Ever struggled to explain the twisting and turning plot of Shakespeare’s classic play to younger students? If so then this resources can help you. Terry Deary has condensed the plot into a twenty-five verse poem called “The Ballad of Big Mac”. Students study the poem over two lessons, analysing the plot and language techniques in the poem. Having identified Deary’s use of pathetic fallacy, students are guided and supported to create their own witch and introduce him or her using pathetic fallacy. After peer-assessing each other’s work, students study an extract from “Doomspell” by Cliff McNish in which he introduces his witch, Dragwena. Students are then encouraged to re-draft and improve their descriptions using all the techniques which they have been taught in the two texts. Designed with less able students in mind, this folder of work would also suit primary school children. The folder includes. Copy of poem with numbered verses so students can be allocated a verse to practice reading/performing to class. A seven-page student workbook with a two comprehension cloze exercises on the poem and guided activities. Teacher answers to cloze exercises. Copy of extract from “Doomspell”. This resource could also be used as an introduction to my other lesson available on this website called “The Witches Spell”.

Taking three poems which personify the wind as examples, students will be inspired to write their own personification poem on one of the three remaining elements - fire, water or the Earth. The thirty-five slide powerpoint explains how the Ancient Greeks used to personify the four winds. An accompanying worksheet includes a fill-in-the-blank exercise on the key poem and asks students to consider the effect of the personification. Step by step on how to create your own poem to lead to understanding of how and why writers use personification.

Approximately 7,000 words have come into English from French and there are several ‘true friends’, words that are the same in both languages. Surprise your students with how much French they know already with these forty clues to French words. If the clue is too difficult, the first letter of the word is also included on the slide. All answers provided. Students can work independently or in groups and mark their own work.

230 slide Powerpoint accompanied by 15 worksheets on Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Covers historical background with lots of opportunities for character analysis. Two separate folders with support to write two essays - one on animal imagery and the other on imagery of light and dark.

Ten lessons on poetry based on the theme of superheroes aimed a weak Key Stage 3 students or Key Stage 2 students. Folder includes nine lessons with powerpoints and a twenty-five page student activity book. The scheme culminates in students creating their own superhero and then writing a story about a typical day in the life of their superhero. The poems are hilarious. Have great fun with this scheme of work. All fully adaptable in Word and Powerpoint format.

Teach your students the importance of the history of sailing and its effect on the language with three-part lesson. First read a timeline of the history of sailing. Then create sentences with seven idioms from the semantic field of sailing. (Both these terms are explained on the Powerpoint). Finally, students create and educational poster to explain the origin of idiomatic expressions from the world of sailing.

Worksheet and Powerpoint that practises and explains these two confusing words. The Powerpoint includes a fun activity where students guess the correct word from a series of posters and film posters. In total thirty chances for students to practise getting the confusing words right.

Film vocabulary quiz on 15 key terms from the world of film. The first round gives a clue and the second round provides the answers. Cartoon graphics also give clues. A fun activity to help students write a film review.

Lewis Hamilton gave a recent interview in which he opened up about the racist abuse that he had suffered at primary school and at secondary school. By exploring Hamilton’s experience, students are asked to consider the effects of racist abuse on people’s mental health. Students are asked what they can do to follow Hamilton’s example to promote diversity and inclusivity in society.

Everything that you need to teach about the life of the great bard. A Powerpoint gives the important known details of his life and an additional Powerpoint includes a quiz with multiple choice answers to the key questions about his life. The folder contains a worksheet with three pages of written information on his life and a timeline to fill in that could be used as follow-up or homework.

Get your students using the exciting language of travel writing with this Powerpoint that guides them through the techniques to sell two different Spanish cities - Malaga and Alicante. Authentic adverts for each city are analysed on the Powerpoint and then students are given information about a third Spanish city - Valencia, so that they can create an advert using the same style as the examples. The texts on Malaga and Alicante are included in the folder so that you can get your students to analyse the techniques before showing them the Powerpoint, if you prefer.

Teach your students to use a variety of interesting sentences in their writing, including complex sentences with this 13 slide Powerpoint that gives several examples of the most common types of sentence in modern persuasive travel writing.

Teach your students to think outside the box and the power of metaphors with the intense, five-line cinquain poetry lesson. The example poem compares anger to a bull, allowing you also to explore the nature of emotions and the representations of animals. A lot of lesson in just five lines! Enjoy!