A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Belonging cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Please check out my individual PowerPoints for each of the poems in the Belonging Cluster: Belonging Individual PowerPoints

A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Belonging cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures. Please check out my individual PowerPoints for each of the poems in the Worlds and Lives Cluster: Belonging Individual PowerPoints

A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Relationships cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.

A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Conflict cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.

A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Love and Relationships cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.

A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Relationships cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!

A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Conflict cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!

A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Love and Relationships cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 61 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets exploring the topic of Language and Region (UK) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: MLE & MBE Howard Giles’ Matched Guise Study (1970) Queen Mary University & The University of York Accent Bias Study (2020) David Rosewarne – Estuary English (1984) Peter Trudgill – Norwich Study (1972) Overt and covert prestige Paul Kerswill - Dialect Levelling (1999) Watt and Gunn (HSBC) - The sound of 2066 (2016) Howard Giles – Capital punishment study (1973) Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks – Accents of Guilt (2002) Rob Drummond – MLE, MUBE and MBE (2016) Amanda Cole – SSBE and research into MLE, RP and SSBE in London (2023) Isogloss General Northern English and the research of Strycharczuk, López-Ibáñez, Brown and Leemann (2020) Urban West Yorkshire English (UWYE) There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 13, 37-38 and 51-58. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question. This unit does not cover World Englishes and only touches briefly on Language and Ethnicity through references to MLE and MBE. The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Analysing Spoken Language Child Language Acquisition - Speech Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing Language Discourses Opinion Writing

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 67 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including transcripts) exploring the topic of Language and Global and World Englishes and a summary terminology and theory sheet. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: David Crystal – World English: Past, Present, Future (1999) Jennifer Jenkins – Lingua Franca Core (2000) Nicholas Ostler – The Last Lingua Franca (2010) David Graddol – The Future of English? (1997) Bagele Chilasa – Hierarchy of Language (2011) Braj Kachru – Three Circle Model of World Englishes (1985) Jean Paul Nerrière – Globish (2004) Pidgins and creoles William Stewart (1965) and Derek Bickerton (1973) – Post-Creole Continuum Bettina Migge and Isabelle Léglise – Attitudes towards creoles in the Caribbean (2006) Einar Haugen - Code Switching (1954) David Crystal – Tri-English (2000) Tom McArthur – Circle Model of World English (1987) Peter Strevens – World Map of English (1980) Barbara Seidlhofer – Teaching English as a Lingua Franca (2004) Stress-Timed and Syllable-Timed Languages Rhotic and Non-Rhotic Accents Lisa Lim – Language Ecology Mark Pagel – The Future of English (2011) David Deterding and Andy Kirkpatrick – Influence of Technology on World Englishes (2011) British Council – The Future of English: Global Perspectives (2023) Lynne Murphy – British and American Politeness Features (2013) Yohai Hakak, Sophia Bosah, Kwaku Amponsah and Kei Long Cheung – Australian Politeness (2022) McMaster University – Canadian v. American Politeness in Tweets (2018) There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 56-64. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question. The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Language Discourses Opinion Writing

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language and Ethnicity and a summary terminology and theory sheet. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: Idiolect, dialect, sociolect and ethnolect Pidgins and creoles Multicultural London English – Cheshire andKerswill (2011) Multicultural British English – Drummond (2016) Black British English – Thompson (2022) Code switching – Haugen (1950s) Code mixing – Wardhaugh (1986) Types of Code Switching West Yorkshire Study - Ives (2014) White talk Black talk - Hewitt (1986) South London Study - Ives (2014) Code Switching - Holmes (2017) Language in a Black Community - Edwards (1986) The objectification of ‘Jafaican’ - Kerswill (2014) Ethnolects - Eckert (2008) Stylising the ‘roadman’ - Ilbury (2023) Style-shifting in Multicultural London English - Oxbury and De Leeuw (2020) Phonetic variation and change in the Cockney Diaspora - Cole and Evans (2020) Style Repertoire and Social Change in British Asian English – Sharma (2011) Style variation – Sharma and Rampton (2015) Aspects of identity in a second language – Drummond (2012) Language as a resistance identity – Pitts (2012) Black/white borders through linguistic stylization – Clark (2003) Style shifting and identity – Barrett (1994) Cultural appropriation in language – McWhorter (2021) Language and ethnicity and identity – Ogbu (1999) Linguistic Injustice – Baker-Bell (2020) There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 57-65. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question. The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Language Discourses Opinion Writing

