Here you will find a detailed PowerPoint presentation for every single poem in the new iGCSE syllabus. In addition, there is a selection of 1000-word model essays responding to a variety of the poems to share with students. In other lessons, there are model paragraphs, colour-coded for clarity. Some of the poems have a supplementary YouTube video where I have broken down the poems for students to revise at home (more videos to come soon). The lessons have a very wide range of activities to engage students, and most poems have either line by line questions or line by line annotations (or both). This is all you need to be prepared to teach these 15 poems. I have also included a 16th poem (The Bay) that could be used as an “unseen” exam example. I have also made a full anthology for easy printing. Poems covered here are: The City Planners The Planners The Man With Night Sweats Night Sweat Rain The Spirit Is Too Blunt An Instrument From Long Distance Funeral Blues He Never Expected Much The Telephone Call A Consumer’s Report Request To A Year On Finding A Small Fly Crushed In A Book Ozymandias Away, Melancholy Bonus Poem (The Bay) Full Printable Anthology (email me for anthology: underthevolcanoagain@gmail.com)

In this bundle you will find a wide variety of resources to help you teach War of the Worlds. This is a new text for the iGCSE syllabus starting in September 2022 ready for first exams in 2024. It is also a useful resource if you just want to teach the text as part of KS3/5, or for a different spec. It is ready to be shared with students so that they can keep up with the work from home and access the PowerPoints for revision. The activities are broad and varied, ranging from traditional teacher-led tasks, to paired/group work, and individual assignments. There are some more creative activities included throughout, like designing aliens and drama. I have also included some model paragraphs of analysis, technique analysis, quite a few vocabulary tasks, discussion topics, and I have included a selection of tailor-made assessments. Every chapter has also been summarised. Lessons have objectives, and are aesthetically striking. Each of the 12 PowerPoints vary in length of delivery. Some will take between 1 and 2 lessons, others may take between 3 and 4, but you can pick and choose the activities to skip as you go along. I have tried my best to pitch a range of different tasks for a range of abilities, including regular extension work. Instructions and tasks are very clear for students and teachers to follow. This should be all you need to teach the text, and if you need a copy of it, there are many freely available online. If you buy the whole bundle, you will save £18 compared to if you had bought each PowerPoint separately.

Detailed PowerPoint presentations and homework PDFs, ready to teach with no additional prep for the following 15 poems, examined for IGCSE Literature 0992/0475 first exams 2026: Aphra Behn, ‘Song: Love Armed’ Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’ William Blake, ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’ Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’ Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Report to Wordsworth’ Gillian Clarke, ‘Lament’ Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’ Seamus Heaney, ‘Follower’ Liz Lochhead, ‘Storyteller’ Charles Mungoshi, ‘Before the Sun’ Katherine Philips, ‘A Married State’ Alexander Pope, From ‘An Essay on Man’ Carol Rumens, ‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’ William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 18’ Judith Wright, ‘Hunting Snake’ Full Printable Anthology (email me for anthology: underthevolcanoagain@gmail.com) Bundle price equates to less than £2.50 per poem. Every lesson has line by line questions and line by line analysis. In addition to this, I have included a vast range of activities for every single poem, including: drama and creative writing tasks to help first readings and develop vocabulary; model paragraphs and model essays; essay plans; quizzes; and much more. The PowerPoints are visually clear and striking. Each poem has an additional PDF with thought-provoking questions for students to engage with the poem at home beforehand; this has also been included as a Word document, in case you wish to add questions or edit. The main presentations work best with PowerPoint, but can be used in other formats such as Google Slides and PDF converter. You might consider sharing the PowerPoints with your students so that they can revise from the line by line analysis and model essays. If sharing, please consider purchasing the whole school version. Any attempt to re-publish or re-sell this product is illegal.