I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
Are you a TEFL teacher with an advanced level class? Or maybe your students have EFL needs? If so, these resources should be helpful. There are around 50 worksheets covering reading, writing, grammar and speaking, with some games to reinforce the grammar rules. This unit also contains end of unit tests, research lessons and opportunities for discussion. They are not stand alone lessons, but could serve as effective support for EFL students who want to improve their English in the classroom for IELTS or TOEIC. There are a number of speaking, grammar, reading and writing activities based around:
2nd conditionals
film quizzes
writing a film review
childhood rules
using modals to write your own rules
conditional sentences
using connectors
conspiracy theories
count and uncount nouns
essay writing
researching festivals
discussing the future
choosing between gerunds and infinitives
jigsaw reading and sharing information
researching Jack the Ripper
modals of deduction
past modals
relative clauses
talk and speak
writing a travel guide
Are you a TEFL teacher with an advanced level class? Or maybe your students have EFL needs? If so, these resources should be helpful. There are around 50 worksheets covering writing, grammar and speaking, with some games to reinforce the grammar rules. This unit also contains end of unit tests. They are not stand alone lessons, but could serve as effective support for EFL students who want to improve their English in the classroom for IELTS or TOEIC. There are a number of speaking, grammar, reading and writing activities based around:
articles
chat up lines
describing city life
verb noun collocations
describing a process using the passive voice
forming nouns
making predictions using the future perfect
discussing gender differences
expressions with ‘get’
adventure
How to… advice
learning styles
letter writing
narrative tenses
nouns and adjectives
passive voice
personal qualities
personality adjectives
phrasal verbs
prefix and suffix
Are you a TEFL teacher with an upper-intermediate level class? Or maybe your students have EFL needs? If so these resources should be helpful. There are around 50 worksheets covering intermediate grammar and speaking, with some games to reinforce the grammar rules. They are not stand alone lessons, but could serve as effective support for EFL students struggling with their English in the classroom. There are a number of speaking, grammar, reading and writing activities based around:
using the second conditional to express past regrets
creating your own laws with modal verbs
debating topics
describing your home city
expressions with ‘go’
making predictions about the future
relative clauses
talking about hypothetical futures
setting the rules for men
using modals of obligation
narrative tenses
the past perfect
progress tests
quantifiers
relative clauses
reported speech
say and tell
giving advice
using “will” for instant decisions
Are you a TEFL teacher with a pre-intermediate level class? Or maybe your students have EFL needs? If so, these resources should be helpful. There are around 65 worksheets covering intermediate grammar and speaking, with some games to reinforce the grammar rules. This unit also contains end of unit tests. They are not stand alone lessons, but could serve as effective support for EFL students struggling with their English in the classroom. There are a number of speaking, grammar, reading and writing activities based around:
forming first conditionals
forming second conditionals
writing in the past simple
comparative adjectives
superlative adjectives
discussion cards
Dating Agency Game
describing people
formal letter phrases
the passive voice
future tenses
reading activities
make and do
forming predictions
past simple games
using the present continuous
prepositions in songs
used to
Are you a TEFL teacher with a lower-intermediate level class? Or maybe your students have EFL needs? If so these resources should be helpful. There are around 68 worksheets covering intermediate grammar and speaking, with some games to reinforce the grammar rules. This unit also contains end of unit tests. They are not stand alone lessons, but could serve as effective support for EFL students struggling with their English in the classroom. There are a number of speaking, grammar, reading and writing activities based around:
changing the active voice to the passive voice
adjectives ending in ‘ed’
planning a backpacking trip
film quizzes
describing childhood memories
adjectives to describe people
expressions with ‘get’
expressions with ‘have’
expressions with ‘work’
comparative adjectives
the first conditional
the past simple
writing future forms
gradable and absolute adjectives
have you ever…?
job interview questions
talking about your life experiences
past simple pronunciation
using the present perfect
Are you a TEFL teacher with an elementary level class? Or maybe your students have EFL needs? If so these resources should be helpful. There are around 46 worksheets covering basic grammar and speaking, as well as mid-unit and end of unit tests. They are not stand alone lessons, but could serve as effective support for students struggling with their English in the classroom. There are a number of speaking, grammar and writing activities based around:
adverbs of frequency
articles
classroom language
comparative adjectives
superlative adjectives
daily routines
family
jobs
present simple
past simple
present continuous
prepositions
holidays
transport
Do you want to study a novel that teaches students about both the allure and the dangers of gangs?
