A fun lesson on allusions looking at examples in film, music, adverts, art and Shakespeare.

A selection of monologues with YouTube links included. The following monologues and clips are included: Trainspotting Love, Actually Kick Ass The Duff Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

An in-depth PowerPoint on this interesting topic. A lot of examples from film and media are included.

Fun quiz activity.

A fun quiz for ESL students using a ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ format. The questions are on British culture.

Fun lesson with information, techniques, discussion topics and a quiz.

A fun activity the student love! Great for analysing texts (could be use for R&W exams). In groups, students take photos of the 6 types of picture given to them e.g. perspective, reflection, jump photo etc. They then have to recreate three famous photographs e.g. Rosa Parks, Afghan Girl etc. The students then need to analyse the famous photos and their own! All resources included. The students are told that a first reaction to looking at any photograph is probably an immediate response, whether you like it, or not. However, photographs can be analysed in more detail. Almost any photograph has a lot to offer if you learn to ‘read’ it.

All our students do the certain common, “unnecessary mistakes” that writers often fall victim to in their writing. This quiz will help you to identify where they tend to make these mistakes, and hopefully, it will help them to avoid them in your future writing. These mistakes are an English teacher’s ultimate pet peeves! Avoid at all costs!

A fun PowerPoint lesson on idioms. The following is included in the resource: definition, quiz, answers, fun idiom images, group discussion.

A 42-slide PowerPoint with an explanation and examples of famous and rarely used idioms.

A fun and informative quiz on vocab used in the office. Mainly used in my ESL lessons.

Test your students’ knowledge of emailing for business in English with this 15 question quiz. Included are useful phrases, grammar and vocabulary, thinking about formal and informal style, your reader and your purpose. Answers included.

An excellent, fun and interative literary. The following rounds are included: fictional characters, film adaptions, British/American English, prefix/suffix, Vocabograms, connections, and rapid fire. The students love this lesson!

Fun and informative PowerPoint quiz on superlatives. The students a number of questions such as: Which language has the largest vocabulary?, What is the most dangerous animal for us, humans? etc. It’ s a fun activity which the students enjoy and really hammers home the topic of superlatives.

This lesson provides essential information for writing a leaflet, making it very persuasive and informative.

A PowerPoint lesson looking at the theme of narrative writing. The following points are covered: Personal Narrative Fictional Narrative Point of View Character Setting Conflict (Man vs…self / man / nature / society / technology / supernatural) Plot - using Disney’s Mulan as an example. Theme

The students take part in the contest in which participants are asked to spell words in a round-robin format. There are three different rounds of increasing difficulty. The students love it!

A 42-slide grammar quiz. Covers most of the tenses and other grammar areas.

Great PowerPoint for last min revision on paper 2! I have also included a video version. All questions are covered separately with real exam questions, examiner tips and model answers.

An essential resource for anyone teaching EDUQAS GCSE English Language. The 2018 exam is analysed with every single question being focused on and split into the following areas: things the students did well, struggled on, tips for the future, time management, language, reading and writing. The resource is available as a PowerPoint, PDF and a video clip.