GCSE and A Level resources for 1 hour and 30 minutes of teaching on ‘London’ by William Blake. Suggestions for further activities or additional activities are also included. The pack includes: • A two page student worksheet with a selection of activities and questions. • A 26 slide PowerPoint reflecting all activities on the worksheet which some extra explanation. Essay questions and an additional poem is provided for a comparison activity. • A ten question PowerPoint comprehension quiz that can be shown on a whiteboard and students can mark their own answers. • A lesson plan guide with the task split into three 30 minute sections. Work can, of course, be extended for longer sessions or 30 minute sessions can be put together for an hour lesson. This resource encourages close reading, critical writing, discussion and retention of important ideas and quotations from ‘London’. Students can be set the work independently or the work can be presented in a more collaborative class atmosphere. The text of this poem is available at Project Gutenberg: All the images used in the pack are available for commercial use. William Blake poems also available: The Garden of Love Introduction to the Songs of Innocence The Tiger The Lamb The Echoing Green Also available William Blake Poetry Bundle which includes: ‘The Garden of Love’, ‘Introduction to the Songs of Innocence’, ‘The Tiger’, ‘The Lamb’ and ‘The Echoing Green’.

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell is a detailed set of teaching activities that progress students through an understanding of the poem with a 12 page PowerPoint presentation. The PowerPoint presentation covers: 1. A starter activity focused on the title that frames the approaches of the students. 2. Links to readings of the poems and a short Kahoot quiz. 3. Brief contextual information about Andrew Marvell and Metaphysical Poets. 4. Notes on the structure of the poem to provide students with a way to approach the poem. 5. Questions that focus on a close reading of the three sections of the poem. 6. Broad questions about Marvell’s use of satire and the role of love in the poem. 7. A creative activity to apply their understanding of the structure and get students to think beyond the poem. After working through the PowerPoint presentation and the questions, students should have an awareness of the specific literary elements of the poem and broad understanding of the larger concepts, such as love.

Creative writing fiction prompt with a differentiated set of worksheets. A creative writing prompt providing a visual motivation with the guidance of activities and questions to get students started with their creative writing. A set of worksheets provide support for a creative writing prompt. The worksheets act as handouts for students at three levels of ability: Expert level: students are provided with a picture for inspiration and an opening line. Advanced: in addition to the picture for inspiration and an opening line, Advanced worksheets also contain idea generating questions. Foundation: in addition to a picture for inspiration, an opening line and idea generating questions, Foundation worksheets also contain sentences starts to ensure variety of sentences and wow words to add variety to student writing. A series of 3 worksheets at the three levels of Expert, Advanced and Foundation are available with a Powerpoint of 20 Creative Writing Fiction Prompts. Creative Writing Fiction Prompts: Series 1 Worksheets and Powerpoint Creative Writing Fiction Prompts: Series 2 Powerpoint

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell is a detailed set of teaching activities that progress students through an understanding of the poem with a 12 page PowerPoint presentation. The PowerPoint presentation covers: 1. A starter activity focused on the title that frames the approaches of the students. 2. Links to readings of the poems and a short Kahoot quiz. 3. Brief contextual information about Andrew Marvell and Metaphysical Poets. 4. Notes on the structure of the poem to provide students with a way to approach the poem. 5. Questions that focus on a close reading of the three sections of the poem. 6. Broad questions about Marvell’s use of satire and the role of love in the poem. 7. A creative activity to apply their understanding of the structure and get students to think beyond the poem. After working through the PowerPoint presentation and the questions, students should have an awareness of the specific literary elements of the poem and broad understanding of the larger concepts, such as love.

