This resource answers students’ question, “Why does Shakespeare write in poetry? It’s not realistic.” It enables students to understand verse, prose, iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets within and at the ends of scenes. Excellent material for “How does Shakespeare write?”, context questions and historical context.

The lovers’ first meeting is packed with difficult Christian concepts and witty language. R&J’s lines are carefully broken down for students and explained. There is also a bonus exercise in the style of the WJEC context question. A very helpful resource for students who struggle with Shakespeare’s language and the Christian context of the play. Different ways of playing the scene are also explained.

A line by line analysis of TO HIS COY MISTRESS, with questions and notes on historical background. For candidates of all ability at A level and GCSE English Literature. Used successfully with students, who said it was very helpful and useful!

For beginner/intermediate ESOL learners: real life situation. Funny and lively lesson with dialogue and vocab learning. Used very successfully in class.

Sample practice paper, written in the style of AQA English Language paper 1; the opening of Graham Greene’s “Brighton Rock” with AQA style qs. Excellent text leads to stimulating answers!

Media/film/ English: DOCTOR WHO - adaptable SOW for different ages. Compare two episodes from 1963 and 2005; history of show and British tv; why is DOCTOR WHO important as a media phenomenon? History of British television and how the programme slots into it (BBC 100 this year); case study 1 - “Rose”, episode one of revised show 2005 compare with original episode 1 from 1963, “An Unearthly Child”. Students analyse each episode and prepare and give presentations on each episode AND a comparison between them. 17 pages / 5000 words of material for your students. VERY ADAPTABLE for KS3 and TEFL students. Successfully used with TEFL and year seven students!

This resource shows students how to maximise their marks in AQA Eng Lang GCSE. Comprehensive coverage of both papers by an experienced examiner and Head of English with 36 years’ teaching experience. Covers both papers; spelling, punctuation and grammar; techniques required to answer every type of question for Reading sections in both papers; how to write all types of essay - descriptive, story, non fiction; how to use your time and to maximise the marks available in the time for each question; how to write about style (“How does the author do X, Y or Z in the passage?”). As used by over 1000 students. 28 pages, 7000 words. This is both a resource for your students and a series of essay plans: take your students through the resource for a sequence of lessons. EXCELLENT for revision!

Student notes and lesson plans: exam technique; context (“Coral Island”, Golding a teacher); themes - original sin; WW2 background; Golding on themes and characters; human nature as theme; why are there no girls in the novel?; what Golding himself has said about the novel and the film adaptation; detailed study of individual chapters. This is both a set of notes for students and a series of lessons - take your students through these notes and use them as a basis of discussion. Excellent for revision and study of the context. 7 pages, 2368 words.

M4M translated into clear, modern English for A level students with detailed notes. Huge help for lower ability students: context/language notes; a very readable edition designed to retain the excitement of the original and to help students with this linguistically challenging play. Written by Frank Danes, a published Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press author and teacher/Head of English for over 36 years.

Top tips for students from an AQA GCSE Eng Lit examiner and a former Head of English with 36 years of teaching experience: how to maximise your marks in the Eng Lit AQA GCSE. A guide for students and a series of lessons. How to: plan; stick to the timings; use quotations; write about context; write a paragraph; satisfy the AOs; detailed breakdowns of how to answer each question - prose, poetry, unseen poetry, plays; how to write about style (“How is it written?”); how to punctuate quotations. This is both a set of notes for your students and a set of lesson plans: take your students through these notes to create a series of lessons; excellent for revision! Used by over 1000 students in different schools. 27 pages, 8000 words.

8 pages, 2447 words. Everything your students need to revise “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”: CONTEXT - novels, short stories and novellas defined; shilling shockers and penny dreadfuls; gothic fiction; character of Mr Utterson; Soho; appearance and reality; Science, Darwin, evolution and devolution; recommendation of translation of the text into modern English, available from this author.

Lesson plans and student notes on: exam technique; themes - regicide, the natural order, witches/the supernatural; tragedy, tragic hero, free will, fate, Fortune. This is both a set of notes for your students and a series of lesson plans: take them through the notes, use them as a basis for discussion. Excellent for context and extension work for higher ability students. 17 pages, 5926 words. Used by over 300 students.

This new reading of “The Handmaid’s Tale” puts the novel into the context of feminism in the 1980s and the dystopian novel. This article is ideal for the Dystopia option of OCR English Literature A level. The article considers"The Handmaid’s Tale"'s reputation as a cult novel, as a satire of male power and Christianity and the debt it owes to Orwell’s “1984”. Attwood’s prose and structure are analysed. The author argues that “The Handmaid’s Tale” is not the greatest novel of the twentieth century or the greatest dystopian novel: it is a fine novel, written in excellent prose, but it has flaws. This article will help to engage your A level students and to give them something to argue with or against. It will thus encourage them, as the A level specifications require, to engage with critical views rather than simply to read them passively. It is written by Frank Danes, who wrote many of the materials to support OCR English Literature A level on the OCR website; Danes taught English for 30 years in English secondary schools and was Head of English in three schools.

Sample AQA style practice paper for Section A, English Language paper 1; the opening of Orwell’s 1984 with AQA style qs. Excellent text leads to stimulating answers!

The whole text of Dr J&H, translated into clear, modern English for GCSE English Literature. Acclaimed by NATE review and applauded by students. Keeps all the excitement of Stevenson’s original. With detailed notes on context and theme and language for GCSE English Literature. By Frank Danes, published author of Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and GCSE English Literature examiner.