Lesson designed to raise awareness of sameness not difference. Useful for P4C or tutors. Raises lots of questions and gives students opportunity to reflect on how colour affects our lives.

Lesson takes students through some clearly poor spelling. Worksheet included. Extend by asking them to create ten more examples.

Illustrated slide show of the poem. Convenient for revision or introduction to the poem.

Allows students to discuss what ' rules' are about. Takes them through stages which they can then apply to their own experience.

important words for discussing the novel are tested in this lesson.

Lesson introduces ORATOR as a mnemonic to aid a swift draft of a persuasive speech. Can be adapted for writing as well. Worksheet task included. Students assess each other for significant progress.

Discussion lesson on the nature of LUCK.

lesson asks these questions and touches on how aliens might treat us given how we treat creatures lower down the ladder on earth.

Part one of a year 7 SOW. Ready to deliver. Notes at bottom of slides.

This lesson is to introduce or review parts of speech and basic linguistic devices.

Introduction to Mercutio's Queen Mab speech. Speech attached. Explains Elizabethan thinking on dreams.

illustrated slideshow of the poem. Useful as a starter.

Resolve to ensure your students know 21 Literary techniques with examples and a brief description of their effect. Ideal for a lesson starter/SETTLING ACTIVITY. Ilustrated.

Lesson designed around vacation where everything goes wrong. Students view slides and write apposite similes; introduce these into a letter of dissatisfaction. Fairly self-explanatory but might need a slide on FORMAL/INFORMAL writing.

Fun revision activities for Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Students use the letters of THE TITLE to remember key themes and work in pairs to find appropriate quotations for these themes.

Roald Dahl’s GENESIS & CATASTROPHE. Some questions attached. Takes 1/2 hour.

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

Illustrated slide show of the poem.

Students imagine they are Romeo/Juliet both before and after their meeting at Capulet's ball. They update their facebook according to their new feelings. Obviously this format would work for any character in any play/story. See also Hamlet and Ophelia on Facebook lesson.

Students have an antipathy toward questions about texts. Here's an exercise with NO text. As they work their way through the questions, the actual,text becomes clearer. There's no right answer, but there are logical ones. Silent start/ one sentence answers and then ....write up the story to which THESE are the questions. Pass to partner and answer. Student led lesson.