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.

Teach your students to argue with conviction! This uses 'Fule’s Gold from the June 2018 paper and some provocative and debate-fuelling perfume Ad videos for a starter and a developed activity. There is an example part-response and annotations task which will demonstrate what is meant by an evaluative comment. The colour-coded annotations page is also in plain form for those with visual stress. The example answer is presented with the mark-scheme and is fully animated for a step-by-step annotations task - help your students get the answer right with this interactive and interesting 3hr session.

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.

Covers all of Paper 2 and is great for revision weeks. This is a fully animated powerpoint presentation with tasks that run on a click-by-click basis. Answers are animated andi t is easy to follow, has an example of each of the questions with a preparation task leading into each. Mark schemes are included and a set of unique sources and exam questions with embedded timers and a range of texts.

For classroom display with removable week numbers.

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!

Close look at the importance of: pronouns, emotive language, rhetorical questions; sentence forms and variation and anecdotes… Very visual with fun tasks including Guess the Artist with rhetorical question song titles. Contextualising videos embedded for use without the need of internet connection, which aid learning massively. This gallery is fully animated and explains features with examples and some group tasks and discussion prompts. There are tasks to allow students to analyse pronouns and other features closely and in a sophisticated manner. Notes are designed to guide students in making a high-level response. Handout included, matches the ppt and pages appear on-screen for ease of use. There is an AO2 assessment task and an AO5/6 task for assessment at the end.

Made very early in my career but I still use it to ease some students into Victorian lexis. Session focuses on Jeckyll & Hyde and the session can last upto 3hrs with homework.

A focus on Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance & Sibilance and the effects and importance of such features. Help your students to understand the reason for using these features and they will surely begin to use them effectively within their own writing. Give them an undertanding of repeptitive features that will inspire perceptive responses to AO2 questions! Preparation for language analysis and scope to push more advanced learners. With embedded Storm video for a feature creation task, an exam-style summative assessment task and step-by-step/click-by-click animations…

Includes 3 sources and an example of each question from both papers 1 & 2. Topic: Phobias.

This is a three hour set of sessional activities with a glossary page and marking criteria that could easily be extended and streched out. The PPT works, hand-in-hand, with the booklet and it would be a good idea to pilot the delivery as the animation work click-by-click/step-by-step. This was originally created for resit students which is why it’s in such a condensed format and has an exam-style task on contraception. Hope you find it useful! DETAILED & HEAVILY ANIMATED!

An in-depth introduction to American English and some example vdeo clips embedded to save reliance on internet connection. This has been well-researched and has embedded videos to contextualise learning. Maps, charts, statistics…

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 well-researched and in-depth overview containing 54 slides and a lot of interesting facts and details about the intricacies of Language & Sexuality in contemporary culture. THere is a matching 3o page booklet with references on slides throughout.

This 28 SLIDE ppt & handout have been designed to be visually impressive… the graphics were a joy to put together. Heavily animated and laden with activities covering AO1-3 - this action-packed set of 3-4hrs worth of sessions consists of: introductory/formative/summative tasks, embedded videos for use without the need for the internet - animated into images of retro and modern hand-held gaming consoles, and has some quite accessible texts from which to produce some great answers. Has a 1970s arcade advert and a 1990s one. Really nice to compare. The set leads nicely into a Question 5 resource I put together on Gaming & Grammar. See my shop for a discounted bundle!

This is a full intro/revision session that could be run-through quickly or spread over a few sessions. It has 3x examples for each of the three main reading questions and an exemplar creative piece which is higher level, covering writing. These all feature on slides with notes attached for most answers with rough guidelines and examiner comments. There are animated group activities and discussion prompts which help the use of the PPT flow, click-by-click, and a hand out which includes a level 3 mark scheme for Q5. Use this incredible story to provoke some fantastic responses - there is nothing graphic here. But there is a short clip from the film which just provides some context and an interpretation of the extract - as well as a discussion prompt. Please note - this does not mention PEE or any other acronym. Please add these should you so wish. Let me know what you think!

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.

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.