1st Date - She and 1st Date – He

1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope – Edexcel GCSE Poetry

A complete two-lesson resource exploring Wendy Cope’s ‘1st Date – She’ and ‘1st Date – He’, from the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Relationships anthology.

This 39-slide, fully editable PowerPoint guides students from understanding the speakers’ experiences to analysing Cope’s methods and writing a comparative essay. Activities include example answers, helping students develop and check their interpretations.

Lesson One

• Relevant social, cultural and literary context
• First-reading activities
• Comprehension questions with example answers
• Exploration of attraction, insecurity and misunderstanding
• An essay question with a model response

Lesson Two

• Language and imagery analysis with example responses
• Exploration of dramatic irony and the poems’ themes
• Questions and answers on form, structure, rhyme and rhythm
• Linking the poems with ‘Sonnet 43’
• An Edexcel-style comparison question, essay-planning guidance and a model comparative response

All PowerPoint slides are editable, allowing you to adapt the content and level of support to suit your needs.

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A Wife in London
Death of a Naturalist
Hawk Roosting
To Autumn
Afternoons
Dulce et Decorum Est
Excerpt from The Prelude
Mametz Wood
Ozymandias
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A Complaint
Love’s Dog
Nettles
My Father Would Not Show Us
My Last Duchess
Neutral Tones