Lesson continues the ballad and explores various language devices.

Students assess the qualities of a good Travel Agent and then use their skills to decide appropriate holidays for selected people. They take notes, watch clips and decide.

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.

Lesson builds on students' experience of recent weather conditions and ask them to be descriptive. Needs adapting but illustrated to prompt responses. You'll need a collection of thesauruses .

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

Lesson asks students to examine WHY being part of a multicultural society might be a good thing/bad thing.\nVideo clips included. Ready to go. A bit London centric but can be adapted to other cities :)

10 slides about the novella designed to get students thinking about what they revise.

Students use wacky headlines as stimuli to write the article that might have appeared in the newspaper. Fun and productive. Can be used for homework.

illustrated slideshow of the poem. Useful as a starter.

Some slides containing ICONS which can be integrated into your lessons and and external explanations of each category. Many thanks to the acknowledged link in this resource.

Lesson asks students to choose and compare between jobs NOW and THEN. Utterly gross jobs, utterly interested students.

Lesson asks students to write a news report under pressure. Asks them to prioritise and select pictures to accompany article. good for BBC News report.

Lesson shows students that writing need not be about the extraordinary but could be extraordinary writing about everyday things. Focusses on the senses and gives a visual prompt.

Resource explores the sometimes pointless warnings we get on labels and signs and asks students to decide if they have a point or not.

Another installment showing why students need to be numerate. Deal or no deal in the shops etc. See Real Maths out shopping part one.

15 questions for tutor time. students work in pairs to prepare an answer for the rest of the group. Set for research h/w/ PSHE lessons. Enough for fifteen weeks.

Illustrated version of the sonnet for revision/adaptation etc.

Fed up with the same old errors ? Give this quick starter a try. No doubt there will be more along this line.:)