A super clear, colourful 47 slide powerpoint that covers the theme of youth and age in ‘Romeo and Juliet’. There are plenty of opportunities for students to work individually, in pairs or small groups, depending on the class dynamics. There are sample answers for all tasks and engaging activities which help students improve their skills. There is an AQA style essay question at the end with structured guidance to help the students annotate and plan an answer. There are guided writing tasks as well to support students. There is a full sample answer at the end. This lesson takes 1-2 hours, depending on how much writing you ask the students to complete. My students have found it engaging and really helpful. I hope yours do too!

This is a straightforward, multiple -choice quiz on ‘A Christmas Carol’. There are 15 questions that track the plot and characters throughout the novella with 3 questions on each stave. Answers illustrated to help with recall in the exam. Hope your class enjoys it!

A super clear powerpoint which takes a class through the stages of tackling an extract question. The extract is from Act 3 scene 5 where the nurse advises Juliet to marry Paris. There are plenty of opportunities for short, focused activities by the students and also a ‘moving up the levels’ illustration of how to analyse language closely. It finishes with a complete model answer at grade 9 standard. This is suitable for the Edexcel exam board but can be adapted for other exam boards.

This game is really popular with all classes. It’s designed for KS2 and KS3 but I have seen GCSE classes enjoy it too at the end of term. The game is good fun and is really helpful for expanding vocabulary. The rules are on a powerpoint that can be used with the class. A word document also has the rules and suggestions for the teacher and also has a set of synonyms. The set provided is for six players. For a larger class of thirty, you will just need to replicate the set five times. The sheets need be printed on card and cut up. I laminate mine for durability and this also means they can be wiped clean easily. Of course, you can change the words to suit the topic or text you are studying. I make a new set quite regularly- it’s a quick job. Once the children know how to play, the game can be used as a starter or a game at the end of the lesson if they’ve finished their work. Hope you and your classes enjoy! Please leave a review if you found this resource useful :-)

This is an engaging lesson to introduce the idea of perspectives/viewpoints/attitudes and how these change over time. It works really well as an introduction to the GCSE language paper 2 and suits all exam boards. It’s a good opportunity for paired and class discussion and is helpful for covering a lot of history in a brief, low-stakes way. There is a writing task at the end, and this can be expanded to write about the attitudes in the other pictures for home learning or extended writing. It takes my classes an hour and prompts lots of discussion. They seem to really enjoy it and it helps them understand the premise for the reading section of language paper 2. If you do like this resource, please leave a review and check out my shop for other resources. Thank you!

A super clear, colourful 50 slide powerpoint that covers a comparison of ‘A Wife in London’ with ‘Afternoons’. There are plenty of opportunities for students to work individually, in pairs or small groups, depending on the class dynamics. There are sample answers for all tasks and engaging activities which help students improve their skills. There are also two planning exercises where the students use the same points for ‘A Wife in London’ to compare to ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ and ‘The Manhunt’. Students find this very useful. This lesson takes 1-2 hours, depending on how much writing you ask the students to complete. My students have found it engaging and really helpful. I hope yours do too!

A super clear, colourful 50 slide powerpoint that covers a comparison of ‘Death of a Naturalist’ with ‘Excerpt from The Prelude’ on the theme of memory. There are plenty of opportunities for students to work individually, in pairs or small groups, depending on the class dynamics. There are sample answers for all tasks and engaging activities which help students improve their skills. There are also a planning exercise where the students use the same points for ‘Death of a Naturalist’ to compare with ‘Mametz Wood’. Students find this very useful. This lesson takes 1-2 hours, depending on how much writing you ask the students to complete. My students have found it engaging and really helpful. I hope yours do too! Ms Larkin’s Resources

This is a useful activity to help students with the evaluation question on English Language Paper 2 for the Eduqas exam board. Using an engaging source about camping in France, the students work through the evulation question with modelling and scaffolding throughout. A sample answer is included. If you do like this resource, please leave a review and check out my shop for other resources. Thank you! Ms Larkin’s Resources

This is a fast-moving question/answer activity on context within ‘A Christmas Carol’. The powerpoint can be used very effectively in class with students jotting answers on their mini whiteboards. The powerpoint covers various useful contextual information such as Dickens’ childhood, Victorian attitudes to the poor and Gothic influences. There are lots of links to the novella through using quotations and three opportunities for students to write a really good paragraph pulling together ideas, language, historical context and authorial intentions. It’s pretty long so I have used bits of it over 4 separate revision lessons. My students found these really helpful- I hope yours do too! If you like this resource, please do leave a review and have a look at my TES shop MsLarkinsResources. Thank you! Ms Larkin’s Resources