Warm up tasks and prompts for writing a short gothic horror story. Stand alone Halloween themed lesson for KS3 or KS4.

A lesson to help students identity different forms of poetry and the features. I used this for my year 10 English Literature class and it really helped them understand sonnets, free verse, dramatic monologue, blank verse and limericks.

This resource takes breaks down the AQA IGCSE English Literature Mark Scheme for students and include some suggested tasks using exemplars that can be downloaded from the AQA website.

IGCSE English Second Language Writing Paper Q1 Practice Cards (x 4 Lessons) The slides include pictures with guided planning, practice questions and mark scheme.

English Second Language: Families and Family Tree Lesson KS4 Slides include: Exploring families and creating a family tree

This resource was planned for the AQA English First Language IGCSE Reading Paper, but can be adapted easily for other exam boards. It studies the extract ‘Alone’ from the AQA resource, 'The Home of the Blizzard’. Includes: guided reading tasks which are modeled on the AQA Exam and a breakdown of the mark scheme for each question. There is also an optional writing task at the end.

Slides consist of 2-3 Lessons analysing ‘In a London Drawing Room’ by George Eliot. This It includes context, theme, form, structure and language. This poem is included in the AQA IGCSE People and Places anthology and therefore there is some comparative focus with other poems, but this can be easily edited accordingly.

Full study of the poem The Great Storm’ by Jo Shapcott from the AQA IGCSE English Literature poetry anthology ‘People and Places’. Slides include guided analysis for: context, poetic terms, form & structure, tone, atmosphere, imagery and themes.

Full study of the poem ‘The Moment’ by Margaret Atwood from the AQA IGCSE English Literature poetry anthology ‘People and Places’. Includes: context, poem overview, key poetic terms, form & structure, guided lanaguage analysis and themes.

Full study of the poem ‘Below the Green Corrie’ from the AQA IGCSE English Literature poetry anthology ‘People and Places’. Includes: context, poem overview, poetic terms, form & structure, full analysis annotation, themes and analysis worksheet.

Full study of the poem ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes from the AQA IGCSE English Literature poetry anthology ‘People and Places’. Includes: context, poem overview, poetic terms, form & structure, imagery, themes and group guided analysis worksheet.

This is an English GCSE/IGCSE First Language Reading Lesson, which studies the discursive article ‘Explorers or boys messing about? Either way the taxpayer gets the rescue bill’. Themes: Adventure-Exploration-Human experience Slides include: vocabulary match, link to PAF Youtube video, discursive text features (study and tasks), guided annotation, reading exercises with practice questions that align with the AQA mark scheme and breakdown of AOs for each question. There is also an extention ‘writing to discuss’ task included at the end.

Full study of the poem ‘Winter Swans’ by Owen Sheers, from the AQA IGCSE English Literature poetry anthology ‘People and Places’. Includes: context, poem overview, key poetic terms, form & structure, tone, imagery, themes and group guided analysis activity.

This resource was planned for the AQA English First Language IGCSE Reading Paper, but can be adapted easily for other exam boards. It studies the memoir ‘127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place’. Includes: PAF, Language, Structure, Literary Techniques, Nouns and verbs, Sequencing and guided analysis task for students. There are practice questions included based on the AQA mark scheme which can be adjusted for other exam boards. There is also a continuation lesson for writing a related article which you can use or lose.

Congo Gold Mining: English Second Language Reading Resource KS4. Global Issues Unit Slides and worksheet to explore a non fiction article about the Global Issue of how gold mining effects endangered species in the Congo. Includes: vocabulary, synonyms, comprehension questions, speaking and listening and bonus writing task with AQA mark scheme.

Slides consist of 2-3 lessons analysing ‘The Planners’ by Kim Cheng Boey. It includes context; first read questions; themes; form, structure and lanaguage analysis. There are also activities to differentiate for students’ independent analysis.

KS4 English Second Language Film Review 2 Lessons Slides and accompanying worksheets with L/Os to understand film reviews, learn related vocabulary, write own reviews. L1: Film review example based on James Bond Skyfall with questions and tasks on accompanying worksheet. Close exercises / T or F / multiple choice / annotation task for features of a review / structure of film reviews by paragraph. Plan a review. L2: Further vocabulary building, listening tasks, independent review writing with assessment criteria. Assessment criteria are based on Oxford AQA IGCSE English Second Language, but can be very easily adapted / changed. (Credit for sound file: British Council)