This is a multiple choice quiz with 20 questions (answers provided) on Puck’s speech from near the end of the play - “Now the Hungry Lion Roars”. Could be used as homework to secure and embed knowledge once the speech has been studied in class. Could be used as a pre-reading/flipped learning activity. The questions could be used to structure a guided reading session.

This is a straightforward comprehension activity, useful for developing students’ understanding of the context of “A Christmas Carol” and why “some would rather die” than go to the workhouse. There are 10 questions and the activity could be used in class, as a cover activity or for homework. Suggested answers are provided.

This is a walkthrough of Tennyson’s “The Eagle”, asking the questions that candidates will need to ask of themselves during the exam. The powerpoint asks them to focus on various methods including anthropomorphism, rhyme, rhythm and contrast. The final slide is an exam-style question. As the poem is so short, it could be useful for building confidence when tackling an unseen poetry question.

This is a very straightforward powerpoint using John Drinkwater’s public domain poem, “Moonlit Apples”. The powerpoint takes the students through a range of questions about the effect of methods used in the poem and concludes with an exam-style question.

This is a short and (hopefully) straightforward powerpoint using a very short extract from “The Island of Dr Moreau” by H.G.Wells. The lesson uses questioning to provide the ideas for a modelled first paragraph of a response after which students are asked to work more independently to complete the response. For less confident students, the evidence is already selected. You may wish to add challenge by asking students to select their own evidence. The last two slides are the printables. At the end of the lesson, students are asked to identify two of Wells’ effective methods and use them in their own descriptive writing. This task could be used to extend the lesson or set for homework.

This task uses two short extracts, one from Barnardo and one from Dickens. Both describe homeless children living rough in markets. There are 14 questions, two requiring knowledge of “A Christmas Carol” (but this is an editable document so these questions can easily be removed if your students have not studied the text). This task is a good springboard for AQA GCSE English Language paper 2, question 4 - beginning to hone the reading skills which will be tested on that paper.

There are 7 questions here on Thomas Hood’s poetic grumble, “November”. It’s a lyric poem centering on the gloom of a November day in London. Written in 1844. Suggested answers are provided, although these are not definitive. This could be used to structure a guided reading activity. Children could work in pairs or groups and work through the questions, discussing answers. Alternatively, this could be used as a homework activity, for home learning, or for cover.

This is a straightforward worksheet using Thomas Hood’s poem, “I Remember I Remember”. The intention is that once the students have worked through the 9 questions, they will be furnished with ideas to support them in answering the exam-style question that’s printed above the title - How does the poet present the speaker’s ideas about childhood? The sheet can be used to guide paired or group discussion in class. Alternatively, it could be used for homework so that students are prepared for a timed essay in class. Planned for a year 10 class but this could be used to support an introduction to unseen poetry at key stage three.

The text used is abridged from John Steinbeck’s war correspondent reports. This is an account of an attack on a cinema in London, 1943. It is a harrowing account of children’s deaths and injuries and you will be able to decide whether it’s suitable for use with your class. There are ten questions with suggested answers provided. The answers are merely indicative - some students will come up with different, though equally valid, responses. This could be used for cover, set as homework or allocated for home study. Alternatively, the questions could be used to structure a guided reading session.

This uses an extract from Arthur Machen’s story, written in 1914, (it is in the public domain) in which a group of English soldiers are facing a mighty German advance. There are 12 questions. The questions cover the reading skills of information retrieval, inference and explaining the effect of the writer’s methods. This task could be used for cover or for homework. Alternatively, the questions could be used to structure a guided reading activity. Suggested answers are provided - which means that this task could also be set for a student working from home who would like to do some self-assessment.

This is a straightforward multiple choice quiz with 17 questions (answers provided) which can be used to structure a guided reading session or discussion about the poem. Alternatively, the questions can be set for homework prior to the completion of an unseen poetry response in class. A suggested question - How does the poet present the speaker’s thoughts and feelings about death? - is written just below the poem. Useful preparation for the GCSE Unseen poetry question. If you are studying “A Christmas Carol” the ideas in this poem segue neatly into the death of Tiny Tim.

This uses an excerpt from Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Grey Woman” which uses many of the features of the gothic genre. There are 14 multiple choice questions which could be used for flipped learning or to structure a guided reading activity. Alternatively, the questions could be used as a starting point for class discussion of the extract, for homework or for cover. Answers are provided.

This is a quiz intended to support students in practising their response to unseen poetry. There are 14 questions (answers provided) which are designed to prompt thinking in response to an exam style question - How does the poet present the speaker’s ideas about the garden.

This is a simple and straightforward multiple-choice quiz using Oscar Wilde’s “Les Silhouettes”. There are ten questions (answers provided) which could be used to structure a guided reading session prior to answering an unseen poetry response. There is a suggested question typed beneath the poem. Alternatively, the questions could be set as a homework prior to tackling the question, to secure some key knowledge.

This is a short powerpoint created for an after-school revision session. It uses an excerpt from a short story by Saki (in the public domain). The last two slides are printables. The first couple of slides are animated to allow questioning. Slide 3 is an opportunity for some shared modelling. Slide 5 is an opportunity to discuss the selection of evidence. Slide 7 is a teacher-created model or demonstration, after which students can be asked to work independently on evidence that they have selected.

This activity uses the description from “Oliver Twist” in which Oliver accompanies Mr Sowerberry to a district of extreme poverty in order to collect a corpse. Accompanying the extract are 12 questions designed to practise and test comprehension. This could be used in class, as a cover activity, to structure a guided reading session or as homework. Useful as part of a unit of work on Charles Dickens. Could be used to add some contextual understanding to the study of “A Christmas Carol” at key stage four.

Here, you will find 18 exam-style questions using the format and wording of the AQA English Literature GCSE exam, paper 1. The extracts used are shorter than the students will meet in the exam - slightly shorter in some cases and much shorter in others. Created for revision sessions but useful for homework, classwork or remote learning.

This is a 14-question multiple-choice quiz (answers provided) on John Clare’s lovely sonnet about the spring. Could be used as a starter activity prior to a deeper analysis of the poem. Could work as a homework activity. The questions could be used to stucture a guided reading activity.

This is a simple multiple-choice quiz using Walter de la Mare’s lovely, simple poem, “Someone”. It makes a great companion piece to “The Listeners”. There are 11 questions (answers provided) focusing on the writer’s methods with some basic comprehension. This could be used as a starter prior to looking at the poem in greater depth. It works as a homework task. Alternatively, it could be used to structure a guided reading activity.

This is a multiple-choice quiz with 15 questions. Answers are provided. Useful for revision or embedding of technical vocabulary. Could be used as a starter prior to more detailed analysis of the poem.