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High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.

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High-quality, value for money teaching resources covering English language and literature; literacy; history; media and Spanish. With twenty-seven years' teaching experience I know what works in the classroom. Engaging, thorough and fun, your students will love these lessons.
The Difference between Phrases and Clauses
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The Difference between Phrases and Clauses

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This powerpoint explains the difference between phrases and clauses and provides plenty of activities with answers to help students to create sentences. Intended as a precursor to multi-clause complex sentences, this will leave your students in no doubt about how to build complex and interesting sentences of their own.
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

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A comprehensive explanation of the regular and irregular formations of the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. All exercises are provided with answers for peer or self-assessment. The seventeen slide powerpoint ends by challenging students to write a piece of advertising copy, using as many superlative adjectives as they can. A useful follow-up lesson to Adjectives, this lesson should take 30 to 45 minutes.
Conjunctions/Connectives
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Conjunctions/Connectives

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Designed to help students connect and extend sentences, this eighteen slide Powerpoint contains a variety of exercises, with answers. It would take one hour to deliver all the exercises or two lessons of thirty minutes, as the exercises increase in difficulty. Fully adaptable for you and your students.
Spelling: Words Ending in Sion Tion Cian
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Spelling: Words Ending in Sion Tion Cian

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These spelling activities are divided into four rounds. In Round 1 students have to guess if the word ends in “tion” or “sion” from the pronunciation and the clue. In Round 2 students have to choose the correct spelling from a choice of two. In Round 3 students are introduced to the “cian” ending and have to guess the profession from the clue. Round 4 is twenty-two clues to words ending in either “tion”,“sion” or “cian”. Cartoon graphics add interest and help second language speakers. All answers are provided on the slides, so students mark their own work. A worksheet is included for consolidation in class or at home. Approximately 100 slides in total.
Glaciers
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Glaciers

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Glaciers are so important in the formation of landscape. This powerpoint explains how glaciers are formed and how they can create crevasses and moraines. It then zooms in on the case study of Hob Moor in York, which was formed by a glacier 15000 years ago. Students then have to create a storyboard of ten different stages to show the development of how the current moor was formed from an ancient glacier. Students will enjoy bringing geography to life and making it real.
Heroes by Robert Cormier
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Heroes by Robert Cormier

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This folder contains a twenty-two page Student Activity Booklet corresponding to twelve lessons on the novel; a scheme of work; plus exam questions; a quote quest activity; a plot sorting activity with answers; as well as various resources to support discussion regarding what makes a true hero.
Death of a Naturalist Eduqas Poetry Anthology
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Death of a Naturalist Eduqas Poetry Anthology

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Designed to teach the Seamus Heaney poem “Death of a Naturalist” in the Eduqas Poetry Anthology, this zipped folder contains a powerpoint with starter activity, context, student activities and plenary. There are three student worksheets focussing on Heaney’s use of sensory description; a storyboard of the key events in the poem and an exploration of what Heaney’s original images make students imagine. There is also a colour-coded annotated copy of the poem for teachers’ reference and a relevant answer sheet for one of the student’s worksheets. An added bonus is an example of a comparison to another poem in the anthology. Overall this should take two lessons and explore the poem in great depth and detail, making it memorable for students.
Disabled: Wilfred Owen
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Disabled: Wilfred Owen

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This twenty-slide Powerpoint guides you through the poem beginning with historical context and then annotated notes on each of the verses. Follow-up activities concentrate on Owen’s use of contrast and narrative writing from the point of view of the disabled man. A timeline of information about Owen is included in the folder also.
Numbers 1-100 in Spanish
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Numbers 1-100 in Spanish

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Teach your students numbers from 1 - 100 in Spanish with this 110 slide Powerpoint. First numbers 1 - 10 are introduced and then practised. Next numbers 21 -30. After numbers 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100. Students repeat the numbers after their teacher and then there are ample opportunities for memorisation and practice. A worksheet to embed the learning is included in the folder.
Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain
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Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain

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Using an extract from Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the Nation, students investigate why the Anglo-Saxon tribes invaded Britain in the fifth century. A 15 slide Powerpoint introduces the topic with contextual information. The extract from Bede is an adaptable Word worksheet and answers are provided to the questions. A final writing task is to imagine that you are an Anglo-Saxon who has just arrived. Suitable for secondary students due to Bede’s archaic language.
Tackling Racism: Racist Jokes
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Tackling Racism: Racist Jokes

