Document compiling useful resources and websites for enhancing Spanish learning (designed for AS and A Level but some may also be relevant to GCSE).

A collation of various free resources for Spanish A Level on the film Volver found online - not my own but sharing what’s out there in one place in case this is useful for others!

Bullet-point essay plan exploring gender, femininity and masculinity in Macbeth - raises questions and context points for the class to think about, discuss further and find quotes for.

Latin crossword practising vocab, verb conjugation and noun cases. Created for pupils revising for 13+ entrance exams (also appropriate for end of year9/beginning year10).

An English crossword featuring questions on classical literature and history.

1 page document outlining how to form adverbs, comparatives and superlatives in Latin. Useful for 13+ or GCSE.

A Latin crossword, inspired by the style in the The Times on Saturdays. Clues are a mixture of literature, vocab, history and Harry Potter (some mildly cryptic, others straightforward translation).

Essay plan on the theme of language in Animal Farm (designed to be used for the AQA GCSE syllabus). Points also applicable to rhetoric, propaganda and manipulation.

2-page handout of biographical information about Tennessee Williams, focusing on details particularly relevant to the play A Streetcar Named Desire for use as context in A-Level essays.

Powerpoint with four slides of vocabulary and useful phrases for talking about holidays (types of destination advantages, booking and staying in accomodation)

5-page powerpoint containing useful phrases for giving arguments and opinions, expressing time, linking sentences, or introducing impressive structures. Level: advanced GCSE/more basic AS and A-Level.

Guidance on how to approach comprehension questions on an unseen passage. Useful for KS3 English and for 11+ entrance examinations.

I compiled a list of vocab which pupils I was tutoring for Latin 13+ regularly found confusing or mixed up in translations - this proved extremely helpful. Attached a copy with English meanings and a Latin-only copy that can be used as a vocab test.

Bullet points comparing and contrasting the characterisation of Daisy and Myrtle. Discusses what their presentation reveals about social class, gender and the perspective of the narrator.

Resource with notes and activities on different ways of starting a sentence, suggesting -ed, -ing and -ly words. Aimed primarily at students going for the 11+, but could be relevant to KS3 students as well.

3 page document outlining tips for GCSE English Language exams. Covers: answering longer questions about an unseen passage, suggestions of language and structure techniques to look out for, how to approach creative writing exam questions (writing to persuade, explain or describe).

Step-by-step, easy to follow guide on how to approach a Latin translation. Helpful tool for pupils who get in a muddle with the word order. I tend to use this with 13+ or Y8-9 pupils.

A couple of slides explaining food chains and pyramids (transfer of energy and biomass), decay, diagram of carbon cycle. Designed for B10+11 of the AQA GCSE Biology Dual Award specification.

5 slide powerpoint containing: flame tests, tests for cations and anions, separating mixtures, chromatography, tests for oxygen co2 hydrogen and water). Designed for C11 of the GCSE AQA Chemistry Dual Award specification.

Notes and model essay plan looking at essay technique and using context in essays through a focus on the theme of the supernatural in Macbeth. (3 pages, used for 1hr of tutoring) Designed for GCSE AQA English.