A handout for English GCSE students to practice mystery and suspense writing. Includes a guided writing task: write about a mysterious crime with bullet point notes.

This is an eight round Christmas quiz with 50 questions that is designed to keep students engaged in teams. It is presented on a PPT and includes all the answers at the end as well as printable answer sheets for each team. The 8 rounds are as follows: Round 1 - Multiple choice Round 2 - Picture round Round 3 - Anagrams Round 4 - Christmas literature Round 5 - Christmas songs Round 6 - Christmas films Round 7 - Name the board game Round 8 - Observation Suitable for secondary school students but the resource is editable.

**English GCSE Language and structure practice ** This resource includes a short text with a question about analysing language and structure within the text. There is also an example answer with questions for students to answer before attempting to answer the question themselves. Includes marking guidance on a separate page. This question is in line with Edexcel and OCR mark schemes but could still be used as practice if you follow the AQA specification.

A series of activities in English about health & fitness. Suitable for home learning, KS3, KS4 and Efl intermediate + Includes a health questionnaire, reading about teenagers’ health and fitness in England, a writing exercise, create a health survey and project work.

A complete English lesson about music festivals. Suitable for KS3, KS4 & Efl intermediate +. Could be used for homelearning. Includes brainstorm photos and adjectives, a reading text about an English music festival with vocabulary matching box, comprehension questions and further open questions about music festivals. Also includes a creative project at the end.

A complete English lesson about festivals around the world. Suitable for KS3, KS4 & Efl intermediate + and can be used for homelearning. Includes worksheets with a brainstorm, 2 reading texts, questions, summary writing and a project based task.

English lesson about food. Suitable for KS3, KS4 & Efl intermediate + Includes a brainstorm on national food, adjectives to describe taste/texture, a reading text on the food of England + questions/vocab check and project work. Suitable for an entire lesson or for home learning.

A homelearning English pack about the history of Easter. Suitable for KS3, KS4 & Efl intermediate and above. Includes a reading comprehension, questions and vocabulary checking exercise. Also includes a project work task.

Suitable for KS3 & KS4 also for Efl intermediate+. Can be used for homelearning. Includes an English reading text about sleep, comprehension questions, vocabulary check and a project.

Includes an English reading text about world schools, suitable for English KS3, KS4 or Efl intermediate +. Also includes comprehension questions with an answer key and a vocabulary checking activity. There are also 2 additional project work tasks - fact finding and design. Suitable for self-guided home learning tasks.

Includes a PPT with language question 2 and the structure question broken down to beginning and end analysis. Also includes a copy of the full text and questions 1-5 of Paper 1 AQA GCSE English practice.

Includes 2 texts and questions 1-5 for AQA English language paper 2 Also includes a PPT with feedback and sample answers for questions 1-4.

A PPT with an overview of social context and quotes related to the theme of social responsibility. Also includes two AQA GCSE questions - one about Sheila and one about social responsibility.

A PPT that explains how to structure an argumentative article. Includes a GCSE style question and examples.

Resources to help students with English GCSE descriptive writing for paper 1 AQA. Includes a PPT with tips on how to structure writing, paragraphs and language use. Also includes an example piece of writing from Dr Jekyl & Mr Hyde.

English literature material for Jekyll & Hyde. Includes a PPT presentation with key quotes that link to themes and characters. Also includes a worksheet and question that focuses on the theme of fear and horror.

Includes an animated PPT that focuses on the structure of a text and includes detailed questions for analysis. Also includes a practice exam question and accompanying text from 1984.

Includes a transactional writing guide that clearly shows students how to lay out their writing. Also reviews language devices/persuasive techniques that could be used and their effects. In addition, there is another activity sheet with practice transactional writing exercises for students. Suitable for AQA and Edexcel specifications.