The Magic Lamp – Creative Writing A fun creative writing lesson based around a magic lamp situation. Students are given an exciting scenario with a magic lamp and can continue the story based upon their own ideas. Lesson objectives, writing tips, video clip writing tip resource, planning sheet and descriptive bingo lesson plenary all included!! For more great resources and lessons visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: copyright free images and myfreebingo.com.)

Betrayal at House on the Hill –Spooky Story, Creative Writing Fantastic, spooky creative writing lesson(s) students will enjoy! Lesson scenario revolves around a classic ‘B move horror story’ of a group of friends getting locked in a house and then one of them is a betrayer. Complete lesson power point with all resources included, including a fun and engaging spooky bingo plenary with 30 individual bingo cards and a caller’s card. Visit my shop for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: Copyright free image from deviant art, FairyGoodMother; story plot line and title based on the excellent board game of the same name by Avalon Hill; text from cooltext.com)

New York Descriptive Writing A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from New York and scenes Woody Allen’s masterpiece Manhattan. Students fill in the senses sheet, watch and briefly analyse the opening of Manhattan (resources and links provided) before writing their own pieces of description. Great engaging lesson! For the New York Descriptive Monologue version of this lesson, see here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-york-monologues-descriptive-writing-11309329 For great more lessons and resources visit my shop here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: all images copyright free, available from Wikipedia and other royalty free sites.)

Creative Writing Four Lesson Bundle Amazing value, premium creative writing bundle pack! Four complete popular lessons in one easy download. See the links for further details. Lessons are: • The Haunting £3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-haunting-full-lesson-11180479 • The Cornish Mystery £3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-cornish-mystery-full-lesson-11192380 • The Sandman £3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sandman-creative-writing-lesson-11254148 • The Time Machine £3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-time-machine-creative-writing-lesson-11255559 £12 pack for just £6.50!!

About you - a perfectly simple, but engaging lesson which explores students' wishes, dreams and hopes. The lesson is ideal as an introductionary lesson or just as a one-off lesson any time. The main lesson objectives include testing students' ability to think creatively with emphasis on attention to detail and descriptive writing skills. Attractive lesson Power Point includes: * Word link puzzle starter activity. * Mini-task - three wishes, students choose any three wishes they would choose if given the choice (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Dream home and location - students choose their dream house and location (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Ideal job - students choose their ideal job (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Main task perfect day - students describe their perfect day (writing frame and word bank included.) * Puzzle plenary activity. No photocopying or printing required, simply download and teach - word document writing frame included if needed. See my shop page for more lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish All images are copyright free (pixabay, wiki and clipart).

The Speckled Band - Sherlock Holmes Three complete lessons on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Classical Sherlock Holmes story, “The Speckled Band.” What’s included in this download? 20 page Power Point with tasks and information slides throughout. Character activity task. Your opinion task for the end of the story. A great starting point to teach this story! Visit my shop for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copyright: Images: wikipedia and youtube, text from cooltext.com.)

The Summer Mediterranean Murder - Creative Writing Lesson Highly attractive and engaging creative writing lesson! Students are given attractive prompts in order to write their own Mediterranean murder mystery story, based on a cruise ship murder. Visit my shop for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: Cooltext.com)

Venice – Creative Writing Lesson A sophisticated descriptive writing lesson based on images from Venice! Complete, visually attractive lesson includes a 10 question Venice quiz, a senses hunt, a video clip and prompts throughout. For a range of other interesting lessons and great resources visit my page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits:Taketours, Monarch, Wikipedia, cooltext.com.)

New Year Healthy Eating – Non-Fiction Writing Lesson A simple, but effect healthy eating non-fiction writing lesson. The lesson task is to write a lively article for a teenage magazine based around healthy eating and lifestyle. Full prompts and planning pages, a literacy starter and all resources included. Simply download and teach. Visit my page for more great lessons and resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: cooltext.com, webdesignhot.com and royalty free clipart images)

A fantastic Wimbledon form time or assembly presentation on the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament. The 31 page Power Point presentation includes, general back ground, historic facts, Wimbledon schedule, British winners, interesting facts, prize money break down and 2016 favourite and a ten question quiz to finish! For more great resources, complete lesson and presentations check out my main page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: all images are copyright free and taken from Wikipedia unless otherwise stated and included at the bottom of the page.)

The Beast of Bodmin Moor Investigation - Fact or Fiction An amazing investigation lesson into the 'Beast of Bodmin Moor.' Students get to explore and research the legend of the 'Beast of Bodmin Moor' in groups, moving from investigation area to investigation area before writing their final reports. All resources included. The investigation areas are: * Newspaper reports * Photos * Video footage * Fact files * Eyewitness Accounts Students fill in their investigation sheets as they go to each area. An outstanding lesson. Teacher note included. For more great resources and lessons, see my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish Please consider rating the lesson. Thank you. (Credits: copyright free images. Articles taken from the Mirror, Telegraph and Daily Star taken from the public domain.)

TV Love or Hate? A critical writing lesson on TV programmes. Students get to write a ‘critical rant’ on the topic of TV love and hate. Full lesson Power Point includes: · Lesson starter · Lesson objective pages · TV video clip exercise · Good example of a critical article · Discussion, planning and writing prompts with planning sheets included · Review plenary prompt Engaging lesson students will enjoy. For more great resources or lessons see here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: royalty free images used to the best of my knowlege.)

A simple and effective way to make literacy and learning fun. Literacy bingo! Students have to spot the incorrect word as each sentence appears (common literacy errors such as there/their, was/were etc) and replace them with the correct word. This is the word they cross off on their bingo cards. Further instructions on how to play inside. Power Point resource, playing time with line and house 15 minute approx. Resource suitable for key stages 2/3, but easily adaptable format/template to create further bingo games. Larger text in this version. Bingo cards included. See more great resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copyright free images used of the bingo balls.)

Excellent and engaging bingo style literacy game. Students simply write True or False on their 5x5 true or false cards and mark them off if the displayed literacy clue is true or false. Subject areas include: capital letters, punctuation, their, there and they're; was and were; and spellings. Power Point game suitable for key stages 2 and 3, printable true or false cards included and further instructions on how to play inside. Great for spelling and SPAG. For Literacy True or False 2, see here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-true-or-false-2-11140252 Literacy Health Check - full lesson!! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/literacy-health-check-full-lesson-11188874

Engaging SPAG and PEE starter pack and Power Point slides taken from extracts of Karl Pilkington's hilarious travel diaries, The Idiot Abroad. Each starter features a short extract, with a short SPAG and an extended PEE or comprehension starter, together with an image of Karl Pilkington. Starters are ideal for KS4 students or later KS3 and suitable for a variety of different exam boards e.g. WJEC or AQA as they involve the same core skills. Also included for free is a bumper word puzzles Power Point which is normally £2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/word-quizzes-11195792 Please rate and visit my shop store for more great resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish Thank you. (Credits: images royalty free, taken from Wikicommons and pininterest.com)

A simple but engaging lesson on Muhammad Ali, particularly useful for lower sets and disengaged boys. Lesson includes: * Boxing category guessing game starter * Engaging short video clip of Ali's life * 3 Inspirational quotes by Ali and a prompt to discuss * Muhammad Ali article and information retrieval prompt * Answer slide * PEE question and review finish Simple but very effective. You may also be interested in the Mike Tyson lessons here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mike-tyson-english-lessons-11366951 For more great resources, visit my shop page here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Copyright free images and text. Main title image from wall.alphacoders.com)