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

Last lesson in the series which explores HOT skills for a lower ability 6th Grade class. Handout and visual version included.

Lower ability, uses images to elicit response. Choose to ask students WHICH image they would choose from the poem. Lesson involves students selecting positive and negative element from the river's experience. Introduces the idea of personification...h/w to produce a similar poem of your own (can be powerpoint with images)

Penultimate lesson in this series. Students test modal verbs and complete handout.

Feedback on this please :) Students decide on a real life dilemma between a woman and her husband. Lots of scope for drama and enough for two lesson. Read the second to last slide first ! Based on actual case in America. All ready to deliver and argue.

Lesson uses a song to explore war attitudes. Gap filling listening exercise included.

Small test on opposites in vocabulary. Some tricky stuff and some varying answers. Worksheet included.\nAdaptable to all levels.

Sequel to Antonyms. Worksheet included. Adaptable to all levels. Could be used with class reading book/novel to develop and extend vocabulary. Feedback, please :)

A new look at the apostrophe and a chance for students to bet on their answers. Give each team a thousand pounds to start and let them decide. See You say, I pay on this website

A basic guide on how to use fullstops, commas and question marks. Worksheet included. Basic but useful for those who weren't listening last time. more to come.

Lesson uses this question to guide a class debate about domestic animals. Surveys, discussion points and an amusing clip included. Kids loved the lesson as it homes in on something very personal.

Lesson allows students to compare their own experience with their teacher's. Creates empathy and bonding between the two. Worksheet attached, Adaptable to all levels and my students loved it. Homework included. Feedback pls. :)

Lesson asks this question and wonders if humanity deserves a second chance after our present record. Worksheet included. Can easily be adapted to different levels, cultures etc. Feedback please !

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

lesson requires students to bet virtual money on whether they think a sentence is correctly written.\ninstructions on power point and basic worksheet included. Can be adapted to ANYTHING.

Lesson takes students through different ways of making their writing less boring/repetitive.\nWorksheet included.

Students link characters in the novel to photos in an all-feline casting. Explores the novel in a different way.Only a starter but fun. SEE ALSO Of Mice and DOGS. See also HAMlet, Pinks of Denmark for an all pig casting.Matt Posner: It's a powerpoint with pictures of cats and instructions to match the cats to characters in The Great Gatsby for an imaginary all-cat version of that novel. It's like a feline Terror of Tiny Town. And the resource provider has made two others as noted above.

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.

Explores the concept of patriotism and asks what features of England he admired. Asks if this poem is mawkish.

Students use a real press release about a lost wedding ring to produce an original piece of writing. Will need extra input but the idea is here.