Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International Education
Level & Subject: Cambridge International AS & A Level Drama
For examination from 2021 (AS Level), 2022 (AS and A Level)

The Student's Book is structured to build skills and knowledge in a clear sequence, and to help students to apply their skills. With in-depth coverage of the syllabus topics and a stimulating range of international play script extracts, this is the ideal resource for advanced level drama study.
* Offers a clear route through the syllabus, helping teachers to plan for the first years of teaching and find material for each Component of the course.
* Fosters a creative, experiential approach with practical activities in every unit and suggestions of how to experiment with imaginative approaches to individual tasks.
* Introduces the excitement of World Theatre: a chapter on World Theatre traditions and practitioners enables students to draw on this knowledge in their own practice throughout the course and opens avenues for further exploration.
* Helps students to acquire a vocabulary of performing arts terms with Key terms boxes throughout and a collated Glossary of key terms.
* Supports successful writing with clear modelling of the planning, structuring and writing process, and sample writing at different levels.
* Provides an exciting range of high quality, international play script extracts for students to perform individually and in groups.
* Contextualises plays for international students - Key context boxes introduce texts and their social, historical and cultural contexts, while Vocabulary boxes explain any culturally specific vocabulary or references.
* Differentiated to support all learners with Thinking more deeply sections in each chapter to stretch those who require a challenge, and a clear, accessible writing style to assist international learners.
* Written by experienced A Level drama teachers, whose expertise includes technical and production skills as well as devising, performing and writing.
* Supports teachers through the free, editable scheme of work available on www.collins.co.uk/cambridge-international-downloads.

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Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International Education
Level & Subject: Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English
First teaching: September 2019 First examination: from 2021

The Student's Book introduces the key concepts and skills in the Cambridge International syllabus, with a focus on developing effective writing from the start, to give students a toolkit for responding to unseen texts and exploring the set texts in depth.

  • Develops effective writing throughout with dedicated activities and exemplar student writing to model different ways of responding to texts.
  • Structured to help students make progress: each unit offers a clear, step-by-step learning sequence, moving from exploration to supported analysis to independent writing, and building towards examination-style tasks at the end of each chapter.
  • Supports and challenges all learners. The first chapter of the book introduces the fundamental skills and concepts for the course, building learners' confidence and supporting the transition from upper secondary. The second part of the book shows students how to apply these skills to write about the three major forms (poetry, prose and drama) and to respond to unseen texts. Thinking more deeply sections revisit ideas at a higher level to challenge the most able students.
  • Provides an anthology of international texts: fresh texts from a variety of periods and cultures have been chosen to allow students to explore different writers' choices and their effects.
  • Practical for the classroom: the book will be clearly organised into practical sequences of learning that can be used as lessons or series of lessons. The focus on activity and modelling offers an accessible format for classroom teaching.
  • Supports teachers' planning. The free online teacher resource available on Collins.co.uk provides editable medium-term plans summarising the coverage of each chapter.