This is part 3 of a 5 week unit of work preparing students for their AQA Paper 2 English Language exam. A PowerPoint guiding teachers (and students) through all the activities is included as are all the handouts of extracts referred to. In this week students revisit all the skills required for questions 1 to 4. The lessons include: Further development of Question 4 skills using extracts from 'Henry Mayhew visits a prison' and 'Alex Cavendish goes back to prison'; An alternative Qu4 assessment exploring childhood; Assessment of Qus 1 to 4 using Bill Bryson's travel book and Dickens' travelogue; Question by question guidance for this assessment. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included in the Week 1 resources which is available as a free resource. Other weeks can be purchased separately or are available as a bundle.

A PowerPoint presentation and accompanying extracts to support students in preparing for the comparison question for the Paper 2 examination. Students look at how to compare different extracts and then annotate their copies. Focuses on comparing how writers' perspectives of war are presented using A Soldier's Declaration and Guns in the Distance. Also explores the different experiences of prison using Henry Mayhew visits a prison and Alex Cavendish goes back to prison. There is a final assessment comparing different views of childhood using Why we shouldn't wrap our children in cotton wool and London Labour and the Labour Poor.

This is part 3 of a 5 week unit of work preparing students for their AQA Paper 1 English Language exam. A PowerPoint guiding teachers (and students) through all the activities is included as are all the handouts of extracts referred to. In this week students are introduced to the requirements for questions 4&5. The lessons include: Developing Question 4 skills using extracts from ‘The Masque of the Red Death’; introduction to the requirements for Question 5; guidance for planning a descriptive piece of writing. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included in the Week 1 resources which is available for free. Other weeks can be purchased separately or are available as a bundle.

This is the final part of a 5 week unit of work preparing students for their AQA Paper 1 English Language exam. A PowerPoint guiding teachers (and students) through all the activities is included. In this week students are introduced to the skills required for the Narrative Writing question and given planning and preparation materials for writing a story about a case of Mistaken Identity. There is also a Skills Booklet using an extract from ‘The Shrunken Man’ to recap on all the Paper 1 skills. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included in the Week 1 resources which is available as a free resource. Other weeks can be purchased separately or are available as a bundle.

This is part 4 of a 5 week unit of work preparing students for their AQA Paper 1 English Language exam. A PowerPoint guiding teachers (and students) through all the activities is included. In this week students continue to develop their descriptive writing skills focusing on effective openings and creating an extended metaphor. There are a number of photographs which can be used for extended writing for assessment purposes. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included in the Week 1 resources which is available as a free resource. Other weeks can be purchased separately or are available as a bundle.

I wrote this 5 week scheme of work for my GCSE English group. They were struggling with narrative writing and so I wanted to inspire with them with some effective short story writing. So who better than the master of the macabre - Roald Dahl? In this series of lessons students read a range of his stories and many of the tasks are linked to revising key skills that will be used in their Language exams. Included here are the Week 4 lessons. There is a PowerPoint presentation to guide students (and teachers) through all of the activities. This week’s lessons uses Dahl’s story The Umbrella Man and covers language skills for Paper 1 Questions 3 and 5. A copy of the story is included. Week 1 lessons and an overview of the whole unit of work is available as a free resource. Additional weeks, along with the stories, can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.

This is a booklet with a variety of activities to support students revising the play, Macbeth. Includes a Plot Summary activity and accompanying questions for each Act; Questions on every scene; Character word search; Crossword; Character revision sheets and a Key Quotations exercise. All answers are provided in a separate booklet. Suitable as revision activities in a lesson or as homework tasks. The Act 1 Plot Summary worksheet and Macbeth Character Revision sheet are available as free resources. The booklet is a PDF document to make printing easier but all word files are also included for editing purposes.

This is a single worksheet to support students revising the character of Banquo. All questions can easily be answered using a copy of the play or other online revision resources. All answers are provided on a separate sheet. Suitable as a revision activity in a lesson or as a homework task. Macbeth is available as a free resource - further character revision sheets can be purchased separately or as a bundle. These revision sheets are included in the Macbeth Revision Activity Booklet which is also available for purchase.

