Two detailed lessons exploring 'My Father Would Not Show Us’ by Ingrid de Kok from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Love’s Dog’ by Jen Hadfield from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

This resource is comprised of a set of four lessons exploring the theme of identity in Hamlet. A Powerpoint guides students through revision activities, discussion questions and activities leading to a non-exam board specific question which you can adapt for your own purposes. Enclosed is an extract booklet with three different extracts linked to identity. The opening of each of these is analysed in detail on the Powerpoint slides. A theory document is included for one homework task. There are also questions and answers for two revision quizzes intended to be transferred onto Kahoot or another such app. A detailed assessment guide consolidates the unit. A lesson plan is included with detailed notes for four lessons.

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 70 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (8 include a text for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of lexis and semantics. This unit can be used for any of the major exam boards. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a text (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following terminology is covered: Open and closed word classes – noun, verb, adjective, adverb, determiner, conjunction, preposition and pronoun Types of noun – proper, abstract, concrete, collective, count, non-count Types of pronoun – personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, relative, indefinite, interrogative Types of verb – dynamic, stative, transitive, intransitive, primary auxiliary, modal auxiliary, linking (copula) and imperative Verb processes – material, relational, mental, verbal, dynamic, stative Adjective and adverb forms – base, comparative and superlative Types of adjective – descriptive/qualitative, evaluative, quantitative, interrogative, proper, demonstrative, indefinite, possessive, compound, degrees of comparison Types of determiner – article, demonstrative, possessive, interrogative, quantifier, cardinal and ordinal number Types of conjunction – co-ordinating, sub-ordinating, correlative/paired Cognitive and structural semantics Denotative and connotative meaning- Semantic/lexical fields and collocates Lexical connectors – addition, consequence, comparative, temporal, enumeration and summative Anaphoric and cataphoric references, substitution, ellipsis Synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy Euphemism and dysphemism Metaphor 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 some of my most popular English Language A Level resources! Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech

This four lesson unit of work is a piece developed on request as a commission for EAL A Level students designed for stretch and challenge and to allow them to practice their speaking and listening skills in English. There are four lessons covering extracts from: Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘We Refugees’; Zadie Smith’s ‘White Teeth’; and Monica Ali’s ‘Brick Lane’. The final lesson is a scaffolded assessment lesson. The lessons are aimed at those for whom English is not their first language, but other A Level students will find the activities useful as an introductory or independent activity.

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (8 include a text or texts for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of grammar. This unit can be used for any of the major exam boards. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a text (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following terminology is covered: -Linguistic rank scale – morpheme, lexical item, phrase, clause, sentence, utterance and text -Morphology – free and bound morphemes, suffixes, prefixes and affixes, derivational and inflectional processes -Phrases - noun phrases, verb phrases, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases and prepositional phrases -Noun phrases – head word, pre-modification, post-modification and qualifier -Verb phrases – main verb, auxiliary verb, negating participle, extension, primary, modal and semi-auxiliaries and catenative verbs -Clauses – subject, verb, object, complement, adverbial -Main and subordinate clauses, coordinating and subordinating clauses, relative clause -Active and passive voice -Sentence types – simple, compound, complex and compound-complex -Sentence functions – declarative, interrogative, exclamative and imperative 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 some of my most popular English Language A Level resources! Lexis and Semantics Analysing Discourse - Spoken Language Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech

A complete lesson for GCSE or Year 9 focusing on Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet. The lesson includes a 10 slide PowerPoint, an extract booklet for annotation and a suggested lesson plan. Students are encouraged to: make links with Shakespearean tragedy, analyse language in the extracts and produce a response to the assessment question ‘How does Shakespeare present tragedy in Act 3 Scene 1?’ Modelled suggestions are included. The suggested learning objectives are: To annotate and explore Act 3, Scene 1 from Romeo and Juliet To understand how Shakespeare makes use of tragic conventions in this scene To evaluate to what extent the relationships between the characters are connected to tragedy This lesson will stretch and challenge students and could easily be extended over two sessions.