Family Fortunes PowerPoint with real questions from the show and English questions relating to the Functional Skills exams.
Also included is an MP3 of the old buzzer sound.
An explanation of the meaning of the title 'Of Mice and Men'. The original title 'Something that happened' is also analysed. A tutor podcast based on this topic is here: https://youtu.be/PN1j35KYhcQ
A short revision video on writing PEEs (+ context and 'zooming in') for a controlled assessment on 'Of Mice and Men'. It is also available at https://youtu.be/Jg2bXs8EVHI
Revision video podcasts on the writing tasks that could appear in the GCSE English Language writing exam. Each video includes:
Exemplar work (inc. A* answers
Past exam questions
Revision activities
Interesting images
Lecturer tutorial
Letters:
https://youtu.be/JUyRL4nUAJg
Speeches:
https://youtu.be/qKCiyeyfG4k
Reports:
https://youtu.be/dyFGa_c_WVA
Articles:
https://youtu.be/9rOTr4BYfoQ
Reviews:
https://youtu.be/x-4VCFhMNLY
A fun, informative and interactive lesson on analysing photographs. The student at 8-12 influential, historial and powerful photos and answer and /or discuss a number of sessions. Some examples are the following:
• What is the subject matter?
• What are the colours like? Do any colours dominate?
• What is your eye drawn to first?
• What were your feelings when you first looked at the photograph?
• How did your reaction to the image change after looking at it for a while?
• What message was the photographer trying to communicate?
• Why did you choose this particular photograph?
• What events (social/economic/political/cultural) were occurring at the time the photograph was taken? Was the photograph a reaction to any of these events?
• How is the photograph a reflection of the time in which it was taken?
I have included a number of video links and a poem related to the 9/11 photograph: ‘The Falling Man’.
There is also a group task where the students can recreate the famous photos or make their own powerful photos.
Quiz using pictures of different cities. Useful as a starter on a unit about cities. Is also useful to get pupils looking for clues in images to help locate them somewhere in the world.
A fun lesson with definitions, group tasks, individual work and interactive images. I have included a starter based on the TV show Catchphrase (metaphor themed).
A fun activity the student love! Great for analysing texts (could be use for R&W exams). In groups, students take photos of the 6 types of picture given to them e.g. perspective, reflection, jump photo etc. They then have to recreate three famous photographs e.g. Rosa Parks, Afghan Girl etc. The students then need to analyse the famous photos and their own! All resources included.
The students are told that a first reaction to looking at any photograph is probably an immediate response, whether you like it, or not. However, photographs can be analysed in more detail. Almost any photograph has a lot to offer if you learn to ‘read’ it.
All our students do the certain common, “unnecessary mistakes” that writers often fall victim to in their writing. This quiz will help you to identify where they tend to make these mistakes, and hopefully, it will help them to avoid them in your future
writing.
These mistakes are an English teacher’s ultimate pet peeves! Avoid at all costs!