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The Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM is designed to complement
the Cambridge University Press Coursebook for teaching Cambridge syllabus 0486: IGCSE
Literature (English). However, much of it will still be relevant if you are following a Cambridge
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IGCSE Literature syllabus with a different syllabus code. Make sure you have access to the latest
version of whichever syllabus you are following.
The resources on the CD-ROM have been written to complement the Literature text extracts and
their related Activities in the Coursebook. The links between the CD-ROM and the Coursebook
are made explicit in the Teacher notes for each unit and in many of the student Worksheets and
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Handouts. In addition to complementary Worksheets based on texts in the Coursebook, the
CD-ROM contains Worksheets on additional texts.
The Worksheets and other Handouts for students promote active learning skills. This is
important for a subject that prizes informed personal responses to the texts that students read.
Towards the beginning of the course, you should take students through the ‘Active learning’
section of Unit 1 of the Coursebook (on page 5) to show them the practical ways in which they
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can take responsibility for their own learning. For some students, this concept will be difficult to
grasp. But this is a subject where there really are no ‘correct’ or ‘model’ answers. The resources
in both Coursebook and CD-ROM help students to develop effective strategies for responding in
original and individual ways to the texts they read.
Teacher notes. These provide both an overview of a particular unit and specific information
and guidance for teachers in respect of particular Worksheets or Handouts for students. The
Teacher notes document for a particular unit should, therefore, be read before using any of that
unit’s sheets for students. Note that Units 1 and 2 of the CD-ROM are introductory materials for
teachers only.
Worksheets. This is the most common type of document on the CD-ROM, and these create
active learning opportunities for students. There are Worksheets available for all Units 3–9, and
in general they are designed to be useable at all ability levels, but any differentiation is noted in
the related Teacher notes and in the Contents grid in the Unit 1 menu. Worksheets are provided
in an editable format in Word, so you may customise them as you wish.
The Worksheets complement the texts and Activities found in the Coursebook, with some
containing additional texts. These sheets should be used in the order that best suits the structure
of your Literature course. They are not designed to be read or used in a sequential order. You
should feel free to take materials from various Units to support any lesson or teaching topic you
are planning.
Where relevant, Worksheets will provide an ‘at-a-glance’ indication of what students will need
to complete the Activities on a particular Worksheet – see the ‘You will need’ box near the top of
the sheet.
Handouts. These are documents that contain mainly information or checklists to help students
evaluate their own progress rather than Activities relating to specific texts.
Lesson plans. In addition to a Lesson plan template in Unit 2, you will find specimen Lesson
plans in Units 8 and 9. These are available in editable Word format, and can be modified to
reflect your own teaching circumstances, as well as your selection of texts.
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Teacher support sheets. These sheets give guidance and useful reference materials about specific
issues or topics for a particular unit. They are aimed specifically at teachers, and will help with
planning and focusing your teaching.
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Extract sheets. These sheets contain annotatable electronic versions of all the texts from
the Coursebook (where permission could be obtained). The sheets are grouped by the unit
in which they appear, and they can be printed or projected onto a classroom whiteboard.
(A full Acknowledgements list for all texts can be found at the foot of the main CD-ROM menu.)
Image resource sheets. These contain selected images from the Coursebook for classroom
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projection as stimulus for class discussion and as a way in to related texts.
Units 1–9
The CD-ROM has the same structure as the Coursebook. The units on the CD-ROM share
the same number as their counterparts in the Coursebook. This helps to provide a coherent
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framework for all the documentation. It also enables you to navigate the various units quickly in
order to find relevant material for your lesson(s).
The descriptions below provide a brief overview of the content of each unit. You are advised to
read the Introduction to each unit’s Teacher notes document for a more detailed overview and
rationale.
The first two units are aimed solely at teachers. As you can see, Unit 1 tells you how to use the
CD-ROM and what it contains.
Unit 2 provides specimen course-planning documents that can be modified to reflect the
particular circumstances of teaching and learning within your centre. These provide illustrations
of possible approaches to planning, and should not be seen as definitive model plans for the
obvious reason that one plan cannot meet all centres’ needs.
Units 3–5 provide a variety of Worksheets and Handouts aimed at students, and include the kind
of Activities that promote an active learning approach to the subject. The Activities complement
and, in some cases, extend those found in the Coursebook on analysing poetry, prose and drama
respectively.
Unit 3 helps to develop skills required when responding to poems, and the materials could be used
as preparatory work before studying Poetry set texts. You may feel that one or more of the poems
could be studied as part of a project leading towards a Coursework assignment. The structured
approach in many of the Worksheets can be useful during the early stages of a programme of work
that prepares students for the Poetry section of the Unseen Examination Paper.