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 69 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including a range of transcripts) exploring the topic of Language and Power and Occupation and a summary terminology and theory sheet. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: Shân Wareing – Types of Power, 1999 Pierre Bourdieu – Language and Symbolic Power, 1993 Norman Fairclough – Types of power, 1984 Erving Goffman – Face-work, 1967 Brown and Levinson – Politeness Theory, 1987 Howard Giles – Communication Accommodation Theory, 1973 Drew and Heritage - Institutional Talk and Inferential Frameworks, 1992 John Swales – Discourse Community, 1990 Sinclair and Coulthard – IRF Model and Teacher Talk, 1975 and 1992 Paul Grice – Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims, 1975 Almut Koester – Phatic Talk in the Workplace, 2004 Judith Baxter – Double-voiced discourse, 2014 Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe - Power and Politeness in the Workplace, 2003 & 2015 There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 58-66. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question. The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Analysing Spoken Language Child Language Acquisition - Speech Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing Language Discourses Opinion Writing

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 66 slide PowerPoint and 9 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of spoken language analysis and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used to teach A Level English Language or A Level Language and Literature and is not linked to any particular exam board. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered: Discourse – Michel Foucault (1969) Narrative Categories – William Labov (1972) Turn taking; adjacency pairs; backchanneling IRF Model – Sinclair and Coulthard (1975) Charles Goodwin – Storytelling Structure (1984) Discourse markers; tag questions; skip connectors; overlap Speech Acts – J.R. Searle (1969) Transactional talk; phatic talk; monitoring features Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims – Paul Grice (1975) Contraction; elision; ellipsis; interruption Register and Context – Michael Halliday (1985) Situational Factors Affecting Language Use – David Crystal (1995) Assimilation; false start; filler; intonation; non-fluency features; paralinguistic features; prosodic features Face-work - Erving Goffman (1967) Politeness Theory - Brown and Levinson (1987) Accommodation; colloquialisms; comment clauses; deixis; hedging - The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Language Discourses Opinion Writing Child Language Acquisition - Speech Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language and Technology and a summary terminology and theory sheet. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: Hiltz and Turoff – CMC (1978) Emmanuel Schegloff – Telephone conversation structure (1986) David Crystal – Textspeak (2004) Celia Klin – The role of full stops in text messages (2015) David Crystal – Netspeak (2004 and 2008) Eric Partridge – Dictionary of Abbreviations (1942) Crispin Thurlow – Sociolinguistic functions of text messages (2003) Tim Shortis – The Language of ICT (2000) John McWhorter – Fingered speech and texting (2013) Elizabeth Eisenstein – The Printing Press (1983) Jeff Jarvis – the positive impact of the internet on language (2023) Susan Herring – CMC and CMDA (2018) Christopher Werry – IRC and Netiquette (1996) Condon and Čech – E-mail discourse (2010) Amanda Roig-Marin – Cyber-neologism blends (2016) Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien – The Democratization of English (2004) Hyejeong Ahn and Jieun Kiaer – Korean Pop Culture Words (2021) Philip Seargeant – The Emoji Revolution (2019) Michele Zappavigna and Lorenzo Logi – Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage (2024) danah boyd – It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (2004) Gretchen McCulloch – Because Internet (2022) There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 57-65. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question. The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Language Discourses Opinion Writing

