Insight’s Senior Titles & New Bonus Content

English Year 11 2nd edition features:

• Clear definitions and explanations for all key knowledge, including relevant metalanguage, supported by numerous examples and summary tables
• Numerous activities, word banks and targeted worksheets to build skills progressively
• Examples and sample essays based on popular Year 11 texts for Area of Study 1
• A wide range of media texts and issues for Area of Study 2
• Detailed guidelines, model paragraphs and annotated sample responses for all assessment tasks
• An exam chapter with revision tips for each Area of Study.

English Year 11 2nd edition Bonus Book features:

• Annotated sample essays on single texts and text pairs, including tips for analysing the topic and strategies for approaching the response
• Text articles on a range of texts and text pairs, including notes on the context and background, language, characters and themes
• Templates to aid with summarising texts, planning responses and studying an issue.

English Year 12 2nd edition  features:

• Definitions and explanations of all key knowledge, including relevant metalanguage
• Numerous activities, word banks, sentence starters and model paragraphs to build skills progressively
• Strategies and guidelines for writing analytical, creative and comparative text responses
• Examples and annotated sample SAC responses for Area of Study 1, using texts on the 2019 English Text List
• A wide range of media texts on current issues for building confidence and skills in both analysing argument and presenting a point of view
• Guidelines for delivering an effective oral presentation and writing a statement of intention
• Examples and annotated sample SAC responses for Area of Study 2, using recent media texts and issues
• Clear explanations of all assessment tasks and a photocopiable assessment sheet for each SAC
• An exam chapter with revision strategies and tips for success.

English Year 12 2nd edition Bonus Book features:

• Sample responses for single-text analysis, creative responses and comparative analysis, using popular texts on the 2021 text list
• Sample responses for the analysis of argument and persuasive language, and the presentation of a point of view
• Templates to aid with summarising texts, planning responses and studying an issue
• Activities to build confidence with metalanguage and improve writing skills
• Media texts in a range of forms on topical and varied issues.

Argument and Persuasive Language 2nd edition features:

• An integrated approach to the analysis of argument and persuasive language
• Clear and accessible explanations of all key knowledge, including metalanguage
• Engaging explanations, activities and practical support, including word banks, sentence starters and model sentences, showing students how to write analytically about argument and persuasive language in a holistic way
• Media texts of all types on a range of engaging and contemporary issues
• Guidelines and models for comparing argument and persuasive language in different media texts on the same issue
• Strategies and guidelines for presenting a point of view and writing a statement of intention
• High-level sample responses with annotations
• An exam practice chapter with sample exam scenarios.

Argument and Persuasive Language 2nd edition Bonus Book features:

• Practice single-text and multiple-text scenarios, with sample student responses
• Sample point-of-view pieces and activities for developing a point of view
• Questions and activities catering to a range of ability levels
• Partly written sample analyses and point-of-view pieces for students to complete
• Advice and models for improving medium-level analyses and point-of-view pieces so that they exhibit the qualities of high-level pieces
• A diverse range of all-new media texts on a variety of issues.