This booklet is designed to work alongside the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2, looking at non-fiction texts. The booklet includes texts to analyse, a general structure for answering exam questions, and tips for analysing non-fiction texts.
The booklet consists of 20 pages, including three texts to analyse, an assessment, a teacher feedback grid and a chance for pupils to respond to feedback.
The booklet comes in both PDF format and Publisher.
This 17 page booklet contains:
- Modern Source A: article from the Mail on Sunday, upbeat tone, on the Queen's cousin coming out as gay and his new relationship
- Pre-1914 Source B: three short letters by Oscar Wilde to his lover, accessible and full of language techniques
- Both sources are annotated with talking points
- Scaffolded tasks and guidance for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
- Exam style questions
- An additional exam booklet with these texts in should you choose to use this as an assessment
- PDF and editable Word Docs of both booklets
This is a unit of work aimed at the CIE English as a First Language GCSE spec. It could be adapted for other specifications, especially for creative writing. Simply remove the CIE question and insert your own prompt, using my stimulus text too if you choose.
This unit took me around five weeks to teach. Each powerpoint took around 3.5 hours on average to cover in class (including discussion time, time to write and give feedback, etc). Differentiated for ESL/EAL learners with key vocabulary, word of the day and prereading homeworks.
It covers letter writing, interview writing and diary writing for question 1. Mock CIE style assessments are also included to support this, along with annotated inserts. It also has a lesson for writing a dystopian story for the coursework unit. The scheme also covers using language devices in creative writing and analysis of film, looking at the opening scenes of The Hunger Games film.
Included are: one full unit plan, seven ppts, two homework tasks, three mock Q1s based on the novel, and an example planning sheet.
This fun cross-curricular quiz is most suitable for ages 11-16, with differentiated questions that include optional clues, which the teacher can if they judge their class needs the extra help. Each question slide has a 30 second timer on to help maintain pace, accompanied by fun music to keep the atmosphere lively. Some bonus rounds are also included, which can be used or not used depending on time. Rounds include picture rounds, music rounds, sound clues, etc.
This would be suitable for a lesson or for use in tutor time over a number of days.
All answers are included at the end of the ppt and in the form of a teacher answer sheet. A blank student answer sheet is also included.
This quiz includes 10 rounds:
Literacy
Geography
Languages
Politics
Maths
History
ICT
Music
Biology
Sport
This is a complete lesson for CIE IGCSE English as a Second Language ESL Exercise 5. The lesson usually takes 1-2 periods to teach, including a model example, tips, writing time and peer assessment.
This lesson reviews the English names for common punctuation marks, how they are used and ends with students writing a short descriptive paragraph using these different punctuation marks.
This Powerpoint lesson introduces students to the five-point narrative structure. The lesson has a listening task, discussions, group activity and a video task - optional to either analyse the plot structure of Cinderella or The Bodyguard (BBC), dependent on the ability of your group.
Inside, there are two versions of the same PPT, one differentiated for ESL/EAL students, specifically Chinese students.
This fun Christmas quiz has 7 rounds with 72 total questions. The rounds are:
Partridge in a pear tree
Christmas films
General Christmas knowledge
Christmas songs
Christmas food and drink
Complete the Christmas lyric
Name the secret Santas
It includes song clips, film gifs, food round, multiple choice, celebrities and so on. Teacher sheet and student sheet included. Fun for Christmas! Perfect for tutor time or end of term activity. Rounds also include an optional timer, which plays fun, fast-paced music to help keep the timings correct for the quiz.
This fun Christmas grammar quiz is ideal for English class, where it could be used as a whole lesson quiz or as a 10 minute starter every day. It would also work well in tutor time. Included is a 99 page Powerpoint that has questions covering a range of grammar points, with explanations of answers included.
The rounds are as followed:
Correct the spelling: correct the spelling of Christmas words
Add the punctuation: add the missing punctuation to Christmas lyrics with the songs included in the background of each slide
Splice or no splice: a series of Christmas related questions in which the students have to identify whether the sentence includes a comma splice or is grammatically accurate. Example and explanation of comma splicing included.