This unit of work works well with mid to high ability Year 8 or 9 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to the American Literature canon. It comes resourced with PowerPoints, worksheets, contextual information, IWB activities, character analysis, opportunities for creative writing and ideas for an assessment.
Lesson 1: Gang culture
Lesson 2: How Hinton creates character
Lesson 3: Hinton’s use of stereotypes
Lesson 4: How writers build tension
Lesson 5: The Socs and The Greasers
Lesson 6: Using inference
Lesson 7: Narrative perspective
Lesson 8: Robert Frost “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Lesson 9: Analysing the character of Ponyboy
Lesson 10: Writing a newspaper article
Lesson 11: Dual narratives
Lesson 12: Use of foreshadowing to build tension
Lesson 13: Building tension in “The Rumble”
Lesson 14: Character foils: Jonny and Dally
Lesson 15: Analysing the character of Ponyboy
Lesson 16: Formal speeches in The Courtroom
These feedback sheets really help students to target areas of weakness without relying on the teacher. Each sheet has been designed for the students to carry out their own corrections once you have given them a target. Each sheet includes an explanation of what the target means, how to achieve it in their own work, a sample paragraph containing a successful example and a list of dos and don’ts.
Reading Targets
A: how to deepen your explanations
B: how to select and use quotes effectively
C: how to skillfully embed historical context
D: how to comment on language techniques
E: how to keep your answer relevant
F: how to improve your knowledge of the text
G: how to write analytical paragraphs
H: how to compare two texts
I: how to write an introduction
J: how to write a conclusion
K: how to plan an essay
L: how to annotate an extract
M: how to explore different interpretations
N: how to analyse form and structure
O: how to comment on poet’s use of meter
P: how to write a conceptualised response
Writing Targets
A: using paragraphs and discourse markers
B: how to correct your punctuation
C: using figurative language
D: varying your sentence types
E: fixing grammar issues
F: appealing to your audience
G: focus on purpose
H: using the 5 senses
I: improving your vocabulary
J: correcting your tenses
K: how to plan your writing
L: how to brainstorm your ideas
M: how to structure your writing effectively
N: how to begin and end your writing
Everything you need to teach Coraline at KS3. This 16 lesson unit has been designed as a read through the text, with a focus on evaluating a statement, and includes an assessment on how Gaiman creates tension. It is fully resourced with extracts, quizzes, assessments and worksheets.
Lesson 1: Gothic Horror
Lesson 2: C1 Setting the scene
Lesson 3: C2 Foreshadowing
Lesson 4: C3 Alternative realities
Lesson 5: C4 How Gaiman creates characters
Lesson 6: C5 Evaluating Coraline
Lesson 7: C6 What is bravery?
Lesson 8:C7 Interpreting clues
Lesson 9: C8 The children in the mirror
Lesson 10: C9 How Gaiman creates mystery
Lesson 11: C10 Horror and Mystery
Lesson 12: C11 The Final Battle
Lesson 13: C12-13 Evaluating the Ending
Lesson 14: Planning the assessment
Lesson 15: Writing the assessment
Lesson 16: The Film
This unit contains everything you need to teach Greta Thunberg Speeches. It works well balanced with with Rime of the Ancient Mariner, so the students can discuss ecological arguments in their Individual Oral. The unit opens with 5 famous speeches so the students can learn and use the required terminology. It is then followed by 7 IB specific lessons, focusing on how to analyse a speech. This unit could also be used for Higher Level Students.
