Six lessons focussing on Stave 3, The Ghost of Christmas Present. Includes a step by step approach to analysing an exam question - How does Dickens present the importance of family? Relevant extract included.

3 lessons covering Stave 2 - Ghost of Christmas Past.

Seven lessons (the first three of which look at the context for the story) covering up to the end of Stave 1. Aimed at MA but contains tasks for all abilities. Easily differentiated.

Ppt showing a clip of the chocolate room, in the first film version, collage of chocolate room related pictures to help students write a description of the room using a set of given techniques. Then, the same story is used to look at onomatopoeia. Students look at a given extract from the story and identify the onomatopoeia, also considering the effect of it. Final task is to use onomatopoeia to describe a tsunami. 1-2 lessons.

Lesson on Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy. Includes set of questions and discussion points. Copy of poem provided.

Three articles, article-based questions and tasks on the topic of gun crime. Suitable for KS3 or 4. Might engage boys.

Aimed at mid to low ability, this resource contains 4 separate worksheets which challenge students to find the answers in the given extract or extracts. Activities based on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Treasure Island, Buddy and the planet Mercury. Could be used as homework or to support low ability KS4 students prepare for the English Language papers.

Around 15 lessons on a range of women's poetry of the First World War. A wide selection of poems taken from the anthology 'Scars Upon My Heart' - lessons and poems included. Aimed at A Level English Literature students but could stretch able pupils at GCSE.

USEFUL FOR BROADENING KNOWLEDGE AT A LEVEL. CAN BE PRINTED OFF FOR STUDENTS TO HAVE AS A REFERENCE GUIDE.

This two lesson resource gives students an example of a story, for which they can discuss what the candidate has done well and what could be improved. Following this they can use the mark scheme included (from the new spec AQA) to award a level / mark. Using this knowledge of what makes a good narrative, the remaining slides give some prompts and advice about how to go about planning and writing a narrative. Planning sheet and suggested titles is included for students to plan according to what they have learned. The actual story could be written by way of extension.

This lesson starts with an introduction to stock characters and a wide range of other descriptive writing techniques using a written description of a scene in a doctor's waiting room. Students answer a set of questions which ask them to identify the writer's techniques and explain the effects. Next, students plan their own descriptive writing using given planning sheets, a range of prompts and some images of a fairground.

Three lessons with each one taking a different question of the English Language Paper 1 and using an extract from the novel Of Mice and Men to look at the required skills. 3 x PPT lessons and 3 x extracts provided.

A Powerpoint presentation consisting of a variety of tasks relating to Lady Macbeth. Main focus is working through the exam question, beginning with the given extract. Aimed at low to mid ability.

The main resource here is the Powerpoint presentation exploring three different possible exam questions for Blood Brothers. This includes a cut out activity as preparation for one of the questions. Once preparation has been completed, students can complete the question in full as a class activity. Other resources include various worksheets looking at Mickey and Eddie's friendship, the characters of Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons and some worksheets analysing characters & themes. These can be adapted for other characters too.

This is an assessment comprising of one question on A Christmas Carol and one question on Jekyll and Hyde. Includes extracts for both and written in the style of AQA English Literature Paper 1. Also contains a Section B for English Language Paper 1. In this case two descriptive writing options, one with a stimulus.

This lesson works through Q1 and Q3 of one of AQA's KS3 practice papers for GCSE English Language. Answers are provided for Q1 to enable self assessment. Pupils are then asked to identify a set of given structural features before considering 4 different levels of example responses and deciding which is the 'best' one. Cloze exercise as a creative writing extension task.

This resource comprises of an introductory personification task, followed by analysis of Daphne du Maurier's use of personification and pathetic fallacy in her novel Rebecca. Concludes with a creative task to continue the author's description using the same techniques.

1-2 LESSONS RE-CAPPING ONOMATOPOEIA, IDENTIFYING IT IN THE POEM 'NOISE', DESCRIBING A TSUNAMI WITH VISUAL STIMULUS USING ONOMATOPOEIA AND FINALLY LOOKING AT ITS USE IN A SHORT EXTRACT OF CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

This resource contains 4 x complete lessons using a variety of recent High Street Store Christmas adverts as stimulus. It also contains 3 x home learning tasks with corresponding 10 minute DIRT / follow-up class activities for peer marking. Merry Christmas!

This resource is made up of 3 extracts which all describe three famous detectives - Sherlock Holmes, Mma Ramotswe from the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency and Poirot. These extracts are perfect for students to use their inference skills to work out the characters of these detectives. They could use this as a springboard for creating their own fictional detectives.