A great stater and discussion activity. The students work in pairs/small group/class and decide which would you rather they go for. Makes a for a lively debate.
Sensory language resource bundle including two PPs of over 70 slides. The resource also includes a grade 9 answer and a lecturer podcast. This can be used for any writing task for GCSE English Language.
GCSE English Language Paper 1 Question 1 explanations model answer based on extracts from the following:
The Lovely Bones
One Day
No Country for Old Men
Can be used for any exam board. Extracts included plus three lecturer podcasts based on the lessons.
A video which explains how to answer question 2 on paper 1 (the HOW question) of the GCSE English Language exam. Can be used for any exam board. The following are included:
PowerPoint - 70 slides
Extracts
Lecturer podcast
Word classes sheet
Perfect Pee sheet
Interactive images
Fun starter to show the importance of proofreading. The students need to read a review of Derren Brown's stage show and find 20 Errors. I have put it on a PowerPoint and on Microsoft Word with the answers included on a separate sheet.
The mistakes include the following:
- spellings
- capital letters
- basic grammar
- punctuation
A full lesson on how to write a formal letter. All resources provided. The PowerPoint has a proof reading fun starter activity and goes through the process step-by-step in a fun way.
The following are included:
language techniques
planning
addresses
capital letter
punctuation
paragraphs
sentence structure
sentence starters
Two functional reading exams (one for Level 1 and one for Level 2) that I have adapted using the theme of Derren Brown.
Both have marks schemes and I have also included a PowerPoint with some assistance for some of the questions. The students love this theme!
A informative and interactive guide to writing that tricky first paragraph in the paper 2 exam. The following is covered in the 40s slide detailed PowerPoint:
Letters
Leaflets
Reviews
Reports
Speeches
Colons
DAFOREST
Teacher advice
Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 celebrities. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included.
Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 animals. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included. My students love it.
Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 movies. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included. My students love it.
A fun starter where students discuss what makes them embarrassed and why. After a number of discussion activities, the students have to rank embarrassing situations 1-10. They are then given a final embarrassment score! The students love this.
12 different PowerPoints on writing A* grade PEEs (+zoom in + context) on Of Mice and Men. Each PowerPoint comes with an excellent lecturer podcast. The following topics each have their own PowerPoint and podcast on writing A* PEEs:
The colour red
Crooks
A different side to Curley's wife
Dreams
Steinbeck's use of light
Loneliness
Curley's wife's relationship with Curley
Curley's wife lack of name
Personification
Rumour
Women being treated like sex objects
1930s USA
A really fun 25 slide PowerPoint starter where students are given a statement and they have to decide whether it is a fact or a.........fib! I have also included two videos of the starter set to music if you want to do it as an individual task!
The students have a lot of fun debating!
The ‘HOW’ question for paper 2. The exam question is, “How does the writer try to show that Mike’s voyage was really tough?”
The resource includes the following:
Model answer
Language analysis
Group activities
Lecturer exam paper annotations and comments
Examiner insight
Modern, fun and dynamic images to help analyse the text.
Connotation advice
Answer structure
Exemplar work
Exam paper and mark scheme link
The resource bundles included three separate PowerPoints on paper 2 question 1 (non-fiction reading).
Informative, interactive and fun, these lessons look at extracts from ‘Touching the Void’ (a tense and exciting extract about a man hanging from a cliff that really stirs debate!), an article on Ben Fogle’s race to the South Pole and an article on the Northern Lights. Podcast included.
The lesson includes the following:
Examiner tips
Three group activities
Model answers
Extract
Fun and interesting images
Survival discussion starter
Overview of the whole paper 2 reading exam
The exam paper on the EDUQAS Ben Fogle / Robert Scott paper available at:
Two separate 50 slide PowerPoints on the language 'HOW' questions on the paper 1 exam. There is a lecturer podcast also provided by a GCSE examiner. Grade 9 answer analysis.