Break up the monotony of formal writing with some solid examples of informal approaches. This session has links to a multitude of upcoming movie trailers - simply click on each mini image, on the slide, in turn, and close each screen once they have finished. There are a number to choose from so that you can extend the session in a number of ways. I have mixed classes so I chose trailers for a number of different audiences. the hand out was designed by a colleague of mine and has 3 boxes which can be copied and pasted onto a second page in word, should you wish you use the lot of them. - A second session is also included for free, which logically follows on to review writing. Hope it is helpful! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. =-)

This double session is intended for 3 hours but could be extended over a few sessions and contains 40 slides & an 8 page hand out. It is meant to follow my Language Features intro’ session and then features the main acronym running through all my resources. Effectively, students create a language guide to carry forward through the year, or for revision at home. Explore both fictional and nonfictional features of language - Word Classes Sentence Forms & Purposes Listing Repeating Letters Figurative Features Persuasive; Informative & Explanatory Features This is quite detailed and is essentially 2-3 sessions in one. It is littered with task boxes and guided annotations via step-by-step/click-by-click animations. There are two main ways for delivery, either teacher-led or student-led. Teacher-led, requires a prescriptive approach: providing the annotations and answers upfront. This can get quite monotonous but splitting it up will be necessary. Approaching this way, would be an introductory approach. Student-led requires the opposite: holding back the answers and annotations and letting students find them, either independently or together, before providing any answers. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)

This was designed to help prepare upon return from lockdown. We have a number of students, however, whom might be sitting online exams at home. So with this in mind, this 6 week pack includes: A pair of Reading Initial Assessments (Hair & Beauty/Engineering) A 30 page Crash Course Workbook A 60 slide Powerpoint Presentation There are a number of fun and interesting tasks which can be taught with the presentation. PPT is fully animated with most answers and so this could even be sent out to parents to home school and help their children plan.

Adventure through the Solar System with this engaging, visually impressive and unique Functional Skills English session! Practise exam-style reading questions, based on the new spec C&G exam papers and then flow straight into using these original and author-created documents to inspire and guide through article writing. Differentiate with word count and let L1 learners have a little go of comprehension+ for L2…I also changed the audience aim of the writing to fit with vocational areas like children for childcare students and so on…

Title says it all really - distribute On or Offline as a starter or extension task. These words can be very confusing, so the more you know - the better your accuracy will be! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)

A set of 3 macro-enabled slides to compliment the Neon Reading set and 1 Year Fully Planned Pack. This has a 24 question answer-reveal quiz with general L1-2 questions. A pair of macro, tile-moving, language features task. A pair of 24 question quiz slides with unique questions and a catchphrase image beneath. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-) If you like these - then check out my new 1 year pack which includes the Neon Reading pack and full scheme of work for each of the 17 individual sessions. It also has initial assessments, a full year assessment book, a homework book and a revision book. All based on the new specification and original. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12487021

Another session for FS Reading which links to some of the other sessions in my shop. It covers the basic structures of: Articles Letters Speeches Emails Reports It has formative tasks and is intended as a quick overview/recap session Online. This would depend in which order you deliver Reading and Writing but it can be linked either way. Some tasks are on marco-enabled slides and can be moved on the slideshow - this is great online and would also be good on a touch screen in classrooms. Session plan included. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and, please, check out my other resources. =-) **Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **

This is a quick Reading session, covering Identifying and Retrieving basic information. It was made with the intention to be used online and has a summative assessment which has been created on Microsoft Forms - as a self-marking quiz. There is a second starter task, on the first slide - now Marco-enabled with moveable tiles. See instructions in slide notes. Session plan included. Aimed at E3-L1 - This can be used as a quick into to Skimming and Scanning. Upload the starter task wordsearch, to Microsoft Whiteboard and collaborate with your group! Join the discussion! Like our Facebook page and join our group…share your experiences and ask any questions: **Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **

