Paper 2 Tips 🌟 First Language English IGCSE 0500/0990🌟

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This video will give you tips and tricks for all of First Language English IGCSE Paper 2 - the writing paper.

[Taughtly]

04:27 Directed Writing
40:00 Descriptive Writing
56:48 Narrative Writing

[Keratin]

For my reference
5:38 evaluation
8:27 how many evaluation points
11:33 u should argue for
13:09
14:29
16:12 example (Text A)
19:55 text B
28:21 Cambridge report
36:51 mature writing
39:06 probe
+ should be lively writing

Descriptive writing
45:47 smth shifts in the third paragraph
54:15 use more original content
55:09 use consistent tenses

[CyrusTxG]

I cannot tell you how much this has helped me. Thanks to you, I just received an A* for First Language English! I hope that you could continue to post more tips and insights.

[filmandsuchh]

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[abdullah.ishfaq]

I couldn't tell by words how much your video has helped me go through my 0500 paper. Now it's in gods hand to whether or not I get my A*

[Mariulia]

I don’t usually comment under videos, but I just wanted to say a huge thank you! English is my first language, but ever since I start doing IGCSE English my language skills weren’t as good as I supposed they would be and I felt really insecure that all the rest were doing so well, whereas I am still struggling to understand the subject. I just discovered your channel like a few days ago and my faith in my powers were finally restored. I just did my paper 2 today and I couldn’t have done it without your help! Thank you sooo so much! 😭❤

[JohnnelleTwite]

a big thank to u, i came from a C to A🥰🥰

[pinkishblizz]

I watched this before my exam and I got a 92 tysm!!

[Neyasri-ncxz]

I have my paper 2 tomorrow. For the past 2 months, I have been practicing the papers. But I dint get scores as I expected. But now, after watching videos, I got an A* in practice papers. For gods sake, I’m also expecting an A*. I appreciate your efforts for teaching us this. Thank you so much to make me improved and stay confident for my exam tomorrow. Thank you so much for your support mam

[psychverse]

im here to say thank you so much! i got an A* in FLE english! your tips were really helpful and it really prevented me from writing unnecessary, time consuming answers

[RayLiveClips]

My question is, for the descriptive piece, you talk about how we should describe in more or less a third persons POV, but is it acceptable to write one in first person? Eg: visiting a bookshop, describing the weather and the outwards appearance of the bookshop, zooming into what you see in the bookshop, and talking about how emotional and meaningful that bookshop is to the writer, then looping back to leaving the bookshop very late, having spent so much time in there without realising.


Contrast could be created between the horrible, hostile weather outside and the soothing, welcoming ambiance inside the bookshop/library to further accentuate the emotional feel inside the library. What do you think?

[salmaw]

Nice video!
Do you have any tips for finding maximum content points? I seem to have a problem finding all of them

[Camellia-cy]

1:21:24 THAT PERSON COPIED THE PLOT OF BRIDE

[syedarham]

Should we go with descriptive or narrative, which one is more scoring

[IGCSESTUDY-gwcs]

I just had an idea of describe a buildiing that looks like an office from outside but is a weed growing farm once you go inside

[anaynavalakha]

Hi! Can you please give a deeper explanation on what are evaluation points exactly?

[aanavikalia]

I now have the confidence that im gonna ace my exam!! THANK YOU SO

[okayannett]

So say you're doing a narrative, and dont follow the prompt EX: ' Write a story about a girl going to school ' and you write a story about something else, completely irrelevant, like about a kid going to a zoo, you can still get very high marks? as long as its well written and contains a climax?

[theRealCobra]

Just did my feb march papers... they went well thanks to these videos literally our teachers tought us some shit which wasnt even there she saved us last minute brother our entire class... thank you maam if youre reading this! lets hope the results are great

[jjp]

Im doing my paper 2 tomorrow and this is so helpful! I have one question though, for narratives i heard gore and violent ideas are not marked or not allowed or something. What if I wrote something subtly aggressive or sad, like for out of time while practicing i wrote about a brother whos been taking care of his little sister for years since their parents passed and he signed up for a corrupt dystopian game show and had to get through a series of tweaked and unfair challenges under the clock and if he wins he gets a huge sum of money but if he loses he will lose something very dear to him and as he got closer to the end he began to hear the cries and screams of his sister (i didnt describe if she was being tortured or something) and then the clock ticked faster and faster to entertain the viewers and increase the intensity of the game show while the brother was ready to collapse under the pressure. He eventually runs out of time and well, loses his sister. But that was implied and not explicitly said. Is this too vulgar of a theme?