Two detailed lessons exploring 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!’ by Daljit Nagra from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'A Minor Role’ by UA Fanthorpe from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Please Hold’ by Ciaran O’Driscoll from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'On Her Blindness’ by Adam Thorpe from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Effects’ by Alan Jenkins from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'From the Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by Andrew Motion from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'History’ by John Burnside from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Material’ by Ros Barber from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ by Simon Armitage from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn’ by Tim Turnbull from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Out of the Bag’ by Seamus Heaney from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Deliverer’ by Tishani Doshi from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'An Easy Passage’ by Julia Copus from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled’ by Leontia Flynn from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

A 5 lesson unit comprising a 35 slide PowerPoint, 5 different worksheets (4 include a text or texts for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of graphology. This unit can be used for any of the major exam boards. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a text (or revision cards for lesson 5), and a homework task. The following terminology is covered: Graphology: layout, images, shape, colour, typography, orthography. Semiotics: iconic, index and symbolic signs; signifier and signified; denotative and connotative meaning. Typography: font size, type, effects, colour, alignment and spacing. Orthography: punctuation and capitalisation. Multimodality. 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 some of my most popular English Language A Level resources Grammar Lexis and Semantics Phonetics, Phonology and Prosodics Analysing Discourse - Spoken Language Pragmatics Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 69 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (8 include a text or texts for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of pragmatics. This unit can be used for any of the major exam boards. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a text (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following terminology is covered: Negotiation of meaning: confirmation checks, reformulation techniques and feedback Codes: inference and implication Implicatures and pragmatic illusion Ambiguity Schema and schematic knowledge Embodied knowledge Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims – Paul Grice (1975) Speech acts: assertives (analytic and synthetic); commissives; declarations (verdictive and effective); directives; and expressives. Face - Erving Goffman (1967) Politeness theory and face threatening acts – Penelope Brown and Steven Levinson (1987) Deixis: personal, spatial and temporal; distal and proximal Presupposition: presupposition negation test; definitive descriptions; factive verbs; iteratives; questions; temporal clauses (Please note that there is overlap on six slides about Grice’s maxims, face and politeness theory with the ‘Analysing Discourse – Spoken Language’ unit.) 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 some of my most popular English Language A Level resources Grammar Lexis and Semantics Phonetics, Phonology and Prosodics Analysing Discourse - Spoken Language Graphology Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 72 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (8 include a text or texts for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of phonetics, phonology and prosodics. This unit can be used for any of the major exam boards. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a text (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following terminology is covered: Phonemes – minimal pairs IPA Consonants – articulators (labial, dental, alveolar, palatal and velar); voiceless and voiced sounds; plosive, fricative, affricative, nasal, lateral and approximant Vowels – syllable, onset, coda, monophthongs and diphthongs Accent and dialect; assimilation, dissimilation, insertion and deletion; glottal stop Sound patterning – alliteration, sibilance, consonance, assonance, lexical and non-lexical onomatopoeia Sound iconicity Phonological manipulation – pun, homonymy, homograph, homophone, phonemic substitution Prosodics – intonation, stress, rhythm, pauses Paralanguage – non-fluency features 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 some of my most popular English Language A Level resources Grammar Lexis and Semantics Analysing Discourse - Spoken Language Pragmatics Graphology Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech

A complete lesson for GCSE or Year 9 focusing on Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet. The lesson includes a 10 slide PowerPoint, an extract booklet for annotation and a suggested lesson plan. Students are encouraged to: make links with Shakespearean tragedy, analyse language in the extracts and produce a response to the assessment question ‘How does Shakespeare present tragedy in Act 3 Scene 1?’ Modelled suggestions are included. The suggested learning objectives are: To annotate and explore Act 3, Scene 1 from Romeo and Juliet To understand how Shakespeare makes use of tragic conventions in this scene To evaluate to what extent the relationships between the characters are connected to tragedy This lesson will stretch and challenge students and could easily be extended over two sessions.

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (8 include a text or texts for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of grammar. This unit can be used for any of the major exam boards. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a text (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following terminology is covered: -Linguistic rank scale – morpheme, lexical item, phrase, clause, sentence, utterance and text -Morphology – free and bound morphemes, suffixes, prefixes and affixes, derivational and inflectional processes -Phrases - noun phrases, verb phrases, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases and prepositional phrases -Noun phrases – head word, pre-modification, post-modification and qualifier -Verb phrases – main verb, auxiliary verb, negating participle, extension, primary, modal and semi-auxiliaries and catenative verbs -Clauses – subject, verb, object, complement, adverbial -Main and subordinate clauses, coordinating and subordinating clauses, relative clause -Active and passive voice -Sentence types – simple, compound, complex and compound-complex -Sentence functions – declarative, interrogative, exclamative and imperative 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 some of my most popular English Language A Level resources! Phonetics, Phonology and Prosodics Lexis and Semantics Grammar Pragmatics Graphology Analysing Discourse - Spoken Language Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech