The Venice Murders - Fun Creative Writing Lesson Fantastic creative writing murder mystery story, with a clear scenario and structure to help students write an amazing story. Lesson scenario: It was supposed to be the school trip of a lifetime. You were selected as one of only twelve students to go on the week long school trip to Venice and it all started so well. But then, your teacher goes missing only to be found murdered! And what’s more, only one of your fellow students could have done it! Lesson includes a 10 question Venice quiz starter, full lesson prompts, lesson objectives, starters and interesting plenary activity all with attractive slides and imagery. For a range of other interesting lessons and great resources visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits:Taketours, Monarch, Wikipedia, cooltext.com.)

Highly engaging, complete lesson(s) around the Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.” Lesson contains a complete range of activities suitable for GCSE grades 1-5. Engaging starter, featuring unusual images • Information on the author and learning objectives • You tube reading of the poem • Labelling + drawing activity • Main writing task • Review plenary Everything you need for a complete and fun lesson! (This lesson was prepared for OFSTED) For a range of other interesting lessons and great resources visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Venice Quiz An interactive, 10 question quiz on Venice. Students have to decide if the landmark is in Venice or not in Venice with bonus points available if they can name where the other landmark is situated. Ideal as plenary, starter or form time fun. Pleases note: that the Venice quiz is part of the Venice lessons below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-venice-murders-creative-writing-11630462 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/venice-descriptive-writing-complete-lesson-11630477 For a range of other interesting lessons and great resources visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits:Taketours, Monarch, Wikipedia, cooltext.com.)

Venice – Descriptive Writing, Complete Lesson A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from Venice! Complete, visually attractive lesson includes a 10 question Venice quiz, a senses hunt, a video clip and prompts throughout. For a range of other interesting lessons and great resources visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits:Taketours, Monarch, Wikipedia, cooltext.com.)