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Texts for Component 1: Non-fiction Texts & Transactional Writing

Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology Part 1: Non-fiction Texts From “The Danger of a Single Story”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

George Alagiah

From “A Passage to Africa”

Kari Herbert

From “The Explorer’s Daughter”

Steven Morris

“Explorers, or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill” From “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place” “Young and Dyslexic? You’ve got it going on” From “A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat” From “Beyond the Sky and Earth: A Journey into Bhutan”

Aron Ralston

Benjamin Zephaniah

Emma Levine

Jamie Zeppa

Helen Macdonald Adeline Yen Mah

From “H is for Hawk”

From “Chinese Cinderella”

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