Lesson 1: JFK
Lesson 2: Leonardo DiCaprio’s speech at the UN
Lesson 3: Muhammad Ali
Lesson 4: Malala
Lesson 5: Emma Watson
Lesson 6: Introduction to IB speeches
Lesson 7: The World is Waking Up
Lesson 8: Act Right Now
Lesson 9: A Disarming Case
Lesson 10: Global Issues
Lesson 11: Our Lives Are In Your Hands
Lesson 12: Our House Is On Fire
Everything you need to teach the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE Anthology. This unit of work is focused on Paper 1 non-fiction texts . It includes 12 lessons, but the amount of material could easily cover 22 lessons with 2 lessons per extract. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities for online research.
Lesson 1: An introduction to non-fiction reading
Lesson 2: The Danger of a Single Story
Lesson 3: Passage to Africa
Lesson 4: The Explorer’s Daughter
Lesson 5: Explorers or boys messing about?
Lesson 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Lesson 7: Young and Dyslexic?
Lesson 8: A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat
Lesson 9: Beyond the Sky and Earth
Lesson 10: H is for Hawk
Lesson 11: Chinese Cinderella
Lesson 12: Revision activities
Everything you need to teach non fiction texts at SL or HL. This unit of work is focused on Paper 1 IB for English Language and Literature. It includes 13 lessons and is fully resourced with exemplar answers, past papers, workbooks and key aspects of each genre.
Lesson 1: Analysing comics
Lesson 2: Analysing graphic novels
Lesson 3: Reviewing comics
Lesson 4: Graphic novel revision
Lesson 5: Analysing ‘The Arrival’
Lesson 6: How Adverts Persuade Us
Lesson 7: How To Read a Photograph
Lesson 8: Analysing Speeches
Lesson 9: Understanding Photographs
Lesson 10: Analysing Websites
Lesson 11: Fighting Back Past Paper and Exemplar Answer
Lesson 12: McDonalds Exemplar and Past Paper
Lesson 13: Key Features of the Genre
This unit contains everything you need to teach Chronicle at IB level. It includes 22 lessons to help guide the students through the text, investigating Marquez’s use of magical realism and the detective genre. It ends with essay planning lessons to help them link the themes to other IB texts, and begin to consider a topic for their extended essays and oral presentations. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Books edition.
Lesson 1: Designing context presentations
Lesson 2: Sharing context with the group
Lesson 3: Marquez’s style
Lesson 4: Attitudes to the murder
Lesson 5: Chapter 1 Review
Lesson 6: Bayardo and Angela
Lesson 7: Attitudes to marriage
Lesson 8: Angela Vicario
Lesson 9: Honour
Lesson 10: The Vicario Brothers
Lesson 11: Men and Women
Lesson 12: Heroes and Villains
Lesson 13: Who is the victim?
Lesson 14: The Detective Genre
Lesson 15: Reader suspicions
Lesson 16: The end
Lesson 17: Chapter 4-5 Review
Lesson 18: The Trial of Santiago Nasar
Lesson 19: Character Reviews
Lesson 20: Overall text revision
Lesson 21: Choose your activity
Lesson 22: Class presentations on themes and links
This unit contains everything you need to teach Rime of the Ancient Mariner at IB Standard or Higher level, but it could easily be adapted for GCSE and A-level. It includes 16 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual research, poetic devices revision, gothic extracts, Romantic research and vocabulary support.
Lesson 1: Gothic and Romantic
Lesson 2: Poetic rhyme, rhythm and meter
Lesson 3: Poetic devices research
Lesson 4: The Plot
Lesson 5: Part 1
Lesson 6: Part 1 Revision
Lesson 7: Part 2
Lesson 8: Part 3
Lesson 9: Part 4
Lesson 10: Part 5
Lesson 11: Part 6
Lesson 12: Part 7
Lesson 13: Parallel Research
Lesson 14: Themes and Symbols
Lesson 15: Links to crime genre
Lesson 16: Exam questions to plan
This unit contains everything you need to teach Paper 1 reading at IGCSE. This unit of work teaches the students how to answer questions on the writer’s thoughts and feelings, describing events, perspective and writer’s use of language and structure . It includes 16 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, newspaper articles, speeches, autobiographies, travel writing and two past papers for practice.
