An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Pride and Prejudice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Great Expectations and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

A comprehesive 46 slide Powerpoint which takes students through all nine scenes of Act II. Included: Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

A comprehesive 40 slide Powerpoint which takes students through an introduction to The Merchant of Venice; a background to Shakespearean tragedy; and all three scenes of Act I. Included: A comprehensive guide to tragedy with a terminology matching exercise Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups. The slides in yellow are aimed at A Level students or those GCSE students who are aiming for a grade 8 or 9.

A comprehesive 25 slide Powerpoint which takes students through both scenes of Act IV. Included: An Act IV Scene i ‘chunked’ resource to use as a pre-reading activity Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

A comprehesive 33 slide Powerpoint which takes students through all five scenes of Act III. Included: Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

An extract analysis booklet which contains 25 examination-length extracts from Macbeth and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

An extract analysis booklet which contains 20 examination-length extracts from A Christmas Carol and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Jane Eyre and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

An extract analysis booklet which contains 23 examination-length extracts from The Merchant of Venice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

An extract analysis booklet which contains 25 examination-length extracts from Romeo and Juliet and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

This PDF workbook is designed to support the revision of the World Englishes topic in Paper 2, Section A of AQA A Level English Language. The booklet is comprised of 15 pages covering terminology, key theory and concepts, including Crystal, Jenkins, Ostler, Graddol, Seidlhofer, Kachru and McArthur amongst others. Activities and questions are used to support learning, along with guided examination question practice and a model answer. The final two pages are comprised of revision cards. All content is taken from my World and Global Englishes teaching unit (aside from the model answer) and is primarily designed to be used by students, especially those aiming for an A or A*. Please note - this resource is offered in PDF form to preserve formatting.

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 69 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (8 include a text or texts for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of pragmatics. 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: Negotiation of meaning: confirmation checks, reformulation techniques and feedback Codes: inference and implication Implicatures and pragmatic illusion Ambiguity Schema and schematic knowledge Embodied knowledge Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims – Paul Grice (1975) Speech acts: assertives (analytic and synthetic); commissives; declarations (verdictive and effective); directives; and expressives. Face - Erving Goffman (1967) Politeness theory and face threatening acts – Penelope Brown and Steven Levinson (1987) Deixis: personal, spatial and temporal; distal and proximal Presupposition: presupposition negation test; definitive descriptions; factive verbs; iteratives; questions; temporal clauses (Please note that there is overlap on six slides about Grice’s maxims, face and politeness theory with the ‘Analysing Discourse – Spoken Language’ unit.) 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 Grammar Lexis and Semantics Phonetics, Phonology and Prosodics Analysing Discourse - Spoken Language Graphology Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech

A 9 lesson unit comprising a 72 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (8 include a text or texts for analysis) and a summary terminology and theory sheet, exploring the topic of phonetics, phonology and prosodics. 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: Phonemes – minimal pairs IPA Consonants – articulators (labial, dental, alveolar, palatal and velar); voiceless and voiced sounds; plosive, fricative, affricative, nasal, lateral and approximant Vowels – syllable, onset, coda, monophthongs and diphthongs Accent and dialect; assimilation, dissimilation, insertion and deletion; glottal stop Sound patterning – alliteration, sibilance, consonance, assonance, lexical and non-lexical onomatopoeia Sound iconicity Phonological manipulation – pun, homonymy, homograph, homophone, phonemic substitution Prosodics – intonation, stress, rhythm, pauses Paralanguage – non-fluency 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. Check out some of my most popular English Language A Level resources Grammar Lexis and Semantics Analysing Discourse - Spoken Language Pragmatics Graphology Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech

