This fun music quiz has 86 questions all with song clips from 2022-23 chart toppers. I compiled this quiz using the most streamed songs on Youtube, Spotify and Apple. This includes a PowerPoint with clips and answers, a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet.
Artists included (amongst many others!): Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Lil Naz X, Lizzo, Harry Styles, The Weeknd, BTS, BLACKPINK, Billie Eilish, Adele, Ariana Grande, Post Malone, The Kid Laroi, Kendrick Lamar, Sza, Glass Animals, Future, and more…
Preview video here: https://youtu.be/cuSWYpH_6wU
The rounds all contain 10-12 questions with audio clips embedded:
Pop music (1) - recent chart toppers
Two second belters - two seconds of a famous artist singing
Finish the lyrics - song clip that cuts off before a crucial lyric, can students fill in the gap?
Music videos - gifs of very famous music videos from the past year with an optional sound clue
Guess the year - chart toppers from the last ten years, can students guess from a choice of three possible years when the song was released?
8 Bit - Recent hits turned into 8 bit (polyphonic ringtone style) songs
Pop (2) - twelve more recent chart toppers
This pack includes a PowerPoint music genres quiz with eight rounds of different genres for pupils to guess. The first 20 second clips of songs are included within the presentation. Also included are pupil answer sheets and a teacher’s answer sheet.
The presentation is colourful, exciting and engaging.
I chose a mixture of songs that I thought pupils would know and a couple of more challenging entries. I made this genre quiz to suit diverse classrooms with different ‘cliques’ of students and an array of musical tastes… hopefully something to appease everyone!
Happy quizzing!
Genres:
pop
emo
hip hop
cheesy classics
world music
classic rock
Disney
electronic & dance
This fun Christmas grammar quiz is ideal for English class, where it could be used as a whole lesson quiz or as a 10 minute starter every day. It would also work well in tutor time. Included is a 99 page Powerpoint that has questions covering a range of grammar points, with explanations of answers included.
The rounds are as followed:
Correct the spelling: correct the spelling of Christmas words
Add the punctuation: add the missing punctuation to Christmas lyrics with the songs included in the background of each slide
Splice or no splice: a series of Christmas related questions in which the students have to identify whether the sentence includes a comma splice or is grammatically accurate. Example and explanation of comma splicing included.
Semi-colons & Santas: write a semi-colon sentence about a series of celebrities dressed in Santa hats. Explanation of semi-colon use included.
Ho ho ho or no no no: series of sentences that the students have to identify whether there is a grammar mistake and if so what mistake (no no no) or if there is no mistake present (ho ho ho). Common mistakes such as use of they’re/their/there and possessive apostrophes are used here with explanations of the mistakes.
There are a total of 50 questions included. You could do this in teams on paper or individually with whiteboards would also work well. Slides include timers and fast paced music to keep to a good timing.
Fun, cute and Christmassy quiz that makes grammar fun!
This fun Christmas quiz has 7 rounds with 72 total questions. The rounds are:
Partridge in a pear tree
Christmas films
General Christmas knowledge
Christmas songs
Christmas food and drink
Complete the Christmas lyric
Name the secret Santas
It includes song clips, film gifs, food round, multiple choice, celebrities and so on. Teacher sheet and student sheet included. Fun for Christmas! Perfect for tutor time or end of term activity. Rounds also include an optional timer, which plays fun, fast-paced music to help keep the timings correct for the quiz.
My fun Christmas music quiz has a variety of rounds and artists aimed at students aged 11-18 with tunes that should be commonly recognisable to students around the world. There’s a good mix of classic Christmas songs, like Wham’s Last Christmas, and more modern artists like Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me.
This resource includes a PowerPoint with 76 slides and high quality clips of the songs embedded, a total of 88 marks available. I have also created a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet too.
More difficult rounds also include an optional clue - just press the blue clue button!
The rounds include:
Partridge in a Pear Tree - Can you name each of the twelve animals alongside the instrumental track? (Clue included for this round!)
Complete the lyric - Fill in the missing lyric for some famous Christmas songs. There will be a music clip which stops before the missing lyric and a gap fill on screen to help students know how many words they’re missing.
Pop artist Santas - From the most streamed pop stars of 2022-23, can you identify the photo of the pop star hidden under the Santa hat? Also includes an optional clue of each celebrity singing a Christmas song. Artists include BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, The Weeknd, and so on!
Famous Christmas songs - Listen to the Christmas hit songs that are most often played on the radio. Can you identity the name of the track?
8-bit Christmas songs - Famous Christmas songs have been turned into 8-bit tracks (like polyphonic ringtones). Can students identify the song?
Christmas around the world - Famous Christmas songs sung in other languages (French, German, Chinese, etc). Can students identify the song and the language? This round also includes an optional clue to help students identify the language being used.
Christmas songs of the 21st century - Can students identify the artist and song title of these more modern pop hits by arts such as Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Sia?
This fun cross-curricular quiz is most suitable for ages 11-16, with differentiated questions that include optional clues, which the teacher can if they judge their class needs the extra help. Each question slide has a 30 second timer on to help maintain pace, accompanied by fun music to keep the atmosphere lively. Some bonus rounds are also included, which can be used or not used depending on time. Rounds include picture rounds, music rounds, sound clues, etc.
