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Anthology

IGCSE and Certificate Qualifications in English Language and Literature

Anthology for Edexcel IGCSE in English Language (Specification A) (4EA0)

Anthology for Edexcel IGCSE in English Literature (4ET0)

Anthology for Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Language (KEA0)

Anthology for Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Literature (KET0)

Issue 2

Anthology

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Acknowledgements

This anthology has been produced by Edexcel on the basis of consultation with teachers, examiners, consultants and other interested parties. Edexcel would like to thank all those who contributed their time and expertise to its development.

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Authorised by Roger Beard Prepared by Lucy Stewart

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Contents

Introduction 1 IGCSE in English Language (Specification A) 1

Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Language 1

IGCSE in English Literature 1

Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Literature 2

Section A 3 From Touching the Void 5

Your Guide to Beach Safety 7

Climate Change webpage Greenpeace UK 11

Climate Change: The Facts 12

From A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat 15

From A Passage to Africa 17

From The Explorers Daughter 19

Explorers, or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill 21

From Taking on the World 23

From Chinese Cinderella 25

Section B 29 Disabled 31

Out, Out 33

Refugee Blues 34

An Unknown Girl 35

Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom 36

The Last Night (from Charlotte Gray) 37

Veronica 39

The Necklace 43

A Hero 49

King Schahriar and his brother 52

Section C 55 If 57

Prayer Before Birth 58

Half-past Two 59

Piano 60

Hide and Seek 61

Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage 62

La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad 63

Poem at Thirty-Nine 65

Telephone conversation 66

Once Upon a Time 67

War Photographer 68

The Tyger 69

My Last duch*ess 70

A Mother in a Refugee Camp 72

Do not go gentle into that good night 73

Remember 74

Acknowledgments 75

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Introduction This anthology has been prepared to support the following International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) specifications:

Edexcel IGCSE in English Language (Specification A) (4EA0) Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certification in English Language (KEA0) Edexcel IGCE in English Literature (4TE0) Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Literature (KET0).

IGCSE in English Language (Specification A) Students studying the Edexcel IGCSE in English Language (Specification A) must study all the texts in Section A of this anthology in preparation for Paper 1 where they will be tested for Reading and Writing. Copies of this anthology must not be taken into the examination, the anthology text set for the paper will be reprinted on the examination paper.

Students following Route 1 (100 per cent assessment) must study all the texts in Section B of this anthology in preparation for Paper 2 where they will be tested for Reading. Copies of this anthology must not be taken into the examination, the anthology text set for the paper will be reprinted on the examination paper.

Students following Route 2 (Edexcel-approved teaching institutions only) will need to produce a coursework assignment responding to a piece, or pieces, from Section B of this anthology. To prepare for this they should study all the texts in Section B.

Further information is given in the specification which must be read in conjunction with this anthology.

Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Language Students must study all texts in Section A in preparation for paper 1. Copies of the anthology must not be taken into the examination, the anthology text set for the paper will be reprinted on the examination paper.

IGCSE in English Literature Students studying the Edexcel IGCSE in English Literature must study all the poems in Section C of this anthology in preparation for either Paper 2 or Component 3.

Students following Route 1 (100 per cent assessment) will be set three questions and they must answer one. Two of the questions set will be on poems studied in Section C. Copies of this anthology must not be taken into the examination, all the anthology poems will be reprinted for the examination paper in a separate booklet.

Students following Route 2 (Edexcel-approved teaching institutions only) will need to produce a coursework assignment responding to at least three poems in detail from Section C of this anthology. They must also refer to a further three poems which do not have to be from the anthology. To prepare for this they should study all the poems in Section C.

Further information is given in the specification which must be read in conjunction with this anthology.

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Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 Certificate in English Literature Students must study all poems in Section C for paper 2. Copies of the anthology must not be taken into the examination, the anthology text set for the paper will be reprinted on the examination paper.

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Section A

From Touching the Void 5

Your Guide to Beach Safety 7

Climate Change webpage Greenpeace UK 11

Climate Change: The Facts 12

From A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat 15

From A Passage to Africa 17

From The Explorers Daughter 19

Explorers, or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill 21

From Taking on the World 23

From Chinese Cinderella 25

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SECTION A

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From Touching the Void Joe and Simon are mountain climbing in the Andes, when Joe has a terrible accident. Here are two accounts by Joe and Simon of what happened.

Joes account

I hit the slope at the base of the cliff before I saw it coming. I was facing into the slope and both knees locked as I struck it. I felt a shattering blow in my knee, felt bones splitting, and screamed. The impact catapulted me over backwards and down the slope of the East Face. I slid, head-first, on my back. The rushing speed of it confused me. I thought of the drop below but felt nothing. Simon would be ripped off the mountain. He couldnt hold this. I screamed again as I jerked to a sudden violent stop.

Everything was still, silent. My thoughts raced madly. Then pain flooded down my thigh a fierce burning fire coming down the inside of my thigh, seeming to ball in my groin, building and building until I cried out at it, and my breathing came in 10 ragged gasps. My leg! ... My leg!

I hung, head down, on my back, left leg tangled in the rope above me and my right leg hanging slackly to one side. I lifted my head from the snow and stared, up across my chest, at a grotesque distortion in the right knee, twisting the leg into a strange zigzag. I didnt connect it with the pain which burnt my groin. That had nothing to do with my knee. I kicked my left leg free of the rope and swung round until I was hanging against the snow on my chest, feet down. The pain eased. I kicked my left foot into the slope and stood up.