This PowerPoint contains twenty four one-hour well-structured lessons (over 300 slides) that focus on AQA GCSE English Language Paper Two: Section A - Questions 1-4 (reading non-fiction; writers’ viewpoints and perspectives). All tasks are written according to the 9-1 GCSE numerical grades and are designed for AQA English Language Paper 2 qualification (8700). There are a wide range of tasks that focus on building the skills needed for AO1, AO2 and AO3 - including practice questions, original model responses, extension tasks and text extracts. The PowerPoint includes a baseline assessment and end of unit assessment questions that are modelled on the AQA exam; additionally, there are weekly 30 minute homework tasks for students to complete. There are also four extra exam-based questions that could be used as cover work or as extra questions for revision. Each lesson follows a set structure including starter activities, lesson outcomes and objectives, model answers, self and peer assessment activities and plenaries. I made the papers about topics that I know my students are interested in. Many of the topics lend themselves to key PSHE issues that make for interesting debates in the classroom should you want to improve their oracy skills or base the ‘Spoken Language’ endorsement around these topics. All extracts are from the 19th, 20th and 21st century. Paper 1: Bank Robberies Paper 2: Fires of London Paper 3: Mad Scientists Paper 4: Emmett Till and Racism Paper 5: Sexting Paper 6: Slavery Paper 7: Prisons Paper 8: Mental Health Paper 9: Gangs Paper 10: Death Row Paper 11: Thieves Additional tasks include Immigration, Donald Trump and Poisoned Sweets. A free sample of this scheme can be found here: https://goo.gl/R73CXM My Paper Two, Question Five scheme of work can be found here: https://goo.gl/UdQTg2 Please check out my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

This is a selection of posters to hang up in an English or a Literacy classroom. This is perfect for someone moving in to a new classroom or even someone wanting to spruce up their current room (primary or secondary). There are: Ten posters on synonyms of the most boring words that students use (good, bad, happy, sad, big, small, went, looked, said and nice) - these are leveled according to ability. Four posters on discourse markers (connectives) in the following categories: concluding arguments, sequencing arguments, furthering arguments and countering arguments. Three posters on persuasive techniques/devices using an acronym, along with student-friendly definitions of each term. Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This bundle contains twelve full practice papers in the style of AQA’s English Language Paper One (8700) in Microsoft Word format. Each paper contains an extract and questions 1-5 in the AQA style format. Each paper is condensed on to 3-4 pages and can be reduced to A5 size to save on printing costs if needed. There are a range of styles/genres and include: Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘A Study In Scarlet’ Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ H.G. Wells’ ‘War of the Worlds’ Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ Susan Hill’s ‘The Woman In Black’ L. Frank Baum’s ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Robert E. Howard’s ‘Tower of the Elephant’ A pack of 12 Paper Two practice exam papers can be found here: https://goo.gl/8HaCRs Check out my other resources for more English resources that are ready to teach. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This PowerPoint contains eighteen one-hour lessons (214 slides) that focus on AQA GCSE English Language Paper One, Section A (Questions 1-4). Each lesson is fully resourced with a range of engaging activities, model answers (aimed towards Grades 6-9) and one 30 minute homework task per week. Additionally, each lesson is designed to break each question down into manageable steps with a focus on timing and achieving what the mark scheme states. All tasks are written according to new GCSE numerical grades and are designed for the 9-1 Specification AQA English Language Paper One (8700). There are nine full practice papers (all with Questions 1-5, listed below) that focus on building the skills needed for AO1, AO2 and AO4 and introducing the students to interpreting and exploring unseen prose. The lessons are fully resourced on the PowerPoint including practice questions, homeworks, original model responses, extension tasks and text extracts. Practice Paper 1: Dracula - Bram Stoker Practice Paper 2: The Time Machine - H.G. Wells Practice Paper 3: The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells Practice Paper 4: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum Practice Paper 5: A Study In Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle Practice Paper 6: The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling Practice Paper 7: The Red Room - H.G. Wells Practice Paper 8: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Practice Paper 9: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens You can find my Paper One Question Five scheme of work here: https://goo.gl/YB3xCT Or, the whole English language GCSE course here: https://bit.ly/3iSF7Ua Please check out my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

