This fun music quiz has 86 questions all with song clips from 2022-23 chart toppers. I compiled this quiz using the most streamed songs on Youtube, Spotify and Apple. This includes a PowerPoint with clips and answers, a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet. Artists included (amongst many others!): Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Lil Naz X, Lizzo, Harry Styles, The Weeknd, BTS, BLACKPINK, Billie Eilish, Adele, Ariana Grande, Post Malone, The Kid Laroi, Kendrick Lamar, Sza, Glass Animals, Future, and more… Preview video here: https://youtu.be/cuSWYpH_6wU The rounds all contain 10-12 questions with audio clips embedded: Pop music (1) - recent chart toppers Two second belters - two seconds of a famous artist singing Finish the lyrics - song clip that cuts off before a crucial lyric, can students fill in the gap? Music videos - gifs of very famous music videos from the past year with an optional sound clue Guess the year - chart toppers from the last ten years, can students guess from a choice of three possible years when the song was released? 8 Bit - Recent hits turned into 8 bit (polyphonic ringtone style) songs Pop (2) - twelve more recent chart toppers

My fun Christmas music quiz has a variety of rounds and artists aimed at students aged 11-18 with tunes that should be commonly recognisable to students around the world. There’s a good mix of classic Christmas songs, like Wham’s Last Christmas, and more modern artists like Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me. This resource includes a PowerPoint with 76 slides and high quality clips of the songs embedded, a total of 88 marks available. I have also created a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet too. More difficult rounds also include an optional clue - just press the blue clue button! The rounds include: Partridge in a Pear Tree - Can you name each of the twelve animals alongside the instrumental track? (Clue included for this round!) Complete the lyric - Fill in the missing lyric for some famous Christmas songs. There will be a music clip which stops before the missing lyric and a gap fill on screen to help students know how many words they’re missing. Pop artist Santas - From the most streamed pop stars of 2022-23, can you identify the photo of the pop star hidden under the Santa hat? Also includes an optional clue of each celebrity singing a Christmas song. Artists include BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, The Weeknd, and so on! Famous Christmas songs - Listen to the Christmas hit songs that are most often played on the radio. Can you identity the name of the track? 8-bit Christmas songs - Famous Christmas songs have been turned into 8-bit tracks (like polyphonic ringtones). Can students identify the song? Christmas around the world - Famous Christmas songs sung in other languages (French, German, Chinese, etc). Can students identify the song and the language? This round also includes an optional clue to help students identify the language being used. Christmas songs of the 21st century - Can students identify the artist and song title of these more modern pop hits by arts such as Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Sia?

Six units, which took me about 6 months to teach, for academic writing for KS4/KS5 students on researching, gathering data and writing up a research report. Over 30 PowerPoints are including, as well as worksheets, readings and self-marking Forms quizzes. Students will undertake a research project centered around their school on a topic of their choice. Eg. To what extent does the mobile phone policy at X School improve student learning? To what extent are students at X School satisfied with the school uniform policy? Please see my preview video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Jp61qsTsRH4. Everything you see in those files is included. I organised the folders into zipped files to maintain the organisation system. I taught this course to second-language Y13 learners. It would be appropriate for KS5 and KS4 students. This 6 unit scheme of work takes students through the basics of academic writing, creating a research question, gathering data and writing up their own academic research report. Most units also contain a seminar and a lecture lesson to help prepare students for university. Unit 1: The Basics. How to reference, using academic language, quoting and summarising from an academic source, structuring an academic paragraph, lecture lesson and a seminar lesson on vaping, culminating in a quiz to check understanding Unit 2: Writing Introductions. Creating a research question, writing context and rationale sections, seminar and lecture on gender identity. Quiz is included also. Unit 3: Writing literature reviews. How to find relevant studies using Questia/JSTOR, how to structure a literature review, seminar and lecture on parental control. Unit 4: Methology and Data Collection. Designing a research instrument, ethics of research, creating a poster to get people to take their surveys, finishing with a group seminar to give feedback on each other’s data tools. Exemplar included. Unit 5: Data Analysis. Creating data visuals, how to analyse their results, writing data analysis section with exemplar and worksheet, seminar to get feedback on their writing so far. Unit 6: Writing Conclusions, Abstracts and Redrafting. Guidance on writing abstracts with a worksheet, guidance on conclusions with an exemplar and peer feedback session to give students advice on how to redraft and improve their final essay. Also included is a final summative quiz, mostly self-marking. Quizzes, rubrics and whole year overview are included.

