Welcome to "Lit and Lang Learn: Your Ultimate English Education Hub"! My online shop is dedicated to providing comprehensive teaching materials, lesson plans, visual aids, handouts, worksheets, assignments and related teaching resources for English Literature and Language across various English curriculums, including but not limited to Key Stage 3 4 5, GCSE, AS/ A-Level and IB.
Welcome to "Lit and Lang Learn: Your Ultimate English Education Hub"! My online shop is dedicated to providing comprehensive teaching materials, lesson plans, visual aids, handouts, worksheets, assignments and related teaching resources for English Literature and Language across various English curriculums, including but not limited to Key Stage 3 4 5, GCSE, AS/ A-Level and IB.
This beautiful ancient, archaic vintage-themed PDF has a Model Answer on ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B. Priestley on the Character, Inspector Goole and is a perfect exemplar and sample response for GCSE.
It adds to the effectiveness of learning and revision for GCSEs and exam time. Print it out and distribute it to the students in your class or send them an email with its attachment and it is obvious, that students will love it and immensely learn from it because it is an A* sample response for GCSE. Also, it has a beautiful and elegant format with bonus pictures and images of The Birling House, the Dining Room and Eva Smith’s letters, along with the intriguing cover image of Inspector Goole that acts as a visual imagery tool for learning.
The PDF also discusses various literary techniques, drama devices and structural techniques used in ‘An Inspector Calls’. It can be used for all major UK English Literature boards such as AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR, WJEC, etc.
The answer includes a discussion on the themes of morality, guilt, class collective responsibility and gender.
This poem, ‘Pity Me Not’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay is not a part of the poetry anthology for GCSE or IGCSE (Pearson EDEXCEL, AQA, OCR, Cambridge) but is sourced from a past paper with the Unseen Poetry Question.
It is an excellent resource and a handy help as part of a lesson plan teaching the same poem. It has annotations of the whole poem with poetic features, literary techniques, imagery, structure, form and rhyme.
The Damsel in Distress character is a really popular character in fiction, fables, legends, mythology, tales, etc. This woman is pretty, dependent, needy, helpless, clingy, etc. Traditional examples are Cinderella, Snowhite, Rapunzel, etc.
It has somehow been subverted recently in modern literature and the damsel has changed to a modern working woman who is fiery, independent, not very pretty according to societal standards and shatters taboos all the time.
This visual aid has several character traits of a damsel in distress that can be used as a whole lesson plan along with teaching the theory of damsel in distress.
Also, another bonus feature of this learning material is a second visually appealing PDF that has even more character traits of damsels in distress.
Use it as a 60-minute lesson plan or as revision material.
This template comes across as a planner and a visual aid or worksheet for Year 7 and Year 8 students who are learning to compare movies and books of the same title and genre.
This template can be distributed as a worksheet to students and can also be sent as homework It has a handy written pre-filled template of the book versus movie comparison of ‘The Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’
It has the following elements in that order:
Title
Setting
Story
Characters
Favourite Version
Have fun comparing the book and movie versions of ‘The Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief’ in this template.
Most of all, it can be downloaded for free.
This PDF serves as an excellent visual aid for the Year 6 7 and 8 British and American Curriculum to teach them the books that have been made into movies and vice versa.
The book adaptations are on mainstream cinema and also on Amazon and Netflix, besides being an intriguing and interesting way to retell a story from a modern point of view.
There are pictures of classic and vintage books made into movies such as the following:
Harry Potter
Pride and Prejudice
Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Narnia
Matilda
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Take a printout and distribute it to the students to pick and choose the books made to movies they might want to enjoy!
Also, a bonus feature is a PowerPoint PDF that writes several reasons why books should be made into movies, which can also be used as part of a lesson plan that can be a 60-minute full-fledged class.
This resource is handy and helpful for almost Year 7 and Year 8 British curriculum students who are taught films, movies and cinemas adapted from literature books. It has the explanation of the following movie elements that are used for design and analysis:
Title, Tagline, Images/Artwork, Main Characters, Key Information, Creative Design
Also, a bonus feature in this visual aid is a ready-made movie poster of a short movie called ‘The Landlady’ which is adapted from the short story of the same name by Roald Dahl, ‘The Landlady’ that can be used by students for understanding the features of a movie poster.
Students study the elements of movie posters and design them themselves after learning them.
This is a handy resource sample of Descriptive Writing for the students taking GCSE and IGCSE English Language that teachers and students can use for teaching and learning how to write a descriptive writing essay based on a picture prompt or a writing prompt of a Train Station setting.
It has rich usage of visual imagery, alliteration, simile, metaphor, symbols and loads of descriptive adjectives creating a perfect
Here’s the Question for it:
Imagine yourself entering a train station on a random morning. Outside, the train station, several commuters try to go on about their day, some to college, some to uni, some to their homes, and some to schools.
Describe the scene around you vividly, capturing the sights, sounds, and sensations that make this train station a busy place.