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A scheme of work to introduce students to the entire syllabus of CIE 0500 IGCSE English Language. These lessons work well both to introduce the course or as revision before exams.
This scheme of work has 12 lessons and involves 2 assessments for papers 1 and 2. All of the resources required to teach this scheme of work are available in my shop and a number of them can be downloaded for free as I have listed below.
Freebies:
A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper One here.
A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper Two here.
Free marking templates for CIE 0500 here. #
If you find this scheme of work helpful, have a look at my CIE 0500 Language Paper 1 bundle here or the Language Paper 2 bundle here. If you’re interested in both, there is a combined bundle here which is cheaper than buying them separately.
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A complete practice CIE 0500 Language Paper 2 paper based on the specification and past papers. This includes an insert with an original question and texts. This can be used for mocks or exam preparation.Rubric not included so mark according to the specification mark scheme.
Paper 1 is available here.
CIE 0500 Freebies:
A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper One here.
A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper Two here.
Free marking templates for CIE 0500 here.
If you find this helpful, have a look at my CIE 0500 Language Paper 1 bundle here or the Language Paper 2 bundle here. If you’re interested in both, there is a combined bundle here which is cheaper than buying them separately.
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A clear, detailed and ready-to-teach lesson on CIE 0500 Language Paper 1 Question 3 which assesses how students can find implicit meanings in a text and synthesise these into the writing of a creative response. In this resource is an original exam script with Text C as well as answers with explanations adapted from the mark scheme.
Learning Objective: Write an effective creative response for question 3 of Language Paper 1.
Learning Outcomes:
-Students will understand the assessment objectives and the mark scheme for Q3.
Students will be guided through a three-step approach of how to answer this question.
-Students will write an independent answer and self-assess their work against the mark scheme.
Lesson Outline:
Do it now: Think – Pair – Share: If an old lady was writing a letter to a friend, what tone/register would she use?
Starter: Overview of question requirements and mark scheme.
Task one: Modelling of how to approach the question with exam hints and a model answer.
Task two: Students independently write the end of the answer.
Plenary: Students self-assess their work against the mark scheme and write themselves a target for next time.
This resource has been updated according to the 2024 specification change.
Freebies:
A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper One here.
A free lesson giving an overview of CIE 0500 Language Paper Two here.
Free marking templates for CIE 0500 here.
If you find this lesson helpful, have a look at my CIE 0500 Language Paper 1 bundle here or the Language Paper 2 bundle here. If you’re interested in both, there is a combined bundle here which is cheaper than buying them separately.
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This bundle contains everything you need to introduce students to CIE 0500 IGCSE English Language for papers 1 and 2. These resources work well both to introduce students to the syllabus and also as revision material before the exams. It includes 12 lessons, 2 practice exams, marking templates, a scheme of work overview and a knowledge organiser.
This bundle contains:
A detailed knowledge organiser to support students in approaching language paper 1.
An original practice paper 1 and 2.
Marking templates for marking practice papers for language paper 1.
An overview lesson on what students can expect from language paper 1.
A detailed and engaging lesson teaching students how to approach the comprehension questions in language paper 1: Q1(a)-(e).
A detailed and engaging lesson teaching students how to approach the 15 mark summary question for paper 1.
Two detailed lessons teaching students how to approach Language paper 1 Q2 (analysis questions).
A lesson to support students with Language Paper 1 Q3.
A lesson giving a detailed overview of language paper 2.
A lesson on how to approach the directed writing question.
Two lessons on how to approach the descriptive writing task.
Two lessons on how to approach the narrative writing task.
A scheme of work overview for this unit with suggested teaching order.
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A detailed scheme of work for three lessons preparing year 6 students for their transition to secondary school.
This scheme of work includes:
A lesson preparing students for the challenges of secondary school: the resources for this lesson are available for free here.
A lesson to help students develop their organisation skills for secondary skills. The resources are available here.
A lesson to prepare students for how their friendships might change in year 7 and strategies they can use to protect their mental health. The resources are available here.
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A fun, detailed and ready-to-teach lesson which prepares students for the changes in friendships they will most likely encounter when moving to secondary school.
Students will roleplay different scenarios using scrips provided to act out how they could have healthy conversations with friends. They will then complete a table with ideas for strategies they could use when they are feeling certain emotions.
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This bundle contains:
A scheme of work overview for this three lesson unit.
A detailed ready-to-teach lesson preparing students for the transition to year 7.
A detailed ready-to-teach lesson which specifically focuses on the organisational skills required for secondary school such as using a planner, making a homework plan etc.
A detailed ready-to teach lesson which focuses on the changes in friendships and prepares students for how to manage this in year 7.
A transition guide that can be used by parents and/or teachers to support students emotionally as they prepare for the transition to secondary school.
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A fun, detailed and ready-to-teach lesson in which year 6 students will reflect upon their organisational strengths and areas for improvement. They will then discuss strategies for improving their organisation and then complete a planner quiz which prompts them to problem-solve when using a planner.
This is designed to last an hour but could be spread out over two one-hour lessons if more discussion time is given.
This includes:
A 27 slide PowerPoint with all teacher instructions and two different quizzes for students to complete.
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A detailed year 6 lesson to prepare them for the transition to secondary school. Students will consider what they already know and what questions they have. They will then watch a video from a Year 7 form tutor and work together to consider how they could prepare for secondary school.
Lesson overview, printing instructions and worksheets are all included.
