A month of words for you to set one each day. Students work out meaning from context and then write their own sentence. A great opener to all English lessons and it keep them up to sped with dictionary skills. You could, however include a dictionary link.

Ten poems read by famous people to explore and simply listen to. This is just meant to relax students but you could create questions.

Lesson explores the answer to this question and includes an extract from The Great Gatsby to test the students' interpretation skills.

An intro to English at secondary school. Recap of vocabulary and punctuation. Ready to go !

Intro to the classic short story. Story and questions attached. Keep the light on. Aligned with Common Core State Standards: RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.7.2, RL.8.2

Students discuss the possible answers to this question and identify how to overcome the fear of getting things wrong.

Lesson stresses the need to check through work before submitting it. Includes worksheet and BLOOMS questions. Answers also !

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Seven dilemmas for discussion. Group activities. Sharpens speaking and reasoning. Adaptable. Use as a carousel activity so al groups have a chance to discuss dilemmas and feedback as a whole at the end.

A way of recycling previous knowledge which really engages the students and takes almost no time to set up. Ideas and examples on slides.

Revision aid and/or activity for the novel. adaptable template.Print on A3 for best results.

Students complete front page of newspaper published on the day after the death of Romeo and Juliet. Essentially an AFL but also useful as revision aid. More to come.Print on A3 for best results.

A recap/revision exercise on the novel but also useful as a chapter by chapter check on knowledge (you'll have to adapt). Print on A3 for best results.

Lesson give pairs of students 15 quotations about Life etc and ask them to explain their meaning. Encourages expression and paraphrase.

Empathy lesson. Students receive a photo of a house/dwelling and write/speak about the person who lives there. Adaptable and versatile. Feedback pls :)

Lesson continues the ballad and explores various language devices.

Illustrated slide-show of the poem. Convenient.

Students use a real news story to create a series of diary entries. Basic format here but will need additional input.

Lesson asks students some deeper questions about the language.

Student's imagine that Pip goes to the barber after his first visit to Satis house. They write the conversation between the two. Empathy needed. Lesson includes prompts.