Welcome to IGCSE English Language and Literature

Please use the navigation panel on the right hand tab to search through the materials linked to the Edexcel IGCSE courses in English Literature and English Language for current Year 11.

There are materials included on all of the main Anthology texts in Section A as well as guides to your Literature texts and many other resources. Get stuck in! The texts named in the box below are suggestions: different teachers will choose different texts.

CoursePaper 1Paper 2Coursework
English Language

Eduqas GCSE

1 hour 45 minutes
80 marks in total
Two Sections - 40 marks each

Section A - Unseen 20th Century Fiction 

Section B - Creative Prose Writing
2 hours
80 marks in total
Two Sections - 40 marks each

Section A - Unseen 19th and 21st Century Non-Fiction

Section B - Two Non-Fiction writing tasks
n/a
English Literature

Edexcel IGCSE

2 hours
90 marks in total
Two Sections 
Section A - Poetry (Unseen & comparison)
Section B - Prose 
n/aDrama coursework (40%):

Shakespeare (20%)

A View From the Bridge or 
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time(20%)

If you have a spare 10, 25 or 45 minutes for study, a number of tasks for English Literature and Language can be found on the PowerPoint below: