Analyse language features in some famous slogans.

Lesson on The Soldier by Rupert Brooke for Eduqas GCSE 9-1

6 techniques to help students with Paper 2 Question 5.

A simple Paper 2 Question 5 revision activity for lower ability. Students read the modelled opening paragraph and have to try and write the next paragraph in a similar style. w

20 starters focused on technical accuracy

An extract and helpsheet for tackling Paper 1 Question 5 for Eduqas.

Worksheet for a cover lesson revising literary techniques.

Simple starter activity to help develop students’ inference skills.

A free 20 slide lesson covering suffixes.

Simple VCOP to help students produce a book review.

Fully resourced unit of 5 lessons which introduce the unseen prose element to A Level students. Can also work for high ability GCSE students as a transition/bridging to A Level. Extracts from 19th century classic are used to give students a grounding of themes within classic literature before the transition to post-1945 texts. Each lesson is focused on how to answer an exam-style theme question based on a short extract. Lesson 1: Great Expectations - Miss Havisham extract. Explore the significance of degeneration in this extract. Lesson 2: Frankenstein - Chapter 5 extract. Explore the significance of disappointment in this extract. Lesson 3: Jane Eyre - Extract about Bertha Explore the significance of restriction in this extract. Lesson 4: Jekyll and Hyde - Extract from Jekyll’s statement Explore the significance of duality in this extract. Lesson 5: The Catcher in the Rye - opening paragraph Explore the significance of cynicism in the extract.

A simple blank table to encourage students to recall 3 quotations for the following combination literature texts: Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Power and Conflict. Useful when used in conjunction with my other revision sheets on the site.

Just a list of words to describe the taste of foods that could be useful to teachers of English or Food technology.

A worksheet that encourages students to explore the language in Counter Attack by Siegfried Sassoon. Useful as a cover lesson.

A 2 hour training session on how to teach functional writing for GCSE Paper 2. Can be used to train both teachers and students. Contains 64 slides. Includes exam requirements, a sample lesson, model openings to evaluate, exercises on using a range of sentence types and paragraph formats, a range of different questions to plan and a group carousel writing task to end the session. All resources are included and can be previewed.

A lesson introducing Kamikaze with brief context, detailed line by line animated annotations, comprehension questions to test understanding of the annotations followed by various extension activities and a model comparative paragraph comparing Emigree to Kamikaze. Also contains a creative writing task involving transforming the poem into a narrative.

A comprehensive list of 32 A Level style exam questions. The table invites students to plan a response to each question by creating a thesis statement and thinking of 3 main points to support their thesis.

Lesson analysing Blake’s poem The Garden of Love. Includes detailed line by line annotations and extension activities to explore the deeper meanings.