Discover the ultimate destination for dynamic English and teaching resources at Mr. Mac's Resource Packs on TES.
Specializing in GCSE/IGCSE revision, our store offers meticulously designed, concise guides and comprehensive lesson packs that promise to elevate your students' learning experience.
Each resource is crafted by experts to ensure grade 9 success, incorporating key literary devices, contextual insights, and structured revision strategies.
Welcome to Mr Mac's Resource Packs!
Discover the ultimate destination for dynamic English and teaching resources at Mr. Mac's Resource Packs on TES.
Specializing in GCSE/IGCSE revision, our store offers meticulously designed, concise guides and comprehensive lesson packs that promise to elevate your students' learning experience.
Each resource is crafted by experts to ensure grade 9 success, incorporating key literary devices, contextual insights, and structured revision strategies.
Welcome to Mr Mac's Resource Packs!
** AQA APPROVED **
An engaging and exciting resource regarding modern advances in AI and deep fakes that will help support the skills needed to teach the construction of a compare / contrast response.
Particular reference is made to writing an effective AQA response; you can however tweak this as appropriate.
Perfect as a thought provoking lesson that will enable pupils to reflect on the powerful applications of technology. This resource can be used between with a range of age groups and is a perfect introduction or revision tool for compare / contrast questions.
This includes:
-A reflective engager that will help pupils connect with the lesson’s content through the medium of a fun game!
-A number of scaffolded tasks which increasingly ask pupils to consider the skills necessary for constructing a compare / contrast response.
-Unique and interesting articles / video resources (find the links in the powerpoint!) that drives the lesson forward.
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** AQA APPROVED **
A sensitive and thoughtful resource regarding the Russian - Ukraine Crisis that will help support the skills needed to teach the construction of a compare / contrast response.
Particular reference is made to writing an effective response; you can however tweak this as appropriate.
Perfect as a thought provoking lesson that will enable pupils to reflect on the situation involving Russia and Ukraine. This resource can be used between with a range of age groups and is a perfect introduction or revision tool for ‘article’ writing.
This includes:
-A reflective engager that will help pupils connect with the lesson’s content.
-A number of scaffolded tasks which increasingly ask pupils to consider the skills necessary for constructing a compare / contrast response.
-Unique and interesting article / video resources (find the links in the powerpoint!) that drives the lesson forward.
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Energize Your Drama Class with 'The Essence of Energy in Drama: Engage, Express, Excite!'
This innovative teaching unit, designed for primary and secondary school educators, dives deep into the vital role of energy in drama through an engaging series of activities and lessons.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Slide Deck: Over 30 meticulously crafted slides exploring energy’s impact in drama.
Interactive Activities: From “Soundscape” to “Jumping Jelly Beans,” each activity is designed to boost students’ understanding and application of energy in performances.
Skill Development: Enhances key drama skills like engagement, expression, and the creation of dynamic performances.
Critical Thinking: Encourages students to reflect on how energy affects storytelling, character development, and audience connection.
Adaptable Content: Easily integrated into your current curriculum, with activities suited for a variety of learning environments.
Perfect for teachers looking to infuse their drama lessons with vitality, ‘The Essence of Energy in Drama’ is a must-have resource to bring out the best in your students’ performances.
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Master the Art of Listening in Drama: A Comprehensive Teaching Unit - 2024
‘Master the Art of Listening in Drama: A Comprehensive Teaching Unit’ is a valuable resource designed for primary and secondary school drama educators, aiming to cultivate active listening skills in their students. This unit, presented through an extensive series of slides, delves deep into the essence and techniques of effective listening within the context of drama.
Key Highlights:
Engaging Content: Over 27 slides filled with insightful lessons and practical activities.
Interactive Exercises: Including “Tableau/Still Image,” “Traffic Lights,” and “Shape Shifter” to enhance listening skills.
Skill Enhancement: Focuses on improving language comprehension, cultural awareness, pronunciation, intonation, and contextual understanding.
