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Spanish Grammar (powerpoint)
Grammar powerpoint covering tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, compound tenses, near-future, future, conditional, gerund, present subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive), si clauses, the direct object, por and para.
Level: advanced GCSE or basic AS/A-Level.
A Christmas Carol Comprehension: Christmas Dinner with the Cratchit Family
A festive themed past-paper style passage followed by comprehension questions, and a choice of two creative writing prompts.
Questions are a mixture of short-answer (testing understanding of the passage), vocabulary,
Passage taken from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Would be suitable for 13+ entrance practice, or high-level 11+ entrance/scholarship practice.
Effects (Alan Jenkins): Poem Analysis
Over 4 pages of analysis of ‘Effects’ by Alan Jenkins. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
Genetics (Sinéad Morrissey): Poem Analysis
Analysis of the poem ‘Genetics’ by Sinéad Morrissey. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
A Valediction of Weeping (John Donne): Analysis
2.5 pages of notes analysing ‘A Valediction of Weeping’ by John Donne (summary, technical terms, title, structure, five important quotes, context).
Designed for A-Level English Edexcel Metaphysical Poetry.
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass (Armitage): Analysis
3.5 pages of notes analysing ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ (Simon Armitage), from ‘Poems of the Decade’ for the A-Level Edexcel English Literature syllabus.
Material (Ros Barber): Analysis
5 pages of notes analysing the poem ‘Material’ by Ros Barber.
From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for A-Level Edexcel English Literature.
Great Gatsby: Daisy and Myrtle Comparison
Bullet points comparing and contrasting the characterisation of Daisy and Myrtle. Discusses what their presentation reveals about social class, gender and the perspective of the narrator.
Creative Writing: EDINGLY
Resource with notes and activities on different ways of starting a sentence, suggesting -ed, -ing and -ly words.
Aimed primarily at students going for the 11+, but could be relevant to KS3 students as well.
GCSE Holidays topic: useful vocab and phrases
Powerpoint with four slides of vocabulary and useful phrases for talking about holidays (types of destination advantages, booking and staying in accomodation)
Trimalchio's Dinner (from Petronius' Satyricon) - plot summary
Plot summary of the Cena Trimalchionis in Petronius’ Satyricon (6 pages).
Midsummer Night's Dream: Context notes
Context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
A Streetcar Named Desire: Context notes
Powerpoint containing detailed notes on context for A Streetcar Named Desire (this includes historical background, biographical details of Tennessee Williams, setting and music, gender attitudes, literary allusions, key film and stage performances, and useful secondary source quotes).
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.
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AQA GCSE Biology Dual Award: Complete
Bundle of powerpoints containing revision notes on all topics on the specification for the AQA GCSE Biology Dual Award.
AQA GCSE Chemistry: Rates of reaction (C6) and energy changes (C9)
5 slide powerpoint on rates of reaction (calculating by equations and graphs, collision theory, factors affected rate of reaction, catalysts). Designed for C6 of the GCSE AQA Chemistry Dual Award Specification.
2 further slides on energy changes in reactions to explain endothermic and exothermic reactions (C9).
GCSE History: Britain 1930-50
18 slide powerpoint focusing on Britain 1930-50 (impact of Great Depression and unemployment, Jarrow March, Phoney War, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Evacuation, Blitz, D-Day and defeat of Germany, Labour government).
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Poems of the Decade
Detailed analysis of all poems on the Poems of the Decade Edexcel A-Level English Literature specification (as of 2018), with the exception of ‘Out of the Bag’ (omitted for exam strategy).
Eat Me Patience Agbabi 3
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass Simon Armitage 6
Material Ros Barber 10
History John Burnside 25
An Easy Passage Julia Copus 37
The Deliverer Tishani Doshi 43
The Lammas Hireling Ian Duhig 51
To My Nine-Year-Old Self Helen Dunmore 52
A Minor Role U A Fanthorpe 57
The Gun Vicki Feaver 62
The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled Leontia Flynn 64
Giuseppe Roderick Ford 66
Effects Alan Jenkins 92
Genetics Sinéad Morrissey 125
From the Journal of a Disappointed Man Andrew Motion 127
Look We Have Coming to Dover! Daljit Nagra 129
Please Hold Ciaran O’Driscoll 132
On Her Blindness Adam Thorpe 170
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn Tim Turnbull 172
Latin Crossword
A Latin crossword, inspired by the style in the The Times on Saturdays.
Clues are a mixture of literature, vocab, history and Harry Potter (some mildly cryptic, others straightforward translation).
Volver: collection of free resources
A collation of various free resources for Spanish A Level on the film Volver found online - not my own but sharing what’s out there in one place in case this is useful for others!
Latin: Adverbs, Comparatives, Superlatives
1 page document outlining how to form adverbs, comparatives and superlatives in Latin. Useful for 13+ or GCSE.