Lesson 1: Introduction to non-fiction reading
Lesson 2: Perspective
Lesson 3: Thoughts and feelings
Lesson 4: Perspective
Lesson 5: Gervase Finn
Lesson 6: Language
Lesson 7: Structure
Lesson 8: Thoughts and feelings
Lesson 9: Language and structure
Lesson 10: Perspective
Lesson 11: Boomers vs Millennials
Lesson 12: Analysing JFK’s speech
Lesson 13: Leonardo DiCaprio’s UN Speech
Lesson 14: Muhammad Ali’s speech
Lesson 15: Malala Yousafzai’s speech
Lesson 16: Emma Watson’s speech on equality
This unit contains everything you need to teach transactional writing (letters, speeches, articles, essays, reviews and leaflets) at IGCSE. This unit of work is focused on Pearson Edexcel Paper 1 for English language and teaches the students how to argue, advise and persuade. It includes 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson Powerpoints, exemplar answers, newspaper articles, leaflets, essays, reviews and speeches.
Lesson 1: Introduction to transactional writing
Lesson 2: Coronavirus response
Lesson 3: How to counter-argue
Lesson 4: Tough love
Lesson 5: Raising children
Lesson 6: Travel Writing
Lesson 7: Charity speech
Lesson 8: Letter of application
Lesson 9: Write your letter of application
Lesson 10: Technology
Lesson 11: Fame
Lesson 12: English teacher application
Lesson 13: Health leaflet
Lesson 14: Mobile phones
Lesson 15: Parents are over-protective
Lesson 16: Who would you vote for?
Lesson 17: Film censorship essay
Lesson 18: Writing your essay
Lesson 19: Protecting the countryside
Lesson 20: Virgin Atlantic complaint letter
Lesson 21: Meghan and Harry
Lesson 22: Writing your opinion
Lesson 23: Foreign holidays
Lesson 24: Writing a film review
Lesson 25: Writing a book review
This scheme of work contains everything you need to teach Imaginative Writing at IGCSE and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on Paper 3 coursework, but can easily be adapted for Paper 2 exam preparation. It includes 24 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, short stories and extracts, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, writing checklists and activities to exploit drama. Each lesson targets a different area of the mark scheme for the students to master.
Lesson 1: An introduction into imaginative writing
Lesson 2: How to structure a story using a story mountain
Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening
Lesson 4: Using connectives
Lesson 5: Creating characters with depth
Lesson 6: Writing about a party
Lesson 7: Focus on punctuation in ‘The Hero’
Lesson 8: Avoiding cliche in “The 100% perfect girl”
Lesson 9: Using dialogue
Lesson 10: Multiple narrative voices in “Not My Best Side”
Lesson 11: Writing a story using a unique voice
Lesson 12: Structure in ‘The Fugitive’
Lesson 13: A Day in the Life of a Nobody
Lesson 14: Writing a personal response
Lesson 15: Creating titles
Lesson 16: Expanding and planning
Lesson 17: Topic sentences
Lesson 18: Openings and endings
Lesson 19: Endings
Lesson 20: Narratives and dialogue
Lesson 21: Opening lines
Lesson 22: Creating a sense of place
Lesson 23: Show don’t tell
Lesson 24: Narrative Tenses in The Beach
This unit contains everything you need to teach Midsummer Night’s Dream at KS4. It is focused on essay writing skills, analyzing extracts for English Literature and bringing the play to life. It includes over 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extract analysis and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition.
Each lesson is focused on a scene from the play, so you can easily cut this unit down to focus specifically on a key scene and a theme from the play.
