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I taught English for 35 years; ran three English departments;am an A level and GCSE examiner; wrote the teacher and student support materials for OCR English Literature A level and have had books published by OUP and CUP.

I taught English for 35 years; ran three English departments;am an A level and GCSE examiner; wrote the teacher and student support materials for OCR English Literature A level and have had books published by OUP and CUP.
Context and revision LORD OF THE FLIES
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Context and revision LORD OF THE FLIES

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Student notes and lesson plans: exam technique; context (“Coral Island”, Golding a teacher); themes - original sin; WW2 background; Golding on themes and characters; human nature as theme; why are there no girls in the novel?; what Golding himself has said about the novel and the film adaptation; detailed study of individual chapters. This is both a set of notes for students and a series of lessons - take your students through these notes and use them as a basis of discussion. Excellent for revision and study of the context. 7 pages, 2368 words.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE in CLEAR MODERN ENGLISH
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE in CLEAR MODERN ENGLISH

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M4M translated into clear, modern English for A level students with detailed notes. Huge help for lower ability students: context/language notes; a very readable edition designed to retain the excitement of the original and to help students with this linguistically challenging play. Written by Frank Danes, a published Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press author and teacher/Head of English for over 36 years.
Complete revision package for AN INSPECTOR CALLS
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Complete revision package for AN INSPECTOR CALLS

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Everything your students need to know about “An Inspector Calls”! Detailed notes on: CONTEXT; how to revise; the characters of Eric, Gerald, Mr Birling, the Inspector… Use for self-supported study or as a teaching package.
REVISE Dr Jekyll for more able GCSE students: context, themes, extension
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REVISE Dr Jekyll for more able GCSE students: context, themes, extension

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8 pages, 2447 words. Everything your students need to revise “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”: CONTEXT - novels, short stories and novellas defined; shilling shockers and penny dreadfuls; gothic fiction; character of Mr Utterson; Soho; appearance and reality; Science, Darwin, evolution and devolution; recommendation of translation of the text into modern English, available from this author.
Revise MACBETH for more able GCSE students: context, themes, extension
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Revise MACBETH for more able GCSE students: context, themes, extension

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Lesson plans and student notes on: exam technique; themes - regicide, the natural order, witches/the supernatural; tragedy, tragic hero, free will, fate, Fortune. This is both a set of notes for your students and a series of lesson plans: take them through the notes, use them as a basis for discussion. Excellent for context and extension work for higher ability students. 17 pages, 5926 words. Used by over 300 students.
Analysis: Want & Ignorance A Christmas Carol
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Analysis: Want & Ignorance A Christmas Carol

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Line by line analysis of Want and Ignorance passage in “A Christmas Carol” for GCSE Eng Lit. Explains difficult vocab; Romantic/Gothic; Victorian context. Refers to Dickens’ view of children as close to God, contrasting the children Want and Ignorance with Tiny Tim; Victorian context of Christianity, poverty, why Ignorance is such an evil for Dickens. Also looks at Gothic imagery of the passage and of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, with his Grim Reaper imagery. Notes on change of tone from joyous to horror.
Introduction to Christianity: GCSE/ESOL
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Introduction to Christianity: GCSE/ESOL

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For students unfamiliar with Christianity, this 6 page resource introduces basic Christian concepts. It’s a lesson plan or for self-supported study. For use with: year 8/9 /GCSE students about to start the Christianity component or ESOL students studying English Literature. The resource covers, in 2300 words: Jesus as founder of Christianity; The Old Testament; the Ten Commandments; the New Testament; links with Islam and Judaism; the Gospels; Christian teaching; examples of Jesus’ teachings (the parables: sheep and the goats and The Good Samaritan; the Sermon on the Mount/Beautitudes; heaven and hell; different denominations’ interpretations of Christianity; questions for students.
ESOL Going to the Dentist
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ESOL Going to the Dentist

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For beginner/intermediate ESOL learners: real life situation. Funny and lively lesson with dialogue and vocab learning. Used very successfully in class.
UN SECRET French A level notes for students
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UN SECRET French A level notes for students