This would be suitable for a lesson or for use in tutor time over a number of days.
All answers are included at the end of the ppt and in the form of a teacher answer sheet. A blank student answer sheet is also included.
This quiz includes 10 rounds:
Literacy
Geography
Languages
Politics
Maths
History
ICT
Music
Biology
Sport
This is a PPT lesson guiding you through teaching Question 1 letter writing for CIE IGCSE English as a First Language. It uses The Hunger Games as a text, looking at the Interview scene.
Included is one full PPT (this took me around 3 hours to teach fully), a mock CIE assessment Q1 based on The Hunger Games, a planning sheet and an example insert annotated for the three bullet points.
This is one of my favourite lessons to teach, tried and tested, and always gets good results! Students will learn step-by-step how to write extended metaphors, with videos, model answers and a nicely designed ppt.
A PowerPoint guiding students through the historical context of The Great Gatsby. Includes videos, images, songs, quotes from the Great Gatsby and discussion point. This took me around 2 hours to teach using the materials in this resource.
I cover: prohibition, the American dream, the roaring 20s and the new woman. These are linked back to the novel to explain how they are relevant to the novel.
This is a full mock assessment in the style of AQA English Language Paper 2.
I have two sources following the same format as past papers (one modern, one pre-20th century) on the topic of money.
Q1 - Tick 4 correct statements
Q2 - Summary of differences
Q3 - Language analysis
Q4 - Comparison
Q5 - Writing task
This is a complete lesson for CIE IGCSE English as a Second Language ESL Exercise 5. The lesson usually takes 1-2 periods to teach, including a model example, tips, writing time and peer assessment.
This is a PPT lesson guiding you through teaching Question 1 diary writing for CIE IGCSE English as a First Language. It uses The Hunger Games as a text, looking at the Reaping scene.
Included is one full PPT (this took me around 3 hours to teach fully), a mock CIE assessment Q1 based on The Hunger Games and an example insert annotated for the three bullet points.
This lesson guides students through analysing the opening of The Hunger Games film, looking specifically at the use of sound, camera angles, contrast and the portrayal of Katniss. I’ve also included some notes I made with my class about the opening film, with suggested talking points. Slides include screenshots and sound clips from the film.
I couldn’t share the whole opening of the film due to copyright issues, so you’ll need to get the DVD, download it using your own means, or rent it off Youtube.
This is a complete booklet designed for SEN KS3, full with colourful pictures and fully scaffolded. As always with my SEN material, I use a colour coded key for each activity to guide pupils through tasks.
There is a full planning section and a fast finishers section at the back.
This 12 page colourful booklet comes both as a PDF and in editable Word format.
This fun and colourful English reading quiz would be suitable for KS3 and KS4. Each round contains extra clues to support weaker students, plus songs, film audio, picture clues, timers and more. All of the books in this quiz are books I have seen my pupils read, so should be accessible to most high school students. Extra clue differentiate for weaker ability students too. Total of 67 colourful slides. I gave it a contents page and fully hyperlinked so it would also be appropriate for starters and/or tutor time activities.
Also included are student answer sheets and teacher answer sheet.
Rounds include:
Picture round
Name the author
Opening lines
Books on Netflix
Unscramble the title
Books and film
Blurbs
Youtube authors
Children’s books
Fan art
This is a review lesson for language devices, which defines the language devices with examples, then moves onto identifying languagde devices in a text, before finally guiding students to use the language devices with a range of engaging picture stimuli. Originally planned for the CIE IGCSE English as a First Language scheme but would also work well for AQA English Language, as that has a picture stimulus based writing task.
Also includes a language device Kahoot I made including videos, pictures and music, such as Justin Bieber.
The file is a PowerPoint file.
This resource contains a Powerpoint and a running race worksheet with teacher answers.
You will first explain some common strategies for working out the meaning of new vocabulary with examples.
Students will then have a group running race in which they apply the strategies they have learnt to new words. They will have to come to you for each question with a correct answer before being allowed to access the next question. The first team to complete the quiz wins.
This is a tried and tested lesson which my students love. Engaging, fun and practical.
Suitable for KS3 or KS4 English for any exam board. Especially suitable for CIE First Language English 0500 in which students will have to define new words.
This complete Powerpoint lesson introduces students to Shakespearean language, explaining common grammar/language changes. Suitable for KS3/KS4/KS5 Literature.
This begins with an explanation of language change, from Old to Middle English up to Early Modern Shakesperean.
Students then have a match-up challenge with common vocabulary.
Finally, students will try to translate the prologue of Romeo and Juliet into modern English.
Tried and tested lesson!
This booklet contains two whole lessons plus fast finishers. I structured this booklet so that pupils will have visual cues in the form of icons to help them structure their story: who, where, when, problem, solution and ending. This mini icons help to signal to pupils what is required of them.
The booklet contains many many colourful images to generate ideas for writing and engage pupils. There are also two stories in there to use as a starting point, with images and comprehension questions. This is suitable for KS2 and SEN and low ability KS3.