A lesson on The Follower - Seamus Heaney. Covers the poem and key language features. Questions at the end too. GCSE English. Years 10-11.

Language and Technology powerpoint - useful starter exercises for language A level students.

Simple lesson idea based on the Young Apprentice - healthy eating theme, useful for group presentations. Suitable for business studies students too. Upto GCSE standard.

Questions on each scene of Act 2, focused on the text. GCSE AQA. Powerpoint.

Suitable for Year 3 - an explanation of idioms. An exercise on powerpoint with customisation.

Alphabetical order to the third letter power point with animations. Useful lesson material. Save preparation time.

Interpretations of Hamlet by various critics, questions for discussions. Useful for AO3 and context over time. Saves research. A Level , AS and GCSE discussions. Useful for NQTs and PGCE students. Word document so can be adapted.

A quick checklist of things to think about when writing a monologue for GCSE as part of creative writing - entertainment. Useful handout for revision. Gifted and talented. Students should read ‘A Lady of Letters’ monlogue by Alan Bennett.

General intro to love through the ages, with some starters for discussion. Some focus on Act 1 quotations about Desdemona and Othello. Interesting introduction powerpoint. Saves preparation time.

Simple text focused tasks. GCSE AQA. Powerpoint

A lesson’s worth of material for Seamus Heaney’s Digging - focusing on the poet’s use of language choice and themes. Includes reference to admiration of family, cultural expectations, community and historical references. Explanation of language choice in the powerpoint should help prompt discussion and understanding. Saves preparation! Would be suitable for all levels and abilities. Questions at the end based on the powerpoint’s content. Creative tasks to extend the work.

This single page will guide the students through close reading of the text of Act 1 Scene 1 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It asks specific questions to focus the students learning, as well as differentiated extension tasks of a variety of types of activities - writing, research, drama and wider reading. Aimed at GCSE or possibly AS or A level students. A close reading of the texts is essential for analysing and understanding ways in which meaning is shaped in literary texts. This is a simple word document, no fancy graphics, but ideal for getting to the heart of the issues.

Activities to support interpretation of the characters in Hamlet for A level. Suitable for AQA. Useful quotations from critics to discuss and reference to the text. Simple, but focused on the text.

Guided questions and activities on Act 3 Scene 1 of Hamlet. Ideal to guide students through close reading of the text and to enable thorough revision notes. There is nothing fancy about the word document - just academic questions, designed to keep students busy and focused. Good for a cover lesson and enough differentiation in the activities to appeal to most learner types. Suitable for GCSE students. Enough work for a couple of lessons at least.

27 pages which take you through the play, offering critics interpretations of how to read the scenes, as well as questioning your own reading. Useful for teachers newly qualified and new to the text. Ensures a good set of revision notes.

Critical interpretations of Hamlet - Act 3. Powerpoint with question activities focusing on the text with critic views. Useful for cover lessons and newly qualified teachers to save preparation time. A Level

Guided questions and interpretations on Hamlet. Lessons focused on the text. Useful for teachers new to the text. Useful for OCR or Edexcel A level or AS A level.

A powerpoint - very simple and adaptable - with questions and critics interpretations on Act 1. Useful for cover lesson and study at A level, GCSE level.

Close reading questions and activities on Act 3, scenes 3 and 4, plus additional activities on Act 3. A word document which will focus students on the text. Suitable for GCSE and A level, will enable a set of detailed notes. Raises links with other texts. Concise and to the point, the word document would help teacher preparation as well as serve as a useful cover lesson (s).

An exercise in comparing two text messages to see how the language changes according to the audience, purpose and context. Suggested areas to look at to help. No fancy graphics, just straight forward text exercise. Useful as a cover lesson. Targets year 11, 12 and 13 A level English students.