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High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.

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High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.
Leaflet: Open Day
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Leaflet: Open Day

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This Powerpoint encourages students to create a leaflet to promote an Open Day at your school. It could be used as an activity or a formal assessment. A Word planning sheet is included in the folder.
Leaflet: Leisure Centre
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Leaflet: Leisure Centre

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Support students to write a leaflet with: a powerpoint to introduce purpose,audience and key features of leaflet. an example leaflet on watching too much TV and analysis grid. facts and statistics on benefits of exercises to support the task. an example of weak leaflet and a strong leaflet for students to evaluate and help them improve their own leaflets. work covers two lessons - one for preparation, another for writing the leaflet.
Words from Old English
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Words from Old English

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Although Old English was spoken many centuries ago, some words have survived into modern English. This powerpoint contains clues to ten words which originated in Old English. It is then followed by examples of place names which are derived from Old English. Students are given many opportunities to brainstorm more place names and investigate the language. This could be used as part of the English or History curriculum.
Homophones : Allowed and Aloud
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Homophones : Allowed and Aloud

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Starter activity on the homophones allowed and aloud. Afer the explanation, students fill in the correct word in ten sentences, followed by answers, so students mark their own work.
Spelling: i before e
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Spelling: i before e

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Students find the spelling rule i before e tricky because there are several exceptions. This sixty slide powerpoint introduces the i before e rule and then students are given time to learn the spellings using a look/cover/spell/check sheet. The powerpoint then gives fifteen sentences with key words missing, which students have to spell correctly. There are a further ten clues to words with ie/ei in them. Finally an additional sheet contains 40 words with letters missing for students to consolidate the learning, either at home or in class. By the end of the lesson, they will be masters of the ie spelling rule!
Spelling: Words Ending in Y
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Spelling: Words Ending in Y

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Spelling words ending in y can be tricky. This powerpoint provides the rule and then practise with forty words ending in y. Presented as a quiz, students have to decide which is the correct spelling. This is then followed by a fourteen word exercise to add suffixes to words ending in y. All answers are provided and slides contain cartoon graphics to extend vocabulary and help second language learners. A worksheet is included to consolidate the learning in the lesson or at home. A simplified version of the quiz is thrown in free with differentiated worksheet also.
Pronouns
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Pronouns

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Focusing on four of the seven types of pronouns that are commonly mis-used, this twenty slide powerpoint explains common misconceptions with activities to embed correct usage. All answers are provided and the powerpoint is fully adaptable. The lesson should take thirty to forty-five minutes.
Travel Writing: Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses
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Travel Writing: Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses

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This lesson explains simple sentences and then shows students how to identify the main clause and subordinate clause in complex sentences. Students extend some given sentence starters into complex sentences. Then they use the information about Lake Como in Italy to create a piece of exciting and sophisticated travel writing.
Author Research Project: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Research Project: Jacqueline Wilson

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Foster a love of reading in your students by using this thirty-two slide powerpoint on the life and career of Jacqueline Wilson to inspire your students to research an author of their own choosing. The project can either be print-based or Powerpoint-based, as in the example, if you have access to ICT resources. There are two accompanying worksheets to support the project with lots of ideas for potential authors and how to structure the project. The project could be done at school or set for homework.
Christmas Poem
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Christmas Poem

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Using Levi Tafari’s poem “Caribbean Christmas”, students read the poem as a class, then take a verse each to practice and perform. Finally students write their own poem about what Christmas is like in the region where they live. Tafari’s poem is great fun as it includes several “Call and response” verses that students love interacting with. Festive fun for all the class with a multi-cultural element. Don’t be all bah humbug this Christmas. Have some fun with your students! Folder includes powerpoint and hard copy of poem.
Cliches Similes and Idioms
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Cliches Similes and Idioms

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Two lessons that cover cliches in the English language. The first lesson looks at how many similes are cliches and invites students to create their own original similes to create a poem about autumn inspired by five different autumnal pictures. The second lesson looks at how many idioms are cliches and uses a worksheet for students to explore the meaning of well-known idioms. Worksheet included.
Spelling: The Silent K
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Spelling: The Silent K

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This powerpoint contains twenty sentences with a word beginning with the silent “k” missing. Students have to guess what the missing word is. They are provided with a visual clue to help them and the answers are included at the end. This activity would help EAL students as well.
Gothic Literature Powerpoint
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Gothic Literature Powerpoint

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How influential has the term “gothic” been throughout history? This powerpoint explains the origin of the term “gothic” and how it applies to architecture and fashion, not just to literature. It then explains the history and conventions of gothic literature with examples, followed by an explanation of gothic characters. It ends with a gothic writing task for students, imagining that they have been forced to move into a new spooky house and they must describe the exterior, interior and their bedroom using the conventions of gothic literature. Eighteen slides in total, which students find fascinating.
Adjectives
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Adjectives

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Covering pre-modification, post-modification and the use and creation of compound adjectives. This twenty-three slide powerpoint full of exercises and answers concludes with a fun activity where students are shown how Shakespeare used compound adjectives to be inventive. They are then challenged to be inventive themselves. The lesson would take one hour or two thirty minutes sessions.
Semi-Colons
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Semi-Colons

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Designed as a follow-on to the powerpoint on colons, this lesson explains the three uses of semi-colons with activities for students, complete with answers. Activities then become more complicated as students are given passages to punctuate with both colons and semi-colons, helping them to become supremely confident in the use of these two pieces of punctuation.
Halloween Puns
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Halloween Puns

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Have fun with your students by teaching them how puns are used in many walks of life, from names of shops, to advertising and jokes. Then inspire your students to come up with their own jokes on the theme of death. Will work well for Halloween.
Pimp Your Sentences: Use "who"
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Pimp Your Sentences: Use "who"

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With a clear explanation of how to create complex sentences using the relative pronoun “who”, students have to combine ten pairs of sentences about famous people, with answers provided. The second activity gives students the first part of a sentence, which they then have to extend themselves, therefore increasing the level of difficulty.
Greek Roots
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Greek Roots

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Did you know that sixty percent of words in English are derived from Greek and Latin? This thirty-six slide Powerpoint contains clues to at least two words derived from fourteen different Greek roots. Students work independently or in groups to guess the words from the clues. A brief explanation of why there are Greek roots in English is provided at the beginning and the answers are provided at the end. Designed to engage your students as an interactive quiz.
Greek Suffixes
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Greek Suffixes

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Did you know that sixty percent of words in English come from Greek and Latin? With a brief explanation of how Greek has influenced English, students can work independently or in groups to guess the words from the clues. All answers are provided, along with a table for students to fill in with all the suffixes, in order to consolidate the activity. Provide your students with a deeper understanding of the English language with this fun Powerpoint activity.