Written by an AQA examiner, this resource tells students how to approach the unseen poetry qs and how to maximised marks; what examiners look for; how to use the time in the exams; how to write about style; the difference between good poetry and bad poetry answers. As used by over 1000 students.

Excellent for less able and TEFL students: 14 qs testing understanding and appreciation of “Odour…”. As used by students. Go over the answers with your students to create a lesson. Excellent writing and literature practice.

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!

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!

Presents the plot of MACBETH as a diagram, so students can understand the play before they start to read it. Go over it with your students and TEFL students to help them to understand the plot before they start to study the play. Successfully used with over 100 students, including Chinese nationals learning English.

A diagram of THE TEMPEST’s plot, to introduce students to the play before they start studying it. Teacher goes over the story with students; students could then write out the plot as a written exercise. Successfully used with over 100 students, who find it very helpful to have the basic story of the play explained to them before they study it.

Introduce your students to the plot of the play with this diagram. Excellent for less able students: designed for teachers to explain the story of the play before students start to read and study it. Successfully used with over 100 A level students, including students for whom English is not their first language.

A quick and easy diagram for how to do descriptive writing for GCSE: point of view, personification, atmosphere, microscopic focus, mood and emotion, sensuous imagery. Use this resource to discuss different ways of creative writing with your students and to remind them of how they might include different forms of creative writing for GCSE and KS3. Successfully used with over 1000 students!

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.

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.

Student guide to punctation of long quotations/short quotations/indenting from the margin/punctuating poetry quotations/embedded quotations. Most GCSE and A level students don’t punctuate quotations properly and it can irritate examiners. This guide shows students how to do it and therefore, how to impress the examiner!

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!

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.

Detailed notes on The Inspector in “An Inspector Calls”. A lesson plan as well as a set of student notes. Useful revision. Covers: essay technique, theme, dramatic function of the Inspector, socialism/Christian socialism; is the Inspector human or supernatural? The ending of the play and its controversy.

Detailed and complete notes on Mr Birling in “An Inspector Calls”, from his first to his last appearance in the play. 6 pages, 2699 words. This is both a set of lesson plans and a set of notes for your students: use the notes to take your students through Birling’s appearance and role in the play. Covers: theme, context, relationship with other characters, how to answer an essay on Birling, key quotations. Everything your students need to know about Birling.

This resource is both a sequence of lessons and detailed notes for your students. 5 pages, 1731 words. The notes go through Gerald’s every appearance in “An Inspector Calls”; characterisation, theme, context, Gerald’s relationships with other characters are all covered, as is essay technique on the play at GCSE. Page references are to the Heinemann edition.

All the notes your students will need on the character of ERIC and his function in the play “An Inspector Calls”. 7 pages of notes, 2928 words take your students through Eric’s every scene in the play. Notes on characterisation, them, interaction with other characters, context, essay technique on the character and the play. This is a sequence of lessons as well as a resource: just go through the notes with your students. Page references are to the Heinemann edition.

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.

Everything your students will need to revise AN INSPECTOR CALLS for GCSE English Literature: how to write about context; family units; gender roles; the Conservative Party of the period; the Labour Party of the period; revision and exam technique; how to write about style (to answer the question, “How does Priestley do X Y and Z in the play?”). 8 pages, 2400 word resource.

This resource clearly explains, for A level and GCSE Literature students, the difference between verse and prose in Shakespeare: differences in form; why Shakespeare uses verse and prose at different times; iambic pentameter.