An AQA GCSE English Language lesson, that practices paper 2, question 5 and allows learners to think about their lives after college.

A lesson that discusses the scourge of social media whilst also allowing the learners to practice AQA paper 2, question 2.

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.

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

An introductory lesson to podcasting that aims for learners to adapt their own speeches for a new format, i.e. podcasting. 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. This lesson also allows them to practice writing for different purposes, adapting their own work, communicating appropriately with peers. This lesson will require you to have access to some recording devices, microphones etc.

A lesson practicing writing formal emails.

A Pearson Edexcel 2.0 lesson focused on writing a formal letter.

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

A lesson practicing the imaginative writing question, on paper 2 of the 2.0 specification.

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

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

A lesson on the skill of making inferences into implicit ideas in a text.

A lesson introducing the topic of language techniques and the MAPSTORES acronym for remembering language techniques.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A short lesson focusing on the critical evaluation question on the Pearson Edexcel 2.0 Uplift specification. The lesson uses Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby and is ideal for sports learners or learners interested in football. You will need to separate the example answers from their feedback, so learners can match them together.

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