A great revision PowerPoint and worksheet for exam prep. This looks at the Autumn 2016 exam and gives students focused tips for each of the 5 reading exam questions. It also gives an overview, lecturer tips and terminology explanation. Exam paper, mark scheme and worksheet included.

A fantastic PowerPoint looking at all the tasks in the writing exam e.g. letters, speeches, reviews etc. Each text type has a structure, teacher tips and a sample paragraph. The following topics are also covered in the resource: Proofreading Capital letters How to write a great intro Apostrophes Colons Writing devices DAFOREST Sentence starters Spellings Homophones Final exam tips

Great PowerPoint for last min revision on paper 2! I have also included a video version.

A collection of resources focusing on terminology needed for the exam. The following is included: Verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs Metaphors and similes Figurative language Quizzes PowerPoints Worksheets

Three fantastic, in-depth PowerPoints looking at the paper 2 writing exam. The following are included: Text types Past exam questions Examiner advice Intros Structure SPAG Sentence starters DAFOREST Revision quizzes

Three different PowerPoint lessons focusing on the impressions question in paper 1. These are all looking at real exam questions. The following are included: Extract Lecturer tipd Answer structure A grade 9 exemplar answer Things to avoid Group activities

Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 celebrities. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included.

Four separate personality tests. The students love these! Great for tutor time or for a starter.

Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 countries. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included.

Fun anagram starter. You are going to have 19 things you can eat or drink. All of the words have been jumbled up. You have 3 minutes to unscramble all 19.

Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 animals. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included. My students love it.

Fun anagram starter. The students are given a list of 15 movies. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all 15. Activity and cut-out cards included. My students love it.

A fun starter where students discuss what makes them embarrassed and why. After a number of discussion activities, the students have to rank embarrassing situations 1-10. They are then given a final embarrassment score! The students love this.

A PowerPoint and resources on how to write a grade 9 narrative. The students really love this lesson as it' s modern topic they all have an opinion on. The following topics/resources are included: - grade 9 structure - character - dialogue - SPAG - exemplar material - adjectives, adverbs & verbs - sentence starters - figurative language - sensory language - dialogue tags - show, don't tell

Despite someone's silly review the documents are not the same. The answer sheet has the words underlined!! Students need to read through a short story. They then need to pick out the homophones. Answers on attached sheet. Edited for the one mistake mentioned in the review section

https://youtu.be/DBLgp1qTCTg A video &transcript attached for David Letterman's first appearance after 9/11 & delivers an emotional speech. Description from the New York Times below: "Eloquent,” “quirky,” “bewildered” & “inspiring” are words rarely combined to describe a single speech, but Letterman’s heartfelt &apparently improvised remarks after the terrorist attacks were all those things, and more. At the helm of the first late-night show after 9/11, Letterman expressed his own sadness — & the nation’s — with perfect plainness. That “religious fervour” was the cause of the attacks, Dave pointed out, “makes no goddamn sense.” But his admiration & gratitude for police & firefighters, & to the city of New York, was a universally shared and uplifting sentiment. Used in the Spoken Language unit to compare video clips (I used a more 'typical' Letterman clip with Julia Roberts on his show) but could be used for many things

A fun, informative and interactive quiz on letter writing. It comes in a PowerPoint or video format. I have also included marked exemplar working on letter writing. Marked by the exam board.

My students love this! A fun and interactive group activity that you can play like dominoes. Cut out the cards and get every single student involved. The two resources provided are a general English one (literary terms, grammar etc.), one general knowledge / trivia one and one on Of Mice and Men.

Lesson resources on writing a grade 9 article in the GCSE English writing exam. The lesson is based on the theme of survival and includes a great starter on surviving 100 deadly situations. The students love it! All resources and video clips included.

A really fun 25 slide PowerPoint starter where students are given a statement and they have to decide whether it is a fact or a.........fib! I have also included two videos of the starter set to music if you want to do it as an individual task! The students have a lot of fun debating!