Teach your students to think outside the box and the power of metaphors with the intense, five-line cinquain poetry lesson. The example poem compares anger to a bull, allowing you also to explore the nature of emotions and the representations of animals. A lot of lesson in just five lines! Enjoy!

Enchant your students with these Harry Potter Day activities. There are three lessons in the bundle - one for year 7 where students create their own sweet; one for year 8 where they create their own potion and one for year 9 during which they create their own fantastical beast. Buy the bundle and you will have a lesson for each year on a rotating basis. No need to plan for Harry Potter day ever again!

Help your students to become better writers with this Powerpoint which explains how to construct complex sentences with embedded subordinate clauses. Students have several supported opportunities to practise the construction and the second section includes ten supported sentences where students have to come up with the embedded clause about X-Men superheroes. Finally, students create three sentences using the construction independently.

Teach your students to use a variety of interesting sentences in their writing, including complex sentences with this 13 slide Powerpoint that gives several examples of the most common types of sentence in modern persuasive travel writing.

Get your students using the exciting language of travel writing with this Powerpoint that guides them through the techniques to sell two different Spanish cities - Malaga and Alicante. Authentic adverts for each city are analysed on the Powerpoint and then students are given information about a third Spanish city - Valencia, so that they can create an advert using the same style as the examples. The texts on Malaga and Alicante are included in the folder so that you can get your students to analyse the techniques before showing them the Powerpoint, if you prefer.

Thirty questions and answers on Roald Dahl’s crazy characters designed to pique the interest of students and encourage them to read his books.

This lesson begins with a quiz to see if the students can guess which animal is being described by the poet. They are given a second chance to guess the animal with a series of images to represent each line of the poem. After a short analysis of the writer’s message, students are then given help to write their own six-line poem on an animal of their choice. Students are then guided through the re-drafting and presentation process. A fun couple of lessons that can link into work on animal rights. Alternatively, it could be used to set up a school poetry competition.

Lewis Hamilton gave a recent interview in which he opened up about the racist abuse that he had suffered at primary school and at secondary school. By exploring Hamilton’s experience, students are asked to consider the effects of racist abuse on people’s mental health. Students are asked what they can do to follow Hamilton’s example to promote diversity and inclusivity in society.

This Powerpoint lesson was inspired by a letter to a newspaper agony aunt about a sister who made a racist joke at a family meal and the two sisters proceeded to fall out. The lesson goes through the letter and the agony aunt’s response, asking students to consider and compare what their responses would be. The message of the lesson is “label the joke, not the person”.

This Powerpoint explains the concept of mnemonics, gives three visual examples and sets students the task of creating five mnemonics to learn to spell tricky words. This is a learning technique that can be applied to all areas of life and you can have fun teaching it with this visual Powerpoint which includes cartoons and animation.

Twenty multiple choice quiz questions on the origin of the word “coronation” and the various meanings of the roots of the word. Four fun activities to do after the quiz is complete.

This 76 slide Powerpoint contains everything that you need to explore the key themes within the animal rights debate. Students will learn to: Identify and use persuasive language and images. Write an article about an endagered species. Discuss whether zoos are right or wrong. Write a speech for a debate on an animal rights issue of their choice. Write a leaflet to rehabilitate the image of a maligned animal. Present their work to the class. Reflect on their attitudes to animal rights after the topic. This scheme of work is designed to support students to be creative for a practical audience and encourages them to carry out their own research. As a Powerpoint it is fully adaptable to suit you and your class’s needs.

Travel writing is one of the best ways to teach students to use language in a sophisticated way. In this project students choose a city or region of the world that they are interested in and create a travel guide on it using the example provided as a style model. The style model is about the Spanish city of Girona and the sections of the travel guide include: An introduction 3 Days in your chosen destination. Four of the best things to do there. Essential information with top tips for visiting. Final section original to the student. Students’ attention is drawn to the use of premodifying adjectives and imperatives, which are typical of this style of writing. Students are able to see how travel writers sell destination through interweaving information about history, modernity and cuisine to make their locations sound exciting and attractive. There is also the possibility to turn the travel guide into a speaking and listening activity as students imagine that they work for the tourist board of their destination and wish to promote it.

A 350 word ghost story callled “The Lighthouse” is animated on Powerpoint. The teacher reads the ghost story to the class to create a spooky atmosphere. Then students discuss how the writer creates irony and the supernatural atmophere. Finally, in pairs or groups, students write their own ghost story of no more than 350 words. A slide gives ideas for five different ghost stories. Teach your students the power of stories this Halloween or at any time with this perfectly structure, succinct story. A Word copy of the story is also included in the folder.

Film vocabulary quiz on 15 key terms from the world of film. The first round gives a clue and the second round provides the answers. Cartoon graphics also give clues. A fun activity to help students write a film review.

Buy both Homework Skills Booklets and save £1. With these two booklets, you will never have to think about homework again for years 7 and 8. Each booklet contain 35 weeks’ worth of homework, covering each of the academic years. The skills are incremental in difficulty as the weeks and years progress. All homeworks are designed to be self-marked or peer-marked by students in class, saving you your precious and valuable time.

Do you ever get stuck for what to give students for homework. Well, with this PDF Homework Skills Booklet, there is one homework for each week of the academic year. That’s right. With 35 weeks’ worth of homework, you have every week of the year covered. All homeworks are designed so that students can self-mark or peer-mark their work in class, saving you your precious time. If you have a learning platform like TEAMS, you don’t even need to print the booklet off, just post it online. All skills are incremental in difficulty and challenge. An added bonus is that it can also be used for cover work.

Do you ever get stuck for what to give students for homework. Well, with this PDF Homework Skills Booklet, there is one homework for each week of the academic year. That’s right. With 35 weeks’ worth of homework, you have every week of the year covered. All homeworks are designed so that students can self-mark or peer-mark their work in class, saving you your precious time. If you have a learning platform like TEAMS, you don’t even need to print the booklet off, just post it online. All skills are incremental in difficulty and challenge. An added bonus is that it can also be used for cover work. Once you have finished with this one, check out the Year 8 Skills Homework Booklet, also available on TES!

Ten multiple choice questions on famous authors and their work. Answers included. Lesson concludes with students considering their own favourite authors and creating a poster to promote them. Great activity to celebrate World Book Day.

Twelve lessons that teach students to write to inform and entertain children with a booklet all about pirates. Including four sections, students are taught how to use informative language techniques while studying the rules of piracy; real pirates; fictional pirates and eventually creating their own pirate. Using the opening of the novel “Dead Man’s Chest”, students are taught techniques such as: 1, sensory description to describe settings. 2, en media res 3. characterisation 4. developing action 5. creating atmosphere 6. using sound effects Your students will learn a wide variety of vocabulary and language techniques, as well as having fun learning about how real pirates and people have inspired stereotypical pirates. All Powerpoints and worksheets included and fully adaptable.