Creative Application: Encourages creativity and critical thinking through role-playing and listening exercises.
Adaptable for Various Learning Environments: Designed for easy integration into any drama curriculum.
This unit is perfect for educators seeking to enhance their students’ listening abilities, a critical skill for both on-stage performance and everyday communication.
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Of Mice & Men - Chapter Two - 2024
Enhance your students’ understanding of Steinbeck’s classic with “Of Mice & Men - Chapter Two” a comprehensive TES resource designed to support learners of all abilities.
Product Description
Engaging Activities: Dive into the text with discussion tasks, vocabulary tasks, and structured writing activities to develop comprehension skills.
Character Analysis: Explore new characters such as Candy and Curley through guided tasks, fostering deeper understanding and critical thinking.
Interactive Learning: Encourage active participation with reading tasks and a watching task, allowing students to visualize key scenes and events.
Supportive Learning Environment: Designed to meet the needs of EAL learners, this resource provides clear instructions and accessible content.
Comprehension Checks: Test understanding with retrieval tasks and a learning checkpoint quiz, ensuring students grasp key concepts and events.
Worried if the language is pitched appropriately for your group? Check out this text sample:
‘The Dust Bowl was a time when a lot of land in parts of the United States turned very dry and dusty. The soil blew away in the wind, causing big dust storms. These dust storms made it hard to grow crops and live on the land. It happened mainly in the 1930s.’
Elevate your teaching of “Of Mice & Men” with this comprehensive lesson pack, promoting engagement and understanding in your classroom.
Ready to enhance your teaching? Download “Of Mice & Men - Chapter Two” today!
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**** QUICK READS / WRITES ARE 40 - 60 MINUTE LESSONS THAT PACK A PUNCH! ****
An exciting and engaging ‘Photographic Memory’ resource that will help support the skills needed to develop vocabulary and text recall, crucial skills for literacy development!
Perfect as an ‘inspiring’ and thought provoking lesson that will enable pupils to connect with their learning in a fun way and through the medium of this fascinating subject matter!
This includes:
-A short, one page story with a range of questions.
-A scaffolded series of tasks that will help pupils connect with the lesson’s content in a creative way.
-An interesting text and relevant videos (find the link in the booklet!) that drive the lesson forward - lots of fun!
-A unique descriptive writing task that provides a clear link to the lesson’s focus.
The accompanying text is geared towards advanced (CEFR level C1) learners of English - See a sample below!
‘Hundreds of angry people took to the streets in London and at least ten other English cities in 2011. Petrol bombs were thrown, buildings and vehicles destroyed and shops looted. Many of the rioters were caught on CCTV cameras, but most of the images were poor and the perpetrators had covered their faces’
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** AQA APPROVED **
An engaging and exciting watch & write resource that explores language development in the first five years of a child’s life.
This will help support the skills needed to engage with this topic in a concise yet meaningful way - It is excellent as a ‘taster’ session for KS4 students who want to learn more about KS5 English language / linguistics too!
Perfect as a thought provoking lesson that will enable pupils to reflect on this powerful topic. This resource can be used between with a range of age groups and is a perfect introduction or as a revision tool.
This includes:
-A reflective range of task types that will help pupils connect with the lesson’s content (discussion, notes, multiple choice and open-ended questions!)
-An answer key to aid teacher understanding.
-21 questions that engage with the text / video in different ways.
-A unique and interesting video resource.
-A beautiful printable three page PDF.
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An exciting and explosive non-fiction lesson/s devoted to exploring the world’s deadliest race: The TT!
Perfect as an ‘inspiring’ introduction to non-fiction that scaffolds the conventions of a speech well whilst continuously drawing pupils in.
Ideal as an engaging, thoughtful and relevant introduction to non-fiction/writing a speech which includes:
-A reflective and interesting starter resource that will help pupils connect with the convention’s of non-fiction.
