This is a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student worksheet to guide students towards planning and writing an answer in preparation for their GCSE exam. Includes an explanation of how the exam question is assessed and a step by step approach to planning an exam answer using the EASY acronym. In this unit students explore the theme of revenge (Act 1 Scene 4) and the theme of deceit (Act 1 Scene 5). Other essay plans can be purchased separately or as a bundle.

This is a 20 question quiz testing students' knowledge of key quotations from Macbeth. Two PowerPoint presentations - one with and one without answers. Student worksheet with answers can be given as a learning task. Worksheet without answers can be used for answering the quiz.

This is a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student worksheets to support students in their revision of Macbeth. Students are given a copy of the Macbeth revision sheet. As they watch the video they should make notes about context under each of the headings; they complete an activity where they sort out the key events into the correct order; they look at key quotations and how these link to the main characters. All answers are included. Other revision activities can be purchased separately or as a bundle.

This is a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student worksheets to support students in their revision of Macbeth. Students complete a cloze exercise for each act and a quotations quiz. All answers are included. Other revision activities can be purchased separately or as a bundle.

This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here are the lessons for teaching Act 1. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included. Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back). Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview. You can download a sample of the first 3 lessons for free. Then each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.

This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here are the lessons for teaching Act 4. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included. Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back). Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview. You can download a sample of the first 3 lessons for free. Then each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.

This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here are the lessons for teaching Act 3. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included. Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back). Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview. You can download a sample of the first 3 lessons for free. Then each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.

This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here are the lessons for teaching Act 2. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included. Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back). Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview. You can download a sample of the first 3 lessons for free. Then each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.

This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here is a sample of the first 3 lessons. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included. Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back). Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview. Each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.

This is a booklet of 5 key extracts and accompanying exam style questions from Acts 4 and 5 of Macbeth. For students studying AQA English Literature. Questions are: Theme of supernatural (A4 S1); Malcolm (A4 S3); Lady Macbeth's feelings (A5 S1); Macbeth feeling protected (A5 S8) and Malcolm (A5 S8).

This is a booklet of 7 key extracts and accompanying exam style questions from Acts 2 and 3 of Macbeth. For students studying AQA English Literature. Questions are: Macbeth's indecision (A2 S1); Theme of guilt (A2 S2); Lady Macbeth in control (A2 S2); Macbeth as troubled (A3 S1); Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship (A3 S2); Macbeth's changing feelings (A3 S4); Theme of kingship (A3 S6). There is an additional page for students to write down the key quotations.

This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here are the lessons for teaching Act 5. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included. Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back). Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview. You can download a sample of the first 3 lessons for free. Then each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.

Part 1 of a six week scheme of work to accompany students' first reading of Stevenson's novella in preparation for their AQA English Literature examination. There is a PowerPoint presentation for each week with details of all activities as well as accompanying resources. Resources include worksheets, handouts and quizzes. An overview of the whole scheme is included - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately.

This is a worksheet to be used for students studying An Inspector Calls. The worksheet has a number of key quotations all to do with the theme of power. Students need to identify which character spoke each line. There is then an accompanying worksheet for students to make notes about the theme of power and how each character represents the theme. Answer sheet included.

I wrote this 5 week scheme of work for my GCSE English group. They were struggling with narrative writing and so I wanted to inspire with them with some effective short story writing. So who better than the master of the macabre - Roald Dahl? In this series of lessons students read a range of his stories and many of the tasks are linked to revising key skills that will be used in their Language exams. Included here are the Week 1 lessons. There is a PowerPoint presentation to guide students (and teachers) through all of the activities. This week’s lessons uses Dahl’s story Lamb to the Slaughter. and covers language skills for Paper 1 Q1 and Paper 2 Q5 (persuasive writing). A copy of the story is included as well as an overview of the whole unit of work. This is a free resource, additional weeks, along with the stories, can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.

This PowerPoint presentation guides students through a practice paper for questions 1 to 4 of the Paper 2 Language examination. It explores writers' views and perspectives regarding being on a sinking ship. Source A is How to Survive a sinking ship, Source B is an eye witness account of a shipwreck. Presentation includes all answers. Student question booklet also included.

This is part 1 of a 5 week unit of work preparing students for their AQA Paper 2 English Language exam. A PowerPoint guiding teachers (and students) through all the activities is included as are all the handouts of extracts referred to. In this week students are introduced to the requirements for questions 1 and 2. The lessons include: a brief introduction to the exam; Development of Question 1 skills using extracts from ‘Toast’, ‘Cider with Rosie’ and an article from The Guardian; Development of Question 2 skills using extracts from ‘Newgate Gaol’ and the ‘Diary of a Modern Prisoner’; Further development of Question 2 skills using extracts from ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ and ‘Inside the supermarkets’ dark stores’; Further development of Question 1 skills based on ‘Newgate Gaol’ and ‘Inside the dark stores’. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included. Week 1 is a free resource and subsequent weeks can be purchased separately or are available as a bundle.