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Two engaging and ready to teach lessons to introduce students to context to prepare them to study the main themes in ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne.
Lesson overviews, printing instructions and worksheets are all included.
This resource includes a Powerpoint presentation for 2 one-hour lessons (although in the past I have spread this over more lessons if required). For research, students can either use devices to access the Internet, but if this is not available I have included a pdf document which includes 16 sources that students can use for their research in class.
The topics included in this lesson are:
Auschwitz
The Jewish ghettos
The Final Solution
Hitler and anti-Semitism
The night of broken glass
LESSON ONE Learning Objective: Identify strong sources of information to complete research about the Holocaust.
Learning Outcomes:
Bronze: Identify a reliable source of information about my topic.
Silver: Write down my research in my own words.
Gold: Find multiple reliable sources of information.
Teaching activities:
Do it now: Students complete first column of KWL grid about the Holocaust
Starter: Think, pair, share: discussion of what makes a reliable source.
Activity 1: How do we take effective notes?
Activity 2: Research and completing scaffolding notes sheet.
Peer assessment
Plenary: Students complete the L section of their KWL grid.
LESSON TWO Learning Objective: Identify the most important points in your research and present these to your classmates.
Learning Outcomes:
Bronze: Identify the key vocabulary in the research I have completed.
Silver: Take brief and clear notes on other topics of information.
Gold: Make links between different knowledge and ideas.
Teaching activities:
Do it now: Recall – what are reliable and unreliable sources of information?
Starter: Review and summarise your research from last lesson.
Activity 1: Use your research to create an informative poster with only 10 words on it.
Activity 2: Carousel activity for students to share their information with each other.
Plenary: Highlight the three most important facts that you learned this lesson.
More Freebies:
A lesson on chapter 1 of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is available for free here.
A scheme of work for teaching the entire novel is available for free here.
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A detailed lesson/series of lessons which show students how to reach the top band of the mark scheme for AO5 when evaluating critic quotes for King Lear.
This includes:
A 25 slide PPT including the lesson overview and printing instructions
A worksheet for students to fill in when practising AO5
A model answer
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This revision workbook is ideal for any student preparing for an exam and for teachers and parents supporting them. This 12 page guide walks students through how to prioritise revision topics, create an effective revision timetable using spaced learning and how to revise using retrieval practice.
The guide contains a revision template so that students can complete a RAG analysis of what they already know. It also contains a revision plan template. This would be ideal for teaching PSHE or Study Skills.
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A thorough revision quiz that covers all 30 of the Gillian Clark poems on the CIE AS level English Literature syllabus (9695).
This takes between one and two hours to complete. Round one asks students to identify the poem and the poetic techniques used in quotes from the poems. Round two asks them to identify poems with specific themes.
Poems covered:
Advent
Apples
Baby-sitting
Blaen Cwrt
Burning Nettles
Catrin
Climbing Cader Idris
Cold Knap Lake
Death of a Cat
Death of a Young Woman
February
Hare in July
Hearthstone
Icthyosaur
Journey
Lunchtime Lecture
Miracle on St David’s Day
My Box
Neighbours
Pipistrelle
Post Script
Ram
Scything
Seal
Stealing Peas
Sunday (‘From the mahogany…’)
Sunday (‘Getting up early…’)
The Lighthouse
Times Like These
White Roses
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A detailed 10 page revision guide focusing on how loneliness is presented in Of Mice and Men: this includes a step-by-step guide to writing a grade 9 essay on loneliness for students studying IGCSE English Literature.
This contents of this revision guide are:
What does the mark scheme say?
Context: loneliness in 1930s America
George and Lennie
Candy
Crooks
Curly’s Wife
Other symbols of loneliness
Revision tips and tricks
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This bundle includes:
2 lessons analysing Anthem for Doomed Youth
1 lesson analysing propaganda posters
A war poetry knowledge organiser
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A detailed fully-resourced and ready to teach one hour lesson that supports students to analyse World War 1 propaganda posters using AFOREST devices and direct address.
After analysing posters as a class and in groups, students then create their own posters using AFOREST devices and direct address.
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A 22 page year 6 to year 7 transition guide containing discussion prompts, creative writing tasks and poetry to help year 6s navigate their journey to secondary school. This can be taken home by families to use with their children or it can be used within a year 6 or year 7 classroom.
The first section of this guide should be used as year 6s prepare to leave primary school and the second part should be used once they have started year 7.
Part of this guide involves discussion of poems from Steven Camden’s anthology Everything All At Once. This is widely available from bookshops and libraries.
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A GCSE/IGCSE revision quiz on the social and historical context of Of Mice and Men as assessment preparation.
The rounds included in the full quiz are:
Context
Setting, Structure and Symbols
Literary Devices
Descriptions - Name the Character
Animals
Character Names and First Lines
George and Lennie
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapters Five and Six
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A detailed 100 question quiz for GCSE/IGCSE Of Mice and Men revision with all answers included. The quiz includes the following rounds (round one is available for free):
1. Context (free)
2. Setting, Structure and Symbols
3. Literary Devices
4. Descriptions - Name the Character
5. Animals
6. Character Names and First Lines
7. George and Lennie
8. Chapter One
9. Chapter Two
10. Chapter Three
11. Chapter Four
12. Chapters Five and Six
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A 12 lesson scheme of work overview to support students in their studies of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1.
All the resources are available on TES.
The first lesson can be found for free here.
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