-A number of scaffolded tasks which increasingly ask pupils to consider the TT’s context and their own views.
-A curated range of excellent video clips which guide pupils towards an extended and independent task.
Struggling to teach English Language AS / A Level? Then you’ve come to the right place! Check out this ‘two sheet’ essay guide!
What does it include?
-58 hyperlinks to terminology associated with the language levels.
-An essay guide - Simply scaffolded!
-‘Teacher prompts’ to help with deeper analysis.
-A pupil response with examiner feedback!
A collective of exciting resources that support pupils in identifying the skills necessary to good descriptive/narrative writing.
Perfect as a link between KS3-KS4 or simply as fun, memorable and useful revision lessons!
‘Inspiring’ and thought provoking resources; these will enable pupils to connect with their learning and improve further.
This pack includes:
-Four quality resources, each with their own associated worksheets and videos.
-A number of scaffolded tasks and challenges which increasingly ask pupils to consider the skills necessary for P1, Q5.
-Relevant and interesting topics that pupils will be fascinated by.
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A stimulating and relevant ‘mini-mock’ style resource. It is particularly pertinent to AQA Paper 1, Q2/Q5: This resource also includes an array of ‘walkthrough’ tasks that aid pupil understand of the skills needed to answer this question. If you use it this way, I tend to follow this structure:
#1 - Read the extract. Find out the meanings of any unfamiliar vocabulary and add these to the accompanying ‘word bank’ (10 minutes - 20 minutes)
#2 - Complete the discussion tasks (S&L opportunity) and read the accompanying material (15 - 20 minutes)
#3 - Annotate the extract for gothic conventions and language devices (10-15 minutes)
#4 - Discuss the reading question and consider the tension graph (10 minutes)
#5 - Pupils will plan their own response - Use this as an opportunity to meaningfully gauge pupil understanding (15 -20 minutes)
The second ‘one sheet’ operates as a self-contained mock; it builds on the previous walkthrough material.
This is a brief outline - Use these however you see fit!
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An exciting and engaging resource that will help support the skills needed to teach P2, Q5.
Particular reference is made to writing an effective speech and introduction; you can however tweak this as appropriate!
Perfect as an ‘inspiring’ and thought provoking lesson that will enable pupils to connect with their learning: This resource can be used between KS3-4 and is a perfect introduction or revision tool for ‘speech’ writing and P2, Q5.
This includes:
-A reflective and guided article article engager that will help pupils connect with the lesson’s content.
-A number of scaffolded tasks which increasingly ask pupils to consider the skills necessary for P2, Q5.
-A unique and interesting article resource (find the link in the powerpoint!) that drives the lesson forward.
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An exciting and engaging resource that will help support the skills needed to develop ‘zoom lens’ writing, a crucial skill for narrative and descriptive writing with regards to P1, Q5!
Perfect as an ‘inspiring’ and thought provoking lesson that will enable pupils to connect with their learning.
This includes:
-A scaffolded series of tasks that will help pupils connect with the lesson’s content in a creative way.
-An interesting text and relevant video (find the link in the PowerPoint!) that drives the lesson forward.
-A unique narrative task that provides a clear link to the lesson’s focus.
-A FREE writing mat to support narrative and descriptive writing skills.
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** AQA APPROVED **
An exciting and engaging resource regarding organ donation that will help support the skills needed to teach the construction of an article.
Particular reference is made to writing an effective article; you can however tweak this as appropriate!
Perfect as an ‘inspiring’ and thought provoking lesson that will enable pupils to connect with their learning: This resource can be used between with a range of age groups and is a perfect introduction or revision tool for ‘article’ writing.
This includes:
-A reflective picture engager that will help pupils connect with the lesson’s content.
-A number of scaffolded tasks which increasingly ask pupils to consider the skills necessary for article writing.
-A unique and interesting article resource (find the link in the powerpoint!) that drives the lesson forward.