Unit 4 helps to develop skills required when responding to prose fiction, and could be used
before studying Prose set texts. Perhaps some of the texts might be useful as part of your teaching
for a Prose Coursework assignment. The structured approach in many of the Worksheets can
be useful in developing the close reading skills required for the Prose section of the Unseen
Examination Paper.
Unit 5 helps students to consider drama texts as plays, intended for performance, rather than
texts to be read like prose texts. Again, the sheets can be used to teach Drama skills for all types
of assessment in the IGCSE Literature course.
Unit 6 provides Worksheets and Handouts designed to develop both critical and empathic
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writing skills. They include opportunities for self-evaluation and also for teacher evaluation of
student writing. The teacher notes provide useful commentaries on the strengths and weaknesses
of student writing examples.
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Unit 7 includes an explanation of the requirements of the Unseen Paper (Paper 3 of syllabus
0486), with guidance set out in a question-and-answer format (but please check against the current
syllabus on the Cambridge website at www.cie.org.uk). There are also three IGCSE-style practice
questions on Unseen texts – two on relatively recent texts, and one on a more established poem.
Unit 8 contains generic guidance and Worksheet Activities that can be modified to reflect the
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particular set texts you are teaching (e.g. for Papers 1, 4 or 5 of syllabus 0486).
Unit 9 contains Handouts for students for use at different stages of their Coursework assignment
(Paper 2 of syllabus 0486), from writing the first draft through to presenting their final version.
The Unit also contains a Teacher support sheet on the subject of Coursework task-setting; this
contains examples of effective and less effective Coursework tasks.
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I hope you find that the material on this CD-ROM usefully complements that found in the
Coursebook and that you enjoy using and/or modifying the material in your own lessons.
Russell Carey
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Such film adaptations can certainly enhance
• one or both of their Coursework a reading of a play. The viewing of a key
assignments scene alongside a close reading of the same
• Set Text Paper 5. scene in the text can help students to engage
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For Syllabus 0476, students must study a play
by Shakespeare for Paper 1.
In order to get the most out of this Activity, Activity 5.1. It can be customised as exam
students should read the introductory pages practice for a particular extract selected from
of the Coursebook: Responding to Drama unit your Drama set text, or for an extract from
(pages 95–98). Direct them in particular to the Coursework texts you may be teaching. Many
differences between Prose and Drama texts in 20th-century IGCSE texts include a good deal
the section ‘Analyse the ways dramatists use of stage direction, for example, plays by Miller,
form, structure and language’ (page 96). Williams, Hansberry, Ayckbourn.
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extract, brothers Biff and Happy. Both stages
• the appearance of the set.
are essential when developing a detailed
The Worksheet asks students to apply and appreciation of characters in plays (and indeed
extend this knowledge to an appreciation of Prose texts).
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the extract from A Streetcar Named Desire
(Coursebook, pages 123–125). For Activity 1,
the notes they make under the various
headings will enable them to appreciate the
contribution that stage directions make to the
way they visualise the play. ‘How would this
Activity 1 really asks for students’ impressions
of the two characters, that is, what they learn
about Biff and Happy from the evidence
provided in the extract. The Activity asks for
lists of bullet points, though a mind map
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would also provide a useful visual aid for
scene appear on stage?’ is a very important
gathering relevant points. Answers could
question students should ask of all key scenes.
include the characters’ likes and dislikes, their
Activity 2 gets students to build on their thoughts and feelings about life generally, and
increased understanding of the play’s dramatic about their work in particular.
impact. This Activity has three stages and
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This kind of Activity can serve as an explicit used as given or amended to reflect the play(s)
reminder to students to: you are teaching.
• quote to support points they make Romeo and Juliet is of course a common IGCSE
• provide analytical comment on key words exam and Coursework text. However, to adapt
and their effects. the Worksheet, simply select an extract which
reveals conflict between characters and then
Worksheet 5.4 follow the three Activities in this Worksheet:
This Worksheet asks students to consider the
particular features of Drama texts by taking an • a ‘Quotation and Comment’ table to
extract from Prose fiction and rewriting it as a arrange students’ responses
Drama script. • small group discussion about the best
way to communicate the conflict in a
Students are asked to read or review the pages powerfully dramatic way
from the Coursebook noted in the ‘You will • students rehearsing and acting out the
need’ box. Some guidance may be needed scene.
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here to ensure students do not spend too long
Support is provided in the Worksheet for each
reading the background information. Most
of these three stages.
importantly, they will need to read carefully
the extract from Roald Dahl’s The Hitch-hiker
(pages 56–57), and think about how it could be Worksheet 5.6
adapted as a Drama text.
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This sort of exercise need not take long, perhaps
30–40 minutes (plus 15–20 minutes’ reading
time). It provides a valuable insight into the
This Worksheet asks students to read extracts
from the beginnings of three plays (or near
the beginning in the case of the Hansberry
text). These beginnings can be compared with
each other, and also with the beginnings of
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sorts of decisions writers of plays face when:
students’ own exam or Coursework texts.
