This is a full lesson looking at each question in depth from the June 2019 GCSE English Language Paper 1 looking at H.E. Bates’ The Mill. 44 slides which includes starter activity, plenaries and assessment tasks for each of the questions 1 to 5. Model answers are given for each question, looking at how students can achieve a grade 9. This lesson is heavily based around analysis and inference in the reading section and includes a grade 9 piece of writing for the Q5 task. The lesson generates discussion, looks at developing ideas and looking deeper into the metaphorical links of the patriarchal figure of Hartop, poverty, power, gender. AQA Examiner tips for achiving a grade 9. Lesson objectives include -Match colours to their symbolism -Analyse the beginning section from H.E.Bates’ The Mill for Paper 1 -Identify on exploding inference -Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference -Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis -Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure start/middle/end -Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4 -Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEE -Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task -Read and discuss, justifying your opinion on a grade 9 written response to Q5. -Highlight and review content and punctuation -Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety -Review your writing task, highlighting techniques before submitting

This is a full lesson looking at each question in depth from the November 2017 GCSE English Language Paper 1 looking at Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth text. 47 slides which includes do now task on the seasons symbolism, a starter activity on sentence starter variations, plenaries and assessment tasks for each of the questions 1 to 5, with a grade 9 model response. Model answers are given for each question, looking at how students can achieve a grade 9, but also build up activities to build up ideas in preparation for them to answer the questions in depth. This lesson is heavily based around analysis and inference in the reading section, looking at higher order thinking skills and includes a grade 9 piece of writing for the Q5 task. The lesson generates discussion, looks at developing ideas and looking deeper into the extract’s symbolism and foreshadowing, moral decisions and cliff-hangers. AQA Examiner tips for achiving a grade 9. Lesson objectives include: -Consider the symbolism of the different seasons -Create sentences considering a variety sentence starts. -Analyse the beginning section from Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth for Paper 1 -Identify and discuss the difference between language and structural techniques -Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference -Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis -Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure -Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4 -Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEE -Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task -Read and discuss, justifying your opinion on a grade 9 written response to Q5. -Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety -Review your writing task, highlighting techniques -Draw on 3 structural devices on a plot graph.

A full lesson of 24 slides and resources looking at Roald Dahl’s Boy extract on sweets and linking it to a piece of descriptive writing describing a sweet shop. This lesson gives tips on how to achieve a grade 9 looking at building word banks and technique banks so that they can feel confident attempting their assessment tasks. This lesson focuses specifically on language analysis and build up tasks, planning ideas and the descriptive writing task based around creative reading Q2 language analysis on Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’ and creative writing Q5 describe a sweet shop using a taste test activity to get students to really focus on their senses to describe taste, touch, smells, sights, noises. -To focus and reflect on past memories of sweets -Read and analyse a piece of fiction text (Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’) relating to sweets to give use as inspiration for a piece of creative writing -Identify and name language techniques -Write a developed response to Q2 language analysis -Develop a sophisticated word bank -Generate and discuss descriptive ideas -Express our own viewpoints and perspectives -To create and develop a piece of creative writing describing a sweet shop -Self review activity -To recall learning from the lesson in a A-Z activity

GCSE AQA English Language Paper 1 Creative writing 2 pieces of grade 9 writing examples including a description & short story based on a image of an abandoned room and a story that begins with the sentence: “Suddenly, I heard it. It was coming from the other side of the passage.” Tasks include: -read and highlight language techniques and punctuation -modifying sentences -developing sophisticated synonyms -technique bubbles -planning Also includes build up activities to build up ideas for their own writing task.

