Syllabus REQUIREMENTS 

Attached below, is the set requirements of stage four students. The syllabus states that students should: 

  • Experiment with language forms and features to compose texts for pleasure and enjoyment. 
  • Interpret the stated and implied meanings in spoken texts, and use evidence to support or challenge different perspectives. 
  • Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts. 
  • Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause and effect, and extended metaphors.
  • Use increasingly sophisticated verbal, aural, visual and/or written techniques, eg imagery, figures of speech, selective choice of vocabulary, rhythm, sound effects, colour and design, to compose imaginative texts for pleasure. 
  • Compare the ways that language and images are used to create character, and to influence emotions and opinions in different types of texts. 
  • Identify and evaluate devices that create tone, for example humour, wordplay, innuendo and parody in poetry, humorous prose, drama or visual texts.