This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here are the lessons for teaching Act 3. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included.
Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back).
Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview.
You can download a sample of the first 3 lessons for free. Then each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.
This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here are the lessons for teaching Act 5. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included.
Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back).
Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview.
You can download a sample of the first 3 lessons for free. Then each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.
This is an interactive random question generator for GCSE English students. Ideal for a starter or plenary activity, it develops students' recall skills in preparation for their Literature exams. Simply click to generate 5 questions of any of the 4 topics and then click to reveal the answers. This is the full version with 100 revision questions for each of the following: Macbeth, An Inspector Calls, Jekyll & Hyde and Conflict Poetry. You can also download the sample version for free. Questions cover key quotations, plot details and general knowledge relevant to each topic.
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.
There are 5 worksheets to be used for students studying An Inspector Calls. Each worksheet has a number of key quotations all to do with a central theme in the play. The themes covered are responsibility, power, gender, class and age. Students need to identify which character spoke each line. There is then an accompanying worksheet for students to make notes about the specific theme and how each character represents the theme. Answer sheets included.
A set of 10 booklets. In each Skills Booklet students interleave Language and Literature skills. Students revise a key scene and theme from An Inspector Calls whilst practising the skills required for Language Paper 1. Each booklet takes them through every question of the Language exam with key hints. A sample booklet exploring the opening scene is available as a free resource.
There are 5 separate worksheets to support students revising the characters of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, The Witches, Banquo and 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.
This unit of work is for students studying the play for the first time in preparation for their GCSE English Literature exam with AQA. Here are the lessons for teaching Act 1. Each activity has an accompanying PowerPoint slide to guide teachers (and students) through all of the tasks. All resources, handouts and worksheets are included.
Students should also be given an extracts booklet with practice questions. At key moments in the unit of work there are opportunities to annotate these booklet and record key quotations (pages at the back).
Approximately 4 1 hour lessons in a week. Details of each lesson are provided in the accompanying Unit of Work Overview.
You can download a sample of the first 3 lessons for free. Then each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.
This is a 5 week unit of work preparing students for their AQA Paper 1 English Language exam. A weekly PowerPoint, guiding teachers (and students) through all the activities, is included as are all the handouts of extracts and assessments referred to. Covers all the requirements of this exam. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included in the Week 1 resources which is available as a free resource.
This is a 5 week unit of work preparing students for their AQA Paper 2 English Language exam. A weekly PowerPoint, guiding teachers (and students) through all the activities, is included as are all the handouts of extracts and assessments referred to. Covers all the requirements of this exam. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included in the Week 1 resources which is available as a free resource.
There are 5 separate worksheets and accompanying PowerPoints to support students revising 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; 4 ‘Who says?’ questions and additional questions about either parallel lines or themes in the play. All answers are provided on the PowerPoints which can be used as complete revision lessons; 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.
This is a booklet with a variety of activities to support students revising the play, An Inspector Calls. Includes a plot summary activity; multiple choice questions on key moments from the play; crossword; prompt questions to help students revise the characters and worksheets on each of the main themes using key quotations. All answers are provided in a separate booklet. Suitable as revision activities in a lesson or as homework tasks.
The booklet is a PDF document to make printing easier but all word files are also included for editing purposes.
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 all the weeks’ lessons. There is a PowerPoint presentation to guide students (and teachers) through all of the activities. All stories are included - in Week 5 there is a collection of 9 stories for ease of printing. Week 1 lessons and an overview of the whole unit of work is available as a free resource.
This is 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.
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 an 8 week unit of work preparing students for their AQA Paper 2 English Literature exam. This scheme of work assumes that students have already been introduced to all the poems (presentation on each poem also available separately). A PowerPoint guiding teachers (and students) through all the activities is included as are all the handouts and worksheets referred to. Covers all 15 poems in the Power & Conflict anthology. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included with Week 1 as a free resource.
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.
Over 20 extracts from the play and practice questions; a student activity booklet and additional activities and resources to support students in their revision.
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.