English teacher for upper schools with a passion for literature. My resources eschew flashy, clip-art-infested layouts for clean, focused, and advanced worksheets and activities for students and teachers.
English teacher for upper schools with a passion for literature. My resources eschew flashy, clip-art-infested layouts for clean, focused, and advanced worksheets and activities for students and teachers.
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 2, Chapters 6-11 (or Chapters 29-34 overall) of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Austen’s revolutionary use of irony in the novel (verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony).
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Digging Deeper: Types of Irony: This activity uses an engaging way to test student’s knowledge of the three main types of irony: verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. The activity is engaging and gets students thinking about how important irony is to good storytelling. I’ve also included an extended version of this activity, with an extended set of flashcards to enable more student engagement.
3. Irony in Pride and Prejudice: This activity is designed to test student’s understanding of types of irony as they apply the concepts to a range of key quotations and examples of irony in Pride and Prejudice. The activity is structured and allows scaffolding and group work in order to really help students get to grips with how Austen masterfully uses irony in her novel.
Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
**Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!**
This teaching unit focuses on Volume 3, Chapters 1-10 (or Chapters 43-52) overall) of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen with a particular focus on Pemberley, Lydia and Wickham’s elopement, and the attendant analysis of themes throughout the novel so far.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The unit includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Four fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Digging Deeper: Analysing Themes in Pride and Prejudice: This activity goes into considerable depth, exploring the role of themes in Pride and Prejudice. In addition to a preliminary exploration of the most prevalent themes, a follow-up activity looks at Austen’s variations on the theme of pride throughout the novel.
3. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
This FREE no-prep bundle of activities is designed to enable the in-depth teaching and preparation of the poem “Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William Shakespeare. The poem is also on the IGCSE English Literature curriculum for exams in 2026-2028.
The unit includes:
1) Short biography and introduction to the poet
2) The poem text with line numbers to facilitate a close-reading, including historical context and explanatory notes where necessary.
3) Pre-Teaching Activities: to facilitate teaching the poem & exam prep in class. I’ve focused on the Shakespearean sonnet (structure and form).
4) After Reading Activities: a range of activities ideal as follow-up to reading the poem in class. Topics covered include: aporia (figurative device), visualising the poem, “Sonnet 18” - reading aloud and a first analysis.
5) Close-reading & Analysis Questions, with a particular focus on poetic devices and the IGCSE English Literature exam criteria.
6) Exam Practice Questions, modeled after the IGCSE English Literature Assessment Criteria (AO1-AO4). These can be used as a mock exam with your students.
7) Detailed model answers for all activities, questions, as well as model answers for the practice exam questions, again based on IGCSE Exam Rubric (A01-AO4).
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The FREE BUNDLE includes the following selection of materials that will complement teaching and revising for the IGCSE English Literature Exams in 2026-2028, with a particular focus on poetry from Vol. 1:
Roadmap and Scheme of Work for IGCSE Vol. 2, Part 3 Poetry for Exams in 2025-2027
Figurative Language Flashcards
Creative Writing Activity: Free Verse
Creative Writing Activity: Sonnet
Comparative Analysis Activity
Analysing Poetry - SIFT Method Activity
Shakespeare’s Language - An Extensive Introduction
Poetry Appreciation Week - A Selection of Favourites
The activities and the scheme of work are designed to complement my IGCSE Poetry 2026-2028: Vol. 1 TEACH + EXAM PREP + ANSWERS Bundle
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This FREE teaching and exam practice unit focuses on Volume 1, Chapters 9-12 of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
The novel is also on the IGCSE English Literature syllabus for exams 2026 and 2027 as well as the A/AS-Level English Literature syllabus for exams 2024-2026.
The bundle includes:
1. Comprehension: Quick Quiz Activities: Two fun, quick quiz activities to test your students’ reading, and to enable an engaging introduction to the main topics and learning objectives of the unit. I’ve also included a link for an interactive Kahoot!-version of this quick quiz that you can alternatively do with your students!
2. Close Reading: Find the Quote Quiz: This is another fun activity that facilitates an engaging close reading of the most pertinent quotes or statements from the chapters. The quotes have been carefully selected so that you can also use them to segway to the main digging deeper activity.
3. Digging Deeper: Austen’s Minor Characters: This activity introduces / revisits concepts of characterisation, with a particular focus on minor characters and which function they can fulfil or serve in Austen’s storytelling.
4. Exam Practice: Passage-Based Response: This activity enables exam practice for IGCSE & AS/A-Levels in a structured, scaffolded manner that focuses on the exam assessment criteria. It is also directly linked to the concepts of minor character and characterisation taught in the previous activity. Additionally, the question addresses concepts of characterisation as foreshadowing.
5. Teacher’s Guide & Model Answers for all activities. The teacher’s guide includes detailed model answers for all activities as well as the link to the alternative digital Kahoot! activities.
***Happy teaching, studying, revising, and reading!
Feedback is always welcome!*