A Level and GCSE resources for 1 hour and 30 minutes of teaching on ‘There’s a Certain Slant of Light’ by Emily Dickinson. Suggestions for further activities or additional activities are also included. The pack includes: • A two page student worksheet with a selection of activities and questions. • A 25 slide PowerPoint reflecting all activities on the worksheet which some extra explanation. Essay questions and an additional Emily Dickinson poem is provided for a comparison activity. • A ten question PowerPoint comprehension quiz that can be shown on a whiteboard and students can mark their own answers. • A lesson plan guide with the task split into three 30 minute sections. Work can, of course, be extended for longer sessions or 30 minute sessions can be put together for an hour lesson. This resource encourages close reading, critical writing, discussion and retention of important ideas and quotations from ‘There’s a Certain Slant of Light’. Students can be set the work independently or the work can be presented in a more collaborative class atmosphere. The text of this poem is available at Project Gutenberg. Further details on Emily Dickinson and some manuscript versions of her poems can be found at Poetry Foundation. All the images used in the pack are available for commercial use. Emily Dickinson poems also available: This World is not Conclusion He fumbles at your Soul I like to see it lap the Miles Going to Heaven! Also available the Emily Dickinson Poetry Bundle which includes: ‘There’s a certain Slant of light’, ‘This World is not Conclusion’, ‘He fumbles at your Soul’, ‘I like to see it lap the Miles’ and ‘Going to Heaven!’

A 15 question multiple choice comprehension quiz in PowerPoint with an answer section. Perfect for students to write down their answers and then mark their own (or each other’s answers). The quiz covers 15 question from across the novel including locations, character and quotations. Answers are included in the second half of the quiz with teacher controlled animated answer reveals. The Quiz is controlled by the teacher and can take anything from 5 minutes to 15 minutes to complete in class. Check out the complete series of quizzes with quizzes on all 9 chapters (totalling 135 questions) and quizzes on locations, chapter knowledge and the car motif. Check out The Great Gatsby Mega Quiz with nine rounds and 75 interactive questions, great for revision or an end of unit quiz.

30 pages of blank comic book template pages with speech, thought and action bubbles. Useful for many different activities. Get your students to create comic books stories, or storyboard a play or story. Use the boxes to organize ideas and themes. Create character profiles. Use the central circle and surrounding boxes to brainstorm. Use the directional boxes for developing stages in a process. Write instructions. Create information pages. The speech bubbles, thought bubbles and action bubbles can be cut out and stuck onto the pages. They can be coloured and used to illustrate the comic books pages. Print onto sticker sheets and peel off the bubbles. In addition to 30 pages of blank comic book pages, there is a set of pages with narrative boxes to add variety to the pages. All pages are presented in pdfs with clear lines for easy printing and photocopying.

A pack of 10 practice examination papers that follow the poem and theme structure of the OCR English Language and Literature A Level Paper 2 (The Language of Poetry and Plays) Section A (specification number H474). The practice exam questions consist of a theme focused question with a William Blake poem. The questions focus on issues relevant to the study of a range of 10 William Blake’s poems from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. These are the 10 poems currently being examined on the 2022 OCR English Language and Literature A Level Paper 2 exam. Each question provides a different theme and then asks students to complete a detailed analysis of a different poems followed by a comparison to other poems by William Blake. Students are required to engage with the theme and apply it to their analysis of the poem included as well as other William Blake poems that they are expected to recall from their study of his poetry.

Nine extract analysis worksheets for The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. After a one page extract from the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, the worksheet contains three sections: Literary and linguistic technique spotting Three short answer question on the extract Three essay questions on the play Nine worksheets are included with three worksheets from each Act of the three acts of The Importance of Being Earnest. The worksheets contain space for annotation of the extract and answers to the short answer questions on the extract. The essay questions can provide an excellent opportunity for further study and homework beyond the extract.

A pack of 5 practice examination papers that follow the plot line and stylistic analysis structure of the OCR English Language and Literature A Level Paper 3 (Reading as a writer, writing as a reader) Section A and B (specification number H474). The practice exam papers consist of both parts of the OCR Language and Literature A Level Paper 3, narrative writing and prose analysis. Both sections have a choice of two questions, as is the case the OCR examination paper. The creative writing section contains a choice of two plot line options. Each option contains six bullet points to allow students to write a 500 opening to a narrative. Students are also asked to write a short reflection on their own writing. The narrative writing presents a stylistic question that is appropriate to any question on the OCR English Language and Literature paper 3 syllabus: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Atonement by Ian McEwan and The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. Each question contains different plot lines and stylistic questions and asks students to complete a creative opening and a detailed analysis. In the prose analysis, students are required to engage with the stylistic approach and apply it to their understanding of the text. This is an open text exam and students are expected to draw specific examples and analysis of the text.

