Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd By the time ten years had gone by, they had repaid everything, with not a penny outstanding, in spite of the extortionate conditions and including the accumulated interest. Though the pair wore survival suits and the weather at the spot where they ditched was clear, one Antarctic explorer told Mr Brooks’ wife it was “nothing short of a miracle” that they had survived.

She closed her eyes and turned her face to the wall. I gathered her up in my arms. She weighed no more than a ten-year-old child. She was dead before I reached my car. Please, Father,’ I asked boldly, thinking it was now or never. ‘May I go to university in England too, just like my brothers?’ We would like to reassure you that no candidate will be disadvantaged as a result of these changes in the January 2020 assessment. After January 2020, we will expect students’ responses to reflect the issue 3 documents.It was still the low part of the night when Hartmann and the head of another staircase came into the room with coffee. Many of the adults refused to drink because they knew it meant breakfast, and therefore the departure. The children 20 were at the deepest moments of their sleep. You think you are wiser than the newspaper?” Father sneered. “A man may have the strength of an elephant and yet be a coward: whereas another may have the strength of a straw, but if he has courage he can do anything. Courage is everything, strength and age are not important.” UG026701 – Anthology for Edexcel IGCSE and Certificate Qualifications in English Language and Literature – A wave of nausea surged over me. I pressed my face into the snow, and the sharp cold seemed to calm me. Something terrible, something dark with dread occurred to 20 me, and as I thought about it I felt the dark thought break into panic: ‘I’ve broken my leg, that’s it. I’m dead. Everyone said it … if there’s just two of you a broken ankle could turn into a death sentence … if it’s broken … if … It doesn’t hurt so much, maybe I’ve just ripped something.’ 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.

When the usual hour arrived the grand-vizir conducted Scheherazade to the palace, 90 and left her alone with the Sultan, who bade her raise her veil and was amazed at her beauty. But seeing her eyes full of tears, he asked what was the matter. “Sire,” replied Scheherazade, “I have a sister who loves me as tenderly as I love her. Grant me the favour of allowing her to sleep this night in the same room, as it is the last we shall be together.” Schahriar consented to Scheherazade’s petition and Dinarzade was sent for. He and his wife spent their honeymoon flying the helicopter from Alaska to Chile. The 16,000-mile trip took three months. We have updated theanthology specifcation.In issue 3, there have been some minor changes to two poems in Part 3 (Poem at Thirty-Nine and Half-caste). These affect candidates sitting English Literature (4ET1). In issue 4, there has been a minor change to poem The Bright Lights of Sarajevo. This affects candidates sitting English Language A (4EA1). 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.This book provides support for Literature in English teachers as well as those studying professional development qualifications. As part of a series of practical, subject specific-guides, it is designed for teachers working with international programmes and qualifications. The guides contain practical ideas for classroom activities, including active learning, assessment for learning and reflective practice. They give examples, based on experience and observations of what works well, to help teachers put theory into practice. Each guide is accompanied by a variety of online tools for lesson planning. When I was twelve I started at the secondary school in the town a few miles away. During term-time I stayed with my uncle, returning to the village only during the vacations. Veronica and I remained friendly, and she was always pleased to see me, and when we could we snatched time together by the stream and she asked me endless questions about my school and the town and what I was going to be when I grew up. But for all the misery of her own life she never seemed to envy me mine.

I’m still here, as you left me. What should of happened [sic] to me? Come, sit down, let me make you tea.’ She indicated a stool. I watched her as she busied herself. When she finally sat down to feed the baby I asked her about herself. She shrugged. She did not open the case, as her friend had feared she might. If she had noticed the substitution, what would she have thought? What would she have said? Would she not have concluded she was a thief? Swami said, “I think he must have been a very strong and grown-up person, not at all a boy. How could a boy fight a tiger?” 10What, are you still so obstinate?” exclaimed the grand-vizir. “Why are you so resolved upon your own ruin?” 60 During the short drive home, my heart was full of dread and I wondered what I 20 had done wrong. Our car stopped at an elegant villa at mid-level, halfway up the hill between the peak and the harbour. The two sons who survived him loved each other tenderly, and it was a real grief to the elder, Schahriar, that the laws of the empire forbade him to share his dominions with his brother Schahzeman. Indeed, after ten years, during which this state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the country of Great Tartary 10 from the Persian Empire and made his brother king. She replied: ‘It vexes me that I haven’t got a single piece of jewellery, not one stone, that I can put on. I’ll look like a church mouse. I’d almost as soon not go to the reception.’

From A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Emma Levine travelled throughout Asia researching and filming unusual sports. In this passage she writes about a donkey race in Karachi. She was not convinced. ‘No. …There’s nothing so humiliating as to look poor when you’re with women who are rich.’ The subject of global warming has become impossible to ignore. But what are its implications? And is mankind really to blame? Twenty years ago global warming was a fringe subject — it seemed absurd that we could be having an effect on the Earth’s climate. Today global warming has become a political hot potato and the majority of scientists agree that it is a reality and here to stay. The Last Night (from Charlotte Gray) André and his brother Jacob are two orphaned boys in France in the 1940s. They are waiting to be taken to a concentration camp. Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks, 1999. Reprinted by permission of the Random House Group LimitedFrom September 2022, digital versions of our current poetry collection for Love and Relationships (8702/B/1) and Power and Conflict (8702/B/2), and also our new poetry cluster World and Lives (8702/B/3) are available on Centre Services. You can teach Worlds and Lives(8702/B/3) from 2023 onwards and the first exam will be in 2025. They both found this hilarious, but I was glad he hadn’t told me before; an inexperienced, underage driver causing a massive pile-up in the middle of the high-stakes donkey race could have caused problems. 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. Mr Smith, also from London, claims to have been flying since the age of five. He has twice flown a helicopter around the globe and won the world freestyle helicopter flying championship.