This is part 1 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 1 and 2. The lessons include: a brief introduction to the exam; Development of Question 1 skills using extracts from ‘King of the Castle’, and 'Old Mali and the Boy; Development of Question 2 skills including a Language Features ‘card sort’ activity and analysis of language using extracts from ‘King of the Castle’ and ‘The Insult’; An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included. Week 1 is a free resource and subsequent weeks can be purchased separately or are 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. In this sample version there are 20 revision questions for each of the following: Macbeth, An Inspector Calls, Jekyll & Hyde and Conflict Poetry. A full editable version with 100 questions for each topic is available to purchase. Questions cover key quotations, plot details and general knowledge relevant to each topic.

In this Power Point there are a variety of questions, logic puzzles and riddles to encourage student to think. Ideal as a starter/bell activity or as a registration activity. Each question should get students thinking and even stimulate further discussion. This version is free. If you like the format, you can purchase the full version with 101 different questions and activities.

This is a single worksheet and accompanying PowerPoint to support students revising Act 1 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; 4 ‘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.

In this 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. In this booklet the focus is on the opening scene and how The Birling family is presented. This booklet is a free resource. An editable version, along with 9 other booklets can be purchased separately.

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 1 lessons. There is a PowerPoint presentation to guide students (and teachers) through all of the activities. This week’s lessons uses Dahl’s story Lamb to the Slaughter. and covers language skills for Paper 1 Q1 and Paper 2 Q5 (persuasive writing). A copy of the story is included as well as an overview of the whole unit of work. This is a free resource, additional weeks, along with the stories, can be purchased separately or as part of a bundle.

This is part 1 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 are introduced to the requirements for questions 1 and 2. The lessons include: a brief introduction to the exam; Development of Question 1 skills using extracts from ‘Toast’, ‘Cider with Rosie’ and an article from The Guardian; Development of Question 2 skills using extracts from ‘Newgate Gaol’ and the ‘Diary of a Modern Prisoner’; Further development of Question 2 skills using extracts from ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ and ‘Inside the supermarkets’ dark stores’; Further development of Question 1 skills based on ‘Newgate Gaol’ and ‘Inside the dark stores’. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included. Week 1 is a free resource and subsequent weeks can be purchased separately or are available as a bundle.

Part 1 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 - additional weeks and accompanying resources can be purchased separately.

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 4 covers: Capital letters; Full stops, Question marks and Exclamation marks; Homophones (of and have); Commas for listing.

This is part 1 of 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. In this week students are introduced to the requirements of the poetry exam question and they then follow activities to develop a deeper understanding of the poem ‘Remains’. The lessons/activities include: overview of the format of the exam question; linking the theme activity; introduction to SLIME as a structure to poetry analysis; prompt questions about structure in the poem; prompt questions about language and imagery in the poem; planning and writing a paragraph; revision flashcard and a homework sheet to develop higher level thinking. An overview of the whole Unit of Work is included. Week 1 is a free resource and subsequent weeks can be purchased separately or are available as a bundle.

This is a single worksheet to support students revising the character of Macbeth. 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 also included in the Macbeth Revision Activity Booklet which is also available for purchase.

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.

Student worksheet to accompany AQA Language Paper 2 Question 5 presentation.

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 is a sample of the first 3 lessons. 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. Each Act can be purchased separately or the whole play is available as a bundle.

This PowerPoint presentation guides students through a practice paper for questions 1 to 4 of the Paper 2 Language examination. It explores writers' views and perspectives regarding holidays, using an article from The Guardian and a letter written by George Gissing. Presentation includes all answers. Student question/answer booklet also included.

This is a booklet of 5 key extracts and accompanying exam style questions from Acts 4 and 5 of Macbeth. For students studying AQA English Literature. Questions are: Theme of supernatural (A4 S1); Malcolm (A4 S3); Lady Macbeth's feelings (A5 S1); Macbeth feeling protected (A5 S8) and Malcolm (A5 S8).

This PowerPoint presentation guides students through a number of activities designed to help them create an answer for the question 4 part of the examination. Uses Tokyo by Graham Marks. Extract included for students to annotate.

This is a PowerPoint presentation which guides students through the exam requirements for answering questions 1 to 4 of the Paper 1 Language exam. There are prompt questions, annotated extracts and sample answers provided. Uses an extract from The Hound of the Baskervilles. Student question and answer booklet also included.

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.

A PowerPoint presentation and accompanying extracts to support students in preparing for the language question for the Paper 2 examination. Students revise language features and then annotate the extracts. Extracts are The Girl of the Period, A visit to Newgate Prison and Florence Nightingale's Diary. They should learn the skills to develop a top level answer. A final assessment is based on an extract from George Graham Vest's speech to the jury.