A series of seven PowerPoints breaking The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood into sections. The sections are: Chapter 1 to 6 Chapter 7 to 12 Chapter 13 to 17 Chapter 18 to 23 Chapter 24 to 29 Chapter 30 to 40 Chapter 41 to 46 with Historical Notes Each section has its own PowerPoint with three to ten slides containing questions on the novel. Questions cover characters, events, narrative perspective and specific quotations. Activities are appropriate for an upper GCSE, A Level or college level student. In total, the PowerPoints contain 32 pages of slides with questions for students to answer. A summary sheet is included to provide students with a way of remembering what happens in each chapter.

A pack of 10 practice examination questions that follow the proposition structure of the AQA A Level Paper 1 (Love Through the Ages) Section A (specification number 7712). In the style of AQA A Level English Literature specification A. The materials consist of ten proposition questions each with a two-page extract from Act 3 of Othello and different love focused proposition and question. The questions focus on various issues on the topic of love and the characters in Othello. The questions provide a specific point of view and then asks students to complete a detailed analysis of the extract followed by a discussion of the rest of the play. Students are required to engage with the statement (proposition) and apply it to their analysis of the extract and discussion of the rest of the play.

The Importance of Being Earnest 10 A Level Practice Extract Exam Questions A pack of 10 practice examination questions that follow the extract and theme structure of the OCR English Language and Literature A Level Paper 2 (The Language of Poetry and Plays) Section B (specification number H474). The practice exam question consist of a theme focused question with an extract of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. The questions focus on issues relevant to the study of a range of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. The questions include an extract from the play which is currently being examined on the 2022 OCR English Language and Literature A Level Paper 2 exam. Each question provides a different theme and then asks students to complete a detailed analysis of an extract from the play before discussing other sections of the play. Students are required to engage with the theme and apply it to their analysis of the extract included as well as other sections of The Importance of Being Earnest. This is a closed text exam and students are expected to recall the rest of the play from their study.

A powerpoint with a series of 20 engaging creative writing prompts. Provides a visual motivation with the guidance of activities and questions to get students started with their creative writing. In additional to 20 prompt images with questions on the powerpoint to motivate student creative writing, there is a set of reflection questions on the powerpoint. Reflection questions are differentiated between dialogue, description and perspective writing to get students to think about their own writing. A revision slide will allow students to consider way of changing their writing. A final slide with ten opening lines provide a final opportunity for creative writing and a set of work that could be set as homework. This is the second series of creative writing prompts available. The first series is available: Creative Writing Fiction Prompts Powerpoint and Worksheets

A varied 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minute end of unit quiz or a good way to start revising The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Eight rounds with 75 questions appropriate for secondary school and college students (key stage 4 and 5, 11 to 18 year olds). Appropriate for teams or individuals (more fun with teams). Eight different rounds with a total of 75 questions (most with ten questions and an anagram round with five). The quiz will take between an hour and 1 hour 30 minutes to complete. A response sheet is included with a teacher’s sheet that includes all the answers. Round One: Character Anagrams Round Two: Context Multiple Choice Round Three: Who said what? Round Four: What happened when? Round Five: Word Meanings Round Six: Literary Techniques Round Seven: Who am I? Round Eight: Complete the Quotation Tie breakers Students work through a highly visual PowerPoint answering questions in each round. The animations in the PowerPoint allow you to create interest and allow students time to answer questions. Examples of the Character Anagrams, Who said what?, Word Meanings, Literary Techniques, Who am I? and Complete the Quotation are included to make instructions clear and accessible. The What said what?, Word Meanings, Literary Techniques and Complete the Quotation have an electronic voice readings. Either turn on your speakers, or not, depending on your preference. Once the quiz has been completed, students mark the answers of the other teams and work through the questions that can create further discussion. Questions are appropriate to a secondary school and college aged student. The eight rounds of questions last for between 50 minutes and 1 hour (depending on how much time you give students to answer the questions). You can also give students longer to complete the questions. For example, the Who am I? clues could be left on the board to allow students to discuss possibilities in groups. The other questions in the quiz can be moved through at a brisk pace. Working through the answers takes between 15 and 20 minutes. You can slow the progress down or speed it up depending on your group or lessons. Whole quiz time: 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. The PowerPoint can be edited and adapted allowing you to change any questions to suit your students. Try out the free end of term quiz.

