I am an English teacher with over 16 years' experience. My high quality resources will save you time and offer creative and purposeful activities for your students.
For commissions, questions or feedback, please e-mail me at jpresourcesuk@gmail.com
I am an English teacher with over 16 years' experience. My high quality resources will save you time and offer creative and purposeful activities for your students.
For commissions, questions or feedback, please e-mail me at jpresourcesuk@gmail.com
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 70 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language Change and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
Lexical, Semantic, Phonological, Grammatical and Orthographical processes
David Crystal – A Sea of Language Change and tidal metaphor (1999)
Diachronic and Synchronic Linguistic Change
Origins of Old English and Middle English
Descriptivism and Prescriptivism
Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Robert Lowth – A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762)
Jonathan Swift - ‘A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue’ (1712)
John Walker – A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary (1791)
Otto Jespersen – Great Vowel Shift (1909)
William Caxton – Printing Press (1476)
John McWhorter – Textspeak (2013)
Jean Aitchison – Language Change Progress or Decay? (2012)
Vocal Fry and Uptalk
Martin Janssen – Lexical gaps (2012)
Functional view/theory
Linguistic determinism and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Charles Hockett - Random Fluctuation Theory (1958)
Peter Trudgill – Language Myths (1990)
John Humphrys – Prescriptivist grammatical change
Lynne Truss – Eats, Shoots and Leaves (2003)
Jean Aitchison – A Web of Worries (1996)
Guy Deutscher – The Unfolding of Language (2006)
James Milroy and Lesley Milroy – Complaint tradition (1985)
Robert Lane Greene – You Are What You Speak (2011)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 59-67. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Child Language Acquisition Speaking
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 67 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including transcripts) exploring the topic of Language and Global and World Englishes and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
David Crystal – World English: Past, Present, Future (1999)
Jennifer Jenkins – Lingua Franca Core (2000)
Nicholas Ostler – The Last Lingua Franca (2010)
David Graddol – The Future of English? (1997)
Bagele Chilasa – Hierarchy of Language (2011)
Braj Kachru – Three Circle Model of World Englishes (1985)
Jean Paul Nerrière – Globish (2004)
Pidgins and creoles
William Stewart (1965) and Derek Bickerton (1973) – Post-Creole Continuum
Bettina Migge and Isabelle Léglise – Attitudes towards creoles in the Caribbean (2006)
Einar Haugen - Code Switching (1954)
David Crystal – Tri-English (2000)
Tom McArthur – Circle Model of World English (1987)
Peter Strevens – World Map of English (1980)
Barbara Seidlhofer – Teaching English as a Lingua Franca (2004)
Stress-Timed and Syllable-Timed Languages
Rhotic and Non-Rhotic Accents
Lisa Lim – Language Ecology
Mark Pagel – The Future of English (2011)
David Deterding and Andy Kirkpatrick – Influence of Technology on World Englishes (2011)
British Council – The Future of English: Global Perspectives (2023)
Lynne Murphy – British and American Politeness Features (2013)
Yohai Hakak, Sophia Bosah, Kwaku Amponsah and Kei Long Cheung – Australian Politeness (2022)
McMaster University – Canadian v. American Politeness in Tweets (2018)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 56-64. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Language Discourses Opinion Writing
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language and Technology and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
Hiltz and Turoff – CMC (1978)
Emmanuel Schegloff – Telephone conversation structure (1986)
David Crystal – Textspeak (2004)
Celia Klin – The role of full stops in text messages (2015)
David Crystal – Netspeak (2004 and 2008)
Eric Partridge – Dictionary of Abbreviations (1942)
Crispin Thurlow – Sociolinguistic functions of text messages (2003)
Tim Shortis – The Language of ICT (2000)
John McWhorter – Fingered speech and texting (2013)
Elizabeth Eisenstein – The Printing Press (1983)
Jeff Jarvis – the positive impact of the internet on language (2023)
Susan Herring – CMC and CMDA (2018)
Christopher Werry – IRC and Netiquette (1996)
Condon and Čech – E-mail discourse (2010)
Amanda Roig-Marin – Cyber-neologism blends (2016)
Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien – The Democratization of English (2004)
Hyejeong Ahn and Jieun Kiaer – Korean Pop Culture Words (2021)
Philip Seargeant – The Emoji Revolution (2019)
Michele Zappavigna and Lorenzo Logi – Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage (2024)
danah boyd – It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (2004)
Gretchen McCulloch – Because Internet (2022)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 57-65. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Language Discourses Opinion Writing
Two detailed lessons exploring Caleb Femi’s ‘Thirteen’ from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Jewellery Maker’ by Louisa Adjoa Parker from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 66 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including transcripts) exploring the topic of Language and Gender and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
The Deficit Approach – Robin Lakoff (1973 & 1975)
The Dominance Approach - Don Zimmerman & Candace West (1975), Dale Spender (1980) and Pamela Fishman (1978)
The Deficit Approach – Otto Jesperson (1922)
Folklinguistics
Criticism of Zimmerman and West - Geoff Beattie (1981)
Gossip – Jane Pilkington (1992 and 1998)
The Difference Approach – Deborah Tannen (1990) and Janet Holmes (1995)
