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!

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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.

With an overview of structure and a look at how structure relates to genre, this whole session is planned for about 3 hours and has a number of videos which may interest your students. Intertextuality will certainly challenge learners and push those who are more advanced to look for this. It’s a great structural feature to focus on and has appeared in new specification exams. It inspires interesting predictions based on intertextual links.

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!

These are great for a revision workshop session but one was made for an assessment revision session near Halloween. As you will tell, I’m sure. A range of paper 1 questions on each. I’ve also had them on walls and got groups to write on laminated copies with dry-wipe pens from which they took pictures and used the notes to create full answers.

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.

This features two articles covering writer’s views of The Simpsons. Ease your students into comparisons with this guided session, animated - click-by-click/step-by-step for ease of use. It has animated annotations, planning strategies and examples - as well as example comments. Once reviews are created and images used - these are considered ‘fair use’ under copyright law, following the ‘Transformative use’ amendment when: they have undergone creative transformation and have been reviewed and thereby complimented.

Just a short lesson to go over matching vocabulary to Genre and making creating writing a little more sophisticated. It is fully animated and has tasks for students throughout.

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…

Another detailed, complexly animated presentation with mark schemes, language features, tips, images, example answer, various tasks and homework. There is a great set of tasks which are there to solidify the use of Adjectives and Adverbs. Students may need some support with them but answers are animated on slides. It goes through strategies for approaching images and is actually two sessions in one. Session 1 focuses on Adjective/Adverb use and revisits some language & structure features as a visual reminder. There are then images split and annotated with animation to demonstrate how to approach the image and how important it is to plan. There are plenty of images for students to choose from and plan around. Session 2 is more focused on Titles and Genre - there is a set of tasks and animated lecture slides to provide ideas for tackling a narrative title in Paper1, Question5, as well as an example upper level creative response based on example plans provided in the powerpoint. . Two sets of objectives, one of which I print out and get them to stick in their books for a visual aid to remind them of the lessons when they look back over their notes in revision weeks.

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.

Based on the visits of two presidents from recent times and the 1980s, to the UK, this full intro/revision set has over 30 slides and an original exam-style paper, as well as the sources on an A3 sheet for pair/group annotation work. There are example answers which are based on different questions and an opening to a Q5 response. Run the fully animated slide show to see how it all moves in Office 365. There is also a card matching game built into an intro to Q4. Each examplar is based on a different question to what is in the paper itself and so there is plenty for students to model their own responses upon.

This uses a character from GOT books and a couple of other famous text examples, with animated annotations and analyses of foreshadowing. One is annotated and the final one is blank which also comes in A4 PDF. The penultimate task can be group annotations, pairs or individual and then finally provide the structure question to write an exam-style response for assessment purposes. Finally, there is a foreshadowing grid for extension, which is guided for less able students. This guidance can be removed for more able students.

This has been updated with animated answers for the connectivity task. This aims to introduce students to essay writing and academic language. It goes in from a conceptual angle based on teleological connections. Everything, including essays, is a smaller/larger version if something larger/smaller. It will last about 2 hours or so but I made it when I first started so there might be some alterations needed.

This has been created on Microsoft Whiteboard, which is an awesome online teaching tool. TES doesn’t support high-quality SVG images, so there is a link to download from Google - for which you need your own personal Google account. Zoom into the mid-section and the arrown guide to a sample answer, extra tasks/questions and contextual information.

I usually use this as either revision or after my nonfiction language feature double session. Download to see how this works! This is a fully animated ppt, with step-by-step/click-by-click animation, animated annotations and example 1/2 answer for paper 2, question 2. Activities and notes prompts, throughout, this AO1-3 session lasts upto 3hrs and covers question 1, 2 and 4 of paper 2. It ends with a prompt for Q4 and leads perfectly into a more detailed comparison session. Explore Victorian ‘Hulk’ ‘floating prisons in 1846 and compare how different the prisons and writers’ perspectives are. A 2011 article is included which is great to compare. Click the Alcatraz image and open a 1934 video of real prison footage. Alcatraz was actually open in the 1800s and the video provides some interesting content.