For **FILM STUDIES A-LEVEL ** This class exercise allows students to consider class representations in the 2009 UK independent film Fish Tank. It will prompt discussion and allow students to think about how a variety of characters are represented. The objective is for students to fill in their worksheets independently or in pairs, and then for each individual or pair to feedback to the whole group. In this way, a wide range of answers and insights can be explored. The exercise could fill nearly an entire 1 hour lesson, depending upon the group size.

This is a great revision exercise for the EDUQAS Film Studies A-Level, Component 2, Global Filmmaking Perspectives: Silent Cinema. This is a 20 slide Quiz presented in PowerPoint. It works well for team or small group competitions.

This 69 slide full-colour interactive PowerPoint Presentation covers very targeted learing objectives for the EDUQAS A Level Film Studies Specification on Global CInema. Objectives include: Core Study Areas (Mise-en-scene, Social and Political Contexts, Reception, Exam Questions and Mark Schemes, and Production notes. This resource will be used in a two-hour lesson and promotes discussion of key symbols and themes, as well as allowing for close analysis of mise-en-scene.

This Resource is a 44 Slide interactive PowerPoint Presentation offering students a lot of room for discussion and debate around the identity politics within the film, as well a the contextual issues that would have influenced the narrative and the filmmakers (as well as the novelist). Students are encouraged to reflect and to discuss, activities get them involved in dissecting the film’s meanings - both literal and subtextual. Perfect revision for the Eduqas A-Level Film Studies Component 1A. Paper. https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2017-18/17-18_3-7/eng/sam2-component-1.pdf

For Eduqas A Level Film Studies, this 43-slide full colour interactive presentation prepares students to analyse how cinematography and mise-en-scene are used to convey key narrative meanings. Students are encouraged to question, discuss and share their own thoughts and there is a strong emphasis on uses of cinematic terminology as well as analysis and exam preparation (with a practice exam question).

This 25 slide full colour PowerPoint Presentation provides helpful exam preparation for ideology and spectatorship (Eduqas Film Studies Component 1B.). The resource is closely focused on what examiners will expect, and offers talking points, discussion questions, and commentary on core study areas and representation.

This 25 Slide PowerPoint Presentation can be used for an hour long lesson on gender representations in Billy Wilder’s 1959 film ‘Some Like It Hot’. This can be used for the Component 1A. American Film Exam preparation in Film Studies, or it could be useful in AS Film Studies or Media Studies to discuss gender transgression, homoerotic subtext and feminist themes or messages in the film. The film challenges gender binaries and stereotypes and cleverly uses subtext and indirect or double meanings to get across its progressive messages in subtle ways that would not have alienated 1950’s American audiences. This is an interactive presentation that ends with a 15 minute exercise.

This is a 63 slide full-colour interactive PowerPoint Presentation. It provides a two hour lesson plan covering the production context, social & political contexts, reception,** spectatorship ** (including past exam questions, Hall’s reception theory and how to apply it to CAROL, viewer positioning, binaries in the narrative, and symbolism in the mise-en-scene. This is useful to EDUQAS A Level Film Studies Tutors but also to MEDIA studies teachers. ***Also useful for LGBTQ+ History Month **

This colourful poster outlines the key ‘signature’ features distinctive of WIlder’s films It makes an attractive classroom display that also provides helpful memory prompts for Eduquas A-Level Film Studies Students who are sitting the Component 1. Exam Paper.

This is a 30 slide colour PowerPoint Presentation, with animated slides and interactive questions. The last several slides are designed for exam preparation for OCR General Certificate of Secondary Education. It is also useful for discussing broader questions, such as the differences between morality and law, or secularism and theocracy. Learning Outcomes: Understand the difference between secular and religious laws. For United Kingdom GCSE Religious Studies (9–1) Unit J625/06: Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective Unit J625/07: Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Muslim perspective

This 30 slide full-colour interactive powerpoint presentation informs students about religious beliefs about marriage and the family. Topics covered include the Muslim and Christian marriage ceremony as well as Civil Partnerships, definitions of marriage, arranged marriages, reasons for marriage, roles in marriage, vows, the nature of families, cohabitation and same-sex marriage. The resource helps students to prepare for the GCSE Exams in Religious Studies as well as helping students of religious faith to understand the rite of marraige and how religions and non-religious people view it. The resource offers lots of discussion prompts to encourage class discussion. This resource could be used as a two-hour lesson.

Ideal for teaching and revising the AQA Religious Studies A, Component 2 – thematic studiesTheme F: Religion, human rights and social justice (GCSE). This 56-slide PowerPoint presentation covers the AQA curriculm and textbook’s main definitions and helps GCSE students prepare a good set of answers for the exams. It will encourage critical thinking about the examination board’s definitions and assumptions at certain points, but will not prevent students from saying the “right” answers needed to pass the examination.

This 38 full color **interactive **slide presentation can be used to teach many concepts pertaining to religion and society. It explains the relationship between modern states (primarily the United States and Great Britain) and religions (with focus on Christianity & Islam). Concepts such as secularism, liberalism, theocracy and apostasy are included. Religious teachings are used and analysed, so that students are taught to demonstrate knowledge of **religious approaches to law **as well as applications and analysis. Exam practice questions are provided as well as guidance on how to answer them. This is also useful for citizenship and cultural studies courses.

This full colour 13-slide PowerPoint presentation covers the principle beliefs about sex and its proper context in both the Christian and Islamic faiths. It provides a good overview for this topic for the GCSE in Religious Studies and works well as a lesson plan if coupled with a revision quiz or practice test question. THe resource ends with two questions that could be used as discussion prompts or retention checks.

This 23 slide full colour animated PowerPoint Presentation introduces students to the **Christian outlook on crime & punishment (including the concepts of retribution, deterrence and rehabilitation). It offers an open and questioning approach that allows students to weigh different outlooks and consider the concept of ‘crime’ and the reasons for punishment. It prompts discussion and can be used to stimulate reflection.