An Inspector Calls
Resources for KS4 and upper secondary
Explore key themes from J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls in your English classroom with our range of ready-to-use resources from character guides, to full lessons and knowledge organisers. We've brought together the tools that your students will need to investigate the play and provide an informed personal response.
Lessons and activities
Identify dramatic devices, unpick key themes and examine contrasting characters in J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls with these schemes of work, lessons and activities.
An Inspector Calls GCSE Context Posters
A collection of detailed and visually appealing posters exploring the context of An Inspector Calls *in relation to when the play was set.* These are great to have as a classroom display in your room. Similarly, these can be used as part of a marketplace activity whereby students learn about various...
An Inspector Calls: The Trial
A sequence of lessons based on the premise that the Birlings and Gerald are on trial for Eva Smith's manslaughter that encourages engagement with the play on a close textual level and improve students' analytical skills. The structured PPT guides students through the entire process in an emersive ...
An Inspector Calls - Context - LAP & EAL - 2024 ( 26 page lesson, booklet + quiz)
Unlock the intriguing world of J.B. Priestley's "An Inspector Calls" with our comprehensive context resource, tailored specifically for KS3 and KS4 students, including those with lower English proficiency and EAL learners. This engaging and accessible resource ensures all students can gra...
An Inspector Calls Low Ability SOW
Adapted my An Inspector Calls scheme for a low ability group I'm teaching this year. Also includes the online text, broken down into character interrogations.
An Inspector Calls: quotations to colour in
A gentle end of term revision activity for An Inspector Calls. Students colour in the visual representation of 15 key quotations before going on to complete the differentiated extension activity which involves exploring the importance of the quotations in conveying Priestley s message. I have lot...
Women in 'An Inspector Calls'
This is a super clear powerpoint consisting of 16 slides that guides the class through the presentation of women in An Inspector Calls . There are activities for the students with answers on separate slides. Additionally, there are also some ideas for exploring the text in different ways which ...
Key learning and revision
From knowledge organisers to help your students condense and consolidate knowledge to escape rooms, quotation quizzes and practice questions, explore this selection of resources below from teachers in the Tes community.
An Inspector Calls Escape Room
Escape the Birlings' house! We ve put together this detailed English lesson that introduces or re-introduces language, structure, stagecraft and genre. Students work in groups to escape the home of the Birling family and have to solve numerous puzzles and activities in order to get out. Using a...
An Inspector Calls: Breakdown the Question
This worksheet is best A3 as students can consider the key assessment objectives when answering an exam question. This sheet is specific to the modern prose section. There is a modelled example on the second sheet to support students gaining the most from the work sheet. Click. Download. Print!
An Inspector Calls Core Knowledge Exam Revision
Great for the last lesson before the exam. Includes: - Plot summary - key context - focus on the key theme of the social responsibility - key quotations - key question with sentence stems for introduction and main paragraphs Focuses on core knowledge but can be adapted depending on ability of stud...
An Inspector Calls Quotation Retrieval Quizzes
Print off a class set at the start of the year (different levels of difficulty on different colours of paper, perhaps) and laminate. Then these sheets can be quickly put on desks at the start of a lesson, or students can collect them on their way in, to be used for stress-free knowledge retrieval p...
An Inspector Calls essay plans
Two structured essay plans on 'An Inspector Calls' - could be cut up and offered to the students to organise and/or add quotations to... Then there's a third essay question scaffold for them to fill in themselves. Again, could be adapted and used in lots of creative ways.
An Inspector Calls - Context
Document containing social and historical context for J.B Prietsley's An Inspector Calls (text for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2) Includes: * Priestley and his political views * Society in 1912 * Society in 1945 * Socialism vs Capitalism * Class Division * Gender * The Titanic * ...
An Inspector Calls Key Quotes
A table that narrows down all the key quotes in An Inspector Calls to just 21. Students can be very overwhelmed when trying to learn lots and lots of quotes to suit different questions. The 21 quotes I have chosen here should suit any question that comes up on character or theme, so encouraging stud...
An Inspector Calls Knowledge Organiser
A knowledge organiser I made for my GCSE class on An Inspector Calls. It is designed under the master principle, with a focus on providing key knowledge that students need to target top grades.
An Inspector Calls AQA GCSE English Lit - Grade 9 Sample Essays/Model Answers (x2)
Sample paragraph: Eva Smith is one of the most complex characters presented by Priestley in An Inspector Calls. Used as a tool to highlight several strands of Priestley s social and moral ideals, he never gives her the agency to appear on stage or even a voice to narrate her own story. Despite ...
GCSE revision resources
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