• describing characters and how they look
This Worksheet could take 30–40 minutes
• describing how characters speak (plus 15–20 minutes’ reading time). Small
• setting the scene for the stage group discussion of each of the three extracts
• providing information about sound and precedes note-making and brief writing
lighting.
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Activities.
The worksheet directs students to an example
A series of specific questions helps support
of what a Drama script looks like (from
students through their discussions and writing.
Williams’s The Glass Menagerie) and an
These questions could be applied to the
explanation of stage directions – on pages
opening of any Drama text. You may wish to
98–102. This Drama extract can be scan-read
include a more formal exercise in which the
quickly for key features rather than read in
groups report back their ideas to the class as a
detail, as it is not central to the activity.
whole.
A Further activity (where time permits) asks
students to decide on the merits of each other’s
scripts. By acting out parts of texts, students
Worksheets 5.7 and 5.8
engage with significant features used by each One of the best ways to increase students’
of the student dramatists as they focus on detailed appreciation of a play is to focus
the ways in which writers seek to achieve teaching and learning Activities on the play’s
particular dramatic effects. key scenes. There simply is not sufficient time
to focus on all pages of the Drama script in the
same close detail. But by concentrating on the
Worksheet 5.5 key moments in the play, you will be teaching
It is a universally accepted truth that conflict is the necessary skills that students can then
at the heart of Drama. This Worksheet can be apply to any moment in the play.
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see http://www.cie.org.uk/profiles/teachers/
support • the way they speak
• shifts in tone of voice
These Worksheets are best scheduled after an • quantity of lines spoken
initial reading of the play has taken place. • the use of pauses
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They allow students to develop their own
responses to the text in greater detail.
Examples of good practice can be found in minutes. It will serve as a succinct reminder
past papers on the Cambridge Teacher Support that plays are pieces of writing intended for
website. performance.
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play.
3 I know the detail of the plot.
4 I understand the play’s main themes (or
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deeper meanings).
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I appreciate the ways in which the writer
presents the characters on stage.
I appreciate the ways in which the settings
are created, and why.
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7 I know where the shifts in mood occur in
the play, and why.
8 I can analyse the structure of the play: why
scenes appear in the order they do.
9 I am able to comment on how effective the
ending of a play is.
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Worksheet 5.3
Making notes on characters
This sheet refers to the extract from Death of a Salesman in the Coursebook. But the
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strategies used in this Worksheet can be used for your notes on characters from any text.
Activities
1 Read the extract carefully, and then make a list of what you learn about the two characters
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For example: Doesn’t know what he wants from life
Drifted from one job to another
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b Happy
For example: Looks up to his brother
Stuck in his job – to move up he must wait for his manager to die
• __________________________________________________________________
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2 Activity 2 encourages you to build on Activity 1 by exploring the ways in which the writer
presents a particular character.
In the table below write down key quotations which bring to life Biff’s character. In the
Comment column you should comment on the effects of key words used by Miller, the
writer.
In critical essays, comments should be longer than the quotations. Your comments allow
you to show your ability to analyse the words writers use in creating their characters.
This sort of note-making Activity can be useful in organising your thoughts about
characters in the plays (and also Prose texts) that you study.
Quotation Comment
(This should be brief) (This should be longer than the quotation)
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... it’s a measly manner of existence
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To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake The numbers in this quotation make clear
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Speak not, reply not, do not answer me!
My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest
That God had lent us but this only child, 165
But now I see this one is one too much,
nurse
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And that we have a curse in having her.
Out on her, hilding!1
God in heaven bless her!
You are to blame, my lord, to rate2 her so.
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capulet And why, my Lady Wisdom? Hold your tongue, 170
Good Prudence, smatter with your gossips, go.
nurse I speak no treason.
capulet O God-i-goden!3
nurse May not one speak?
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[Exit capulet]
juliet Is there no pity sitting in the clouds
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
O sweet my mother, cast me not away!
Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
Or if you do not, make the bridal bed 200
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In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
lady capulet Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word.
Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.
1 hilding wretch
2 rate scold
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3 God-i-goden! clear off! (mockingly: ‘good evening’)
4 gossip’s bowl drinks at a hen party
5 God’s bread the sacred bread served at Mass (an oath)
[Exit lady capulet]
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6 demesnes lands
7 ligned descended
8 puling crying
9 mammet puppet
10 tender offer
11 be forsworn be denied, break my oath
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‘Romeo and Juliet,’ Act 3, Scene 5, lines 158–203, from Cambridge School Shakespeare edition, 2005.
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Part 2, Unit 5, Responding to Drama, page 114
Caption: What impact do you think the sight of the blood on Macbeth’s hands would have on an audience?
© Donald Cooper/Photostage (Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1995)
ISBN: 9781107637054
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