.1 Task 1 (10%) – Individual Researched Presentation

3 Unit 2: External assessment — Reading and Writing: Description, Narration and Exposition (40%)

3.1 Section A (20%) – Reading

3.2 Section B (20%) – Writing

4 Unit 3: External assessment — Reading and Writing: Argumentation, Persuasion and Instructional (40%)

4.1 Section A (20%) – Reading

4.2 Section B (20%) – Writing

5 Assessment objectives

5.1 AO1 Oracy (20%)

5.2 AO2 Reading (40%)