This is a single worksheet to support students revising the character of Macduff. All questions can easily be answered using a copy of the play or other online revision resources. All answers are provided on a separate sheet. Suitable as a revision activity in a lesson or as a homework task. Macbeth is available as a free resource - further character revision sheets can be purchased separately or as a bundle. These revision sheets are included in the Macbeth Revision Activity Booklet which is also available for purchase.

This is a single worksheet and accompanying PowerPoint to support students revising Act 4 of the play, Macbeth. There is a ‘Revise the Plot’ activity in which students have to delete two of the three alternatives given to find the correct plot; 10 ‘Who? What? Why? When? Where? How?’ questions to further develop understanding; 5 ‘Who says?’ questions and 5 questions about the theme of Trust and Loyalty in the play. All answers are provided on the PowerPoint which can be used as a lesson in itself; allowing the teacher go through each task and then the answers with the whole class. Also suitable as a homework task. Act 1 is available as a free resource - further Acts can be purchased separately or as a bundle. These Plot Summaries are also included in the Macbeth Revision Activity Booklet which is also available for purchase.

This is a single worksheet and accompanying PowerPoint to support students revising Act 5 of the play, Macbeth. There is a ‘Revise the Plot’ activity in which students have to delete two of the three alternatives given to find the correct plot; 10 ‘Who? What? Why? When? Where? How?’ questions to further develop understanding; 5 ‘Who says?’ questions and 4 questions about parallel lines in the play. All answers are provided on the PowerPoint which can be used as a lesson in itself; allowing the teacher go through each task and then the answers with the whole class. Also suitable as a homework task. Act 1 is available as a free resource - further Acts can be purchased separately or as a bundle. These Plot Summaries are also included in the Macbeth Revision Activity Booklet which is also available for purchase.

This PowerPoint presentation guides students through a line by line analysis of the Carol Rumens poem. Additional slides include: Context; Summary of the poem; Form, structure and language; Linking the poems; Comparison grid linking to London (exploring the experience of a place) and a Revision Summary slide.

This PowerPoint presentation guides students through a line by line analysis of the Alfred Tennyson poem. Additional slides include: Context; Summary of the poem; Form, structure and language; Linking the poems; Comparison grid linking to Exposure (exploring the reality of conflict) and a Revision Summary slide.

This PowerPoint presentation guides students through a line by line analysis of the Beatrice Garland poem. There are further notes on linking the poem to Remains (exploring the theme of memories) and a revision summary slide.

This is a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student worksheet to guide students towards planning and writing an answer in preparation for their GCSE exam. Includes an explanation of how the exam question is assessed and a step by step approach to planning an exam answer using the EASY acronym. In this unit students explore the theme of supernatural (Act 4 Scene 1) and the changing character of Macbeth (banquet scene). Other essay plans can be purchased separately or as a bundle.

This is a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student worksheet to guide students towards planning and writing an answer in preparation for their GCSE exam. Includes an explanation of how the exam question is assessed and a step by step approach to planning an exam answer using the EASY acronym. In this unit students explore Lady Macbeth as influential (Act 1 Scene 5) and how Shakespeare presents women (Act 5 Scene 1). Other essay plans can be purchased separately or as a bundle.

Part 4 of a whole school Literacy scheme, designed to be taught through one 15 minute session per week by non-specialists. Suitable for all Key Stage 3 students. Includes definitions, examples and answers to all the activities; fortnightly spelling tests and additional challenge activities. Weeks 22 to 26 cover: Sentences; Homophones (to, too and two); Simile and metaphor and Consolidation tasks.

Part 3 of a six week scheme of work to accompany students' first reading of Stevenson's novella in preparation for their AQA English Literature examination. There is a PowerPoint presentation for each week with details of all activities as well as accompanying resources. Resources include worksheets, handouts and quizzes. An overview of the whole scheme is included in Week 1, which can be downloaded for free. Additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately.

Part 1 of an eight week scheme of work to accompany students' first reading of the play in preparation for their AQA English Literature examination. There is a PowerPoint presentation for each week with details of all activities as well as accompanying resources. Resources include worksheets, handouts and quizzes. An overview of the whole scheme is included - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately.