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.
Part 5 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 27 to 32 cover: Simile and metaphor; Figurative language; Idioms; Homophones (your and you're); Paragraphs and Consolidation tasks.
Part 8 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 in the Week 1 resource which can be downloaded for free - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately or as a bundle.
This is an interactive random question generator for GCSE English Literature students who have studied An Inspector Calls. Ideal for a starter or plenary activity, it develops students' recall skills in preparation for their Literature exams. Simply click to generate 5 questions about the play. Click again to reveal the answers. Questions cover key quotations, plot details and general knowledge relevant to each topic. Questions can be edited if you wish to add your own. If you like this format I do have two other versions available for purchase. One version is fully loaded with additional questions on Macbeth, Jekyll and Hyde and Conflict Poetry. The second version can be edited for any topic of your choice!
Part 2 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 9 to 15 cover: Pronouns; Tenses; Speech marks; Homophones (there, their, they're); Commas; Apostrophes for possession and Consolidation tasks.
Part 3 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 16 to 21 cover: Adjectives; Verbs (modal and imperative); Homophones (where, wear, we're and were); Singular and plurals; Semicolon and Consolidation tasks.
Part 1 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 1 to 8 covers: Capital letters; Full stops, Question marks and Exclamation marks; Homophones (of and have); Commas for listing; Apostrophes for omission; Prepositions; Adverbs and Consolidation tasks.
This is a PowerPoint presentation which guides students through the exam requirements for answering questions 1 to 4 of the Paper 1 Language exam. I have used this as an introductory series of lessons to teach the key skills for each question in section A. Takes students through the assessment criteria for each question, using a range of different texts. Accompanying extracts are included.
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. Covers a whole school year.
This is a unit of work covering approximately 10 lessons. Students will develop story writing skills and then create their own creepy story - ideal to start at Halloween and run up to Christmas! Topics covered: Different genres; purpose and audience; conventions of horror/ghost stories; effective openings; narrative formats; setting; character; organising a plot; paragraphing and dialogue and descriptive writing techniques. The Power Point presentation guides teachers (and students) through each activity. Learning objectives and outcomes for every lesson. Accompanying worksheets and an overview of the unit of work also included.
Part 2 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 in the Week 1 resource which can be downloaded for free - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately or as a bundle.
Part 5 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 in the Week 1 resource which can be downloaded for free - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately or as a bundle.
Part 4 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 in the Week 1 resource which can be downloaded for free - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately or as a bundle.
Part 3 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 in the Week 1 resource which can be downloaded for free - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately or as a bundle.
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 in Week 1. Also includes the random question generator - 100 questions about the play.
Part 6 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 in the Week 1 resource which can be downloaded for free - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately or as a bundle.
A series of PowerPoint presentations and accompanying extracts/questions to guide students through Section A of their Paper 2 examination. Also includes a presentation for Section B.
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.