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! Phonetics, Phonology and Prosodics Lexis and Semantics Grammar Pragmatics Graphology 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 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! Grammar Phonetics, Phonology and Prosodics Analysing Discourse - Spoken Language Pragmatics Graphology Language and Gender Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 70 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language Change 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: Lexical, Semantic, Phonological, Grammatical and Orthographical processes David Crystal – A Sea of Language Change and tidal metaphor (1999) Diachronic and Synchronic Linguistic Change Origins of Old English and Middle English Descriptivism and Prescriptivism Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Robert Lowth – A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762) Jonathan Swift - ‘A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue’ (1712) John Walker – A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary (1791) Otto Jespersen – Great Vowel Shift (1909) William Caxton – Printing Press (1476) John McWhorter – Textspeak (2013) Jean Aitchison – Language Change Progress or Decay? (2012) Vocal Fry and Uptalk Martin Janssen – Lexical gaps (2012) Functional view/theory Linguistic determinism and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Charles Hockett - Random Fluctuation Theory (1958) Peter Trudgill – Language Myths (1990) John Humphrys – Prescriptivist grammatical change Lynne Truss – Eats, Shoots and Leaves (2003) Jean Aitchison – A Web of Worries (1996) Guy Deutscher – The Unfolding of Language (2006) James Milroy and Lesley Milroy – Complaint tradition (1985) Robert Lane Greene – You Are What You Speak (2011) 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 59-67. 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 and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition Speaking

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 67 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language and Social Groups (with lots of work on Language and Age) 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 Communication Accommodation Theory (Convergence, Divergence, Interpersonal & Intergroup Communication) – Giles (1971) Communities of Practice – Lave and Wenger (1991 and 1998) Social Network Theory Belfast Study – Milroy (1975) New York Study & Martha’s Vineyard Study – Labov (1966 and 1963) Follow up to Martha’s Vineyard Study – Blake and Josey (2003) Reading study and ‘Age and Generation-specific use of language’ – Cheshire (1982 and 2006) Emerging Adulthood in Sociolinguistics – Bigham (2012) Trends in Teenage Talk – Stenström, Andersen and Hasund (2002) Age in Sociolinguistics – Eckert (1997) Age identity in Japan and the US – Ota, Harwood, Williams and Takai (2000) Teenage Talk – Eckert (2003 and 1989) Teenage language in West Yorkshire – Ives Bolton Study – Moore (2010) Teenage Slang – de Klerk (1997) and Zimmerman (2009) Teenage Talk - Stenström (2014) The Language of British Teenagers - Martínez (2011) Use of tags – Berland (1997) ‘Like’ as a discourse maker – Odato (2013) Creative linguistic processes in teenage slang – Fajardo (2018) Elaborated and Restricted Code – Bernstein (1964 and 1971) Criticisms of Bernstein – Rosen and Labov (1972) and Ivinson (2017) Discourse Community – Swales (1990) 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] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12975755) Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language Discourses

A 10 lesson unit comprising a 70 slide PowerPoint and 10 different worksheets exploring the topic of child language acquisition (reading and writing) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. The first 2 lessons are about reading and the final 8 are about writing. 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 examples of writing or a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 10), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered: Early literacy – Shirley Brice Heath (1983) Stages of Reading Development – Jeanne Chall (1983) Features of reading schemes Language Acquisition Support System – Jerome Bruner (1983) Synthetic phonics Stages of writing development – Barry Kroll (1981) Emergent writing Stages of writing development – Kathy Barclay (1996) Emergent literacy – Marie Clay (1975) Initial literacy – Yetta Goodman (1985) Ascender/descender graphemes, cursive handwriting and different types of join The impact of touchscreen technology on children’s writing – Dunn and Sweeney (2018) Homophones, graphemes and digraphs Stages of spelling - Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston (2004); Bear & Templeton (1998); Gentry (1977; 1982) Categories of spelling errors Functions of punctuation – David Crystal (1995) Learning About Punctuation – Nick Hall and Susan Robinson (1996) Playful punctuation – Andrew Burrell and Roger Beard (2022) Genre theory in children’s writing – J.R. Martin and Jean Rothery (1981) How genre is linked to schoolwork – Frances Christie (1987) Modes of children’s writing – James Britton (1982) Chronology in texts – Katherine Perera (1984) 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 Language Discourses Analysing Spoken Language Child Language Acquisition - Speech

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