Handy revision sheet about Eva Smith from An Inspector Calls which looks at 11 key quotations.

A worksheet to encourage students to think in an allegorical way to introduce the themes in Animal Farm by George Orwell. Using characters in a typical school, they consider which animal would best represent each of the stock school characters. They then write a short story in which the animal students take over the running of the animal school.

Help with writing a review of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet.

A cloze activity based around selecting word choices for effect and then commenting on the word choices. Students then listen to the song and compare their word choices with the original.

What is the greatest modern invention? Students compare the model examples and then plan their own article about the greatest modern invention.

Worksheet on relative clauses

Includes a differentiated starter, detailed annotations of the scene and then comprehension questions to test students’ understanding of the scene. Not bad for a £1,

A resource to teach the difference between parallelism and periodic sentences with a follow up activity.

Writing super sentences for an article (transactional writing)

Media terminology - card sort activity

Lesson analysing the opening scene. Includes annotations and a range of comprehension activities to explore the importance of the scene.

PowerPoint to guide students through Act 3 Scene 2 of Macbeth. Includes a scene summary, annotations of the scene, comprehension questions based on the annotations and then an extension activity analysing the use of animal imagery with an example paragraph as a guide.

Great Expectations Chapter 1. Questions to explore

A handy worksheet for getting students to find out the definitions of the challenging vocabulary in A Christmas Carol. There are 127 words to find definitions for.

A Christmas Carol generic structural writing frame

Use the writing frame to write acting directions for Juliet’s soliloquy in Act 4 Scene 3.

Great Expectations questions based on extracts from Chapter 1. Working towards an analysis of how themes are introduced.

6 handy tips that are useful for the Macbeth GCSE exam. Also includes a generic writing frame to help students meet the 3 assessment objectives.

A timeline looking at how the motif of blood develops in Macbeth.

A writing frame to guide students through the following exam style question: Compare the ways the poets in War Photographer and one other poem (Remains) present ideas about conflict. (30). The writing frame encourages students to make discriminating comparisons between the poems.