A frontline teacher with 18 years sharp end experience, currently based in Valencia. This shop specialises in literature and language resources but also offers a generous selection ESL resources. All of my resources are road tested in my own classes and refined/polished at the end of the academic year.
A frontline teacher with 18 years sharp end experience, currently based in Valencia. This shop specialises in literature and language resources but also offers a generous selection ESL resources. All of my resources are road tested in my own classes and refined/polished at the end of the academic year.
Identifying the key features of a text, its purpose, perspectives and language devices are key elements of critical language and understanding skills. I have taught this topic a number of times in the last twenty years and I have used this specific resource (revised in 2021) to lead my classroom teaching, as a distance learning material for SKYPE lessons, as a homework assignment and even as a tool of revision – all have worked well for the students.
This dynamically illustrated PowerPoint lesson (23 slides, approximately 2 hours of teaching time) includes: a starter activity, discussion tasks, summary and analysis questions, an academic writing task, reading tasks, an extension task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no additional work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
Bram Stoker’s masterpiece ‘Dracula’ continues to enjoy worldwide popularity in its many different forms and reboots. This gothic horror text shadows a tragic love story, exploring a number of key themes that remain significant to post-modern audiences. I have taught this text a number of times in the last twenty years and I have used this specific resource (revised in 2021) to lead my classroom teaching, as a distance learning material for SKYPE lessons, as a homework assignment and even as a tool of revision – all have worked well for the students.
This dynamically illustrated PowerPoint lesson (23 slides, approximately 2 hours of teaching time) includes: a starter activity, summary and analysis questions, an academic writing task, a theme tracking exercise, an extension task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no additional work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
Bram Stoker’s masterpiece ‘Dracula’ continues to enjoy worldwide popularity in its many different forms and reboots. This gothic horror text shadows a tragic love story, exploring a number of key themes that remain significant to post-modern audiences. I have taught this text a number of times in the last twenty years and I have used this specific resource (revised in 2021) to lead my classroom teaching, as a distance learning material for SKYPE lessons, as a homework assignment and even as a tool of revision – all have worked well for the students.
This dynamically illustrated PowerPoint lesson (23 slides, approximately 2 hours of teaching time) includes: a starter activity, summary and analysis questions, an academic writing task, a theme tracking exercise, an extension task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no additional work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
Bram Stoker’s masterpiece ‘Dracula’ continues to enjoy worldwide popularity in its many different forms and reboots. This gothic horror text shadows a tragic love story, exploring a number of key themes that remain significant to post-modern audiences. I have taught this text a number of times in the last twenty years and I have used these specific resources (revised in 2021) to lead my classroom teaching, as distance learning materials for SKYPE lessons, as homework assignments and even as tools of revision – all have worked well for the students.
These dynamically illustrated PowerPoint lessons (12 lessons, approximately 2 hours of teaching time per lesson) each include: a starter activity, summary and analysis questions, an academic writing task, a theme tracking exercise, an extension task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This bundle also includes an ‘Introduction to the Text’ lesson and a ‘Assessment – Guided Essay Writing’ lesson. These are complete resources with no additional work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
Bram Stoker’s masterpiece ‘Dracula’ continues to enjoy worldwide popularity in its many different forms and reboots. This gothic horror text shadows a tragic love story, exploring a number of key themes that remain significant to post-modern audiences. I have taught this text a number of times in the last twenty years and I have used this specific resource (revised in 2021) to lead my classroom teaching, as a distance learning material for SKYPE lessons, as a homework assignment and even as a tool of revision – all have worked well for the students.
This dynamically illustrated PowerPoint lesson (24 slides, approximately 2 hours of teaching time) includes: a starter activity, summary and analysis questions, an academic writing task, a theme tracking exercise, an extension task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no additional work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.4 (Asking Questions This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages.
This lesson contains 21 slides and includes: a starter activity, an assessment of existing knowledge, a development task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of spelling from the Annexe B Word Bank. This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains three spelling tests with rules, marking schemes, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.5 ‘Responding to Questions). This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains 18 illustrate slides and includes: a starter activity, questions which help the students form structured responses, questions that foster understanding and interpretation, a mini-plenary, an extension task, a homework assignment and an end plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.6 (Make clear statements about basic information and communicate feelings and opinions on straightforward topics). This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains 18 illustrate slides and includes: a starter activity, understanding and interpreting media image slides, reading and interpretation slides, a multiple choice quiz, a homework assignment and an end plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of spelling from the Annexe B Word Bank. This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains three spelling tests with rules, marking schemes, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.7 (Understand and participate in simple discussions or exchanges with another person about a straightforward topic.). This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains 12 illustrated slides and includes: a starter activity, a series of short to midrange discussion topics and prompts, a development task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus E1.8, E1.9 and E1.10 (Read correctly words designated for Entry Level 1 (see Annexe B), reading simple sentences containing one clause and understanding a short piece of text on a simple subject). This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This 15 slide PowerPoint lesson contains a number of short reading tests with rules, marking schemes, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
Roald Dahl’s second autobiography ‘Going Solo’ is a dynamic KS3 text that provides a high number of learning opportunities in both reading, writing and creative tasks. I have taught this text a number of times in the last twenty years and I have used this specific resource (revised in 2022) to lead my teaching in class, as a homework assignment and even as a distance learning resource.
This dynamically presented 13 slide PowerPoint presentation is most suitable for a year 6 or year 7 mixed ability group. This lesson contains a starter activity, summary and analysis questions, an academic writing task, an extension task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.1 and E1.2 (The Alphabet and Understanding Basic Information) This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages.
This lesson contains 36 slides and includes: a starter activity, an assessment of existing knowledge, a development task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of spelling from the Annexe B Word Bank. This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains three spelling tests with rules, marking schemes, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.3 (Following Instructions and the use of Capital Letters) This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages.
This lesson contains 14 slides and includes: a starter activity, an assessment of existing knowledge, a development task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.12 (Personal Pronouns). This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains 23 illustrated slides and includes: a starter activity, dynamic slides with punctuation challenges, a micro assessment, an extension task and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.13 (Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I’ and the first letter of proper nouns.). This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains 20 illustrated slides and includes: a starter activity, dynamic slides with punctuation challenges, a micro assessment, an extension task and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
The Functional Skills qualification provides reliable evidence of a learner’s achievements against demanding content that is relevant to a generic workplace. This PowerPoint lesson covers the assessment focus of E1.11 (Punctuate simple sentences with a capital letter and a full stop). This specific resource has been road tested in my own classroom and has proved to be very successful with students of all ages. This lesson contains 17 illustrate slides and includes: a starter activity, dynamic slides with punctuation challenges, a micro assessment, an extension task and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
Roald Dahl’s second autobiography ‘Going Solo’ is a dynamic KS3 text that provides a high number of learning opportunities in both reading, writing and creative tasks. I have taught this text a number of times in the last twenty years and I have used this specific resource (revised in 2022) to lead my teaching in class, as a homework assignment and even as a distance learning resource.
This dynamically presented 13 slide PowerPoint presentation is most suitable for a year 6 or year 7 mixed ability group. This lesson contains a starter activity, summary and analysis questions, an academic writing task, an extension task, a homework assignment and a plenary. This is a complete resource with no further work required from the teacher. Enjoy!
