This is a set of slides with animated line-by-line analysis of Maya Angelou’s poem, “Caged Bird”. I have also included a couple of IGCSE-style questions for student practice. This poem is specified in the Cambridge IGCSE 0475 Literature in English 2020-2021 syllabus. It is found in Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 3.

This was used as a 60-minute lesson for IGCSE Global Perspectives, as we got our students to think more on the topic of Sustainability, in preparation for their mini Individual Report. It is important to note that we showed only the first 10 minutes of the documentary, and spent the rest of the lessons on a pair and whole class discussion. While we focus more on teaching skills, this documentary served as a useful resource for the students to gain exposure to this topic, and subsequently to do more research on other (luxury) items that could threaten the sustainability of our environment.

Here’s a list of 25 descriptive writing prompts that would be very suitable for students who are preparing for the IGCSE First Language English (0500) syllabus. They have been written based on the requirements of the latest syllabus updates.

This resource contains 4 sets of Powerpoint slides and 4 worksheets, which were used in a 4-lesson English enrichment programme (conducted on Zoom) where 6-8 year olds were introduced to the following Shel Silverstein poems: Sick Homework Machine Runny Babbit Eighteen Flavours In some of the worksheets, if they look like duplicates, that was because I was trying to (somewhat) differentiate the work for the different abilities in the small group that I had.

This is a set of slides with animated line-by-line analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43”. I have also included a couple of IGCSE-style questions for student practice. This poem is specified in the Cambridge IGCSE 0475 Literature in English 2020-2021 and 2021/2022 syllabus. It is found in Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 3.

A set of slides with some explanation of the poem, its context and other information that would help students understand the poem better.

A very simple set of slides to briefly explicate the poem.

A simple set of slides to briefly explicate the poem.