GCSE English Language basics session. Looking at connotations and denotations in preparation for language analysis. It looks at: Synonymy Antonymy Denotations Connotations Single Word Analysis Touches on the explanation of figurative features. QUITE DETAILED & FULLY ANIMATED!

Updated - Animations had been stripped…they’re now back… Take your AS/A level Eng Lang students through the ages via this quite detailed 2-3hr session. Visually pleasing and videos, embedded for ease of use, are also placed into an old TV Set template. It adds a bit of charm to it but is just a gimmick. My students made notes from slides but all images are of good enough quality to print if you right click them and save as image. I used some of them to make a display with students but they created a giant timeline on a wall with craft materials. Any feedback will be welcomed as it was my first year and some of my students did well so it would be good to improve and update.

Now with accompanying PPT file! Can be used as a session or homework. This is for GCSE English Language Students to practise their skills in general evaluation and then the exam question. With a number of formative tasks and exam-style questions. There are a few texts to explore and these are great for 1:1 tuition.

A short session based on the text extract from Summer 2022. This is a simple session encouraging the synthesis of connotations and is designed to be paperless. It’s fully animated and has a short summary video at the start. Key word analysis is a feature and there’s a demo answer + 2 extra questions. There are a number of book covers, set as small images in the centre of white pages. I printed these laminated and passed them round/got the students into groups with drywipe pens. They can be used in a few ways.

With a bonfire night theme and an extract from a text about a fire… This fully animated session is meant for a quick 1.5 hour Paper 1 - Question 4 practice. It defines the term: ‘critical evaluation’, goes over strategy for the question, breaks down the level 3 mark scheme (grades 4-5) and provides a timed question and example part-response to it, after their own attempt. The starter is evaluating an image on safety. 2 sided handout means students will have to take some notes if they haven’t already in previous sessions. Can be used to recap and practise or introduce the topic. Special Offer! Purchase a resource or bundle, leave a paid review and email a screenshot to me of your receipt with a request for ANY resource in my shop under £5 - FREE. Email: stormbornd@icloud.com

Designed for a 1.5hr session in which students revisit figurative features and try to extend them but it could easily be stretched out longer. Starter is a split image with a prompt for half the group to annotate one half and vice-versa. Then share annotations and save for later student-led choice in the final summative task. There is a small, looped video of a burning fire (courtesy of pixabay.com). This helps to prompt vocabulary ideas and loops until stopped or on slide transition. Reminders of adjective/adverb use, as well as a mark scheme for upper level 3 (grade 5) through which you can explain or direct questions to students. Visually impressive and matches my Evaluation Session. Special Offer! Purchase a resource or bundle, leave a paid review and email a screenshot to me of your receipt with a request for ANY resource in my shop under £5 - FREE. Email: stormbornd@icloud.com

This session uses songs to demonstrate shifts in mood/tone and changes in focus. They’re always quite obvious so it’s a good way into the topic. It requires students to research their own set of lyrics but there’s no reason why you can’t print off some popular lyrics, randomly, and take them in with you. There are example annotations and comments and every step is led click-by-click with animation. **Special Offer! **Purchase a resource or bundle, leave a paid review and email a screenshot to me of your receipt with a request for ANY resource in my shop under £5 - FREE. Email: stormbornd@icloud.com

Introduce your students to the significance of narrative expositions with this collection of famous movie openings. Be aware that this was created with adults in mind so there is quite a selection of them and you can therefore skip/delete any you deem to be inappropriate. Mainly used as a group discussion tool for those who are disengaged - Film and Music can be more engaging for 16-18 resits, too. Students are to take note of each opening - Asking: What makes the opening interesting? How are we introduced to characters/setting? Are there any pivotal events which might foreshadow later events? Are there any interesting plot devices? What contrasts are present? Generic markers present? Helps students to understand how much they can talk about in just the exposition of every narrative.

16+ aimed - video clips which are embedded are from The Dark Knight and Suicide Squad. To be used to ease students into summaries before hitting them with non-fiction and possibly Victorian language. These are quite abstract texts in comparison to what they would usually get to summarise but it eases the way into the skill with something my students have found more interesting. Capture mixed classes with a comparison between Fever Pitch and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Summarise how each protagonist acts in the exposition of each story with an exam-style focus and an animated and colour-coded example basic answer which students can bump up to full marks with support.

There is a text extract in this from a school shooting incident…be warned - covers sensitive issues. This covers basic word classes and Metaphor/Simile. It is laced with activities and tasks as well as images and a really short video clip of moving clouds which will hopefully prompt simile creation. Prepped for a 3hr class with some interesting texts and questions. There is an example analysis and mark schemes included. All images from pixabay.com where all images and videos are free to use - no questions asked - even for commercial purposes.

Now with accompanying PPT file! For GCSE English Language Students to practise their skills of making inferences. There is a structural focus relating to Paper 1 - Question 3. It goes over the main elements of the question and has a number of tasks which relate to varied elements of narrative structure.

Now with accompanying PPT file! For GCSE students of English language to revise and practise their skills. Start with basic summaries and ease into what Paper 2, Question 2 requires. With examples and extra exam-style tasks, this booklet makes a great 1.5-2hr session with or for homework. It covers the main elements of the summary question and has a number of tasks to complete as well as an exam-style summative task.

