These resources can be used for GCSE and/or Functional Skills English courses. The worksheets support learners with understanding and using apostrophes in sentences. It includes instructions and activities on apostrophes for contractions, ownership and irregular plural nouns. There are two worksheets - the second worksheet should be used to solidfy learning as it includes a mini assessment. I recommend having your own copy and going through the activities together giving students time to complete the activities in between. Enjoy! T.

This resource supports the content of GCSE English Language (AQA) for the Paper 2 exam. Using the theme of the Titanic, learners will engage in a range of activities tailored to the skills needed for the exam, such as picking out four facts from watching a National Geographic video, identifying language features from Walter Lord’s ‘A Night to Remember’, and research / discussion activities to develop speaking and listening skills, as well as expressing and justifying a point of view. What’s included: the PowerPoint lesson and accompanying handouts. 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 supports the up-skilling of vocabulary for GCSE or Functional Skills (Level 2) English learners or, in fact, any course to embed English in the curriculum and develop vocabulary. It can be presented as a game where learners have to create sentences with the same letter of each word using the formula: adjective, noun, adverb, verb, adjective, noun. I use this to stretch and challenge, giving letters Q and K to those with a faster pace. Enjoy! T.

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 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.