<p>An engaging interactive transactional writing lesson where learners have to make a decision and argue why they have made such a decision and then write a survival guide based on the decisions they’ve made.</p>

<p>An interactive, Pre-Christmas lesson where learners need to create a Christmas themed poem about their observations in a particular place.</p>

<p>An introductory lesson to podcasting that aims for learners to adapt their own speeches for a new format, i.e. podcasting.<br /> The ultimate goal, by the end of the session is for the learners to have completed a recorded, short podcast “episode” that can be submitted, alongside a usual video recording, for their speaking and listening assessment.</p> <p>This lesson also allows them to practice writing for different purposes, adapting their own work, communicating appropriately with peers.</p> <p>This lesson will require you to have access to some recording devices, microphones etc.</p>

<p>A worksheet, that can be used consistently across an academic year, to embed and revise the ‘What? How? Why?’ answer framework, for inference questions.</p>

<p>A lesson introducing the topic of language techniques and the MAPSTORES acronym for remembering language techniques.</p>

<p>A lesson on the skill of making inferences into implicit ideas in a text.</p>

<p>A lesson practicing writing formal emails.</p>

<p>A Pearson Edexcel 2.0 lesson focused on writing a formal letter.</p>

<p>A lesson for the beginning of the academic year, to help learners understand the skill of making connotations.</p>

<p>A lesson practicing the imaginative writing question, on paper 2 of the 2.0 specification.</p>

<p>A follow up lesson, practicing imaginative writing skills and building on the work done in the previous lesson.</p>

<p>Here is a skills building lesson to help GCSE English resit learners understand making connotations and inferences and applying them to a piece of writing.</p>

<p>The first lesson of a new academic year, introducing the Pearson Edexcel GCSE English 2.0 specification.</p>

<p>A booklet that breaks down every question on paper 2 of AQA GCSE English Language and gives learners a practice paper to check their learning.</p>

<p>A revision booklet that breaks each question on the AQA GCSE English Language paper and then gives learners another paper to practice what they’ve revised.</p>

<p>A follow up lesson to build upon and revise persuasive language techniques and the skills necessary to answer an AQA GCSE English Language paper 2, question 5. This lesson uses a video from Mr Bruff.</p>

<p>A quick, simple revision lesson designed to get learners to remember key imaginative writing concepts while building a story.</p>

<p>This is a pre-exam revision lesson designed to get learners to remember key concepts and skills to use when answering question 4 of paper 1.</p>

<p>A lesson that focuses on the simple, foundations of GCSE English, namely MAPSTORES and language analysis. It focuses on the lyrics in a relatively modern song that hopefully many learners will have heard and actually like. There is an example exam question that is modeled on the Pearson Edexcel 2.0 spec. Then, there is a writing task that prompts learners to use some MAPSTORES techniques to tell their own story in a poem or rap.</p>

<p>This is an escape room based lesson to do in the last week before the Christmas break.</p> <p>I am using it in GCSE English classes, but I’m sure it would work/could be adapted for other classes.</p> <p>The puzzles sheets will require cutting up to separate them and maybe envelopes to differentiate the different tasks.</p> <p>I have two Cryptexes that I will be making use of and a lockable treasure chest, but these aren’t necessary.</p>

<p>A lesson using a Queen song and a more modern song by Thomas Sanders to help learners understand the summary and synthesis question.</p>