A question and an extract that students can use to prepare for the examination. Spend at least 5 minutes highlighting the extract (remembering to identify subject terminology which is needed) and then get students to write up their response on the extract. Then spend 5 minutes considering how to answer the question with regards to the whole play.

This is an easy five step structure frame that will completely fill your students with confidence for this question. I use this myself and have had huge success with students being able to write clear, detailed responses using this guide.

A model answer for the whole play that you can add to an extract of your choice. I have used this as a starter activity then changed the question focus to ambition so students could apply the points they had read. It has a bronze, silver, gold task with a PYT challenge to stretch the most able.

A colour coded grid of retention questions for Macbeth that helps to ensure secure understanding of plot, characters, themes, context and key quotes.

An engaging article to hook your students and to get them to think about tone, humour and the development of ideas for this transactional writing task. It is differentiated using bronze, silver, gold so students have clear level of challenge when they are evaluating the article.

An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.

A fully differentiated lesson on the theme of 'order vs chaos' from Macbeth. It includes: - a fun interactive starter of true or false to get students to think about the theme - an example PEE response for students to assess - scaffolded bronze, silver, gold for when they write their own response - fun mini-review where they pick a picture that shows their progress - peer assessment - plenary - LOs on every slide

A differentiated resource to help students revise a key character from the novella.

An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.

A differentiated work sheet for students to fill in as they watch the film, which focuses them on the main theme of responsibility.

An easy worksheet for students to use to scaffold their revision on the play Macbeth. It is differentiated using bronze, silver gold to help challenge students.

Students need to know the importance of why Dickens wrote a novella and why he used the traditional form of a ghost story. This handy worksheet offers three tasks, which allow them to improve their knowledge of this to use for their examination responses.

A poster to display so that students know what comes for each component of the examination. This is useful to refer to and helps students to understand what they are studying and how they will be assessed.

A fantastic resource for GCSE to help students revise the key moments for each character.

A GCSE exam question for students to revise for their GCSE Literature examination. Focus on annotating the extract for 5 minutes (making sure students use subject terminology) then consider the question with regards to the whole play. The students can either write collaboratively, or in exam conditions after the teacher has modelled how to write one point on the board.

Fully differentiated (using Bronze, Silver and Gold) lessons on the plot of ACC. The LOs run on each slide and engaging pictures link to the students' progress mid way through the lessons. These are a useful set of revision lessons to ensure students know what happens in the novella.

If you are teaching GCSE Macbeth and need more extracts and questions, here is an extract on the play with an extract question 1a) and then a question relating to the wider play 1b) for them to revise for the exam. Spend five minutes of the lesson annotating the extract and then spend 20 minutes to answer 1a). Then get the students to consider the essay question, which they have to spend 40 minutes answering.

Ten exam questions for An Inspector Calls which can be used for revision. The students need to think of ten points they could include for each one to revise key characters and themes.

If you need more paper 1 practice, but are running out of papers, then here is one I have created for your yr 11s to develop their exam responses. It includes all four questions for reading and both writing tasks for Q5 for AQA. It could easily be adapted for different specifications. I hope you find this useful :)