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Formal or Informal?
Cut-ups and Kaboom! Students often struggle to distinguish between formal and informal language, and also to produce appropriately formal language when appropriate. Given that academic language is generally formal, and that my students need to be able to write texts of varying registers for their IGCSE E2L, it’s worth some time focusing on the features […]
Noticing, analysing and applying features of persuasive writing
The IGCSE in E2L requires students to be able to write articles and formal letters using persuasive language. To get the top marks for a piece of writing at GCSE, students need to use “a consistently appropriate style” with an “excellent sense of purpose and audience.” Many of my students haven’t studied persuasive language in […]
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