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,CONFIDENTIAL: Uncorrected WIP proof, NOT for circulation or distribution. © Pearson Education.
EDEXCEL INTERNATIONAL GCSE (9 –1)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE A
Student Book
Roger Addison,
Samantha Brunner
David Foster
Peter Inson
Robert O’Brien
Pam Taylor
Manjari Tennakoon
, Published by Pearson Education Limited, 80 Strand, London, WC2R
A note from the publisher
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In order to ensure that this resource offers high-quality support for
the associated Pearson qualification, it has been through a review
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Inson, Robert O’Brien, Pam Taylor and Manjari Tennakoon to be
While the publishers have made every attempt to ensure that advice
identified as authors of this work have been asserted by them in
on the qualification and its assessment is accurate, the official spec-
accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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authoritative source of information and should always be referred to
First published 2016
for definitive guidance.
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EDEXCEL INTERNATIONAL GCSE (9 –1)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE A
Student Book
Roger Addison, Samantha Brunner, David Foster, Peter Inson, Robert O’Brien,
Pam Taylor, Manjari Tennakoon
eBook
included
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, Online access to your ActiveBook
Thank you for buying this Edexcel International GCSE English A Student Book. It comes with three years’ access* to
ActiveBook – an online, digital version of your textbook. You can personalise your ActiveBook with notes, highlights
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3 ‘I have a new access code’ in the top right of the screen.
• Type in the code above and select ‘Activate’.
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4 • Type in the code above and select ‘Activate’.
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• The access code can only be used once.
• Please activate your access code as soon as possible, as it does have a ‘use by date’. If your code has expired
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,CONFIDENTIAL: Uncorrected WIP proof, NOT for circulation or distribution. © Pearson Education.
EDEXCEL INTERNATIONAL GCSE (9 –1)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE A
Student Book
Roger Addison,
Samantha Brunner
David Foster
Peter Inson
Robert O’Brien
Pam Taylor
Manjari Tennakoon
, Published by Pearson Education Limited, 80 Strand, London, WC2R
A note from the publisher
0RL.
In order to ensure that this resource offers high-quality support for
the associated Pearson qualification, it has been through a review
www.pearsonglobalschools.com
process by the awarding body. This process confirms that this re-
CONFIDENTIAL: Uncorrected WIP proof, NOT for circulation or distribution. © Pearson Education.
source fully covers the teaching and learning content of the specifica-
Copies of official specifications for all Pearson qualifications may be
tion or part of a specification at which it is aimed. It also confirms that
found on the website:
it demonstrates an appropriate balance between the development of
www.qualifications.pearson.com
subject skills, knowledge and understanding, in addition to prepara-
tion for assessment.
Text © Pearson Education Limited 2016
Edited by Lauren Bickley, Fleur Frederick and Andrew Lowe
Endorsement does not cover any guidance on assessment activities
Typeset by Phoenix Photosetting, Chatham, Kent
or processes (e.g. practice questions or advice on how to answer
Original illustrations © Pearson Education Limited 2016
assessment questions), included in the resource nor does it pre-
Cover design by Pearson Education Limited
scribe any particular approach to the teaching or delivery of a related
course.
The rights of Roger Addison, Samantha Brunner, David Foster, Peter
Inson, Robert O’Brien, Pam Taylor and Manjari Tennakoon to be
While the publishers have made every attempt to ensure that advice
identified as authors of this work have been asserted by them in
on the qualification and its assessment is accurate, the official spec-
accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ification and associated assessment guidance materials are the only
authoritative source of information and should always be referred to
First published 2016
for definitive guidance.
19 18 17 16
Pearson examiners have not contributed to any sections in this re-
source relevant to examination papers for which they have responsi-
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
bility.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Examiners will not use endorsed resources as a source of material for
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
any assessment set by Pearson.
ISBN 978 0 435 18256 4
Endorsement of a resource does not mean that the resource is
required to achieve this Pearson qualification, nor does it mean that it
Copyright notice
is the only suitable material available to support the qualification, and
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in
any resource lists produced by the awarding body shall include this
any form or by any means (including photocopying or storing it in any
and other appropriate resources.
medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or inciden-
tally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission
of the copyright owner, except in accordance with the provisions of the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence
issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6 –10 Kirby
Street, London EC1N 8TS (www.cla.co.uk). Applications for the copy-
right owner’s written permission should be addressed to the publisher.
Printed in ______
Acknowledgements
The author and publisher would like to thank the following individuals
and organisations for permission to reproduce photographs:
(Key: b-bottom; c-centre; l-left; r-right; t-top)
__________
All other images © Pearson Education Limited
We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright
material:
___________
Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders of material
reproduced in this book. Any omissions will be rectified in subsequent
printings if notice is given to the publishers.
