The perfect lesson for teaching students how to punctuate speech/dialogue. Aimed at KS3 students, but could easily be used or adapted at KS4.

Three E-Safety posters promiting online awareness to students. Each poster presents succinct and vital information for staying safe on the web, including questions that you should ask yourself before you post anything online. Posters read: THINK BEFORE YOU POST STAY SAFE ONLINE DON’T BE MEAN BEHIND THE SCREEN

This worksheet is designed to stimulate analytical consideration of the key images, symbols, and themes of J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. The task is flexible: teachers may ask pupils to surround each image with quotations, words, themes, or general ideas from the play. For example, around the picture of the golf ball, pupils may write: “I don’t play golf” or ‘Birling’s luxuries and leisure as antithesis of the Inspector’, etc. Images inevitably link together and overlap, which is a great prompt for students to connect the key ideas from across the play.

An extract from George Bernard Shaw’s classic play ‘Mrs Warren’s Profession’, perfect for analysis as an example of political and social protest writing for Section A of the AQA A level exam. It can be challenging to find great resources for this part of the exam, but this extract (with the accompanying exam question) always work fantastically.

This word search is a fun and stimulating activity for those studying ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to help consolidate knowledge of characters, key themes, and their spelling.

This extract from Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Crucible’ is perfect practice for analysing elements of political and social protest for those studying the AQA A level syllabus.

This extract from John Osborne’s classic 1956 play ‘Look Back in Anger’ is perfect practice for analysing elements of political and social protest for those studying the AQA A level syllabus.

This crossword on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ provides an enjoyable but academic activity for pupils to test their knowledge of the play. It always works as a great starter or plenary task. Ideal for pupils from KS3 to KS5.

This extract from Harold Pinter’s powerful play ‘One For The Road’ is perfect practice for analysing elements of political and social protest for those studying the AQA A level syllabus. Please note: this extract (and play) contains very mature themes and language.

This word search (or ‘sopa de letras’) on animals (‘los animales’) is an ideal and fun activity for teaching and consolidating Spanish vocabulary. Students can write the English translations for each animal either on the sheet or in their books/folders at the end of the activity. They should also include the correct lexical gender of each word.

These five animals made from geometric shapes are a fantastic way of teaching EYFS, KS1 or lower KS2 about geometric shapes in the world. Ask your pupils to create animals from the sheets themselves using only geometric shapes. Differentiation is naturally worked into the lesson as some animals are easier than others to construct. Pupils always love this lesson! It’s a great way of making mathematics enjoyable and engaging. Alternatively, these posters can be used in your classroom or corridor displays.

A series of mock questions on Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ designed to emulate AQA’s exam style in the Political and Social Protest Paper (Section B). Sixteen questions in total. Perfect for revision and practice assessments.

A lesson focused on how Scrooge is affected by reliving the memory of his lost love, Belle. Perfect for those studying the text at with AQA at GCSE.

An introduction (or revision) for how to answer Section B of Paper 2 of AQA’s English Language GCSE. This part of the exam - worth a whopping 40 marks - is all about persuasive writing. This PowerPoint is designed to teach the most important strategies for tackling this question. Top tips are given for how to write effective articles, speeches, blogs and letters. Some example questions (with exemplar introductions) are included.

This 29-slide lesson analyses Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Remains’, deconstructing its language, structure, imagery, context, message and more. Critical-thinking questions and tasks are included, as well as the option of two exam-style essay questions at the end of the lesson. The lesson is ideal for those studying AQA’s ‘Power and Conflict’ poetry cluster in the Literature GCSE (especially high-attaining groups), where the poem is featured. It could also be taught to GCSE groups as an ‘unseen’ poem or even KS5 groups as a poem of political and social protest. PowerPoint saved as PDF.

Detailed and high-grade notes on each of the major characters in J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. Perfect for revision of the characters when studying the play at GCSE.

This is a thorough and comprehensive 26-slide lesson on Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Mother, Any Distance’, which is studied as part of AQA’s GCSE Literature anthology on ‘Love & Relationships’. This PowerPoint unpicks key themes of distance, growing up, independence, family bonds and letting go with close analysis of language, form and structure. Also included are many small questions for students and a ‘mock’ essay question in which students must compare ‘Mother, Any Distance’ to another poem, just like in the real AQA exam. PowerPoint is saved as PDF.

This 35-slide lesson explores Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’. The lesson unpicks Browning’s masterful use of the dramatic monologue form and his key themes of monomania, narcissism, power, control, and objectification. Brief biographical information on Browning is featured, as well as information on the poem’s commonly accepted source and Italian Renaissance culture. Questions and discussion points are included throughout for students, as well as key vocabulary and analysis of the poem’s form, structure, and rhyme. A creative writing task - in which students write their own poem inspired by Browning’s - is included at the end of the lesson. This lesson is ideal for GCSE pupils - particularly those studying the poem as part of AQA’s ‘Power and Conflict’ poetry anthology - but could be used with KS3 too. PowerPoint saved as PDF.

This 30-slide lesson explores Stave Five of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. Students are encouraged to consider how Dickens presents Scrooge’s metamorphosis from a miserly misanthrope to a charitable and responsible citizen in the final chapter of the novella. We think about how Dickens evidences Scrooge’s change, exploring what leads Scrooge to reconsider his relationship with charity, Church, his local community, Fred, and the Cratchits. As we finish the novella, we consider the allegorical function of the story and whether Dickens’ messages are still relevant to our own society. Questions, discussion points, and tasks are included for students. This is ideal for those studying the novella at GCSE or at KS3. PowerPoint saved as PDF.

This 21-slide lesson explores Alfred Noyes’ poem, ‘The Highwayman’. Students explore the meaning of heroism and consider the use of ‘anti-heroes’ in film and literature. They are then taught about the history of highwaymen (including how they have been romanticised in popular culture over the years), and learn about the notorious career of Dick Turpin. Students then read Alfred Noyes’ famous poem and unpick its language, imagery, and structure. We think about the romantic and tragic elements of the poem, and discuss whether or not the titular highwayman deserves our sympathy at the end of the narrative. In the next task, the poem’s language and Noyes’ use of various linguistic techniques (including similes, metaphor, and repetition) are identified and analysed. The poem’s atmosphere and epilogue are also explored. The lesson ends with two creative responses to the poem (which could be set as homework tasks or be covered in the next lesson). This lesson is ideal for upper KS2 and lower KS3 students. A copy of the poem is included in this resource. PowerPoint and Word doc are saved as PDF.