This fun Christmas quiz has 7 rounds with 72 total questions. The rounds are: Partridge in a pear tree Christmas films General Christmas knowledge Christmas songs Christmas food and drink Complete the Christmas lyric Name the secret Santas It includes song clips, film gifs, food round, multiple choice, celebrities and so on. Teacher sheet and student sheet included. Fun for Christmas! Perfect for tutor time or end of term activity. Rounds also include an optional timer, which plays fun, fast-paced music to help keep the timings correct for the quiz.

This booklet contains two texts and scaffolded activities to encourage identifying implicit details, building up to a final writing task.

This is a PPT lesson guiding you through teaching Question 1 letter writing for CIE IGCSE English as a First Language. It uses The Hunger Games as a text, looking at the Interview scene. Included is one full PPT (this took me around 3 hours to teach fully), a mock CIE assessment Q1 based on The Hunger Games, a planning sheet and an example insert annotated for the three bullet points.

This is one of my favourite lessons to teach, tried and tested, and always gets good results! Students will learn step-by-step how to write extended metaphors, with videos, model answers and a nicely designed ppt.

A PowerPoint guiding students through the historical context of The Great Gatsby. Includes videos, images, songs, quotes from the Great Gatsby and discussion point. This took me around 2 hours to teach using the materials in this resource. I cover: prohibition, the American dream, the roaring 20s and the new woman. These are linked back to the novel to explain how they are relevant to the novel.

This is a full mock assessment in the style of AQA English Language Paper 2. I have two sources following the same format as past papers (one modern, one pre-20th century) on the topic of money. Q1 - Tick 4 correct statements Q2 - Summary of differences Q3 - Language analysis Q4 - Comparison Q5 - Writing task

This is a complete lesson for CIE IGCSE English as a Second Language ESL Exercise 5. The lesson usually takes 1-2 periods to teach, including a model example, tips, writing time and peer assessment.

This is a PPT lesson guiding you through teaching Question 1 diary writing for CIE IGCSE English as a First Language. It uses The Hunger Games as a text, looking at the Reaping scene. Included is one full PPT (this took me around 3 hours to teach fully), a mock CIE assessment Q1 based on The Hunger Games and an example insert annotated for the three bullet points.

This is a complete booklet designed for SEN KS3, full with colourful pictures and fully scaffolded. As always with my SEN material, I use a colour coded key for each activity to guide pupils through tasks. There is a full planning section and a fast finishers section at the back. This 12 page colourful booklet comes both as a PDF and in editable Word format.

This lesson guides students through analysing the opening of The Hunger Games film, looking specifically at the use of sound, camera angles, contrast and the portrayal of Katniss. I’ve also included some notes I made with my class about the opening film, with suggested talking points. Slides include screenshots and sound clips from the film. I couldn’t share the whole opening of the film due to copyright issues, so you’ll need to get the DVD, download it using your own means, or rent it off Youtube.

This fun and colourful English reading quiz would be suitable for KS3 and KS4. Each round contains extra clues to support weaker students, plus songs, film audio, picture clues, timers and more. All of the books in this quiz are books I have seen my pupils read, so should be accessible to most high school students. Extra clue differentiate for weaker ability students too. Total of 67 colourful slides. I gave it a contents page and fully hyperlinked so it would also be appropriate for starters and/or tutor time activities. Also included are student answer sheets and teacher answer sheet. Rounds include: Picture round Name the author Opening lines Books on Netflix Unscramble the title Books and film Blurbs Youtube authors Children’s books Fan art

This is a review lesson for language devices, which defines the language devices with examples, then moves onto identifying languagde devices in a text, before finally guiding students to use the language devices with a range of engaging picture stimuli. Originally planned for the CIE IGCSE English as a First Language scheme but would also work well for AQA English Language, as that has a picture stimulus based writing task. Also includes a language device Kahoot I made including videos, pictures and music, such as Justin Bieber. The file is a PowerPoint file.

This resource contains a Powerpoint and a running race worksheet with teacher answers. You will first explain some common strategies for working out the meaning of new vocabulary with examples. Students will then have a group running race in which they apply the strategies they have learnt to new words. They will have to come to you for each question with a correct answer before being allowed to access the next question. The first team to complete the quiz wins. This is a tried and tested lesson which my students love. Engaging, fun and practical. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 English for any exam board. Especially suitable for CIE First Language English 0500 in which students will have to define new words.

This complete Powerpoint lesson introduces students to Shakespearean language, explaining common grammar/language changes. Suitable for KS3/KS4/KS5 Literature. This begins with an explanation of language change, from Old to Middle English up to Early Modern Shakesperean. Students then have a match-up challenge with common vocabulary. Finally, students will try to translate the prologue of Romeo and Juliet into modern English. Tried and tested lesson!

This booklet contains two whole lessons plus fast finishers. I structured this booklet so that pupils will have visual cues in the form of icons to help them structure their story: who, where, when, problem, solution and ending. This mini icons help to signal to pupils what is required of them. The booklet contains many many colourful images to generate ideas for writing and engage pupils. There are also two stories in there to use as a starting point, with images and comprehension questions. This is suitable for KS2 and SEN and low ability KS3.

This booklet is designed to work alongside the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2, looking at non-fiction texts. The booklet includes texts to analyse, a general structure for answering exam questions, and tips for analysing non-fiction texts. The booklet consists of 20 pages, including three texts to analyse, an assessment, a teacher feedback grid and a chance for pupils to respond to feedback. The booklet comes in both PDF format and Publisher.

This is a complete booklet designed for SEN KS3, full with colourful pictures and fully scaffolded. As always with my SEN material, I use a colour coded key for each activity to guide pupils through tasks. There is a full story written by myself as an example to pupils. I retell the story of Goldilocks but set in New York City in the present day. This story comes with a key and images to make it all the more accessible to SEN pupils. There is a full comprehension section, planning section and a fast finishers section at the back. There is the opportunity to watch a short video of the original fairy tale, which is available here: https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/goldilocks-and-the-three-bears This link is also included in the pack. Please see my example images of the booklet.

This resources includes a PowerPoint detailed notes on the poem ‘In Paris With You’ by James Fenton. It has a short quote quiz and guides pupils through analysing the key theme of unconventional love in the poem. Also included is a RAG rating (feedback sheet) and a follow up lesson with individual tasks for each student based on their feedback.

2023** Now updated with more activities for Act 2** This is a full scheme of work for Noughts and Crosses (the play version), ideal for KS3, year 8/year 9 English. Included: PowerPoint with 95 slides and three different assessment options for reading, writing and speaking. Fonts used (free to download - just go to Google Fonts): [Montserrat] and [Staaliches]. Act 1 is analysed in detail, then students read through Act 2, completing some optional tasks at the end, such as review writing or an empathic monologue. Context of racism, segregation and the IRA bombing Narration task for the trailer, where students take the trailer without sound and add on their own narration Group research and presentation task Language analysis, including a model answer Drama activities including hot seating Newspaper writing task that forces students to pick a biased perspective Review writing Empathic response - taking on the voice of one character to write a monologue Preview video: https://youtu.be/Q1QDDNe2L2c