Semi-colons & Santas: write a semi-colon sentence about a series of celebrities dressed in Santa hats. Explanation of semi-colon use included.
Ho ho ho or no no no: series of sentences that the students have to identify whether there is a grammar mistake and if so what mistake (no no no) or if there is no mistake present (ho ho ho). Common mistakes such as use of they’re/their/there and possessive apostrophes are used here with explanations of the mistakes.
There are a total of 50 questions included. You could do this in teams on paper or individually with whiteboards would also work well. Slides include timers and fast paced music to keep to a good timing.
Fun, cute and Christmassy quiz that makes grammar fun!
My fun Christmas music quiz has a variety of rounds and artists aimed at students aged 11-18 with tunes that should be commonly recognisable to students around the world. There’s a good mix of classic Christmas songs, like Wham’s Last Christmas, and more modern artists like Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me.
This resource includes a PowerPoint with 76 slides and high quality clips of the songs embedded, a total of 88 marks available. I have also created a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet too.
More difficult rounds also include an optional clue - just press the blue clue button!
The rounds include:
Partridge in a Pear Tree - Can you name each of the twelve animals alongside the instrumental track? (Clue included for this round!)
Complete the lyric - Fill in the missing lyric for some famous Christmas songs. There will be a music clip which stops before the missing lyric and a gap fill on screen to help students know how many words they’re missing.
Pop artist Santas - From the most streamed pop stars of 2022-23, can you identify the photo of the pop star hidden under the Santa hat? Also includes an optional clue of each celebrity singing a Christmas song. Artists include BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, The Weeknd, and so on!
Famous Christmas songs - Listen to the Christmas hit songs that are most often played on the radio. Can you identity the name of the track?
8-bit Christmas songs - Famous Christmas songs have been turned into 8-bit tracks (like polyphonic ringtones). Can students identify the song?
Christmas around the world - Famous Christmas songs sung in other languages (French, German, Chinese, etc). Can students identify the song and the language? This round also includes an optional clue to help students identify the language being used.
Christmas songs of the 21st century - Can students identify the artist and song title of these more modern pop hits by arts such as Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Sia?
This is a review lesson for language devices, which defines the language devices with examples, then moves onto identifying languagde devices in a text, before finally guiding students to use the language devices with a range of engaging picture stimuli. Originally planned for the CIE IGCSE English as a First Language scheme but would also work well for AQA English Language, as that has a picture stimulus based writing task.
Also includes a language device Kahoot I made including videos, pictures and music, such as Justin Bieber.
The file is a PowerPoint file.
This is a full mock assessment in the style of AQA English Language Paper 2.
I have two sources following the same format as past papers (one modern, one pre-20th century) on the topic of money.
Q1 - Tick 4 correct statements
Q2 - Summary of differences
Q3 - Language analysis
Q4 - Comparison
Q5 - Writing task
This lesson is a step-by-step guide for writing personficiation for ESL, EAL or SEN students. Particularly this was made for Chinese students, but it can act as a guide for any other language (just use Google translate!). For a larger class with multiple language needs, this will also be a great resource.
This scheme of work is aimed at KS3, building up the skills needed for OCR's English Literature New Spec GCSE.
This presentation includes 3 whole lessons.
I have taken extracts from Victorian literature, focusing on language analysis skills (AO2) and building in historical context (AO3).
These two lessons focus on introducing the skills needed for the OCR English Literature (new spec). Here I look at the poem 'Hawk Roosting'.
I focus on identifying and analysing enjambment and semantic fields.
Three PowerPoints for CIE English as a First Language, guiding students through an assessment Q1 and Q2. Third PowerPoint is a review lesson, looking over common mistakes my students made. Hope it’s of some use to any teachers out there as I know CIE First Language resources are spare on TES.
Included is a feedback sheet, three powerpoints and the exam question paper, mark scheme & insert.