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 Compare writers’ viewpoints and perspectives on the theme of working conditions in the Sports Direct warehouse and the gulag. This will focus on achieving a grade 9 in both the reading and writing sections. 63 slides includes: do now tasks, starters, explicit/impicit activity looking at the breakaway Adidas advert. 5 question breakdowns and activities and model answers and build up and planning tasks for the Q5 writing tasks, with model answer. Lesson plenary is a RAG technical accuracy self-review and then finishes with a game of Backs to the Board to review on language techniques of paper 2. Lots of opportunities to compare and discuss EDI and British values looking at working conditions and the link to the gulag, the major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union. 63 slides, so this is crammed with handy grade 9 content that will last you a few lessons, breaks down the 5 questions, looking at techniques to answer the questions, then gives time to complete the activities and then provides grade 9 responses to each of the questions. Sources: Source A: 21st Century literary non-fiction ​ A day at ‘the gulag’: what it’s like to work at Sports Direct’s warehouse An article from The Guardian written in 2015 by Simon Goodley. ​ Source B: 21st Century literary non-fiction ​ Life in a gulag​ An article written in 2017 by James Bartholomew. ​ Writing task and model grade 9 response: ‘Low prices in stores, comes at a cost to workers who are viewed as commodities, rather than human beings with rights, responsibilities and aspirations.’ Lesson objectives covered: ​To recall paper 2 writing techniques to match technique with example. ​To discuss the difference between explicit and implicit information. To identify the purpose of a text and infer the writer’s intention for the text ​Discuss ideas and develop and extend interpretations/comparisons and link in British Values ​Summarise and compare adding in inference ​Comment, evidence and justify how the writer uses language for effect ​To organise and perfect PEE paragraphs ​To develop vocabulary and inference to achieve a grade 9 in both reading and writing ​To recognise the importance of applying features of AFORESTRIP and SPAG in Q5 writing to express viewpoints and perspectives ​Read and highlight techniques from a grade 9 piece of writing ​Write and express viewpoints and perspectives using sophisticated techniques and crafting ​Self-evaluate our confidence with the language analysis question and the writing question

This is a full lesson looking at each question in depth from the June 2022 GCSE English Language Paper 1 looking at John Steinbeck’s The Pearl. 36 slides which includes starter, Wordle activity, plenaries and assessment tasks for each of the questions 1 to 5. Model answers are given for each question, looking at how students can achieve a grade 9. This lesson is heavily based around analysis and inference in the reading section and includes a grade 9 piece of writing for the Q5 task. The lesson generates discussion, looks at developing ideas and looking deeper into the metaphorical links of the matriarch figure, power, gender. Lesson objectives include -Match language devices to their definition and create your own sentences -Analyse the beginning section from John Steinbeck’s The Pearl for Paper 1 -Identify and discuss the difference between language and structural techniques -Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference -Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis -Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure -Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4 -Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEE -Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task -Read and discuss, justifying your opinion on a grade 9 written response to Q5. -Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety -Review your writing task, highlighting techniques

This lesson is based on the AQA spec English Language Paper 2 comparing writers’ viewpoints and perspectives looking at the elephants paper and linking it to The Greatest Showman looking at whether circuses, zoos and water enclosures are morally correct. Achieve a grade 9! Packed full of engaging activities: starter activity, assessment activities and plenaries. It breakdowns each question on the reading section 1-4 giving tips and strategies and model responses to answer the questions to achieve a grade 9. -Q1 Select true statements -Q2 Summarising similarities and adding inference • Q3 Commenting and expanding on language techniques, looking at language bombs • Q4 Comparing viewpoints and perspectives, using contrasting connectives Q5 writing task will focus on article writing, expressing viewpoints and developing ideas on the topic that circuses, zoos and sea enclosures should be banned. Self-assessment marking task, highlighting the language techniques. Examples of articles included to generate discussion and wider thinking, where students have to highlight and justify the effectiveness of the techniques used. There is also an extension (additional) writing question for students to gain further practice on gathering and expressing their thoughts. This lesson is full of activities and covers 49 slides, covering in question in great detail. Lesson objectives: -Share viewpoints and perspectives on a controversial topic Animal cruelty and animal rights -To familiarise ourselves with unseen texts -Summarise the similarities picking out quotes and developing inference -Develop and explode language techniques -Compare viewpoints and perspectives -Develop a plan and add to your bank of vocabulary & techniques -Express our own viewpoints and perspectives -To consider and share viewpoints and perspectives generate discussion is The Greatest Showman morally wrong? -Complete an extension writing task

