A PP with accompanying booklet designed to walk students through the challenging paper 2 question 4. Uses a 19th century source and a 21st century source. Worked extremely well for the two years I’ve used. Perfect for a walking talking lesson, intervention or tutoring.

A booklet that prepares students to explore metaphorical meanings in poems. Scaffolded for low ability students. Uses the poem ‘Wires’ by Larkin. Great for intervention.

A booklet that prepares students for paper 1 question 4 of the English language exam. Great for intervention.

A booklet that gets students to evaluate a statement. Perfect for intervention.

A resource that gets students to produce a response to an evaluation question

A lesson that uses an extract from To Kill a Kingdom to inpsire a description of setting. Self assessment built in.

A lesson analysing how the creators of Christmas adverts meet the form, audience and purpose of their adverts. Includes task on entry, main worksheet, Powerpoint with embedded videos.

A fully resourced lesson comparing writers’ views on mental health. Uses a source from 1877 detailing the experiences of a patient in a mental asylum, in a letter to her family. The comparison source is a speech given by MP Ed Miliband in 2012 on mental health. By the end of the lesson, students will have answered paper 2 question 4. Resources include: Powerpoint All worksheets Also, complied into a work booklet too- this option is perfect for remote learning or intervention sessions where a computer is not available.

A quick boot camp to address misconceptions in commas. Designed for year 11 intervention students grade 1-9. Uses an AQA English language paper 2 writing task about education as a stimulus. Booklet and Powerpoint included.

A lesson looking at the damage done by writers’ viewpoints. The lesson uses an essay about Caroline Flack as a base for discussion, linking it to how media target audiences to achieve certain effects.

A practise paper for the reading paper of English Language Paper 1.

Voiced over Powerpoint of a lesson that explores structure in Pixar animation ‘Piper’. Perfect for online learning as it talks students through everything. Ends with some creative writing and gives students chance to apply their learning.

Posters containing sophisticated and ambitious vocabulary, with pronunciation and image to support.

An introduction to poetic form, used for extra intervention with year 11 students. Contains a voiced over Powerpoint with key knowledge and questions. Perfect for online learning.

Comparing 2 articles about Shamima Begum. Lesson 1: Reading the articles, exploring viewpoint. Lesson 2: Writing up response using an example paragraph. Introduces students to concepts of ideology, satire and high level vocabulary.

Lesson 1: reading Greta Thunberg’s speech, comprehension questions and analysis. Lesson 2: Writing your own non-fiction writing task about the environment, using Greta’s as inspiration. Lesson 3: Reflection using real examples and redraft. Powerpoint and worksheets all included.

A booklet made to introduce students to the international phonetic alphabet and the IPA. This is a skill needed to apply to the Paris Anthology. Comes with Powerpoint and worksheet that follows it. Lots of questions posed and space for them to apply. Works perfectly for online learning.

A booklet that has explores the whole play, using Baz Luhrmann’s version of the film. For every scene (apart from Act 4 Scene 2,3, 4) I have a screen shot of a key event with a question next to it, linked to a character/quote/theme/event. Most are cloze based questions for weaker students, however I have left space for higher ability to make their own notes. Made for students who were absent/missed study of Romeo and Juliet. Perfect to be used alongside watching the film as a “blast” to enable them to understand major plot, characters and themes within. Note: where the Luhrmann edition misses key things, I have explored these in the questions.

A lesson comparing the presentation of Juliet with Lady Capulet, rooted in context. Three scenes from R&J and a worksheet to scaffold.

A lesson for unseen poetry based on Katy Perry's 'Chained to the Rhythm' Lyrics and Powerpoint with prompts, including video link, attached.