An Inspector Calls teaching pack

Bring this popular and thought-provoking play to life with our comprehensive six-week teaching pack for GCSE.

‘An Inspector Calls is such a popular play at GCSE that I wanted to bring together a mix of teaching approaches and ideas to appeal to a wide range of teaching styles. I had used many of these successfully in my classes, building in activities such as freeze frames and peg puppets, as well as feeding in some of the latest pedagogical trends, like the learning grids. There’s plenty of choice of engaging and active teaching and a close text focus throughout, leaving students with a lasting enjoyment of the play.’
Helen Stacey, writer

Choose from socratic discussions, venn diagrams, game templates, visual learning grids and sequencing activities – tasks to engage even the most reluctant readers!

What’s included?

• lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources
• practical, student-facing activities.

What’s inside?
Introduction (pages 1-2)
Route through – week one (pages 2-3)

• de Bono’s detective skills
• Word wall
• Play production template
• Pre-teaching (intro)
• Quiz on BBC’s Text in Context series
• Tension graph
• Historical context
• Jigsaw pieces

Route through – week two (pages 4-5)

• Role on the wall
• Analysing stage directions
• Pyramid
• Tricky situations
• Act One: Who said …?
• Act One learning grid
• Point, evidence, explanation technique

Route through – week three (pages 6-7)

• Wordplay in Act Two
• Gerald’s affair
• Chat show: who is to blame?
• Describing character
• Write Eva Smith’s diary
• Bullseye
• Whose bag is it?

Route through – week four (pages 8-9)

• Theme definitions
• An Inspector called
• Speaking and listening: The committee meeting
• Socialism and capitalism
• Links in a chain

Route through – week five (pages 10-11)

• Pictures strip exercise
• Bingo!
• Socratic discussion
• Moral message team game
• Politics and persuasion in the final speech
• Snakes and ladders
• Treasure hunt

Route through – week six (pages 12-13)

• Engdoku
• Taboo revision game
• Tension graph
• Word analysis quadrant
• Revision game
• Mind palace revision
• Decorate a chair!
• Revision calendar