This is a colourful collection of text extracts and exam-style questions for Paper 1 - Creative Reading & Writing. 4 sets of 4 on A3 for the reading questions - 16 micro mocks = 64 questions in total + 16 mini extracts. This one also comes in a rainbow pack which removes the opportunity for a challenging jigsaw activity because each line is a unique colour/shade. 2 sets of 4 on A4 for Q5 - 8 images and 2x cards for each - one based on description, the other: narration. Best to be printed and laminated so that they can be reused without the risk of wear and tear. Each set for Section A - has a unique colour so they can be double-sided and kept like a pack. Just print pink/green & blue/yellow - printing from the word doc. They look great as in the photograph preview image but, printing them off single-sided means having the ability to use 4 sets at once, with four small groups and we now have a few sets in a drop-in room so students can just choose some to revise with. The set with four blocked colours also make a good jigsaw puzzle, as all texts have matching questions, to start a revision session. Students need to match the questions with each text - basic comprehension Can be used in workshops or given to students to take home and use for revision/practice. Paper 2 now in my shop! =-)

This session goes through Paper 1 - Question 5, descriptive and narrative writing, as a practice session. It starts off comparing the mark scheme to an example with a task, following a set of animated annotations which are to be discussed as a group. Then move onto approaching an image for description and this includes an example, too. There is a list of figurative features which can be amended, as well as a task on making epic connections in creative writing. Following this, there is a small focus on titles and sentence starters. Finally, there is a writing challenge which uses a starting sentence and Christmas icons to stimulate and focus writing. As an added bonus: there is also a Christmas Full Paper 1 mock paper included. I wrote the example text myself and all top quality images are from www.pixabay.com - where all images are free for use, even for commercial purposes.

Special Offer! *Purchase a resource or bundle, leave a paid review and email a screenshot to me of your receipt with a request for ANY resource in my shop under £5 - FREE. Email: stormbornd@icloud.com Great for introducing nonfiction or revising. This set is for the first two questions of Paper 2. AOs 1 & 2. With an interesting Earth/Mars comparison starter (with animated explanation for afters) - this set looks at both freak weather from 1814 and 2016, from the ideas of conspiracy theorists and religious beliefs of divine intervention. Strategy included for covering Questions 2, 3 & 4 and two fully animated answer slides for the two Question 1 activities as well as some example annotations - step-by-step guidance for Q4 and example paragraphs for 2 & 3. The whole session is animated with click-by-click/step-by-step animation and looks very impressive with the Morph transitioning. Handout included and, as always, would appreciate any feedback. =-) All images taken from www.pixabay.com - where top quality images and short HD videos are free to use, even for commercial purposes…

Special Offer! *Purchase a resource or bundle, leave a paid review and email a screenshot to me of your receipt with a request for ANY resource in my shop under £5 - FREE. Email: stormbornd@icloud.com This set uses all images from www.pixabay.com - to which I am a minor contributor and where all images are copyright free and free to use for commercial purposes…check out their website if you make resources. It’s an amazing sharing platform and all images are copyright free. It is a very complex set, animated with click-by-click/step-by-step animation, for ease of use. It features many famous cosplay images which will hopefully inspire students to create interesting narrative openings for Paper 1 - Question 5. It covers a grade 5 mark scheme for content and organisation, activities for creating features, the Action genre is focused on and both language and structure. It has tips for creating, extending and advancing similes and much more! I plan to take some comics in with me when I use it…if not there are plenty you can preview via the web. Turned out to be a great set and worked really well, with all my groups.

Want to challenge your students to write in a more sophisticated and perceptive way? Want to impress observers with your natural embedding of maths? There is a reason some find English difficult and, more often than not, it’s because they think they can’t do it. They think it’s difficult - like maths can be. However, this lesson could change all that and help your students realise how easy it is because we are programmed to do it! This 3 hour lesson is split across two 1.5hr sessions and includes formative tasks and homework. There are detailed animations to provide a number of different examples of patterns across language and structure, using shapes and images and text boxes in a visually pleasing manner. There are no handouts with this as students are encouraged to write down some notes and small quotes and to take pictures with their smart devices. It also includes a short TED Talk clip teaching you how the human brain is programmed to recognise patterns…

Newly added to! For GCSE English Language students who are interested in gaming. Persuasive writing is the focus with anecdote starter task and a NY Times article for expert opinions, animated answers to activities and a detailed example answer from the perspective of a positive parent. It follows on from covering Content & Organisation and lasts around 2-3 hrs depending on delivery and response. Let me know what you think!

Extracts from famous fiction included with modifications for Punctuation Practice! There’s also some spelling and grammar! Included, also, is a 26-slide ppt presentation with animated answers throughout. Look at: The Red Wedding in George R. R. Martin’s A Storm Of Swords. An extract from Bilbo’s party - J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring And one, also, from Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. Good for use with my SPaG session for GCSE AO6 - halloween theme. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-1-ao6-technical-accuracy-in-depth-overview-halloween-spag-12181966 With a full contents page, students can navigate themselves through the session or take this home for homework. Covering all major punctuation marks, some tenses tasks, plural practice as well as homophones and homographs. I have a free version of this in my shop - which is aimed at lower-level students and is quite close to the original from which it is derived.

This is a local text as I am a St. Helens lad and source A is very relevant to our locality. However - it’s not a bad little resource for comparing language use over time and comparing the perspectives. The comparison mark scheme is included and a choice of two Source B documents - one which is accompanied by a video which I embedded so that one can teach even with a loss of internet connection. The video is a historical marvel to watch. The students will have a good laugh at it… It uses a planning sheet which will help some students guide their writing and structure their response. There is also a detailed commentary on an example, triangulated response to Paper 2 - Question 4.