The Chocolate Bar Design Lesson
Fun lesson where students get to design their own chocolate bar! Guaranteed to enthuse!
Fun name the bar starter activity, links to video clips, discussion points and the design sheet.
All resources included.
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Guess the country quiz!
Round 1 – name the country from the flag – 30 flags with answers.
Round 2 – remember the country from round 1 and try to guess and order the population size. 3 sets of 5 puzzles with answers.
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The Christmas Horror Story – Creative Writing
Fantastic Christmas horror writing lesson or series of lessons, using stimulating gifs and imagery and a haunting scenario line, packed with resource material. Allow at least two lessons for this premium resource.
Students get to write their own Christmas horror story based on an evil Santa!
A Christmas MUST download.
Exciting 30 page Power Point includes everything you need for a stimulating Christmas lesson(s) that students will enjoy. Also includes a fun bingo plenary activity, including 30 individual bingo cards and caller’s card.
The Island – Survival Diary Lesson
Action-packed desert island survival lesson.
Full lesson Power Point is recommended for two lessons and includes:
* Attractive title pages throughout
* Word list starter activity
* Scenario page
* Lesson Objectives
* Discussion prompts
* Writing prompts
* Map drawing activity
Excellent value, engaging lesson that students of all ages will enjoy!
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The Hitchhiker by Roald Dahl - Fiction
Complete lessons or lessons, on the excellent short story by Roald Dahl!
Complete and attractive lesson pack includes:
• Engaging starters
• Lesson objectives
��� Full story and discussion prompts throughout (pdf of the complete story included)
• Card sort and text search activity
• Agree or disagree discussion prompt activity
• Key quote analysis discussion
• Main question and WAGOLL
• The Hitchhiker quiz
Resources included at the back of the power point and as a separate resource for ease of use.
An engaging lesson to use time and time again.
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(Credits: outstanding images by Osian Grifford, https://osiangrifford.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/illustrations-for-the-hitchhiker/, font by cooltext.com, Roald Dahl PDF: http://ekladata.com/-DO9CNHfQY7PfrK84RVJXCJg6DM.pdf.)
A3 Newspaper template comprising of a front page, two middle pages and a back page (simply print off the four A4 sheets and stick to an A3 sheet and copy 2:2). The resource is intended to be folded in half to act as a mini-newspaper with various activities.
Front page: space for headline, two written spaces and an image space with 'A picture of the incident' underneath.
First page: music review and film review spaces and a comic strip space.
Second page: horoscopes, blank word search template and advert space.
Back page: sports news section - title, two written spaces and two image spaces.
You may also be interested in this complete and engaging lesson: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetic-terms-full-lesson-11184997
A complete lesson on the film Jaws! Students watch a 10 minute clip of Jaws (choose a dramatic section at the start of the film) and do an extract analysis using the planning and prompt sheets provided.
Power Point includes additional prompts, starter and pleanary ideas and lesson objectives.
Resources included are:
* Planning Sheet
* Prompt Sheet
* Additional Images (if required, these can be printed off and placed around the room for immediate impact to go with the starter.)
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The Ultimate Starters and Quiz Bundle
Serious time saving download!
This is a huge collection of English starters and quizzes, suitable for various audiences and occasions, including literacy starters, general English starters, word starters, fun starters and much more.
Suitable for KS2-KS4. Something for everyone!
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The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson.
Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson!
Lesson scenario:
When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do?
Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included.
Also included are a 5 lesson pack of find the word starters!
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/creative-writing-four-lesson-bundle-11256414
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The Magic Lamp – Creative Writing
A fun creative writing lesson based around a magic lamp situation.
Students are given an exciting scenario with a magic lamp and can continue the story based upon their own ideas.
Lesson objectives, writing tips, video clip writing tip resource, planning sheet and descriptive bingo lesson plenary all included!!
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The Monkey’s Paw
A reading lesson on the short story “A Monkey’s Paw” by W.W Jacobs, suitable for KS3-KS4.
Attractive Power point consists of prompts, questions and analysis acting as a helpful spingboard for further discussion for this exciting and classic short story.
Titanic Descriptive Writing – Complete Lesson
Fantastic descriptive writing lesson based on the images and film of the Titanic, with several warm-up activities and a descriptive writing bingo plenary.
(Note: you could do with a copy of Titanic the film to show the sinking part which students will write about. If this is not possible, you could show some clips available on You Tube which show several scenes of simulations of the Titanic sinking. Other than that, images from the film are included in this Power Point resource.)
Full lesson includes:
· Attractive starter activity
· Lesson objective slide
· Tips on descriptive writing
· Locating descriptive elements in two examples
· Short descriptive writing task
· Video clip and image slide
· Fantastic key word bingo plenary activity
All resources copied at the back of the Power Point. Everything you need for a full, complete and engaging lesson.
