First Year Summer Exam Revision

A bright, student-friendly 1st Year English Summer Revision PowerPoint designed to help students revise key skills and texts before their summer assessment.

This 20-slide resource covers grammar, common spelling and word-choice mistakes, figurative language, poetry techniques, novel revision, short story skills, unseen poetry, and practical exam strategies. It is especially useful for mixed-ability First Year classes and is designed to be clear, colourful, and accessible.

The resource includes revision on:

• Grammar warm-ups and common grammar mistakes
• Their/there/they’re, your/you’re, to/too/two
• Simile, metaphor, personification, rhyme and hyperbole
• Writing original examples of figurative language
• Novel revision for Once by Morris Gleitzman
• Felix character revision and key moments from the novel
• How to answer a novel question using a clear structure
• Short story skills including atmosphere, suspense, prediction and character feelings
• Creating atmosphere using vocabulary such as tense, mysterious, calm, eerie and exciting
• Poetry revision for Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
• Symbolism of the onion in Valentine
• Poetry techniques including imagery, metaphor, repetition and symbolism
• Giving personal opinions on poetry
• Unseen poetry tips and practice
• Key terminology recap
• Exam skills and practical reminders

This PowerPoint is ideal for revision classes, end-of-year recap lessons, or as a visual support before summer exams. The slides are designed to be engaging without overwhelming students, with simple explanations, examples, prompts, sentence starters and discussion questions throughout.