I'm an English teacher who enjoys creating resources. I create things mainly for GCSE English Language and Functional Skills. I also teach creative writing and I like to look at ways for my learners to improve their writing.
I have been teaching for six years and I like to make complex material as simple as possible for my learners.
I'm an English teacher who enjoys creating resources. I create things mainly for GCSE English Language and Functional Skills. I also teach creative writing and I like to look at ways for my learners to improve their writing.
I have been teaching for six years and I like to make complex material as simple as possible for my learners.
A one page resource on jargon suitable for GCSE and Functional Skills.
The worksheet has an example of jargon used in climate change and gives examples of jargon for the students to define.
50 varied and fun ideas for writing shot stories. Ideal to use individually for the whole class to write the same story or to use as a whole and let the students choose a prompt.
Prompts can also be used as a starter or discussion points. Also, these are very good to practise planning a piece of work as they promote imagination.
This resource has plenty of games/puzzles and revision activities.
Rather than purchase each resource for £2.00 get this Bumper Pack.
Four Picture One Word Starter.
Catchphrase Starter
Language Features Snakes and Ladders
Language Feature Wordsearch X 4
Presentational Feature Wordsearch X 3
Language Features Crossword
Language Feature Quick Revision Table with Effects on the Reader
Practise Inference Workbooklet
Revision Activity for Question 3 and 4.
Normally worth £20.00. Buy now for £7.00
An ideal task for group work or paired work, this resource includes a list of the EU countries and the students match the flag to the country.
This is excellent for engaging students who are also into football or athletics as they recognise the flags and feel comfortable with the task. This is also perfect for inspiring a discussion about the EU. It can also be used as a starter activity.
Bumper pack of games and puzzles to revise English Language GCSE or Functional Skills English Level 1 and Level 2.
Pack includes:
Language feature snakes and ladders
Four language feature based wordsearches
Three presentational features based wordsearches
Two starter activities, English based Catchphrase and Four Pictures One Word.
Language features bingo for up to 30 students.
A game to practise the use of imperative verbs
Language features crossword.
These resources are all available to buy separately. £16.00 of resources for £6.00.
This resource is a Power Point with tasks and activities to help learners revise word classes.
There is a workbook for students to follow the exercises including a wordsearch, a crossword, anagrams, a board blast style game and other activities.
I have included some pictures for the imperative verb game.
This resource is perfect for learners studying GCSE English language and Functional Skills Level 1- 2. It helps learners understand how to use word classes to help their writing.
This activity takes one and half to two hours.
This is a seven page workbook to help learners understand inference.
The workbook includes four short pieces of fiction with questions on what is inferred in each text.
The learners are then asked to describe a character to a reader and guided through the process of using inference in their writing.
The booklet also includes a peer assessment sheet to allow the learners to evaluate the success of the inference.
This resource has simplified inference making it ideal for learners who struggle to find inference in more complex texts.
Suitable for GCSE English Language and Functional Skills learners.
This booklet takes about an hour to complete and a highlighter should be used to complete the reading section.
This is a Power Point presentation and worksheet perfect for GCSE English Language and Functional Skills Level 1- 2.
The learners are asked to act as journalists, watching a report about the Hatton Garden Gang and taking notes to locate the vital information.
The learners then get into groups of three or four and answer questions on the report. The worksheet allows the students to answer the questions on paper. The answers are provided on the Power Point.
The Power Point then asks the learners to partake in a board blast to list what they would include in a newspaper article and some answers are provided.
Finally, the learners can use some time to research the gang before creating a newspaper article on the Hatton Garden Gang appealing to the public for information on the missing suspect.
This lesson last around an hour and a half and can be split into two equal lessons of the listening comprehension and the writing task.
GCSE English Language revision sheet could be used in lessons for revision, to help complete classwork and practise questions.
A glossary of 22 language techniques with definition and the effects the techniques have on the reader.
This resource is two pages long, easy to read, easy to understand and colourful. It can be used to help learners start to think how language features are effective.
Perfect to include in a revision pack for learners. Can also be used for revision of Functional Skills Level 2.
A huge bumper pack of resources for the revision of the AQA GCSE English Language Foundation paper.
***Warning*** This is by no means a definitive pack of resources for the GCSE but it is a bumper pack of my resources for people who want to save money, rather than purchasing all of them. This makes it EXTREMELY good value for money. Please read carefully and consider carefully before purchasing because I sell these resources to help not offend.
Resources include:
Three whole lessons, two activities, seven games/puzzles and two resources to focus on revision.
The pack includes two resources on writing a newspaper article, word classes, language features, presentational features and inference.
Over £25.00 of resources for £15.00.
A 10 question book quiz with 71 possible points available. Ideal for a group activity, starter or ice breaker.
All questions feature books by British authors to test the knowledge of the learners and to stretch their knowledge in preparation for the exam. Questions vary in difficulty and hopefully all students will enjoy partaking in this quiz.
All answers are on slides at the end of the quiz.
Four bumper A4 wordsearches featuring Shakespeare's plays.
Ideal to use as starters or a general activity.
Each wordsearch can be purchased for £2.00 from my shop. This pack of four wordsearches is £4.00 as part of a bundle offer making this a half price offer!
A wordsearch featuring the tragedies of William Shakespeare. Ideal as a starter or general activity.
12 plays are included:
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida.
Four resources at a reduced price.
This bundle includes two lengthy Power Point book quizzes, one general book quiz and one quiz to match the author to the correct century.
The bundle also features worksheets - a multiple choice author quiz with pictures of the authors and novels.
When used over four lessons these resources will promote reading and encourage students to try new authors.
Finally, this reduced price bundle includes a wordsearch of British Authors.
All resources can be used as starters or general activities.
Usually, each of the four resources sell for £2.00 each. This bundle is half price at £4.00.
A wordsearch based on the French vocabulary for types of fruit.
18 fruits are featured and all answers are in French allowing the students to translate the fruits after they have finished the wordsearch.
Wordsearches allow students to build their reading skills by using skimming and scanning techniques. This resource is ideal to use as a starter task or an extention task.
A quiz of 20 slides that asks learners to decide which century each British author is from.
This quiz is ideal for GCSE English Language/Literature and will promote the reading of a wider range of books.
Each slide includes a picture from all three centuries on a particular topic such as food, transport etc to increase knowledge of historical context. They also include animation features so the answers are revealed per slide, not at the end of the quiz.
Each slide can become a discussion point to allow learners to imagine what life would be like in each century and other tasks can be created from these discussions.
A resource designed to engage students in reading and books. This resource has 20 questions and asks learners to name an author from a picture of the author with a picture of their book. Easy answers included to engage learners but learners are also stretched with authors they may not necessarily know.
This resource was designed with British literature in mind but does contain some popular international authors. All answers include multiple choice options to help further expand learners knowledge of authors.
This resource is ideal as a starter, a general activity or as a basis for further discussion/self assessment on reading.
This resource will have to be printed in colour.
Huge bumper pack of wordsearches for GCSE English Language/ Literature and Functional Skills English at various levels. Wordsearches help learners build their reading skills by practising skimming and scanning techniques.
This pack includes 13 wordsearches which are ideal to use as starters or as a general activity.
This pack includes:
X 4 language features
X 3 presentational features
X 4 Shakespeare wordsearches
X 1 Famous British Authors Wordsearch
X 1 Roald Dahl Wordsearch
These can be found for sale in my shop for a total of £14.00 (When the Shakespeare bundle is purchased, £18.00 if not.) and are a bargain at just £6.00.