Topic-based sheets of example questions for AS AQA speaking examination. Each sheet relates to one topic area and contains a range of question types / purposes.

Each sheet covers one topic area and tests a range of grammar points.

Language worksheet with parts of speech and passive voice tasks using resistance vocabulary

Oral task prompt for discussion / revision of life in Occupied France in class or with assistant. Sheet gives instructions for students and historical roles to play; the boxes can be used for notemaking and / or cut out to make role cards.

A selection of propaganda posters from Occupied France which can be used to prompt discussion

Text in French about the horrific mass round-up of Jews to Velodrome d'hiver in Paris in WWII.

Resource to help students identify and evaluate factors prompting the French to join the resistance in WWII. Page 1 has picture prompts representing key events / figures for students to identify. Page 2 has identification, description and evaluation (rate importance) tasks. Page 3 is a worked example of completed outcome.

Notes on the sufferings of the Jews in Occupied France during WWII.

Wordle of vocabulary related to Occupied France topic, can be used for revision, as an oral prompt or for testing.

Worksheet based on the words of the Vichy song about Petain; some gap-fill, sentence ordering, needs audio (find it online)

Words to the resistance song <Chant des partisans> with follow-up questions; needs audio (can de found online)

These worksheets will support pupils in their writing of a character portrait of Macbeth. There are example paragraphs to aid the less able. There are prompts to encourage the more able to explain further and find quotes to support their answers. There are references to different act and scenes to encourage pupils to be precise in their descriptions and find suitable quotes. Suitable for Year 6 or KS3 or Less able KS4.

Included are two documents. One is a diary entry which I have written from Macbeth's point of view. The activity suggested is to find the ambitious vocabulary and similes used in the diary entry. The second word document is a homework prompt asking pupils' to write their own diary entry from Macbeth's point of view. Suitable for Year 6, KS3 or less able KS4.

DESCRIPTION - Improving writing worksheet pack - Creative word, sentence and text activities. The majority of the worksheets in this 47 PAGE pack are differentiated. Task sheet a is aimed at more able pupils Task sheet b offers more support for pupils. Suitable for (upper) Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. SECTION A – WORD AND SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES Section A contains worksheets which start with identification of parts of speech and then require pupils to write their own sentences using these language features. This provides the teacher with an opportunity to Assess Pupils’ Progress on discrete elements. These worksheets focus on identifying and explaining writers’ word choice to inform pupils’ own writing. Creative and adventurous word choice is promoted through the activities to encourage pupils to experiment with language and produce compositions of a high quality. CONTENT: 1. Inferring meaning 2. Analysing word choice 3. Expressive Adjectives 4. Interesting Adverbs 5. Precise Nouns 6. Powerful Verbs 7. Similes and Metaphors 8. Conjunctions SECTION B - DRAWING IT ALL TOGETHER Section B contains activities to put the sentence level work into practice within written compositions. The worksheets focus on using a range of vocabulary and expressive parts of speech in sentences, paragraphs and short texts. This provides the teacher with an opportunity to Assess Pupils’ Progress using vocabulary expressively and creatively within a text. CONTENT: 9. Drawing it all together – sentences 10. Drawing it all together – paragraphs – character description 11. Drawing it all together – paragraphs – scene description 12. Drawing it all together – paragraphs – description of action 13. Drawing it all together - text composition 14. Drawing it all together – finish the story 15. Drawing it all together – whole story

This Smartboard notebook resource includes an explanation of expanded noun phrases. Suitable for KS2 e.g Year 4 or Year 6 or possibly more able year 2. Colour full pictures to encourage pupils to write expanded noun phrases with adjectives and expansion after the noun. Games involving an interactive dustbin and timers,

Explanation of the impact of plastics on the environment suitable for pupils in Key Stage 2 and 3. This 7 page pack is about the human impact on the world focusing on plastics in photos, infographs and text. There are questions and activities to get pupils to discuss the issue. The first activity is a guided brainstorm of the impact humans have on the world. Then there is information about the problems globally (e.g. plastic on beaches in Bali and in the stomachs of sea birds). Followed by facts and statistics focusing plastic in the ocean. The next sheet discusses the size of the problem and prompts children to think of objects made from plastic. I have then provided information about how plastic enters the food chains. The children are then challenged to invent a machine to clean up the oceans and to think of solutions in their own school.

Five differentiated division sheets for Year 4, Spring 1 - Block 1 - Division - White Rose Hub. Less able pupils can use the pre-drawn grids to share out place value counters. All sheets are differentiated 2 ways. There are also sheets with answers involving remainders. Answers provided.

Colour coded worksheets giving examples and activities based on fronted adverbials, using commas and identifying where, when or how. . Based on Penguin in Peril by Helen Hancocks - a picture book. Particularly suitable for Year 4 as Chris Quigley mentioned Penguin in Peril in his book - Brilliant Books for Milestone 2.

Story writing from extracts. The pupils can finish these stories as a creative writing activity or exam practice. This document contain short story extracts which will prompt pupils to write exciting, imaginative stories. The story extract is a few sentences / paragraph long and can go at the beginning or in the middle of the pupils' own story. The extracts are from the following genres: • mystery stories, (Tasks 1- 4) • adventure stories (Tasks 5-9) • dramatic stories (Tasks 10 - 12) For each extract a grid is given to prompt children to plan their stories and think about what grammar, punctuation and vocabulary they will use to make it interesting. This resource can be used for story writing practice. It can also be used for exam preparation for example for end of Key Stage 2 writing, entrance exams to Grammar or Independent schools etc.. They can be used in lessons or for homework.

I have written two versions of a short story. The second is considerably better. The activity is to find the features which make the second version better and then write their own sentences which could be added to the second version to make it even better. The pupils are give words and prompts to help them write better sentences including adding adventurous vocabulary, similies, commas and conjunctions. Suitable for upper Key Stage 2 and KS3. Excellent SATs, 11+ and entrance exam practice.