Criticism of Holmes and politeness – Sara Mills (2003)
Women, Men and Language – Jennifer Coates (1993)
Norwich Study – Peter Trudgill (1974)
Gender Trouble – Judith Butler (1990)
The Myth of Mars and Venus – Deborah Cameron (2008)
The Gender Similarities Hypothesis – Janet Hyde (2005)
Verbal Hygiene – Deborah Cameron (1995)
The Whole Woman – Penelope Eckert (1990)
Relational Aggression – Rosalind Wiseman (2002)
Gossip - Deborah Jones (1980)
Gossip – Holly Hom (2004)
Gossip – Nigel Nicholson (2001)
Powerless Language – William O’Barr and Bowman Atkins (1980)
Gendered workplace language – Barbara Eakins and R. Gene Eakins (1976)
Gendered workplace language – Carole Edelsky (1981)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 56-63. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global/World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Language Discourses Opinion Writing
Two detailed lessons exploring James Berry’s ‘On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955’ from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'pot’ by shamshad khan from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Name Journeys’ by Raman Mundair from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A fourteen page revision workbook for students to revise Frankenstein and The Handmaid’s Tale (focused on the Edexcel specification but can easily be adapted for others - the focus is on connections and comparisons).
Enclosed are:
A quotation gathering template where students link common themes with examples from both texts (two examples modelled).
An AO4 focused table where students write up an analytical link between two short quotations from each text (one example modelled).
A more complex table which encourages links between a question focus; a quotation from each text; a contextual link; and analytical connections (one example modelled).
A more developed linking table providing quotations of which students produce a developed comparative analysis (all quotations provided and one example and a paragraph modelled).
A blank copy of the previous table.
A linking grid focused on ambitious narrative techniques, linked with quotations, context and themes (one example modelled).
A series of longer linked extracts from both texts where students analyse these in response to a question (eight pages of extracts).
The booklet is designed to be used by students with knowledge of both texts and is perfect for use in the run up to examinations. There is scaffolding but also appropriate stretch and challenge for those who are aiming for the highest grades.
This booklet works well with my free essay guidance for this particular question (Edexcel A Level Paper 2) which you can find here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12853413]
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 69 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including a range of transcripts) exploring the topic of Language and Power and Occupation and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
Shân Wareing – Types of Power, 1999
Pierre Bourdieu – Language and Symbolic Power, 1993
Norman Fairclough – Types of power, 1984
Erving Goffman – Face-work, 1967
Brown and Levinson – Politeness Theory, 1987
Howard Giles – Communication Accommodation Theory, 1973
Drew and Heritage - Institutional Talk and Inferential Frameworks, 1992
John Swales – Discourse Community, 1990
Sinclair and Coulthard – IRF Model and Teacher Talk, 1975 and 1992
Paul Grice – Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims, 1975
Almut Koester – Phatic Talk in the Workplace, 2004
Judith Baxter – Double-voiced discourse, 2014
Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe - Power and Politeness in the Workplace, 2003 & 2015
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 58-66. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
Language Discourses Opinion Writing
Two detailed lessons exploring ‘Homing’ by Liz Berry from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring ‘A Wider View’ by Seni Seneviratne from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Like an Heiress’ by Grace Nichols from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the AQA Worlds and Lives cluster: Lines Written in Early Spring; England in 1819; Shall earth no more inspire thee; In a London Drawingroom; On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955; Name Journeys; pot; A Wider View; Homing; A century later; The Jewellery Maker; With Birds You’re Never Lonely; A Portable Paradise; Like an Heiress; and Thirteen.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
Two detailed lessons exploring 'England in 1819’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
An extract analysis booklet which contains 24 examination-length extracts from Much Ado About Nothing and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
This booklet contains essay structure suggestions and guidance for Paper 2 of AQA English Language A Level.
Each page offers guidance as to how to approach each question in the paper - covers Section A (Language DIversity), and Section B, Questions 3 (Language Discourses) and 4 (Opinion Article).
Check out my other English Language resources:
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Worlds and Lives cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
Please check out my individual PowerPoints for each of the poems in the Worlds and Lives Cluster: Worlds and Lives Individual PowerPoints
A five page guide to planning and revising for the Prose question in Edexcel English Literature Paper 2.
Guides students through:
How to approach a past question
A list of past questions
Contextual revision points
Form and structural revision points
A sample response
An A/A* checklist for those who are aiming for the top grades
Every year, my students consistently achieve very high grades in their A Level, so I hope you will find this useful!