A selection of monologues with YouTube links included. The following monologues and clips are included:
Trainspotting
Love, Actually
Kick Ass
The Duff
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
A fun and informative PowerPoint lesson on Cockney Rhyming Slang. The lesson includes definitions, links to video clips, slang examples and group activities.
A fun lesson with definitions, group tasks, individual work and interactive images. I have included a starter based on the TV show Catchphrase (metaphor themed).
Quiz using pictures of different cities. Useful as a starter on a unit about cities. Is also useful to get pupils looking for clues in images to help locate them somewhere in the world.
A fun, informative and interactive lesson on analysing photographs. The student at 8-12 influential, historial and powerful photos and answer and /or discuss a number of sessions. Some examples are the following:
• What is the subject matter?
• What are the colours like? Do any colours dominate?
• What is your eye drawn to first?
• What were your feelings when you first looked at the photograph?
• How did your reaction to the image change after looking at it for a while?
• What message was the photographer trying to communicate?
• Why did you choose this particular photograph?
• What events (social/economic/political/cultural) were occurring at the time the photograph was taken? Was the photograph a reaction to any of these events?
• How is the photograph a reflection of the time in which it was taken?
I have included a number of video links and a poem related to the 9/11 photograph: ‘The Falling Man’.
There is also a group task where the students can recreate the famous photos or make their own powerful photos.
A fantastic lesson on handwriting. The lesson focuses on the most common problems children have with handwriting and gives a number of helpful solutions (short & long term).
A great lesson on the Coming of Age Genre. Includes the following:
-Definition
-Examples
-Discussion topics
-Interactive starter
-Coming of age soundtrack task
This lesson looks at the 2017 coming-of-age film, ‘Lady Bird.’ The lesson includes: quiz questions, the plot analysed, genre discussion, the importance of the soundtrack, Lady Bird discussion/writing questions, teenage stereotyping questions and a fun memory starter.
A fun starter where students discuss what makes them embarrassed and why. After a number of discussion activities, the students have to rank embarrassing situations 1-10. They are then given a final embarrassment score! The students love this.
Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 movies. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included. My students love it.
Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 animals. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included. My students love it.