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 ppt contains rules and 24 debating prompts, along with a timer. This is intended for speed debating in a speed dating style, with pairs of students faced opposite each other. The teacher decides which side is agreeing and which side is disagreeing and then students have 3 minutes to debate. I usually then open up the topic to the class to have a whole room debate, but that’s up to you. Some controversial topics included, to be used at your discretion depending on the personality and ability of your class. Easily modifiable format for you to include your own topics. I originally used this with a top set year 11 class with lots of second language learners. Could be used for first language or second language learners, depending on ability.
This fun cross-curricular quiz is most suitable for ages 11-16, with differentiated questions that include optional clues, which the teacher can if they judge their class needs the extra help. Each question slide has a 30 second timer on to help maintain pace, accompanied by fun music to keep the atmosphere lively. Some bonus rounds are also included, which can be used or not used depending on time. Rounds include picture rounds, music rounds, sound clues, etc.
This would be suitable for a lesson or for use in tutor time over a number of days.
All answers are included at the end of the ppt and in the form of a teacher answer sheet. A blank student answer sheet is also included.
This quiz includes 10 rounds:
Literacy
Geography
Languages
Politics
Maths
History
ICT
Music
Biology
Sport
Three PowerPoints for CIE English as a First Language, guiding students through an assessment Q1 and Q2. Third PowerPoint is a review lesson, looking over common mistakes my students made. Hope it’s of some use to any teachers out there as I know CIE First Language resources are spare on TES.
Included is a feedback sheet, three powerpoints and the exam question paper, mark scheme & insert.
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.
This bundle includes:
Using language devices on descriptive writing
Analysing the opening of The Hunger Games film
Writing diaries for CIE exam
Writing letters for CIE exam
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 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 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 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 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 is a unit of work aimed at the CIE English as a First Language GCSE spec. It could be adapted for other specifications, especially for creative writing. Simply remove the CIE question and insert your own prompt, using my stimulus text too if you choose.
This unit took me around five weeks to teach. Each powerpoint took around 3.5 hours on average to cover in class (including discussion time, time to write and give feedback, etc). Differentiated for ESL/EAL learners with key vocabulary, word of the day and prereading homeworks.
It covers letter writing, interview writing and diary writing for question 1. Mock CIE style assessments are also included to support this, along with annotated inserts. It also has a lesson for writing a dystopian story for the coursework unit. The scheme also covers using language devices in creative writing and analysis of film, looking at the opening scenes of The Hunger Games film.
Included are: one full unit plan, seven ppts, two homework tasks, three mock Q1s based on the novel, and an example planning sheet.
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 pack includes a PowerPoint music genres quiz with eight rounds of different genres for pupils to guess. The first 20 second clips of songs are included within the presentation. Also included are pupil answer sheets and a teacher’s answer sheet.
The presentation is colourful, exciting and engaging.
I chose a mixture of songs that I thought pupils would know and a couple of more challenging entries. I made this genre quiz to suit diverse classrooms with different ‘cliques’ of students and an array of musical tastes… hopefully something to appease everyone!
Happy quizzing!
Genres:
pop
emo
hip hop
cheesy classics
world music
classic rock
Disney
electronic & dance
Three lessons on the topic of informal letter writing. This was intended for CIE IGCSE English as a Second Language question 6, but could be used also with KS3.
1. Generating ideas - four different routes into coming up with ideas for letter writing (PPT)
2. Formal/informal language with a variety of activities and model answers (PPT)
3. Peer assessment (PPT)
This also comes with a success criteria based on the CIE mark scheme.
This is a crash course for the American SAT English course, looking at Optional Essay, Writing & Language, Reading. This took me around four weeks to teach, including assessment time.
Inside are twelve whole lessons plus resources: sample essays, powerpoints, assessments and mark schemes, and so on.
The booklets consistently use colourful icons to guide pupils through a series of creative writing tasks. I use lots of images to engage and inspire pupils.
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 17 page booklet contains:
- Pre-1914 Source A: "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth - speech about black women's rights in America
- Modern Source B: "Supermodel Turned Spokesperson" on Tyra Banks. A humourous article packed full of language devices and interesting language on Tyra Banks deciding to 'speak up' for women's rights.
- Both sources are annotated with talking points
- Scaffolded tasks and guidance for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
- Exam style questions
- An additional exam booklet with these texts in should you choose to use this as an assessment
- PDF and editable Word Docs of both booklets