Lesson 1: Context
Lesson 2: Online research
Lesson 3: The Globe
Lesson 4: Character research
Lesson 5: Language
Lesson 6: Plot and characters
Lesson 7: Act out the play
Lesson 8: A1S1 Theseus and Hippolyta
Lesson 9: A1S2 The Mechanicals
Lesson 10: A2S1 Puck
Lesson 11: A2S1 Oberon and Titania
Lesson 12: A2S1 Demetrius and Hermia
Lesson 13: Language
Lesson 14: A2S2 The love potion
Lesson 15: A3S1 The rehearsal
Lesson 16: A3S1 Bottom and Titania
Lesson 17: A3S2 Oberon and Puck
Lesson 18: A3S2 The lovers
Lesson 19: A3S2 Young love
Lesson 20: A4S1 Bottom
Lesson 21: A4S1 Explanations
Lesson 22: A5S1 The play
Lesson 23 A5S1 The end
Lesson 24: Blockbusters review game
Lesson 25: Revision cards
This unit is a great way to teach summary, language and perspective skills at KS4. It is focused on AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2. It prepares students for Q2 summarise the differences, Q3 writer’s use of language and Q4 perspective and point of view. It includes 24 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, exemplar answers, online research and historical articles . Page numbers refer to the Arrow Books edition.
Lesson 1: Context research online
Lesson 2: C1 Maycomb County
Lesson 3: C2 Education
Lesson 4: C2 Analysing Miss Caroline
Lesson 5: C3 Comparing Atticus’ and Scout’s point of view
Lesson 6: The Case of Ruby Bridges
Lesson 7: C4 Analysing Atticus Finch
Lesson 8: C5 Analysing Miss Maudie Atkinson
Lesson 9: C6 Building tension
Lesson 10: C7 Scout’s understanding of the world
Lesson 11: C8 The Fire
Lesson 12 C10 The Rabid Dog
Lesson 13: Analysing Miss Dubose
Lesson 14: C12 Race relations
Lesson 15: C13 Comparing Aunt Alex with Ms Dubose
Lesson 16: C15 The Lynch Mob
Lesson 17: C16-21 Summarising the trial
Lesson 18: C21 The Verdict
Lesson 19: C23 Comparing Bob and Atticus
Lesson 20: C24 Analysing the Missionary Ladies
Lesson 21: C25 Racism and Prejudice
Lesson 22: C28 The Attack on Jem and Scout
Lesson 23: C29 The Aftermath and Boo Radley
Lesson 24: C31 The Ending
If you are teaching Frankenstein, this unit contains everything you need to allow students to connect a 19th century Romantic novel with the great issues of today, such as the environment, artificial intelligence and what makes us human.
This unit has everything you need to teach Frankenstein at KS3. It contains 25 lessons that take you through the text using differentiated extracts. It is fully resourced with context readings, theme discussions, extract analysis, persuasive writing opportunities, online research on The Romantics, critical articles and opportunities to practice extract into essay writing. Please note this unit does not look at the whole text, it analyses key extracts from the novel.
Lesson 1: an introduction to plot and context
Lesson 2: Walton’s letters
Lesson 3: C1 Victor and Elizabeth
Lesson 4: C4 University Life
Lesson 5: C5 The Creature
Lesson 6: C6 Elizabeth’s letter
Lesson 7: C7 Child killers
Lesson 8: The Trial of Justine
Lesson 9: C8 The Gothic and The Romantic
Lesson 10: Romantic Research
Lesson 11: C10 The Ice Field
Lesson 12: C11 The Creature’s Tale
Lesson 13: C15 The Importance of Appearances
Lesson 14: C16 Revenge
Lesson 15: C17 The Bride of Frankenstein
Lesson 16: C19 The Orkney Islands
Lesson 17: C20 The Dangers of Science
Lesson 18: Who is the real monster?
Lesson 19: C23 Elizabeth
Lesson 20: C24 The End
Lesson 21: Extract analysis on ‘Regret’
Lesson 22: Walton’s Letters
Lesson 23: The Trial of Victor Frankenstein
Lesson 24: End of unit quiz