OCR English Language and Literature A Level resources for 1 hour and 30 minutes of teaching Feel Good review from Non-Fiction Anthology. Suggestions answers and paired texts included. A range of activities for the Feel Good review which will be examined on the Summer 2026 OCR English Language and Literature A-Level. The pack includes: • A two page student worksheet with a selection of activities and questions. • A teacher’s suggested answers version of the worksheet. • A 28 slide activity PowerPoint reflecting all activities on the worksheet. Includes activities for the paired text. • A paired text that can used as a comparative activity or timed writing or homework with the Feel Good review. • A ten question PowerPoint comprehension quiz that can be shown on a whiteboard and students can mark their own answers. • A lesson plan guide with the task split into three 30 minute sections. Work can, of course, be extended for longer sessions or 30 minute sessions can be put together for an hour lesson. This resource encourages close reading, critical writing, discussion and retention of important ideas and quotations from the review of Feel Good with a compulsory text for OCR’s EMC English Language and Literature A Level. Students can be set the work independently or the work can be presented in a more collaborative class atmosphere. The text of this poem is available in the OCR English Language and Literature Non-Fiction Anthology which is provided by the examining for the teaching of this resources in the English Language and Literature A-Level. All the images and texts used in the pack are available for commercial use. Please note, this resources does not reproduce the OCR examination questions as examination questions are the copyright of OCR.

A varied 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minute end of unit quiz or a good way to start revising A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Eight rounds with 75 questions appropriate for secondary school and college students (key stage 4 and 5, 11 to 18 year olds). Appropriate for teams or individuals (more fun with teams). Eight different rounds with a total of 75 questions (most with ten questions and an anagram round with five). The quiz will take between an hour and 1 hour 30 minutes to complete. A response sheet is included with a teacher’s sheet that includes all the answers. Round One: Character Anagrams Round Two: Context Multiple Choice Round Three: Who said what? Round Four: What happened when? Round Five: Word Meanings Round Six: Literary Techniques Round Seven: Who am I? Round Eight: Complete the Quotation Tie breakers Students work through a highly visual PowerPoint answering questions in each round. The animations in the PowerPoint allow you to create interest and allow students time to answer questions. Examples of the Character Anagrams, Who said what?, Word Meanings, Literary Techniques, Who am I? and Complete the Quotation are included to make instructions clear and accessible. The What said what?, Word Meanings, Literary Techniques and Complete the Quotation have an electronic voice readings. Either turn on your speakers, or not, depending on your preference. Once the quiz has been completed, students mark the answers of the other teams and work through the questions that can create further discussion. Questions are appropriate to a secondary school and college aged student. The eight rounds of questions last for between 50 minutes and 1 hour (depending on how much time you give students to answer the questions). You can also give students longer to complete the questions. For example, the Who am I? clues could be left on the board to allow students to discuss possibilities in groups. The other questions in the quiz can be moved through at a brisk pace. Working through the answers takes between 15 and 20 minutes. You can slow the progress down or speed it up depending on your group or lessons. Whole quiz time: 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. The PowerPoint can be edited and adapted allowing you to change any questions to suit your students. Try out the free end of term quiz.

A varied 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minute end of unit quiz or a good way to start revising Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Eight rounds with 75 questions appropriate for secondary school and college students (key stage 4 and 5, 11 to 18 year olds). Appropriate for teams or individuals (more fun with teams). Eight different rounds with a total of 75 questions (most with ten questions and an anagram round with five). The quiz will take between an hour and 1 hour 30 minutes to complete. A response sheet is included with a teacher’s sheet that includes all the answers. Round One: Character Anagrams Round Two: Context Multiple Choice Round Three: Who said what? Round Four: What happened when? Round Five: Word Meanings Round Six: Literary Techniques Round Seven: Who am I? Round Eight: Complete the Quotation Tie breakers Students work through a highly visual PowerPoint answering questions in each round. The animations in the PowerPoint allow you to create interest and allow students time to answer questions. Examples of the Character Anagrams, Who said what?, Word Meanings, Literary Techniques, Who am I? and Complete the Quotation are included to make instructions clear and accessible. The What said what?, Word Meanings, Literary Techniques and Complete the Quotation have an electronic voice readings. Either turn on your speakers, or not, depending on your preference. Once the quiz has been completed, students mark the answers of the other teams and work through the questions that can create further discussion. Questions are appropriate to a secondary school and college aged student. The eight rounds of questions last for between 50 minutes and 1 hour (depending on how much time you give students to answer the questions). You can also give students longer to complete the questions. For example, the Who am I? clues could be left on the board to allow students to discuss possibilities in groups. The other questions in the quiz can be moved through at a brisk pace. Working through the answers takes between 15 and 20 minutes. You can slow the progress down or speed it up depending on your group or lessons. Whole quiz time: 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. The PowerPoint can be edited and adapted allowing you to change any questions to suit your students. Looking for Hamlet exam preparation? Try the 10 Hamlet A Level Practice Exam Papers. For OCR proposition exam questions. Try out the free end of term quiz.

