Identify and evaluate the aesthetic qualities, narrative styles, and features that make literary texts appealing and effective for readers.

Analyse how social and cultural contexts shape representations in texts, and evaluate how text and paragraph organisation affect meaning.

Analyse spoken texts and develop interacting skills to present and discuss opinions using evidence.

Understand and use nominalisation and text connectives to build cohesion, condense ideas, and shape tone in extended academic writing.

Apply comprehension strategies to interpret complex texts, and compare ideas across multiple texts and authors on related topics.

Plan, experiment with, and edit original literary texts that use creative structures, literary devices, and hybrid forms for different audiences.

Record, develop, and structure a personal response to literature that moves from initial impressions to deeper, evidence-based analysis.

Identify and compare direct and indirect evaluative strategies— including allusion, evocative vocabulary, and metaphor—and analyse how they shape the reader's response.