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 Jamaica Inn Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Grade 9 Du Maurier Full lesson on Paper 1 Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier looking at an AQA style assessment exam paper with grade 9 model answers for the reading and writing sections (questions 1 to 5). Achieve a grade 9 jam packed with plenaries, AfL, TLA activities and tasks. 56 slides of a breakdown of the reading and writing sections, with grade 9 model answers and top tips to achieve a grade 9. Lesson focuses on exploding and developing inference. Starter task, do now task, discussion activities, build up tasks highlighting and analysing text to draw out inference, review and self assessment looking at EBI and WWW with a self assessment exit card activity. Lesson objectives: -Solve The 1% Club English puzzle -Match language techniques to solve Catchphrase puzzle -Choose true or false statements for Paper 1 by recalling prior knowledge -Analyse a section from Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier for Paper 1 -Identify and discuss the difference between language and structural techniques -Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference -Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis -Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure applying in structure cards -Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4 -What colours can forshadow and symbolise -Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEEL -Create and develop a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task -Read and review a piece of grade 9 descriptive writing -Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety -Review your writing task, highlighting techniques -Complete self-assessment exit card

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Q1-Q5 grade 9 responses 49 slide lesson crammed full of activities, warm up, starter, activities and assessment tasks and model grade 9 answers for each question 1-5. Review Bingo activity looking at a grade 9 piece of creative writing. Lots of opportunities for questioning and discussion throughout this lesson, reflecting on ideas and inference and looking at how to build up ideas and construct a plan to attack all questions. YouTube video clip links to the Jurassic Park extract and it leads to a piece of creative writing about a chase. -Discuss the importance of colour symbolism -Analyse the beginning section from Jurassic Park for Paper 1 -Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference -Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis -Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure -Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4 -Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEEL -Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task -Review and discuss a grade 9 piece of creative writing -Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety -Review and describe structural techniques with Backs to the Board game

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 Grade 9 The Silent Land Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Graham Joyce AQA November 2019 full paper review with grade 9 model annotations and responses to all questions. Full lesson on Paper 1 The Silent Land by Graham Joyce looking at the AQA November 2019 paper with grade 9 model answers for the reading and writing sections. Achieve a grade 9 jam-packed with plenaries, AfL, TLA activities and tasks. 44 slides of a breakdown of the reading and writing sections, with grade 9 model answers and top tips to achieve a grade 9. Lesson focuses on exploding and developing inference. Starter task, discussion activity, build up tasks highlighting and analysing text to draw out inference, review and self assessment looking at EBI and WWW with opportunities to get students to proofread and edit their work before submission. Lesson objectives: -Identify language techniques in a game of language techniques BINGO. -Compare images to build and develop inference and vocabulary -Analyse the beginning section from Graham Joyce The Silent Land for Paper 1 -Identify and discuss the difference between language and structural techniques -Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference -Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis -Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure -Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4 -Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEEL -Complete tasks 1-4 on the reading section after build up tasks. -Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task. -Modify basic sentences to bring your writing to life. -Read and comment on a grade 9 piece of creative writing. -Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety -Proofread and edit your writing task, highlighting techniques before submission -Review paper 1 completing A to Z activity.

AQA GCSE English Lang Paper 2: Hot-air balloon rides Grade 9 Full paper breakdown. Bhutan London Compare writers viewpoints Full lesson on the Hot-air balloon rides over Bhutan and London, looking at the differences between the two places and comparing writers’ opinions. 48 slides full of AfL activities: starter activity, assessment activities, plenary, activities allow for stretch and challenge, speaking and listening opportunities to express opinions and viewpoints with discussion points – AQA Paper 2, full paper Q1-5 activities & answers: Achieve a grade 9! Looking at the two sources: -Floating over Bhutan by Martin Fletcher -Hot air balloon ride over London by Henry Mayhew Lesson objectives: -To familiarise ourselves with unseen texts Floating over Bhutan and Hot air balloon ride over London. -Identify the differences from two images and infer meaning -Build up ambitious and sophisticated vocabulary -Summarise the differences between two texts linking ideas -Develop language techniques and explode inference -Compare viewpoints and perspectives -Discuss the format and content of a letter -Review and highlight techniques from a model writing task -Express our own viewpoints and perspectives -Review your own piece of writing and highlight techniques Grade 9 model responses to questions 1-4 from the reading section and a grade 9 Q5 model writing answer. This lesson focuses on developing inference and expressing viewpoints and perspectives looking at comparing a modern C21st text and a C19th text.