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DETAILED notes for students on Grimbert’s UN SECRET: teachers - use as a bases for lessons. Covers: themes; guilt; identity; history/context; motifs; l’occupation; storytelling; form and structure of the novel; Laval; treachery; motifs of dogs, the body and bodies. History covered - occupied France, Laval, the Holocaust. This resource is in English. 2994 words, 7 sides. Successfully used with A level French students.
HANDMAID'S TALE demythologised dystopia
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HANDMAID'S TALE demythologised dystopia

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This new reading of “The Handmaid’s Tale” puts the novel into the context of feminism in the 1980s and the dystopian novel. This article is ideal for the Dystopia option of OCR English Literature A level. The article considers"The Handmaid’s Tale"'s reputation as a cult novel, as a satire of male power and Christianity and the debt it owes to Orwell’s “1984”. Attwood’s prose and structure are analysed. The author argues that “The Handmaid’s Tale” is not the greatest novel of the twentieth century or the greatest dystopian novel: it is a fine novel, written in excellent prose, but it has flaws. This article will help to engage your A level students and to give them something to argue with or against. It will thus encourage them, as the A level specifications require, to engage with critical views rather than simply to read them passively. It is written by Frank Danes, who wrote many of the materials to support OCR English Literature A level on the OCR website; Danes taught English for 30 years in English secondary schools and was Head of English in three schools.
A level Delivery Guide "The History Boys"
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A level Delivery Guide "The History Boys"

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Teacher and student guide to Bennett’s “The History Boys”. Notes on Bennett; Oxbridge lessons; themes of the value of education, sexuality; characters of Irwin, Hector; ten student activities. As used successfully in the classroom and formerly published on OCR’s website, now deleted. Can be delivered as lessons/given straight to students/used for AO5, other interpretations. 6700 words, 15 pages. Excellent value.
A level notes on "The Age of Innocence"
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A level notes on "The Age of Innocence"

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Essential notes for students: can be used for independent study or as a lesson. Themes include: New York society; gossip; sexuality; marriage; duty/passion; old vs new money; adultery. These notes also cover the major characters; influences on Wharton, e.g. Austen and Henry James; the novel’s place in American Literature; the ironic, multiple meanings of the title. Students can cite these ideas for AO5, other interpretations. Over 3000 words of essential critical study on this novel. Frank Danes, the author, is an experienced A level examiner, former Head of English and published author of many guides to A level texts.
ESOL Beginners Bundle 2 days, please, 999, laugh, time
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ESOL Beginners Bundle 2 days, please, 999, laugh, time

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Frank’s ESOL Art Cards for Beginners in English: for adults, children, refugees. Fun and tested in class. The second bundle for beginners: how to say dates, to ask for something; 2 emergencies - 999 and looking for a toilet; laugh, smile, frown; say the time and clock.
ESOL Beginners Bundle 3 Everyday English
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ESOL Beginners Bundle 3 Everyday English

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Frank’s ESOL Art Cards for Beginners in English: for adults, children, refugees. Fun and tested in class. Everyday,essential English vocab for weather; what I do in the morning and evening; meals and food; signs out and about e.g. No entry.
ESOL Beginners Bundle 4 Families
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ESOL Beginners Bundle 4 Families

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Frank’s ESOL Art Cards for Beginners in English: for adults, children, refugees. Fun and tested in class. Five resources about FAMILIES: vocab wife, husband, stepfather, grandmother; how to use titles Mrs Ms etc. surnames and forenames; a fun family dialogue about a girl who wants to go to a party and parents who won’t let her!
ESOL  Beginner Bundle 1
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ESOL Beginner Bundle 1

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One of Frank’s ESOL Art Cards for Beginners in English: for adults, children, refugees. Fun and tested in class. Basic vocab for learning, clothes, days, months, emotions, feelings, dialogue. Get beginners started in English!
A level notes on NOTES ON A SCANDAL
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A level notes on NOTES ON A SCANDAL

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1500 words of A level notes on Heller’s great novel, by a senior A level examiner and a former Head of English. Themes, viewpoint, dramatic irony, unreliable narrator, reader’s experience, characterisation all covered. This resource can be given straight to students or used to teach from.