For an informative Power Point on the Titanic see here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/titanic-the-ship-of-dreams-11291754
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Engaging SPAG and PEE starter pack and Power Point slides taken from extracts of Karl Pilkington's hilarious travel diaries, The Idiot Abroad. Each starter features a short extract, with a short SPAG and an extended PEE or comprehension starter, together with an image of Karl Pilkington.
Starters are ideal for KS4 students or later KS3 and suitable for a variety of different exam boards e.g. WJEC or AQA as they involve the same core skills.
Also included for free is a bumper word puzzles Power Point which is normally £2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/word-quizzes-11195792
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Extract Double Pack for Dracula and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Individual lessons available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hound-of-the-baskervilles-extract-analysis-11302057
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/dracula-extract-analysis-11301953
Hound of the Baskervilles extract analysis/close reading lesson ideal as a one-off lesson or a link to gothic literature.
Lesson includes:
* Title page
* Starter
* Lesson objectives (with surprise face in background, linking to close reading)
* Link to video clip
* Extract prompt (extract included)
* Highlight key words
* PEE grid (resource included)
* Review post-it-note plenary
All resources included at the back of the Power Point.
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(Credits, images copyright free and scenes from Youtube, copyright free text exact from Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles.)
Dracula extract analysis/close reading lesson ideal as a one-off lesson or a link to gothic literature.
Lesson includes:
* Title page
* Starter
* Lesson objectives
* Link to video clip
* Extract prompt (extract included)
* Find the key word prompt (sheet included)
* Spelling activity (worksheet included)
* Mini writing task
* Plenary post-it-note activity
All resources included at the back of the Power Point.
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Visually attractive Christmas descriptive writing lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson.
Power point includes:
* Active snow scene gif title page.
* Lesson starter – post-it note activity.
* Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and figurative language techniques.
* A quick warm-up exercise where students finish off Christmas sentence in descriptive language (see image on the Power Point to support ideas.)
* A recap of five language technique prompt.
* Short writing activity prompt asking students to describe their perfect Christmas scene.
* A review page encouraging some students to read out their written descriptions.
* Fantastic “The Perfect Christmas Bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s caller's card and 30
* All resources included at the end of the Power Point.
If you enjoyed this resource, you will enjoy the Christmas Murder Mystery:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-murder-mystery-full-lesson-11179016
(Snow image by Frank Norman, Flickr, Tree by Minden ami Karacsony, outdoors scene desttopnexus.com/wallpaper/676017/ bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)
Climbing Mount Everest Descriptive Writing - Complete Lesson
Complete one-off descriptive writing lesson with all the resources included, easy to teach!
Attractive Power Point includes:
* Literacy starter
* Lesson objectives (with the focus on sentence structure, but this could be tweaked to suit)
* Map of Everest
* Video clip
* Discussion prompts
* Main task and review prompts
Descriptive word mat and lesson starter included.
A simple but effective lesson.
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(Royalty free images taken from You Tube.)
Visually attractive full lesson on poetic terms using the short poem ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Ideal for weaker KS3 classes or later KS2.
Full Power Point and all resources included. Lesson features:
• Visually engaging lesson starter and extension.
• Graded lesson outcomes with the main objective being to learn poetic devices to further the understanding of a poem.
• A poetic terms match-up activity featuring seven poetic devices – similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, vivid colour, the senses and imagery. This can be done on paper or made into a kinaesthetic task. (Resource included at the back of the Power Point.)
• Poetic terms answer page.
• Visual and simple explanation pages of similes, metaphors and alliteration with a short true or false task.
• Link to video clip of a reading of ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
• Colour coded identification of poetic devices task – students are asked to stick the poem in their books (resource provided) and colour code the given devices.
• Colour coded answer page.
• Short plenary activity where students are prompted to write a brief comment about the poem or offer a more detailed response for more able students.
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(To the best of my knowledge, all images are royalty free.)
Dracula extract analysis/close reading lesson ideal as a one-off lesson or a link to gothic literature.
Lesson includes:
* Title page
* Starter
* Lesson objectives
* Link to video clip
* Extract prompt (extract included)
* Find the key word prompt (sheet included)
* Spelling activity (worksheet included)
* Mini writing task
* Plenary post-it-note activity
All resources included at the back of the Power Point.
This lesson is available in a double pack with The Hound of the Baskervilles for £4.50 here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/extract-double-pack-dracula-and-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-11302068
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A Collection of Easy One-Off English Lessons
A value bundle download of easy to teach, one-off English lessons.
Particularly suitable for key stages 2 and 3.
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The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson.
Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson!
Lesson scenario:
When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do?
Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included.
*Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!*
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/creative-writing-four-lesson-bundle-11256414
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