This handout is ideal for students working on the horror, murder mystery or even detective genre. Students often find it hard to explain WHY and HOW an effect creates suspense; this worksheet helps them to form clear explanations and is an ideal launchpad for their own work on allocated phrases and sections from your focus text. Great for when teaching 'Jekyll and Hyde', 'Dorian Gray' or murder mysteries.

Handy quick reference guide for students. It helps boost their confidence with writing tasks as it shows them how the language has altered, how verb suffixes and primary verbs have altered, and keeps it simple. Also triggers interesting discussions about grammar today! Please see my other Shakespeare resources, which include creative and analytical tasks.

This is a handy glossary sheet of the more difficult language in this excellent short story. It is a real favourite with students of all ages and IDEAL year nine preparation for the GCSE set novel Jekyll and Hyde, as it introduces kids to the main generic features and the complex vocabulary. Stevenson is easier, if anything, so it will really prepare your students for the demands of the Victorian horror story. Also included is a copy of the story.

Useful and thorough overview I wrote for the book, over three sides of notes plus quoted examples and analysis.

I have uploaded a number of short revision handouts on key focus areas of the novel, including key symbolic objects, locations and supporting concepts. Have a look at my other handouts. Ideal for Dorian revision! Use them as a starting point to encourage students to make their own.

Useful revision resource for students with suitable examples. Ideal to base a lesson around.

I spent a while devising this as the final Act has so many scenes and elements tying together. The two side resource is bound to keep your students occupied for a whole period in your lesson. Or, set a few in class and get them to do the rest at home as a self-test. I found it really helped students identify areas of weakness in term s of plot knowledge, understanding patterns of language and analysing Macbeth's character.

Overview of the theory with relevant examples from the story.

Ideal resource to help students master the play and understand the need for detailed supporting quotations. The resource has many quoted examples to support different paragraphs of its argument, all reinforced with act and scene references

Eh dis is dead good! Ideal resource for supplementing student understanding of 'Blood Brothers' or for any lesson on regional dialect language and accents. Gerrin!

Focused questions to ensure that students understand the first Act of this great play

Useful slideshow revising the key areas of punctuation. Funny examples and useful tips!

This PowerPoint is a bit different as it allows students of all ability levels to take control of the task. They see different images from the play and are invited to choose the odd one out - interesting discussion starter! They then work through varied tasks on the characters. Good way to share and discuss a mix of ideas at a fast pace.

This Is a very through and detailed learning pack which gives students a lot of background biographical detail on Hardy and works through a large amount of his poems. Full textual notes. It is ideal for A level or IB students. It is also great for extending GCSE students and is an equally good resource if you’re looking for unseen poems to do with your GCSE students in preparation for the Literature exams, as the Hardy poems have come up a lot at GCSE and are in easy to compare themes such as relationships, war and nature.

Useful A level Media Studies handout which explores the values embedded in news media and gets students to think about the intricate way in which news is constructed.

Ideal resource for any film studies students, this comprehensive handout covers all the main points of this brilliant movie genre, looks at common forms of iconography, symbolism, and the history of the film genre.

Useful at a glance summary of the ten top generic features associated with the classic 1930s gangster film genre.

Loads of focussed tasks here to stretch and challenge your students and ensure confidence with the text. Nicely designed and easy to set as homework or as a big class task in between clips from the DVD!

Henry V is such a great play to teach students. This worksheet enables them to get a grip on the many ideas about loyalty, patriotism and honour which dominate the first Act. Aimed at GCSe students but could work well with able KS3 learners or even with A level students studying the play for coursework.

Very thorough and detailed focus questions on the early sections of the novel. Tests students of all abilities and encourages them to select quoted details, then comment on them with follow up questions. Covers first two chapters.