Find more resources like this on my store: Mr. Mac’s resource packs! <3
Of Mice & Men - Chapter Three - 2024
“Of Mice & Men - Chapter Three” offers a dynamic resource to deepen your students’ comprehension of Steinbeck’s classic novel. Designed with engaging activities and tailored support, this lesson pack ensures inclusivity and fosters active participation.
Engaging Activities: From discussions to writing tasks, students explore key themes and characters, developing critical thinking and analytical skills.
Character Exploration: Delve into the complexities of characters like Lennie and Curley through guided tasks, enhancing understanding and empathy.
Interactive Learning: Encourage students’ creativity and visualization with drawing tasks and reading activities, bringing the text to life in the classroom.
Language Development: Expand vocabulary and language skills with focused vocabulary tasks, promoting linguistic proficiency.
Comprehensive Comprehension: Test students’ understanding with retrieval tasks and learning checkpoint quizzes, ensuring mastery of essential concepts.
Accessible Support: With clear instructions and accessible content, this resource caters to diverse learners, including EAL students.
Elevate your teaching of “Of Mice & Men” and ignite a passion for literature in your classroom with “Chapter Three.” Download now to enrich your students’ learning experience!
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Of Mice & Men - Chapter Four - 2024
“Of Mice & Men - Chapter Four” provides an immersive and comprehensive teaching resource to enhance your students’ understanding of Steinbeck’s timeless novel. Crafted with engaging activities and targeted support, this lesson pack facilitates active learning and promotes critical thinking skills.
Dynamic Activities: From group discussions to writing tasks, students delve deep into the themes and characters of the novel, fostering analytical thinking and empathy.
Character Exploration: Explore the complexities of Crooks, the African American stable buck, and his experiences of loneliness and discrimination through guided tasks, encouraging deeper understanding.
Interactive Learning: Engage students’ creativity and comprehension with drawing tasks, vocabulary activities, and reading tasks that bring the text to life in the classroom.
Language Development: Expand students’ vocabulary and language skills with focused vocabulary tasks, fostering linguistic proficiency and confidence.
Comprehensive Comprehension: Assess students’ understanding with retrieval tasks and learning checkpoint quizzes, ensuring mastery of key concepts and themes.
Accessible Support: With clear instructions and accessible content, this resource caters to diverse learners, including EAL students, fostering inclusivity and participation.
Elevate your teaching of “Of Mice & Men” and ignite a passion for literature in your classroom with “Chapter Four.”
Download now to enrich your students’ learning experience!
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Of Mice & Men - Chapter Five - 2024
“Of Mice & Men - Chapter Five” presents a captivating exploration of Steinbeck’s classic novel, designed to enrich students’ understanding and engagement. Through a variety of interactive tasks and thoughtful discussions, this resource encourages deep reflection and critical thinking.
Engaging Activities: From quote hunts to discussion tasks, students delve into key themes and character motivations, fostering analytical skills and empathy.
Vocabulary Enrichment: Expand students’ vocabulary with focused vocabulary tasks, promoting language proficiency and comprehension.
Comprehensive Comprehension: Test students’ understanding with retrieval tasks and learning checkpoint quizzes, ensuring mastery of essential concepts.
Interactive Learning: Encourage creativity and critical thinking with speaking, writing, and drawing activities, bringing the text to life in the classroom.
Empathy and Analysis: Prompt discussions on the characters’ roles and moral dilemmas, encouraging students to consider whether Lennie is a victim or a villain, deepening their understanding of the narrative complexities.
Accessible Support: With clear instructions and accessible content, this resource caters to diverse learners, including ESL students, fostering inclusivity in the classroom.
Elevate your teaching of “Of Mice & Men” and inspire profound literary insights with “Chapter Five.” Download now to enhance your students’ learning experience!
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Of Mice and Men - Chapter Six - 2024
Dive into the poignant conclusion of Steinbeck’s masterpiece with “Of Mice and Men - Chapter Six.” This resource is carefully crafted to deepen students’ engagement and comprehension of the novel’s final chapter.
