Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
GCSE English Language Attainment Series: Crime and Sentencing
This course covered crime and sentencing, using real case studies and activities designed around GCSE English Language assessment objectives. Learners practised key skills needed for their GCSEs while learning about sentencing in England.
3 weeks, 1 hour per week
Morag Duffin
Director of Student Success
The University of Law
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas. Select and synthesise evidence from different texts.
- Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views.
- Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts.
- Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.
- Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts. Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms and purposes.
- Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.
- Demonstrate presentation skills in a formal setting.
- Listen and respond appropriately to spoken language, including to questions and feedback on presentations.
- Use spoken Standard English effectively in speeches and presentations.
Syllabus
- GCSE attainment raising resource for teachers
- Crime and sentencing topic
- Real-world, non-serious, crime-based case studies
- Activities aligned GCSE English Language assessment objectives
Issued on 13th May 2025
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