IGCSE Success: Non-Fiction Writing - Speech Writing

Overview

• Channel focused on preparing students for the Cambridge First Language English exam.
• Focus on non-fiction writing, specifically speech writing.
• Importance of awareness of audience and purpose.

Directed Writing Question

• Referred to as the "Extended Writing Response" by Cambridge.
• The only non-fiction writing task in the exam.
• Worth 25 marks.

Requirements

• Read a short piece (fiction or non-fiction).
• Write a non-fiction piece (250-300 words).
• Select and understand information from the text.
• Assume roles of characters based on the text.

Text Types

• Article
• Speech
• Letter
• Journal
• Newspaper report
• Formal report
• Interview

Non-Fiction Writing

Definition

• Explores real-life situations.
• Includes factual information.
• Clear purpose (persuade, inform, advise, entertain, educate).

Communication

• Intended to communicate information.
• Examples: Letters, reports, speeches.

TAP Method

• Task, Audience, Purpose (TAP) is crucial.
  • Also known as GAP (Genre, Audience, Purpose).
• Identify text type, audience, and purpose.
• Style, language, and tone must suit audience and purpose.

Importance of TAP

• Influences style and language choices.
• Formal vs. informal writing.

Exercise: Identify TAP

• Example tasks provided to identify TAP attributes (speech, journal, formal letter).
• Recognize the importance of audience and purpose.

Writing a Winning Opening

• Use varied sentence structures (simple, compound, complex).
• Employ stylistic devices (alliteration, hyperphora, rhetorical questions).
• Utilize effective vocabulary.
• Use inclusive pronouns to connect with the audience.

Task Challenge

• Write an opening for a speech directed at year 10 students about difficulties in school and solutions.
• Encouraged to practice writing and submit feedback.

Conclusion

• The importance of engaging your target audience.
• Encouragement to practice directed writing tasks.