Examiner created, trialled before posting and always update with any changes. Paid reviews rewarded with any resource under £5 free-heavily animate PPTs with step-by-step/click-by-click organisation and if there's anything I can make more visually enticing - I will. Download some of my free resources to see the quality, as I put the time and effort in to ensure free and paid resources are worthwhile.
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Examiner created, trialled before posting and always update with any changes. Paid reviews rewarded with any resource under £5 free-heavily animate PPTs with step-by-step/click-by-click organisation and if there's anything I can make more visually enticing - I will. Download some of my free resources to see the quality, as I put the time and effort in to ensure free and paid resources are worthwhile.
Requests, fixes or complaints: leckyletters@gmail.com using 'TES Shop' in the subject bar.
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.
An introductory session or revision session that will run over perspectives and writing to persuade and express opinion.
It lasts a good 1.5-2hrs
Encourages Opinion
Group Discussion Prompts
Popular Music
Lyrics Analysis
Embedded Music
Language Analysis
Extension Task
Lyrics and Images will also cover British Values, Inclusion and present opportunities to promote acceptance of others. ‘Silence’ covers antiviolence and the attitude to learn from others mistakes and ‘I Know You’ criticises drinking culture.
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.
All images from pixabay.com - where all images are free, no questions asked…even for commercial purposes!
Spook your students!
Covering Technical Accuracy for AQA 8700 but can also be used for FS English L1/2.
Includes a multitude of tasks and activities and doesn’t really need a handout. Fully animated with step-by-step/click-by-click animations so it is easy to see and easy to follow…
Includes:
Spelling Strategies Reminder
Vocabulary Boosting
Grammatical Structures
Punctuation.
Complimented by my free SPaG Worksheet collection!
This 2-3hr HALLOWEEN-themed session has basic terms revision for Language & Structure, exemplar comments, mark schemes, guided tasks covering both questions and is animated with step-by-step/click-by-click animation.
Features texts and embedded mini clips from Disney’s Hocus Pocus and the sequel & Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas - no internet connection required! There are timers on independent tasks and a matching, colour-coded handout with anything needed to complete tasks.
Homework slide with a short task linking to AO4 but can easily be deleted and/or replaced for your own scheme.
It can also be split into two sessions for both parts of AO2.
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.
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 resource is a full Paper 1 resource which could have been split into 5-6 individual sessions. - covering every one of the five questions - 80+ slides - I use this for a full revision resource…
Question 1 activities include one chosen to be a little tricky and has a warning with all the sound effects.
Question 2 covers relationships between siblings via language in GOT.
Question 3 looks at structure in the Maze Runner and looks at narrative openings.
Questions 4 has a fantastic group activity where groups must consider a well-known trial and come up with a verdict and sentence.
Question 5 does in with a descriptive focus using a M&S add and some other techniques and images.
Exam-style questions & Academic Objectives, throughout.
It has embedded video clips for use without reliance on connection. It has vast animations which contribute to activities, sound effects and song clips. As well as activities relating to each of the five questions, it also includes timers and initial preparation tasks/group work along with a secondary text-based, timed, activity to assess. There are book recommendations, RRPs and a Partridge in a Pair Tree…(not). But it is quite detailed.
Run the slideshow to see the effects and how it all works. It has had a great deal of work put into to in order to make it fun and enjoyable.
Texts Featured:
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
Treasure Island - RLS
The Maze Runner - James Dashner
The Electric Michaelangelo - Sarah Hall
It also makes use of the Oscar Pistorius trial for Q4. It has no graphic information or images but encourages students to use evidence to form an objective assessment and evaluation.
Structure has been given some serious attention here because it was new when I made this resource.
I use over about 6 hours.
Please also note that this is aimed at 16+ but can easily be edited to fit a younger audience.
This 152 card pack, covers both papers and has a collection of 32 mini extracts for fiction and nonfiction.
There are 64 Reading Questions for Paper 1
32 for Paper 2
4 sets of 4 image cards for P1Q5
16 different P2Q5 task cards linked to reading mini texts.
Now, there are also 24 TEQ paragraph example answer cards thrown in…6 sets of 4 on each AO.
These are a great workshop/revision resource and get the whole lot for a fiver!
Use the Rainbow sets in drop-in sessions, as a fresh set of unseen questions for your students to practice with.
Alternatively, use in timetabled sessions in the block colour versions and use group work to match the question cards to the extract cards as a brain-warming starting exercise; familiarising them with each question type, and AO, in the process.
Effectively there are a number of individual mock papers, here. 16 for Paper 1 and 8 for paper 2. Use the sets of four to plan individual lessons around.
Hope you find them useful!
Halloween themed resources bundle with 3 separate lessons and a pair of revision worksheets for Paper 1.
Covers AO2 and AO6,
See individual resources for details…
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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.
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.
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.
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…
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!
Alert Video Embedded Within the Title Slide - Resources cover SENSITIVE ISSUES…
Be sure to gain consent and warn students before use…the video will help with that! This is great for anti-bullying week and will certainly make students think and provide ample natural opportunities for discussion…
This is detailed, animated set covers AQA 8700 - Paper 1 Section A - Reading and includes example responses, differences between Language & Structure, Prep’ tasks and exam-style tasks for Questions 1 - 4 from Paper 1.
This is a fantastic story to use and provides a great opportunity to promote an open culture in which people are encouraged not to be afraid of asking for help or voicing their concerns or opinions. Serious issues are brought to light via interesting and thought-provoking tasks on language analysis, structural analysis and evaluation.
I left Q5 because it was hard enough reading a few hundred stories about abandoned animals in the Summer 2019 paper. I couldn’t face it so there is a homework task slide to link to Q5.
It could be used to introduce or revise Sec. A because it assumes some knowledge but has some detail, also. It also has timers and mark schemes and anything required for tasks in a handout.
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.