The Danger of a Single Story

This free workbook guides students through the key quotations and the language and structure choices Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie makes in her TED talk, the opening non-fiction extract of Edexcel iGCSE English Language A (Paper 1, Section A).

24pages of guided tasks
29exam-style questions
18guided Prompts
Context page from an Edition iGCSE English Language anthology workbook, giving background to the extract
Title analysis page from the iGCSE English Language anthology workbook
True-or-false comprehension activity from the iGCSE anthology revision workbook
Guided annotation page analysing key quotations from the anthology extract
Whole-text structure page from the Edexcel iGCSE English Language anthology workbook

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No more staring at a whole page, unsure where to begin. Each task points you to a key quotation by its line number, so you always know where to look.

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The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Look at lines 4–5

‘what I read were British and American children’s books’

1Why is it significant that a young Nigerian girl was reading only British and American books?
Look at lines 4–5

‘what I read were British and American children’s books’

1Why is it significant that a young Nigerian girl was reading only British and American books?
Look at line 75

‘Stories matter. Many stories matter.’

2What type of sentences does Adichie use here, and what is the effect of this?

Aligned to the exam

Built for Edexcel iGCSE English Language A, developing the comprehension (AO1) and analysis (AO2) skills at the heart of the anthology.

AO1AO2LanguageFormStructure

Scaffolded support

Includes a range of Prompts that support your learning: key words, technique definitions and context notes.

What could this juxtaposition suggest about the limited Western representations of Africa that Adichie describes? Consider the connotations of key quotations in your answer.
Word bank
narrow-mindedreinforcestereotypeshistorical

Indicative Content

Every task comes with high-level indicative content in a separate PDF, so you can check your own response and stretch your thinking against what a strong answer might include.

Instructions
The instructions page of the indicative-content PDF
Example page
An example page of indicative content
Title page
The title page of the indicative-content PDF

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Questions, answered

Is the extract included?

The workbook is a companion to your Pearson anthology, so it guides students through the key quotations and the writer's choices rather than reproducing the full extract. You can download the anthology, free, from the Pearson English Language A page.

Who can use this?

Anyone studying or teaching the Edexcel iGCSE English Language A anthology (Paper 1, Section A), usually in Years 10 and 11. It is written to be used independently, so it works for students revising on their own, home-educated learners, tutors, and teachers using it in the classroom.

What does it cover?

The close reading behind Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's extract: context, comprehension, and the analysis of language, structure and form that Section A rewards (AO1 and AO2), across 24 pages of guided tasks.

Does it come with answers?

Each task and question comes with indicative content, included as a separate PDF in your download. Indicative content is guidance rather than exhaustive answers: it shows the ideas, techniques and interpretations a strong response might include, there to check and stretch your thinking.

How does it work?

You download two PDFs, free: the workbook itself, 24 pages of guided tasks to print and annotate by hand, and a separate indicative-content PDF so you can check and stretch your answers as you go.

Are the other extracts available?

The Danger of a Single Story is here and free now. Guided workbooks for the remaining Section A extracts are in development.