This is my whole year’s worth of lessons that I used to teach CIE 0500 First Language English IGCSE to Chinese EAL students. I organised the files by topic, so it’s not chronological, as you can dip in to whichever section your class most needs. I also included my Forms quizzes, starter booklet with short answer practices and revision materials, including a link to my one hour video lesson for question 3. All the folders, files, worksheets etc, in the preview video are included. I put each folder into a zip file so that everything would stay organised. Included: Question 1 - Summaries: lessons going over paraphrasing techniques with a model answer and tips Question 2 - Language analysis: many lessons on this, including one on the song Blowin’ in the Wind and many from past exams. I also made a PowerPoint in which I go over common effects that I found when going over past papers (in the revision folder). Question 3 - Extended response: lessons for the major text types, speeches, newspaper, magazine, interview, diary and letter. Exam tips for approaching this question. Includes engaging material such as Harvey Milk and JFK speeches. Narrative writing - tips and tricks, going over plot structure and climax, looking at engaging openings. Descriptive writing - tips and tricks, exemplar, lesson on extended metaphors and developing a range of imagery. Evaluative response - PPT and resources to give a rebuttal to an article about school uniforms with a plan included. Six Forms quizzes (mostly self marking) which offer short answer question practice Starter booklet for short answer questions My video lesson for Q3 is included as a link in the revision folder Student friendly overview of the course **Please note that I planned this for the coursework element, but both coursework and Paper 2 need the same text types being taught with near-identical mark schemes: narrative writing, descriptive writing and the response to text. **Therefore I think that this resources is equally as valuable to everyone doing both assessed and coursework routes - but with exam route, of course you’d also want to give students some exam practices after teaching the skills in my lessons.

This worksheet designed for my EAL students who were bordering between second language English and first language IGCSE English courses for Holes, looking at the Sam/Katherine chapter. The worksheets would be suitable for any students studying Holes, but especially those with EAL needs, special needs or who need a little extra support. Activities include: Comprehension Vocabulary Language analysis short questions Letter writing Speaking activities Review writing This is a free resource, not claiming to be the best ever made, so if you find these useful, please do leave a good review :)

These worksheets were designed for my EAL students who were bordering between second language English and first language IGCSE English courses for The Hunger Games, from chapters 1-18 (not beyond that). The worksheets would be suitable for any students studying The Hunger Games, but especially those with EAL needs, special needs or who need a little extra support. Activities include: Vocabulary Comprehension Listening (you’ll need a copy of the film but I put time stamps in there) Language analysis short questions Letter writing Notemaking Speaking activities This is a free resource, not claiming to be the best ever made, so if you find these useful, please do leave a good review :)

NEW MUSIC QUIZ FOR 2022-23: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12785021 This fun music quiz has 70 questions all with song clips from 2021-22 chart toppers. This includes a PowerPoint with clips and answers, a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet. Artists included (amongst many others!): Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Lil Naz X, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Owl City, The Weeknd, BTS, BLACKPINK, Billie Eilish, Adele, Ariana Grande… Preview video here: https://youtu.be/ohRGaNDU2r4 The rounds all contain ten questions with clips: Pop music (1) - recent chart toppers Two second belters - two seconds of a famous artist singing Finish the lyrics - song clip that cuts off before a crucial lyric, can students fill in the gap? Kpop - recent Kpop hits Guess the year - chart toppers from the 2010s, can students guess from a choice of three possible years when the song was released? 8 Bit - 2021 hits turned into 8 bit (polyphonic ringtone style) songs Pop (2) - ten more recent chart toppers

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

This is a Powerpoint lesson differentiated for ESL/EAL/SEN students to teach them how to write similes step-by-step. Tried and tested. This lesson was originally designed for Chinese speakers learning English, so I left in some of the Chinese (it’s minimal and easily deleted, or you can translate into your student’s native language using google translate for some translanguaging!)

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.

This lesson is a step-by-step guide for writing personficiation for ESL, EAL or SEN students. Particularly this was made for Chinese students, but it can act as a guide for any other language (just use Google translate!). For a larger class with multiple language needs, this will also be a great resource.

This lesson reviews the English names for common punctuation marks, how they are used and ends with students writing a short descriptive paragraph using these different punctuation marks.

This lesson teaches different sentences structures that can be used to make narrative writing more varied, complex and interesting.

This Powerpoint lesson introduces students to the five-point narrative structure. The lesson has a listening task, discussions, group activity and a video task - optional to either analyse the plot structure of Cinderella or The Bodyguard (BBC), dependent on the ability of your group. Inside, there are two versions of the same PPT, one differentiated for ESL/EAL students, specifically Chinese students.

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 lesson contains a Powerpoint that analyses Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare. Detailed and comprehensive.

This is a Powerpoint lesson, model paragraph and worksheets for The Snow Child by Angela Carter.

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 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 fun Christmas grammar quiz is ideal for English class, where it could be used as a whole lesson quiz or as a 10 minute starter every day. It would also work well in tutor time. Included is a 99 page Powerpoint that has questions covering a range of grammar points, with explanations of answers included. The rounds are as followed: Correct the spelling: correct the spelling of Christmas words Add the punctuation: add the missing punctuation to Christmas lyrics with the songs included in the background of each slide Splice or no splice: a series of Christmas related questions in which the students have to identify whether the sentence includes a comma splice or is grammatically accurate. Example and explanation of comma splicing included. Semi-colons & Santas: write a semi-colon sentence about a series of celebrities dressed in Santa hats. Explanation of semi-colon use included. Ho ho ho or no no no: series of sentences that the students have to identify whether there is a grammar mistake and if so what mistake (no no no) or if there is no mistake present (ho ho ho). Common mistakes such as use of they’re/their/there and possessive apostrophes are used here with explanations of the mistakes. There are a total of 50 questions included. You could do this in teams on paper or individually with whiteboards would also work well. Slides include timers and fast paced music to keep to a good timing. Fun, cute and Christmassy quiz that makes grammar fun!