A guide on how to succeed at the writing to persuade section of the G.C.S.E. English Language Exam. There is a template to help the students structure their responses and exemplar speeches / letters. The revision pack / lesson will be useful for weaker pupils, but also includes some advanced devices to help achieve the top band too. There is also a section focusing on Orwell’s Animal Farm (Major’s Speech) and inviting the students to appreciate why it is so effective.

Three poems that can be used as ‘unseen’ to help the pupils get to grips with poetry:’ The Listeners’, ‘Unquiet Grave’ and ‘The Gray Folk’. There is also a creative writing task linked to ‘The Listeners’ once analysis of the key devices has been discussed.