A varied 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minute end of unit quiz or a good way to start revising The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Eight rounds with 75 questions appropriate for secondary school and college students (key stage 4 and 5, 11 to 18 year olds). Appropriate for teams or individuals (more fun with teams). Eight different rounds with a total of 75 questions (some with ten questions, some with five depending on the difficulty and level of interest). The quiz will take between an hour and 1 hour 30 minutes to complete. An response sheet is included with a teacher’s sheet that includes all the answers. Round One: Character Anagrams Round Two: Context Multiple Choice Round Three: Who said what? Round Four: What happened when? Round Five: Word Meanings Round Six: Literary Techniques Round Seven: Who am I? Round Eight: Complete the Quotation Tie breakers Students work through a highly visual PowerPoint answering questions in each round. The animations in the PowerPoint allow you to create interest and allow students time to answer questions. Examples of the Character Anagrams, Who said what?, Word Meanings, Literary Techniques, Who am I? and Complete the Quotation are included to make instructions clear and accessible. The What said what?, Word Meanings, Literary Techniques and Complete the Quotation have an electronic voice readings. Either turn on your speakers, or not, depending on your preference. Once the quiz has been completed, students mark the answers of the other teams and work through the questions that can create further discussion. Questions are appropriate to a secondary school and college aged student. The eight rounds of questions last for between 50 minutes and 1 hour (depending on how much time you give students to answer the questions). You can also give students longer to complete the questions. For example, the Who am I? clues could be left on the board to allow students to discuss possibilities in groups. The other questions in the quiz can be moved through at a brisk pace. Working through the answers takes between 15 and 20 minutes. You can slow the progress down or speed it up depending on your group or lessons. Whole quiz time: 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. The PowerPoint can be edited and adapted allowing you to change any questions to suit your students. Try the free end of term quiz.

A varied 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minute end of unit quiz or a good way to start revising Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Eight rounds with 75 questions appropriate for secondary school and college students (key stage 4 and 5, 11 to 18 year olds). Appropriate for teams or individuals (more fun with teams). Eight different rounds with a total of 75 questions (most with ten questions and an anagram round with five). The quiz will take between an hour and 1 hour 30 minutes to complete. A response sheet is included with a teacher’s sheet that includes all the answers. Round One: Character Anagrams Round Two: Context Multiple Choice Round Three: Who says what? Round Four: Word Meanings Round Five: What happens when? Round Six: Techniques and Terms Round Seven: Who am I? Round Eight: Complete the Quotation Tie breakers Students work through a highly visual PowerPoint answering questions in each round. The animations in the PowerPoint allow you to create interest and allow students time to answer questions. Examples of the Character Anagrams, Who says what?, Word Meanings, Techniques and Terms, Who am I? and Complete the Quotation are included to make instructions clear and accessible. The What says what?, Word Meanings, Techniques and Terms and Complete the Quotation have an electronic voice readings. Either turn on your speakers, or not, depending on your preference. Once the quiz has been completed, students mark the answers of the other teams and work through the questions that can create further discussion. Questions are appropriate to a secondary school and college aged student. The eight rounds of questions last for between 50 minutes and 1 hour (depending on how much time you give students to answer the questions). You can also give students longer to complete the questions. For example, the Who am I? clues could be left on the board to allow students to discuss possibilities in groups. The other questions in the quiz can be moved through at a brisk pace. Working through the answers takes between 15 and 20 minutes. You can slow the progress down or speed it up depending on your group or lessons. Whole quiz time: 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. The PowerPoint can be edited and adapted allowing you to change any questions to suit your students. Try out the free end of term quiz.