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.

More than four lessons worth of material on this 80 slide Powerpoint on William Blake’s deceptively simple, yet brilliant poem ‘London’. A full lesson on historical context, plus two further lessons on language and sound effects. A final lesson on how to write a contemporary pastiche of the poem with a template included. Five worksheets are included on this poet’s masterpiece.

Harriet Tubman not only liberated herself from slavery, but helped at least a further seventy people to escape from enslavement in nineteenth century Maryland, using the Underground Railroad. Later she worked as a nurse, spy and scout for the Union during the Civil War. All this despite suffering from debilitating injuries suffered from her brutal childhood in slavery. Find out more about the life of this truly remarkable woman with this sixty-slide Powerpoint full of interesting information and images. Activities include writing a ballad to celebrate her life with an example of a four verse ballad included as Word document; writing a promotional webpage for the museum dedicated to her life and ideas for further investigation.

In May 2021 the Minderoo Foundation published a ground-breaking report into the problem of single-use plastics. They discovered that a mere twenty global companies were responsible for over fifty percent of the non-recyclable plastic in our world. The report created the first ‘Plastic Waste Makers Index’. This lesson is based on this report, simplifying complex terminology so that students can understand the shocking detail and the contribution of single-use plastic to the climate crisis, which is predicted to grow even further in the coming years. Activities to engage students are interspersed throughout the 39 slide Powerpoint and the final activity is a letter to government to persuade policy-makers to legislate to curb the prolific production of this noxious product. There is a suggested letter structure and a reminder about persuasive language techniques.

In February 2021 the government announced that it was going to open a coal mine in Cumbria. This horrified the climate expert Professor James E Hansen who wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to persuade him not to go ahead with the policy and to reconsider his climate policies. This letter uses a simplified extract of this letter to introduce the fossil fuel climate crisis that is currently emerging and focuses on the persuasive language techniques that the writer uses to persuade the Prime Minister to his point of view. A clean copy and an annotated copy of the abridged letter are included. A twenty-slide Powerpoint accompanies the lesson with introductory activities, context and a choice of post-analysis activities: exam-style question on writing to persuade article for school magazine leaflet for younger students further research on the ‘fee and dividend’ economy described in the letter.

This fourteen-page Word document contains all you need to design your own box of chocolates containing eight unique chocolates that have come from your imagination. The booklet begins with information on the history of chocolate with a timeline to fill in. Then there are opportunities to analyse the language features of real chocolate box advertising campaigns. Your brief is to rescue the floundering Thornbury Chocolate Group with your new box of chocolates and marketing campaign. Can you rise to the challlenge? The booklet includes hours of fully-guided fun.

Spanish is spoken widely around the world and many words have passed into English from this language. Have fun with your class guessing the forty words that have enriched English. The powerpoint first gives a clue and then the first letter of the word is given if needed. All answers are provided on the slides. A back-up worksheet is included to consolidate the learning.

Approximately 7,000 words have come into English from French and there are several ‘true friends’, words that are the same in both languages. Surprise your students with how much French they know already with these forty clues to French words. If the clue is too difficult, the first letter of the word is also included on the slide. All answers provided. Students can work independently or in groups and mark their own work.

This Powerpoint explains the concept of mnemonics, gives three visual examples and sets students the task of creating five mnemonics to learn to spell tricky words. This is a learning technique that can be applied to all areas of life and you can have fun teaching it with this visual Powerpoint which includes cartoons and animation.

Help your students to become better writers with this Powerpoint which explains how to construct complex sentences with embedded subordinate clauses. Students have several supported opportunities to practise the construction and the second section includes ten supported sentences where students have to come up with the embedded clause about X-Men superheroes. Finally, students create three sentences using the construction independently.

Enchant your students with these Harry Potter Day activities. There are three lessons in the bundle - one for year 7 where students create their own sweet; one for year 8 where they create their own potion and one for year 9 during which they create their own fantastical beast. Buy the bundle and you will have a lesson for each year on a rotating basis. No need to plan for Harry Potter day ever again!

Do you ever get stuck for what to give students for homework. Well, with this PDF Homework Skills Booklet, there is one homework for each week of the academic year. That’s right. With 35 weeks’ worth of homework, you have every week of the year covered. All homeworks are designed so that students can self-mark or peer-mark their work in class, saving you your precious time. If you have a learning platform like TEAMS, you don’t even need to print the booklet off, just post it online. All skills are incremental in difficulty and challenge. An added bonus is that it can also be used for cover work. Once you have finished with this one, check out the Year 8 Skills Homework Booklet, also available on TES!

Do you ever get stuck for what to give students for homework. Well, with this PDF Homework Skills Booklet, there is one homework for each week of the academic year. That’s right. With 35 weeks’ worth of homework, you have every week of the year covered. All homeworks are designed so that students can self-mark or peer-mark their work in class, saving you your precious time. If you have a learning platform like TEAMS, you don’t even need to print the booklet off, just post it online. All skills are incremental in difficulty and challenge. An added bonus is that it can also be used for cover work.

Buy both Homework Skills Booklets and save £1. With these two booklets, you will never have to think about homework again for years 7 and 8. Each booklet contain 35 weeks’ worth of homework, covering each of the academic years. The skills are incremental in difficulty as the weeks and years progress. All homeworks are designed to be self-marked or peer-marked by students in class, saving you your precious and valuable time.

Twelve lessons that teach students to write to inform and entertain children with a booklet all about pirates. Including four sections, students are taught how to use informative language techniques while studying the rules of piracy; real pirates; fictional pirates and eventually creating their own pirate. Using the opening of the novel “Dead Man’s Chest”, students are taught techniques such as: 1, sensory description to describe settings. 2, en media res 3. characterisation 4. developing action 5. creating atmosphere 6. using sound effects Your students will learn a wide variety of vocabulary and language techniques, as well as having fun learning about how real pirates and people have inspired stereotypical pirates. All Powerpoints and worksheets included and fully adaptable.

Teach your students how to collate information from two sources into a structured report with recommendations. This fourteen slide Powerpoint introduces the purpose of reports and then guides students through how to write a report for their headteacher on the suitability of two applicants for the position of English teacher at their school. The Word worksheet with the teacher applications is included.

A 350 word ghost story callled “The Lighthouse” is animated on Powerpoint. The teacher reads the ghost story to the class to create a spooky atmosphere. Then students discuss how the writer creates irony and the supernatural atmophere. Finally, in pairs or groups, students write their own ghost story of no more than 350 words. A slide gives ideas for five different ghost stories. Teach your students the power of stories this Halloween or at any time with this perfectly structure, succinct story. A Word copy of the story is also included in the folder.

Twenty multiple choice quiz questions on the origin of the word “coronation” and the various meanings of the roots of the word. Four fun activities to do after the quiz is complete.

This powerpoint and word document present the Eduqas GSCE English Language and Literature content and assessment objectives in student-friendly language. Show the students the presentation and then give them a copy of the objectives in student speak so that they are confident going forward in these exams.

Simple literacy activities on spelling and sentence structure are contained in this twenty page booklet on the theme of animals. Short poems by Benjamin Zephaniah and Gyles Brandreth and information about electric eels keep students interested with scope for their own research and writing about an animal of their choice. Aimed at students who need to catch up at secondary school or primary school students.