1% Club Gameshow PowerPoint with English questions that will challenge you mentally. Think creatively, if you have justification for your answers, write it down. These are all fun English related questions that will get you thinking critically. How well will you do under pressure? Rules:We asked the cross section of the British public a list of our unique questions, based on their answer they have been ranked in order of difficulty. Statistically, what percentage they got right is reflected in the question’s percentage. The quiz will start with the easiest question at 90% that Britain got right and then end with the most challenging question that only 1% of the British public answered correctly. How well will you do? Each student will get the chance of using a pass (if you need to use it) but this will cost you £1000. Each student will start off with £1000 if you use your pass (your £1000 goes into the winner’s pot), or get one question wrong you are out of the game and your money goes into the 1% prize pot! You can still play on, but you cannot be the winner!. The audio timer is on the bottom right hand side of the question slides, you will have 30 seconds to answer each question. Will you crack under the pressure or will you triumph to be in the 1% Club?

This 35 slide complete lesson focuses on the 2022 movie Hocus Pocus 2 looking at language analysis style questions and responses, colour symbolism in Hocus Pocus 2, creative writing build up tasks and planning tasks and an example of a grade 9 piece of creative writing that all link to the movie and halloween. Explore the Sanderson Sisters looking at Winnie, Sarah and Mary links to paper 1 AQA style assessment This lesson focuses on the horror genre and incorporates do now task, starter activity, colour symbolism, Q2 language analysis questions, creative writing top tips and build up tasks to create a sophisticated piece of writing, grade 9 example writing and Q2 language analysis checklist and Q5 writing self assess checklist. -comment on the effect of colour symbolism on the three witches -explode inference looking at language analysis -develop a word bank full of language techniques -highlight and comment on the effect of language -explode and blow up inference and connotations -Focus and zoom in on details when writing creatively -build up sophisticated synonyms and ambitious vocabulary -complete a writing plan -complete a piece of horror creative writing -self-assess checklist

GCSE English Language Paper 1 Creative writing 2x grade 9 writing description/story Everest/avalanche storm writing GCSE English Language Paper 1 Creative writing. This includes 2 pieces of grade 9 writing examples including a description and a short story based on an image of a mountain scene (Everest) and a story with the title ‘The Challenge’. Tasks include: -read and highlight the language techniques and punctuation -modifying sentences -developing sophisticated synonyms -planning -complete writing tasks Includes build up activities to build up ideas to create their own piece of creative writing.

GCSE English Language Paper 1 Creative writing. This includes 2 pieces of grade 9 writing examples including a description and a short story based on an image of a dead end and a story with the opening line ‘I knew I was in trouble. I knew I had to get out’. Tasks include: -read and highlight the language techniques and punctuation -modifying sentences -developing sophisticated synonyms -planning -complete writing tasks Includes build up activities to build up ideas to create their own piece of creative writing.

GCSE AQA English Language Paper 1 Creative writing 2 pieces of grade 9 writing examples including a description & short story based on an image of a disaster and a story that begins with the sentence: “It was a disaster. I didn’t know what to do.” Tasks include: -read and highlight language techniques and punctuation -modifying sentences -developing sophisticated synonyms -technique bubbles -planning Also includes build up activities to build up ideas for their own writing task on the theme of disaster.

GCSE English Language creative writing narrative structure strips How it works: Cut out the strip and place the sections on the inside margin of your writing page and it will serve as a great organisation/structural reminder to students as they create their narrative, paragraph by paragraph, ensuring content and SPaG (technical accuracy) is covered. Writing prompt/scaffolding for: -setting -character -foreshadowing -pathetic fallacy -colour symbolism -language techniques -rising action -pivotal moment -falling action -denouement -cliffhanger

Busy train station descriptive writing activities, language analysis revision exam practice Creative writing busy train station descriptive activities Two detailed paragraphs filled with language techniques to conveys the busy train station . Students will be asked to: -Highlight the language techniques -Name the language techniques -What connotations do they have. Language analysis question -How does the writer use language to describe the sunset in the city? Punctuation -Add more complex punctuation in the paragraphs Great as a revision aid for creative writing.

When writing a response for the paper 2, question 5 writing section, ensure you can maximise full marks for content by using an abundance of AFORESTRIP techniques to engage and communicate effectively. This is a glossary of language techniques for paper 2 writing. Technique and definition.

Creative writing city sunset descriptive activities Two detailed paragraphs filled with language techniques to conveys the beauty of the city’s sunset . Students will be asked to: -Highlight the language techniques -Name the language techniques -What connotations do they have. Language analysis question -How does the writer use language to describe the sunset in the city? Great as a revision aid for creative writing.