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This Powerpoint lesson was inspired by a letter to a newspaper agony aunt about a sister who made a racist joke at a family meal and the two sisters proceeded to fall out. The lesson goes through the letter and the agony aunt’s response, asking students to consider and compare what their responses would be. The message of the lesson is “label the joke, not the person”.
Shakespeare's Life Quiz
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Shakespeare's Life Quiz

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Everything that you need to teach about the life of the great bard. A Powerpoint gives the important known details of his life and an additional Powerpoint includes a quiz with multiple choice answers to the key questions about his life. The folder contains a worksheet with three pages of written information on his life and a timeline to fill in that could be used as follow-up or homework.
Year 7 Animal Rights Non-Fiction Scheme of Work
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Year 7 Animal Rights Non-Fiction Scheme of Work

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This 76 slide Powerpoint contains everything that you need to explore the key themes within the animal rights debate. Students will learn to: Identify and use persuasive language and images. Write an article about an endagered species. Discuss whether zoos are right or wrong. Write a speech for a debate on an animal rights issue of their choice. Write a leaflet to rehabilitate the image of a maligned animal. Present their work to the class. Reflect on their attitudes to animal rights after the topic. This scheme of work is designed to support students to be creative for a practical audience and encourages them to carry out their own research. As a Powerpoint it is fully adaptable to suit you and your class’s needs.
The Great Harry Potter Quiz
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The Great Harry Potter Quiz

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Calling all Harry Potter fans, this fifty question quiz with answers will test your knowledge of JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter novel - “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”. A fun way to encourage reading.
Tense
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Tense

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Many students write stories in which they jump between the present and the past tenses. This Powerpoint explains the difference between the simple past and the simple present tenses and contains a variety of exercises to encourage tense consistency and to help them to feel more confident. The zipped file also contains two informative and practical follow-up worksheets which ask students to put a passage about William the Conqueror into the past tense. The other worksheet asks them to put information about the Titanic into the past tense also.
Ballad Writing
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Ballad Writing

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Teach your students how to write a ballad poem using the life of ex-slave and slave rescuer, Harriet Tubman. Celebrating the heroic life of Harriet Tubman, this twenty slide powerpoint shows how her life story was made into a ballad by Eloise Crosby Culver. Students then study the key features of ballads and are invited to add an extra verse of their own to the ballad, with historical information about the great lady. Students are then tasked with writing their own ballads about either a fictional or real person. Links in well with writing a ballad about Kissin' Kate Barlow from "Holes".
Sensationalising Newspaper Reports
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Sensationalising Newspaper Reports

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Shock. Horror! One day a woman went to her local shop and guess what she found inside her newly-purchased bag of bread? Unbelievably, to her amazement the whole bag was full of crusts of bread!! And you probably wouldn’t believe it either, but this story did actually make it onto BBC online news. This lesson takes this story and shows students how to blow trivial things up out of all proportion in order to sell newspapers. You can expose the serious nature of newspaper sensationalising while having some fun. Students add even more emotive language into the already existing newspaper report. The newspaper report with blanks for students to fill in is included, along with a twelve slide Powerpoint to introduce the subject. This is also a good introduction to the ethics of the press.
Pimp Your Sentences: Use Relative Clauses
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Pimp Your Sentences: Use Relative Clauses

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Four different activities allow students to become increasingly independent in their ability to create complex sentences using relative pronouns - who; whose; that which. Answers given where appropriate. Activities could be delivered as starters or as a whole lesson.
Nouns - common, proper and abstract
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Nouns - common, proper and abstract

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This eighteen slide powerpoint begins with an exercise to identify the nouns, followed by explanations and examples of common, proper and abstract nouns. Students are then given twenty-five different nouns which they have to classify into the three different categories. There is an exercise to differentiate between common and proper nouns and whether they need capital letters or not. A short exercise encourages students to use abstract nouns. The plenary is a cloze exercise to embed the learning. All answers provided and fully adaptable.
Narrative Writing: The Rescue
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Narrative Writing: The Rescue

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Enable your students to focus on effective structure and language features by inspiring them to write a story with the title “The Rescue” by giving them a real life newspaper report on a dramatic mid-sea rescue of a cargo ship. The report contains all the details they need and all they have to do is to transform the structure of the report into the five-part story structure, enabling you to focus on what makes an effective narrative. The folder includes: A powerpoint with pointers and tips. A Word version of the report. A Word planning sheet. Designed for both AQA and Eduqas GCSE narrative writing.