An informative, interactive and fun lesson on Q1 and Q3 of the non-fiction reading exam. This lesson looks at the November 2018 exam which looked at two articles on daredevils tightrope walking across Niagra Falls. There is a also an excellent examiner podcast that really benefits the students. The lesson includes the following:
Examiner tips
Three group activities
Model answers
Link to extract
Fun and interesting images
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
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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
A fun and informative PowerPoint lesson on Cockney Rhyming Slang. The lesson includes definitions, links to video clips, slang examples and group activities.