An excellent fully resourced creative writing GCSE lesson using the drop, zoom, flash and end. Lesson entails an engaging video, pair work, modelled examples and sentence starters.

An excellent resource that can be used for GCSE English Paper 2 Question 5 focusing on the question “technology corrupts childhood”. A video clip to prompt discussion, mark scheme based checklist model answer and exam practise.

A list of all language and structural features

An excellent spelling practise booklet with commonly misspelt words for students to go over and hone their literacy skills. Self assessment on each page, words are alphabetically ordered. This can be given to students for independent revision, holiday work or as starter tasks.

An excellent, interactive and engaging resource comprising of various wordsearches relating to English. Great for starter activities or homework! Ideal for helping with spellings and retaining information of key words.

Using two different sources, students are expected to summarise the differences. The lesson focuses on a range of assessment objective related skills

An engaging opinion writing lesson focusing on the media invading celebrity privacy. Scope for a fruitful and thought-provoking discussion. Video clips and model an answer.

An excellent resource focusing on the GCSE AQA English Paper 2 Question 4 (Compare and Contrast). The topic is drill music and is highly engaging for teenagers. Video clips, engaging extracts and sentence starters to help students compare and contrast articles

An excellent resource to help students embed ambitious vocabulary into their writing. The session is filled with challenges, pair work, self and peer assessment, a video and a step by step guide to the descriptive writing question.

An excellent resource on the topic “Social media does more harm than good”. Allows students to discuss, explore model answers, watch a video and attempt writing an article to express their opinion on the topic.

An engaging lesson with a creative writing starter activity, visual aids, video clips and fun extract about Ms Trunchbull from Matilda. Fully differentiated and a good resource for evaluation question on the AQA paper

A great way for students to track their reading

A visual display of descriptive words students can use in their writing

A planning sheet for GCSE English Language Paper 2 Question 5 can be used for any type of opinion writing.

A fully resourced lesson on Macbeth Act 1 Scene 6 and Scene 7

A brilliant starter activity to familiarise students with key words and characters from An Inspector Calls through an interactive wordsearch activity!

An outstanding language analysis lesson using the speech of Malala Yusuf at the United Nations. Includes video clips, discussions, scaffolding and differentiated activities. Comprises of starter, build up activity, main activity and plenary.

A lesson focusing on the different portrayals of Megan Markle in the media, Scope for debate, peer work and exam practise. An excellent way to help students identify similarities and differences using current topics!

An excellent fully resourced lesson covering GCSE AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 2 (Language Analysis Lesson). Uses an extract based on Hagrid from Harry Potter. Entails an interactive video and scaffolded exam practise.

A thought provoking and engaging lesson looking at an article about Princess Diana. The lesson is based on paper 2 question 3 on the GCSE AQA paper however can be used for any analysis lesson