A literature themed quiz: General knowledge, Children’s books, Film adaptations and a picture round complete with answers.

A worksheet analysing the coronarirus slogan looking at the purpose of advertising, connonations of words, phrases, colours and structure. A following worksheet for learners to create their own slogans considering the purpose of structure, colour and wording etc…

A fun selection of starter activities providing quotes for learners to guess whether they from a famous writer (ie: Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe etc) or song lyrics?

A revision powerpoint directing students to create their own revision materials. Includes prompting questions and suggestions to guide learners and a breakdown of the exam questions for each paper.

Skill building spelling, punction and grammar online lesson.

Speaking and Listening Guide - AQA

‘Describe me’ activity – Split learners into pairs and provide one learner with a ‘describe me card’, they must describe the object on their card to their partner without saying explicitly what the object is. The other learner must guess what the object is. Demonstrate the activity with a learner to ensure everyone understands the task.

Improving creative writing skills lesson - developing spelling, punctuation and grammar leading into a guided story starter.

A full lesson powerpoint aimed at encouraging learners to think of origional and creative ideas for their fiction writing.

A sound of thunder extract analysis

Complete online lesson on animal rights - pitched for an English lesson (I’m using it for my GCSE groups but could be useful for functional skills level two and lower with some scaffolding).

GCSE English paper 1 (fiction) - Vampire resource

GCSE English Monster extract - paper 1

Group Task – Hand out the cards with different ‘ways to assess’ on. Students to stick them on the whiteboard under the headings ‘effective’ or ‘ineffective’. Open Questions: • Does everyone agree with each other’s choice of heading? • Did the students group the more ‘common’ assessment types under ‘effective’? Question their groupings – Are their choices more effective or are they the assessments the students are more familiar with?

Lesson on structure and how it is effective

Interpret the sysmbols activity - a good starter activity or piece of homework to encourage learner to develop their analysing skills and look at implicit information rather than just what is directly obvious.

Word definitions guide - a handy list of useful (and some higher level) words used in English to improve writing and analysing text.

Speaking and Listening exercise - listening to understand

Speaking and Listening powerpoint on the Victorians.

SPAG revision session - ideal for online/remote learning