High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.
High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.
Using two sources, students imagine that they were a soldier at the Dunkirk evacuation and write an eye-witness account of it.
The first source is a powerpoint with two with background information and historical contest.
The second source is a an extract from Churchill’s famous "We shall fight them on the beaches speech.
This could be used as stimulus for creative writing for English or empathetic writing for history.
Support students to write a leaflet with:
a powerpoint to introduce purpose,audience and key features of leaflet.
an example leaflet on watching too much TV and analysis grid.
facts and statistics on benefits of exercises to support the task.
an example of weak leaflet and a strong leaflet for students to evaluate and help them improve their own leaflets.
work covers two lessons - one for preparation, another for writing the leaflet.
Explore the life of the legendary hero, Dr Martin Luther King, with this bundle of activities. The folder includes:
Two-sided information on King’s life and struggle.
Worksheet with sixteen sentences to complete from information.
Extension tasks such as writing a letter to the great man; creating interview questions.
Extract from “I have dream speech” with language technique analysis sheet.
5.Extract from acceptance speech of Nobel Peace Prize.
6.Vocabulary Extension Activity Worksheet.
7.22 slide powerpoint with answers to sixteen sentence information.
8.Further activity ideas.
I recently saw a photograph of Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset and was blown away by how picturesque it looked. I started to research it on the internet and discovered that it was used by Ridley Scott in his advert for"Hovis" bread called “Boy on a Bike”. There were so many photos of it on the web that I thought it would make great inspiration for some writing to describe a place. The folder includes a 23 slide Powerpoint with a choice of two writing tasks - either write two paragraphs contrasting day with night or four paragraphs describing the hill during each of the four seasons. Lots of support is given with sensory description and a planning sheet is included. The Powerpoint includes lots of views of the hill and a link to the Ridley Scott advert. A worksheet with ideas for describing places is also included.
You could use these resources to simulate working in a news room for the day. Students receive a news in bullet point format that there has been an accident in a ski resort. They then have to shape the material into a professionally structured news report. Included in the folder is my lesson on how to write intros for news reports which is key to adopting the correct style for the newspaper report. There is also a WAGOLL illustrating the drafting and re-drafting process. All you need to become news reporters for the day!
Remind your students of the danger of fireworks at the same time as teaching them how to write a persuasive speech to warn others of the danger of fireworks. Folder includes:
Two-sided information leaflet on fireworks with background and history.
Comprehension activity worksheet.
Planning advice sheet.
Sentence starter advice sheet.
Powerpoint with starter, answers to comprehension and a reminder of DAFOREST techniques.
Keep it relevant with this engaging resource.
Full scheme of work on the Oxford Playscript play version of the classic novel Jane Eyre. Comprising of eleven lessons with powerpoints and accompanying worksheets, the scheme explores what it was to be a woman in Charlotte Bronte’s day and the precarious nature of Jane’s social position, culminating in watching a film version of the novel.
Full scheme of work comprising eleven lessons on the original novel of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, aimed at GCSE students. Each lesson on this one hundred and eighty slide powerpoint contains a starter, main and plenary.
We’ve been hearing a lot about the word ‘furlough’ recently. Did you know that the word originates from Dutch? Even more interesting - did you know that an estimated one percent of words in English are from Dutch? If not, why not download this FREE worksheet which gives clues to 15 words in English that have come to us from the Netherlands? (The answers are provided also)). Extend the learning by getting your child to use as many of the words as they can in a silly story. It doesn’t matter, as long as they are writing, using their imaginations and having fun. An activity suitable for both individuals or groups and a thank you to all my customers during the lockdown. I hope that together, you have some fun with your language!
After you have completed the free worksheet on changing the -y to an -i in singular and plural words, you can also try this 86 slide Powerpoint that explains how lots of other words change the -y ending to an -i ending when you add a suffix. All answers are provided on the slides and there is an accompanying worksheet to consolidate and embed the learning. Designed to be completed as an individual or for a class.
Forty-four clues to names of animals that have come into English from nine different languages. Teach students to recognise that English is a language full of borrowings from other languages in this fun powerpoint-based lesson. All answers provided on the slide to enable students to mark their own work. Can be completed individually or in groups.
Students learn how to personify their home town in a poem by studying two examples of poems that personify cities. Twenty-five slide powerpoint, plus worksheets with fill in the blanks exercises.
Learn how to write an article to persuade people to visit a holiday destination. Study an article that describes two days in Tenerife. Then extend the article yourself to three days using the language techniques and structure that you have studied. A thirty-slide powerpoint takes you through the language techniques and prompts you to spot them yourself as well. Information about four more places on the island is provided to help you extend the article. A word copy of the article is also included. Write like a pro with this fun lesson, jam-packed full of dynamic verbs and direct address.
First students design their dream bedroom onto paper. Then they can enter ‘The Ideal Room Competition’. Students write a formal letter describe their ideal room and persuade the judges that their ideas are the best.
Next they design a robotic assistant to help them keep their superb, new bedroom spotlessly clean.
Finally, as their robots will be so amazing, they must share them with the world and create a print advert to sell it, so that others don’t miss out!
What’s the difference between the following words?
Its/It’s
A/An
Was/were
Has/have
Of/have
To/two/too?
This 100 slide powerpoint has it covered with explanations and exercises for each set of confusing words. All answers provided.
With this powerpoint you will study how two texts try to entice you to visit two Spanish cities - Malaga and Alicante. The powerpoint goes through the significant language features. Then you are provided with lots of facts about a third Spanish city - Valencia and you have to write your own advert for the city to persuade people to visit, using the same structure and techniques as the example texts. Word copies of the example texts and the Valencia fact file are included in the folder.
Using Wordsworth’s classic poem ‘Daffodils’, student learn to identify his use of personification. Then they personify an element from nature that they have chosen and write a poem personifying it. Students are given questions to help them consider the world from the point of view of the element and an example of a poem personifying a lake. Worksheet and copy of poem included with powerpoint.
Tired of your students using the incorrect level of formality in their writing? With this fun twenty-four slide Powerpoint, students are shown how inappropriate informal language can be in some fun texts. They are also taught that informal language can be appropriate for the right target audience. Students then practice the correct level of formality by writing an application for their dream job. Finally, a quick quiz at the rounds off the lesson.
A four-page Word document booklet to inspire students to write creatively about a dramatic crash that took place in the Bronx in New York in January 2021. The booklet includes a newspaper report on the crash. (Amazingly, no-one was killed!) A planning sheet to gather ideas about structure and another to brainstorm ideas about writing style. Step-by-step help to create a dramatic piece of writing.
Celebrate the life of the remarkable Edith Cavell with this two-page information sheet, accompanied by comprehension activities and a vocabulary extension worksheet. A Powerpoint with starter and answers to the questions with lots of ideas for further activities is also provided. Designed to commemorate both World War One and the sacrifice of women in that conflict, Edith Cavell is an inspiration to all.