A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on David Copperfield for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

Scaffolding approaching an extract-style question with a series of stages on the worksheet.

Worksheet on 1.1.

Waiting for Godot

Wordsworth sonnets worksheet - The world is too much... it is a beauteous evening... suprized by joy

This is an ambitious but detailed two year course for the OCR English Language GCSE, teaching around 1 lesson a week for 2 years. It contains a PPT with all the lesson plans and resources (Around 45-50 lessons) and lots of worksheets, activities, texts and resources for the course. It's ambitious but could be further scaffolded and differentiated for all learners. (Some copyrighted material is omitted but can be found online or in books).

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on The Island of Doctor Moreau for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

This is a collection of essay plans for 10 different whole-text questions on The Merchant of Venice.

Writing intros for the IGCSE Literature comparative unseen - Aunt Jennifer's tigers practice paper. Pupils write what the intros do well and less well

Worksheet for 3.1 in Merchant of Venice

Waiting for Godot - Lucky's Speech criticism

A consolidation booklet for pupils to use as they study the novel to aggregate quotations, think about themes, track characters, and think critically about the novel.

A simple introduction to writing non-fiction with a view to audience. Looks at model answers, techniques, and then brainstorms using four OCR English Language non-fiction composition tasks - but useful for all Language boards. Pupils write the first paragraph to these examples.

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on Silas Marner for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on A Christmas Carol for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

Practice for writing intros for the Pre Unseen paper/ other papers, using the Matthew Prior poem (from a past paper)

Questions for teaching Emily Dickinson's poetry

Waiting for Godot mock paper

Introductions and main paragraphs, working on analysis in The Tempest

Seven whole-text plans with one blank plan for pupils to complete themselves for revision. Includes evidence, analysis, dramatic effects and “magic points of magic” (i.e. targeted contextual information to add edge to a conclusion.)