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 66 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including transcripts) exploring the topic of Language and Gender and a summary terminology and theory sheet. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: The Deficit Approach – Robin Lakoff (1973 & 1975) The Dominance Approach - Don Zimmerman & Candace West (1975), Dale Spender (1980) and Pamela Fishman (1978) The Deficit Approach – Otto Jesperson (1922) Folklinguistics Criticism of Zimmerman and West - Geoff Beattie (1981) Gossip – Jane Pilkington (1992 and 1998) The Difference Approach – Deborah Tannen (1990) and Janet Holmes (1995) Criticism of Holmes and politeness – Sara Mills (2003) Women, Men and Language – Jennifer Coates (1993) Norwich Study – Peter Trudgill (1974) Gender Trouble – Judith Butler (1990) The Myth of Mars and Venus – Deborah Cameron (2008) The Gender Similarities Hypothesis – Janet Hyde (2005) Verbal Hygiene – Deborah Cameron (1995) The Whole Woman – Penelope Eckert (1990) Relational Aggression – Rosalind Wiseman (2002) Gossip - Deborah Jones (1980) Gossip – Holly Hom (2004) Gossip – Nigel Nicholson (2001) Powerless Language – William O’Barr and Bowman Atkins (1980) Gendered workplace language – Barbara Eakins and R. Gene Eakins (1976) Gendered workplace language – Carole Edelsky (1981) There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 56-63. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question. The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global/World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Language Discourses Opinion Writing

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 71 slide PowerPoint, 10 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language Discourses and a summary terminology and theory sheet.The following are covered and taught as part of the unit: self-representation of the writer; positioning of the audience; evaluating and challenging discourses; applying different linguistic levels; context and genre; comparison. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: Definition of language discourses Descriptivism and prescriptivism Sticklerism – Robert Lane Greene (2011) Eats, Shoots & Leaves – Lynne Truss (2003) Declinism – Robert Lane Greene (2011) Crumbling Castle, Infectious Disease and Damp Spoon – Jean Aitchison (1996) Standard and Non-Standard English Complaint Tradition – James and Lesley Milroy (1987) Complaint Tradition – John McWhorter (2013) The Language Wars – Henry Hitchings (2011) Verbal Hygiene – Deborah Cameron (1995) David Crystal – A Sea of Language Change The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language resources: Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Analysing Spoken Language Child Language Acquisition - Speech Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing Language Discourses - Question 4 Opinion Article

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 74 slide PowerPoint and 10 different worksheets exploring the topic of the AQA Language Discourses opinion article (Paper 2, Section B, Question 4). Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed guidance on the skills and ideas listed below, a worksheet and activities, worked questions and exemplar responses, and a homework task. The following skills are covered: How to approach the question Developing an argument How to plan for and use theories, concepts and linguistic terminology Writing for a non-specialist audience Writing to position an audience or reader Consciously crafting an opinion piece using particular techniques Using relatable examples and anecdotes in the piece How to develop self-presentation as a writer using specific strategies Writing effective openings and endings How to evaluate and challenge viewpoints and arguments The final lesson includes a full exemplar response to a question. Check out my other English Language resources: Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Analysing Spoken Language Child Language Acquisition - Speech Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing Language Discourses - Section B, Question 3

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 74 slide PowerPoint and 10 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of child language acquisition (speech) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used for any exam board. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 10), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered: Pre-verbal stages of CLA including reduplicated, variegated and jargon babbling Lexical and grammatical stages of CLA Nelson – Categories of first words (1973) Reduplication/ diminuitives/ addition/ substitution/ assimilation/ deletion/ consonant cluster reduction Gestalt expressions/ content and function words Noun bias –Bloom (2001) Language Acquisition Device (LAD) and Universal Grammar –Chomsky (1965) Virtuous errors/overextension/Underextension ‘Fis’ Phenomenon –Berko and Brown (1960) The Wug Test –Berko Gleason (1958) Pivot Schema –Braine (1973) Semantic Development –Brown (1973) The Acquisition of the System of Negation in Children’s Speech and Stages of Pronoun Acquisition –Bellugi (1967) Formation of questions –Brown (1968) Behaviourism –Skinner (1957) Social Learning Theory –Bandura (1977) A usage-based approach to learning language –Ibbotson (2009) Stages of Cognitive Development –Piaget (1936) Learning as a social process –Vygotsky (1930) Criticisms of Piaget’s Theory – Repacholi and Gopnik (1997) and Lewis and Ramsay (2004) Social Interactionism and LASS – Bruner (1983) Functions of Children’s Language – Halliday (1975) Functions of Children’s Language – Dore (1975) How a lack of social interactionism affects language learning – Pinker (1994) and Kuhl (2010) Child Directed Speech and its features The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Giuseppe’ by Roderick Ford from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Lammas Hireling’ by Ian Duhig from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!