This module prepares the candidates to develop reading skills useful for comprehension sections of paper 1. The module trains the candidate in the following reading skills and strategies to find accurate short answers. 

• Skimming for global view
• Scanning for detail
• Inference – the iceberg 
• Explicit and implicit collision 
• Reading between the lines 
• Making connections of detail across the text
• Exploit power of predicting, imagination and context 
• Visualising and getting the right moment 
• Accuracy of Mathematics in reading 
  

This module prepares the candidates to develop skills of writing a selective summary in paper 1. The module trains the candidate in the following areas and skills. 

• Selective reading methods
• Eye for detail – How is this useful in summary?
• Know the mathematics – getting the adequate points 
• Organising the details into a cogent writing
• Learn the cohesive devices and sentence structures for precise writing
• Write it right- How do you know you answered the question? 
• Grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and punctuation – How to focus?
• Understand the criteria: be in the top band of marking descriptors

This module prepares the candidates to develop the skills to pick six uncommon, unusual and exotic phrases and explain about how the writers achieve effects and influence the reader’s understanding. The module trains the candidate in the following areas and skills. 

• Reading the descriptive with a different eye – find the uncommon 
• How to choose the right phrases that can be explained well?
• Know the context – an ignored point in the explanation 
• Four Step Method (FSM) to explain: how writers achieve effects 
• Concise writing techniques: filtering the excess wording.  
• Improve your own writing for this task
• Three perspectives – what is so important about it? 
• Learn 30+ frequently featured literary devices in texts

This module prepares the candidates to answer one compulsory question in response to a passage given about an individual’s experiences – a short anecdotal incident or a person in a context or moment. Candidates use the passage (text) information and convert the information into a letter or report or journal or speech or interview or an article. Students practise these text types in this module. The module trains the candidate in the following areas and skills. 

• Understanding the background information – know the context 
• Read and understanding your character – a complex story of your own
• Picking the right detail for reading marks – reading skill (SBS Method)
• How to develop a point or detail? 
• Know difference between three bulleted guiding questions
• Mystery of explicit, implicit and imaginary embedded in guiding questions
• How to pick the right detail for each bulleted guiding question? IEP Method
• How to create your own material for bulleted guiding question 3?
• Writing the response in the right voice- know your audience
• Planning before answering the question – an important step 
• Grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and punctuation – How to focus?
• Understand the criteria: be in the top band of marking descriptors

This module prepares the candidates to answer one compulsory question on one or two texts totaling 650–750 words in length. Candidates use, develop and evaluate the information in the text(s) to write a response of a discursive/argumentative/ persuasive speech, letter or article in about 250–350 words. Students practise these three text types in this module. The module also trains the students in the following areas and skills. 

• How to identify the invited style: discursive or argumentative or persuasive question types
• Reading and picking the right points: SBS Method
• Know the difference between implicit and explicit meanings
• How to transfer detail to your response? 
• How to develop your own ideas and opinions in the response?
• How to support your arguments? FSPE Method 
• How to organize your ideas into a cogent response?
• Know your audience: speaker or the writer or individual
• How to create a voice of your own in the response?
• How to plan before answering the question? 
• Grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and punctuation – How to focus?
• Understand the criteria: be in the top band of marking descriptors

This module prepares the candidates to answer narrative (writing a short story: composition) from a choice of two narrative question titles. Candidates use the title to develop and write a short story in  about 350–450 words. The module trains the candidates in the following areas and skills.

• Understanding the 4 title types that frequently feature 
• Choosing the right question
• Understanding the scope of the storyline
• How do you get the story ideas? Get it right! 
• Developing a plot line for 450 words 
• Classic III Act Structure or Postmodernism: Choose the right narrative style
• Focus on character development 
• Limitations for descriptions in narrative and length of narration 
• How to write short yet powerful dialogues? 
• Writing the action on the move: SSS Method (Shot-Scene-Sequence Construction)  
• Qualities of a good storyteller in writing: a few things to avoid for exam
• Grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and punctuation – How to focus?
• Understand the criteria: be in the top band of marking descriptors

This module prepares the candidates to answer descriptive (composition) from a choice of two descriptive question titles. Candidates use the title to develop and write a composition in  about 350–450 words. The module trains the candidates in the following areas and skills.

• Understanding the 5 title types that frequently feature
• Choosing the right question
• Understanding the significance of language of imagery – 5 Senses
• Developing the suitable register for a descriptive
• Avoiding the cliche ideas
• Developing the original ideas
• Converting the ideas into effective writing 
• Variation in language structures – How to achieve? 
• Grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and punctuation – How to focus?
• Understand the criteria: be in the top band of marking descriptors

Duration of the module: 12 Hours (6 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 480/-
Module CODE: IGFLEM7
Mode of Teaching: Online 
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This module provides support to students who require to submit a portfolio of three assignments as below, each of about 500–800 words. The module delivers the process to approach each assignment. In the first assignment, we guide on choosing the right text from magazines or newspapers. Candidates choose facts and develop opinions and/or arguments, analysed,  evaluated and integrated into their own views. In the second and third assignment, candidates write a composition on a descriptive title question. In the third assignment, candidates write a composition on a narrative title question.These questions are similar to the questions that appear in paper 2. This module prepares you in the same way for descriptive and narrative as detailed in the module 6 and 7 but showing the progress in three drafts that you need to submit. 

• Assignment 1: writing to discuss, argue and/or persuade in response to a text or texts
• Assignment 2: writing to describe
• Assignment 3: writing to narrate 

Duration of the module: 20Hours (10 sessions of 2 hours each)
Fee: SGD 800/-
Module CODE: IGFLEM8
Mode of Teaching: Online 
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If you have attempted writing a response (text conversion/directed writing/a composition:narrative/descriptive) in Paper 1 or 2, a good feedback will help you boost your confidence or know how to improve further. Our team of  experienced assessors mark your response and give comments in three areas: strengths and weaknesses and suggestions for improvements (annotated work on the response and assessor’s comments in 150 words). If you would like to know accurate grades that you may achieve as per band descriptors in the criteria and further improve your writing skills, enrol this module. Email us the scanned copy of the response (handwritten) with the question and passage or question attempted. We shall send the feedback in 48 hours. 

Fee: SGD 20/-
Module CODE: IGFLEM9
Mode of Delivery: Assessor’s Comments in PDF through email
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