Your key to IGCSE First Language English!
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Welcome to the ultimate guide to conquering the 0500 First Language English exam! Whether you’re a student or a teacher, we are confident that you’ll find some value here. The materials on this site will break down the IGCSE First Language English curriculum for you, offer you some helpful tips, […]
We live in a world that almost constantly seems on fire. Metaphorically, not literally. It seems that no matter where you go, things are always urgent, a matter of life and death. Attention spans are shrinking, and 6-7 videos are creeping into the mental space that would have normally been […]
Welcome back, all! Have you ever noticed how many of our deepest metaphors for belonging are really about a table? We want “a seat at the table”. We “bring something to the table”. We talk about people we’d “break bread” with. The table is where English keeps its ideas about […]
Welcome back, everyone! Two tiny words are doing enormous work in this week’s prompt: “before” and “after”. English is quietly obsessed with them. We talk about a “before and after”, a “turning point”, “the calm before the storm”. We instinctively understand the world as a set of states with a […]
Welcome back, all! I want to point at a lovely little cluster of English idioms this week: we “stand in” for people, we “fill their shoes”, we “step up”, we “cover” for someone. Notice how physical they all are — feet, shoes, standing, stepping. English imagines identity as a kind […]
Welcome back, everyone! Here’s a small thing about English that I find quietly strange: we say we “take” a photograph, and that we “capture” a moment. Both verbs are a little violent. We seize time, trap it, hold it still. A photograph is, in the language we use for it, […]
Welcome back, all! Two small words are on my mind this week, because they happen to be the ones this prompt hands you: “I’m back.” It’s astonishing how much freight those two words can carry. A contraction and an adverb, and yet the whole emotional temperature of a story can […]