Engaging Activities: Through interactive tasks and discussions, students explore the pivotal events and characters, fostering critical thinking and empathy.
Vocabulary Enrichment: Expand students’ vocabulary with focused tasks, enhancing language proficiency and comprehension.
Comprehensive Comprehension: Assess students’ understanding with retrieval tasks and quizzes, ensuring mastery of key concepts.
Interactive Learning: Encourage creativity and analysis with speaking, writing, and prediction activities, making the text come alive in the classroom.
Empathy and Reflection: Prompt discussions on characters’ decisions and moral dilemmas, encouraging students to reflect on the complexities of human nature.
Accessible Support: With clear instructions and inclusive content, this resource caters to diverse learners, including ESL students, fostering an inclusive learning environment.
Elevate your teaching of “Of Mice and Men” and inspire profound literary insights with “Chapter Six.” Download now to enrich your students’ literary journey!
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Of Mice and Men Bundle - 2024
Embark on a comprehensive exploration of John Steinbeck’s iconic novella “Of Mice and Men” with this extensive bundle encompassing all six chapters for LAP / EAL pupils.
With 167 slides packed with engaging activities, detailed analysis, and thorough assessments, this bundle provides everything you need to guide your students through each chapter of the text.
Chapter-by-Chapter Analysis: Dive deep into the themes, characters, and plot developments of each chapter with detailed analysis slides. Explore the nuances of Steinbeck’s narrative and facilitate meaningful discussions that enhance students’ understanding of the text.
Interactive Activities: Immerse students in the world of “Of Mice and Men” with a wide range of interactive activities designed to promote critical thinking and active engagement. From character profiles to thematic explorations, these activities encourage students to interact with the text in meaningful ways.
Vocabulary Enrichment: Expand students’ vocabulary and language proficiency with focused vocabulary tasks tailored to each chapter. Strengthen comprehension and language skills while immersing students in the rich language of Steinbeck’s prose.
Comprehensive Assessments: Assess students’ comprehension and analytical skills with comprehensive assessments for each chapter. From retrieval tasks to multiple-choice quizzes, these assessments ensure thorough evaluation of students’ understanding and retention of key concepts.
Inclusive Support: Designed with inclusivity in mind, this bundle offers accessible support for diverse learners, including ESL students. Clear instructions and organized content make it easy to adapt resources to meet the needs of all students in your classroom.
Complete Teaching Solution: With resources covering every aspect of “Of Mice and Men,” this bundle provides a complete teaching solution that streamlines lesson planning and implementation. Empower your students to achieve academic success while fostering a deep appreciation for literature.
Enhance your teaching of “Of Mice and Men” and inspire profound literary insights with the comprehensive “Of Mice and Men” Complete Chapter Bundle. Download now and embark on an enriching journey of literary exploration and discovery!
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**Of Mice and Men - Chapter One - 2024 **
Dive into Steinbeck’s world with “Of Mice & Men - Chapter 1,” an engaging TES resource crafted for English teachers working with low-ability and EAL pupils.
Product Description
Simplified Vocabulary: Key terms broken down for better understanding.
Character Exploration: Creative tasks to visualize and describe George and Lennie.
Structured Activities: Guided reading and writing tasks to build comprehension.
Supportive Format: Designed to aid EAL learners with clear, concise instructions.
Ideal for making the classic tale accessible and relatable, fostering a supportive learning environment for all students.
Worried if the language is pitched appropriately for your group? Check out this text sample:
‘The Dust Bowl was a time when a lot of land in parts of the United States turned very dry and dusty. The soil blew away in the wind, causing big dust storms. These dust storms made it hard to grow crops and live on the land. It happened mainly in the 1930s.’
Don’t despair; download this excellent and insightful lesson pack today!
Find more resources like this on my store: Mr. Mac’s resource packs! <3
