This resource uses Ravenscroft’s ‘You’re a Mean One Mr Grinch’ to support students in identifying language features. This could be used as a fun starter activity, perhaps around Christmas time! Enjoy! T.

This resource supports the learning of language analysis and structural analysis for GCSE English Language (AQA) using two extracts from Peter Benchley’s ‘Jaws’. Activities include: information retrieval, identifying explicit and implicit information and making inferences, and analysing extracts. Enjoy! T.

These bookmarks can be given out at the beginning of the year or during the revision period as a visual aid to support learners with answering exam-style questions. They include the formula MEME that I use with my GCSE English Language (AQA) learners which stands for: Method (identify the language / structural feature) Evidence (back up with a small quote) Meaning (interpretation / inference) Effect (what it makes you Feel, Imagine, Think) Enjoy! T.

This resource has been adapted from the Chapter 4 of ‘Book 1 AQA GCSE English Language: Developing the Skills for Learning and Assessment’ (Backhouse and Emm, 2015). I have created a PowerPoint lesson out of the extracts and activities within Chapter 4 of the said book. Learners will be practising their AO1 skillage with the theme of talking cats from Alice in Wonderland and Coraline. Enjoy! T.

This GCSE ENGLISH Language (AQA) resource includes a PowerPoint lesson and two extracts about P T Barnum (a review of Hugh Jackman’s portrayal and an autobiographical account of PT Barnum). I cannot take full credit as the extracts and exam style questions, I believe, came from TES, but it inspired me to create this lesson. This includes discussions on being an outsider, disability, child exploitation and exploitation for entertainment purposes. The hit “This is Me” is also used as a starter for students to analyse the language features and make inferences. Enjoy! T.