In this bumper pack of practice questions, there are over ninety creative writing questions in the style of AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper One Question Five (Q5), as well as two revision lessons. The practice exam questions - on a range of topics - can be given to students as extra revision, practice papers, during lessons, or as homework. These assessment questions can be used with KS4 for exam preparation or as creative writing exercises for KS3. There are also two one-hour revision lessons (each lesson consists of 20 PowerPoint slides). One lesson focuses on answering the narrative question, the other focuses on the description question. Both lessons have their own model answers, as well as a range of activities to help students develop their writing skills. All resources are available in PPT/DOC and PDF formats. Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I was struggling to find a decent pack of cover lessons for English that was full of engaging material that would last a whole lesson, as there is nothing worse than waking up ill and having to set cover work. So I decided to make one. There are 14 activities in total, covering the following topics Unseen Poetry (2 lessons) Shakespeare (2 lessons) English Language Paper 1: Question 5 (2 lessons) English language Paper 2: Question 5 (2 lessons) Class Reader Novel (1 lesson) Text comprehension (English language Q1-3 style) (2 lessons) Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Quiz Subject Terminology Word search & Cross word Each activity is designed to fit on one sheet to make it easy to print straight from PowerPoint. Minimal teacher input is needed in case a non-specialist cover teacher is supplied. The slides could also be printed off and used as homework or extra revision materials. Also included, is the PDF version of the PowerPoint slides. You can find my KS4 cover pack here: https://goo.gl/XKzkZr Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I was struggling to find a decent pack of cover lessons for English that was full of relevant and exam-focused material, as there is nothing worse than waking up ill and having to set cover work. So I decided to make one. Each of the activities in this pack are written for the 9-1 style GCSE and are aimed at the AQA exam board. There are 19 activities in total, covering the following topics Anthology Poetry - Power & Conflict Poetry Anthology Poetry - Love & Relationships Poetry Unseen Poetry (2 lessons) Shakespeare (2 lessons on Macbeth) English Language Paper 1: Question 5 (2 lessons) English language Paper 2: Question 5 (2 lessons) Modern Text (2 lessons on An Inspector Calls) 19th Century Novel (2 lessons on Jekyll & Hyde) English Language Paper 1: Questions 1-4 (2 lessons) Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Quiz Subject Terminology Word search & Cross word Each activity is designed to fit on one sheet to make it easy to print. Minimal teacher input is needed in case a non-specialist cover teacher is supplied. All questions are based on the AQA style of questioning but can easily be adapted to suit other exam boards. The slides could also be printed off and used as homework or revision materials for Key Stage 4 students. You can find my KS3 cover pack here: https://goo.gl/93NziX Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Each slide in this PowerPoint focuses on different elements of English Language subject terminology (both language and structure). There is a section explaining the definition of the terminology to the student and another section with examples of the terminology in use. These slides can be slotted in to any PowerPoint as an example, printed as a revision guide, printed as terminology posters for around your class room or just emailed to students for extra revision material. In total there are 70 different slides that each cover a different technique that may have been used by the writer. My students requested this resource as a way to develop their AO2 skills (Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views) to assist them in AQA’s English Language Paper One Q2, 3 & 4 and Paper Two Q3 & 4, in order to get the ‘sophisticated subject terminology’ element of the mark scheme. 70 Subject Terminology phrases covered from ‘Abstract Nouns’ to ‘Zoomorphism’. Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This PowerPoint contains fifteen one-hour lessons (184 slides) that focus on AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1, Question 5 (creative writing). All tasks are written according to 9-1 GCSE grades and are designed for the New Specification AQA English Language Paper One (8700). There are a wide range of tasks (listed below) that focus on building the skills needed for AO5 and AO6 - including practice questions, original model responses, extension tasks and text extracts. The PowerPoint includes a baseline assessment and end of unit assessment questions that are modelled on the AQA exam; additionally, there are also creative writing homework tasks. There are also five extra exam-based questions that could be used as cover work or as extra questions for revision. Areas Covered: Lesson 1: The Big Picture & Planning Lesson 2: Baseline Assessment Lesson 3: Sensory Description Lesson 4: Figurative Language Lesson 5: Differing Settings Lesson 6: Show, Don’t Tell Lesson 7: Descriptive Writing Lesson 8: Focusing On The AOs Lesson 9: Varying Punctuation Lesson 10: Character Building Lesson 11: Structuring Your Narrative Lesson 12: Science Fiction Lesson 13: Point Of View Lesson 14: Creating Tone Lesson 15: End Of Unit Assessment Extra: Five additional exam questions You can find my Paper One Section A scheme of work here: https://goo.gl/mNdMTQ Please check out my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This pack contains a full twenty-slide revision lesson (including a model answer) that focuses on the AQA 9-1 GCSE English Language Paper 2, Question 5. Accompanying this lesson are thirty two exam-style questions on a range of topics that can be given to students as extra revision, practice papers, during lessons, or as homework. These assessment questions can be used with KS4 for exam preparation or as non-fiction creative writing exercises for KS3. All tasks are designed for the 8700 AQA English Language Paper 2. Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This is a selection of posters to hang up in an English or a Literacy classroom. This is perfect for someone moving in to a new classroom (or even someone wanting to spruce up their current room). There are: Subject terminology posters Discourse marker posters Punctuation posters An Inspector Calls Posters with Key Quotations Display Jekyll and Hyde Posters with Key Quotations Display Shakespeare Posters with Interesting Facts Display English Language Questions Display And a more! Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This mark book is based on the new specification AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) qualification with the 2019 grade boundaries. In it, I have broken the qualification down so that there is a column for each question for you to input the marks to. The mark book will then automatically generate a fine grade for each section of the paper and a separate grade for each paper overall. The mark book will then generate an overall total and fine grade for the qualification as a whole (paper one and paper two). In case you are unfamiliar with the term, a fine grade splits each grade (9-1) into three: 5a - The top end of a grade 5, almost working at a grade 6 5b - A secure grade 5 5c - The bottom end of a grade 5, almost slipping the grade 4 boundaries The grade boundaries were calculated based on the August 2019 results from the 2019 GCSE exam series. I have also included a row that works out the class average which is useful for comparing sets within the department, or for working out which question/section needs more work, or just to give the students a reference point for how well they did. This can be used as an individual mark book or for the whole department, simply copy the ‘English Literature Mark Book’ tab to replicate the mark book and all of its formulas for each class in thee year group. You can find a copy of my GCSE English Language mark book here: goo.gl/L98vmk Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This mini revision guide pack looks at each question in the AQA GCSE English Language qualification (both paper 1 and paper 2) and gives students tips on what they need to do in the exam. There is an exemplar question for each slide, a table showing the grade boundaries for that particular question and general guidance with how to structure their answer and how long to spend on each question. The final slide is a break down of the grade boundaries based on the AQA English Language grade boundaries from the summer examination series. I have also included a mock Paper One exam and a mock Paper Two exam. This should provide you with everything you need to help your students revise for the English Language exam. Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This mark book is based on the new specification AQA GCSE English Language (8700) qualification with grade boundaries from the 2023 exam series. In it, I have broken the qualification down so that there is a column for each question for you to input the marks to. The mark book will then automatically generate a fine grade for each section of the paper and a separate grade for each paper overall. The mark book will then generate an overall total and fine grade for the qualification as a whole (paper one and paper two). In case you are unfamiliar with the term, a fine grade splits each grade (9-1) into three: 5a - The top end of a grade 5, almost working at a grade 6 5b - A secure grade 5 5c - The bottom end of a grade 5, almost slipping the grade 4 boundaries The grade boundaries were calculated based on the August 2023 results from the 2023 GCSE exam series. I have also included a row that works out the class average which is useful for comparing sets within the department, or for working out which question/section needs more work, or just to give the students a reference point for how well they did. This can be used as an individual mark book or for the whole department, simply copy the ‘English Language Mark Book’ tab to replicate the mark book and all of its formulas for each class in the cohort. You can find a copy of my English Literature mark book here: goo.gl/N5cKC1 Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

A lot of my students say that they have no idea how to revise for English. In these handouts, I have listed a couple of ways of revising for English Language and (separately) for English Literature. They’re handy for handing out at parents’ evening or directly to students. Alternatively, they can just slot in to your PowerPoint. I’ve also included the ISBN numbers for some on the popular revision guides. Please check out my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Each slide in this PowerPoint focuses on a different grammatical element. There is a section explaining the rules of the grammatical element to the student and another section with a task that allows the student to practise the usage. These slides can be slotted in to any PowerPoint as a starter task, used as an extension task, used as targeted feedback when marking or as extra revision for students. Or, they could be printed out and given to students as a SPaG booklet to work through. The aim being to improve students’ AO2, AO5 and AO6 skills. Elements covered: Adjectives Adverbials Apostrophes Clauses Colons Commas Complex Sentences Compound Sentences Coordinating Conjunctions Discourse Markers Modal Verbs Nouns Parenthesis Past Tense Perfect Tense Prepositions Present Tense Pronouns Relative Clauses Semi Colons Sentence Starters Simple Sentences Speech Marks Subject Verb Object Subordinate Clauses Subordinating Conjunctions Verbs Please also take a look at my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

This PowerPoint contains four one-hour lessons that focus on GCSE English Language Paper 2, Questions 1-4. All tasks are designed for the 9-1 AQA English Language: Paper Two (8700). All four lessons center on two sources (provided in Word format). Whilst AO1, 2 & 3 are covered, a particular focus is placed on ‘Sophisticated Subject Terminology’ needed for a Level 4 in AO2. Whilst neither of the sources are Victorian, they do give the students a chance to practise the skills of the qualification. Some slides were used and adapted from resources available on TES from CarlaBrennan and fusbal (and others). This resource is part of a 24 lesson scheme of work on Paper 2 - Section A that can be found here: https://goo.gl/43gTZy My Paper Two, Question Five scheme of work can be found here: https://goo.gl/UdQTg2 All of my English Language Resources - the entire qualification - can also be found in this bundle: https://goo.gl/aHVUca Please check out my other resources. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.