Lesson give pairs of students 15 quotations about Life etc and ask them to explain their meaning. Encourages expression and paraphrase.

Slide show offers students a challenge to do something about being fed up. Adaptable and contains 10 options.

A whole form activity. Will need adapting for other countries as Anglo-Centric. Students were fully engaged and really took up the challenge. Designed as part of a tutoring week, so some slides will need editing. Feedback pls...

Brief background on Margaret Mitchell's novel and its significance in The Outsiders. Includes tasks and clips from the films.

lesson continues the ballad and explores various language devices.

Students assess the qualities of a good Travel Agent and then use their skills to decide appropriate holidays for selected people. They take notes, watch clips and decide.

Students use a real news story to create a series of diary entries. Basic format here but will need additional input.

Lesson involves the first appearance of the PP and asks students some deeper questions about the language.

Lesson builds on students' experience of recent weather conditions and ask them to be descriptive. Needs adapting but illustrated to prompt responses. You'll need a collection of thesauruses .

Student's imagine that Pip goes to the barber after his first visit to Satis house. They write the conversation between the two. Empathy needed. Lesson includes prompts.

10 slides about the novella designed to get students thinking about what they revise.

illustrated slideshow of the poem. Useful as a starter.

Some slides containing ICONS which can be integrated into your lessons and and external explanations of each category. Many thanks to the acknowledged link in this resource.

Lesson shows students that writing need not be about the extraordinary but could be extraordinary writing about everyday things. Focusses on the senses and gives a visual prompt.

Resource explores the sometimes pointless warnings we get on labels and signs and asks students to decide if they have a point or not.

15 questions for tutor time. students work in pairs to prepare an answer for the rest of the group. Set for research h/w/ PSHE lessons. Enough for fifteen weeks.

Fed up with the same old errors ? Give this quick starter a try. No doubt there will be more along this line.:)

Penultimate lesson in this series. Students examine modal verbs and complete worksheet.

Project/lesson on how things might have been if events had taken a different turn. Challenging and fun. Basic worksheet included. Adaptable for all Eras !

Feedback on this please :) Students decide on a real life dilemma between a woman and her husband. Lots of scope for drama and enough for two lesson. Read the second to last slide first ! Based on actual case in America. All ready to deliver and argue.