I thought I’d upload this as another free sample of my work. This is a session covering Article Writing. There is a marco-enabled slide, towards the end, which has brief instructions in the slide notes. It has been carefully animated with step-by-step animations which aid delivery and questioning. There is also detailed session plan - with a slide-by-slide set of comments. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Please leave a review! =-) **Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **

This is a session for L 1/2 learners. The Instruction Writing question has appeared in new spec exams and is one that has puzzled a few teachers, including myself. Keeping it simple, it covers sentences, some punctuation and has a couple of tasks and examples. One task requires minimising the narrations screen, while the slide show is running, and moving them around to order them. It also has information from the local area - so you may want to update that with instructions of your own. There are brief details in the slide notes. Created with step-by-step animation, to aid delivery and questioning. I’ve made it as east to deliver as possible, so I hope people like it. Please leave a review! It would be much appreciated. =-)

We are all having to adapt our methods for the online world. This can be a difficult process and so I thought I’d share one or two things my colleagues and I have been working on. This links to any specification but has been created with C&G in mind. Hope it’s useful! =-)

This is my first E3 session and so I thought I’d give this one away as a sample. It is a fully animated, macro-enabled session, with slides that are interactive and can be used with a large touchscreen. Get students to take turns, leading the activities! It covers both skimming and scanning, alphabetising word lists, identifying explicit ideas and some basic interpretation. Each topic has a couple of formative tasks. Also includes a 2 page, A4 hand out. Enjoy!

This session has two documents which I’ve created myself - specifically for purpose and generically enough for use with a range of vocational students studying English. The topic: Becoming an Apprentice. Start with a simple pairs task. Practise determining purpose and tone, locate and summarise main points, compare and synthesise ideas… It isn’t incredibly detailed but it does work well for reading and writing practice and it has slides with comparative phrasing - which are also A3 posters for display in the classroom. Differences are there just for reference as similarities is where the focus lies. It also shows what level of effort I put into my resources. Please take a look at my shop - more resources are in which are now fully planned with session briefs and 50% off full year packs! A free Punctuation book is also available from our partner GCSE English Language shop - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-language-punctuation-workbook-and-answer-booklet-12225126 Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! This is quite popular but the reviews are limited! Thanks to those who have, already. It is much appreciated. =-)

If you print this it needs to be A3 so the text is large enough… =-) You could also print A4 if you crop instructions from it first. I plan to display it - zooming in on each section, one-by-one, practising Punctuation, Spelling, Grammar and organisation. There is an example answer - but allow for some variation with both end marks and semi-colons. Hope it helps! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated… particularly if I’ve missed any of the corrections from the answer sheet! =-)

Can be used with either GCSE or FS English, as a starter or extension. In itself, it is differentiated - begins quite easy and works students through 4 levelsstages. see where they get to for Entry/ESOL learners All the best!

Suitable mostly for Functional Skills English but would work for GCSE also. Use as a starter or Extension. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)

This contains all the government issued Subject Content Statements for L1 & 2 - Functional Skills English. It shows highlighted/colour-coded, side-by-side comparison/contrast of L1 & L2 and aims to briefly explain some key differences between the two levels in relation to all 3 elements. These feature in my 30 page revision book for L1/2. Hope it’s useful!

Here is a little free session on Hand-washing and Coronavirus (Covid-19). Contextually appropriate, this contains two nonfictional sources and is aimed at L1/2 students. It can be used as a revision session or an assessment one and has answers in a powerpoint slide set. The previews on here are a bit rubbish. Download and run the slideshow yourself, to see how it works. The writing also looks better than the preview shows! Again, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Just a card matcher game/activity - which uses the acronym A DEEP FOREST (with some doubling up of letters for certain features). It was created to go with this language session which covers much more…including sentences and lists. There is also, now, an online version which can be displayed or used on platforms, like Teams, and collaborated on. I’ve been using it with multiple students at a time and I’ve sent it to individual students as homework. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-language-language-feature-overview-l1-2-12254117