Everybody loves an exciting water park and now is your chance to design your very own ground-breaking new aqua park. This eight-page Word booklet takes you through the steps to create a name and logo for your park. You will then analyse the language techniques to describe real rides. Next you will create five rides of your own and describe them. You will need relaxation areas for your guests and you will be given help to create three areas. Finally, you can decide whether to create a leaflet or a website or both to promote your water park. Let your imagination race down the rapids of creativity with this fun project.

This forty-four slide Powerpoint introduces students to the uses and conjugation of the present subjunctive in its regular forms in easy-to-digest, step-by-step slides. There are exercises to identify when the subjunctive is used, as well as how to conjugate the three verb forms. A consolidation Word worksheet is included that could be used for homework. Learners cannot progress in Spanish without knowing the subjunctive and this is a gentle introduction to what can be a very confusing subject for native English speakers.

With this twenty-four slide Powerpoint students revise the use of the subjunctive to give advice and then learn how it is used to express possibility, probability, doubt, opinions and hopes. After completing various exercises, students write an article for a Spanish newspaper in which they express their opinions on the future of the world and their own hopes and dreams for the future. A vocabulary sheet is included in the folder.

Ever struggled to explain the twisting and turning plot of Shakespeare’s classic play to younger students? If so then this resources can help you. Terry Deary has condensed the plot into a twenty-five verse poem called “The Ballad of Big Mac”. Students study the poem over two lessons, analysing the plot and language techniques in the poem. Having identified Deary’s use of pathetic fallacy, students are guided and supported to create their own witch and introduce him or her using pathetic fallacy. After peer-assessing each other’s work, students study an extract from “Doomspell” by Cliff McNish in which he introduces his witch, Dragwena. Students are then encouraged to re-draft and improve their descriptions using all the techniques which they have been taught in the two texts. Designed with less able students in mind, this folder of work would also suit primary school children. The folder includes. Copy of poem with numbered verses so students can be allocated a verse to practice reading/performing to class. A seven-page student workbook with a two comprehension cloze exercises on the poem and guided activities. Teacher answers to cloze exercises. Copy of extract from “Doomspell”. This resource could also be used as an introduction to my other lesson available on this website called “The Witches Spell”.

Taking three poems which personify the wind as examples, students will be inspired to write their own personification poem on one of the three remaining elements - fire, water or the Earth. The thirty-five slide powerpoint explains how the Ancient Greeks used to personify the four winds. An accompanying worksheet includes a fill-in-the-blank exercise on the key poem and asks students to consider the effect of the personification. Step by step on how to create your own poem to lead to understanding of how and why writers use personification.

230 slide Powerpoint accompanied by 15 worksheets on Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Covers historical background with lots of opportunities for character analysis. Two separate folders with support to write two essays - one on animal imagery and the other on imagery of light and dark.

Teach your students the importance of the history of sailing and its effect on the language with three-part lesson. First read a timeline of the history of sailing. Then create sentences with seven idioms from the semantic field of sailing. (Both these terms are explained on the Powerpoint). Finally, students create and educational poster to explain the origin of idiomatic expressions from the world of sailing.

Worksheet and Powerpoint that practises and explains these two confusing words. The Powerpoint includes a fun activity where students guess the correct word from a series of posters and film posters. In total thirty chances for students to practise getting the confusing words right.

Film vocabulary quiz on 15 key terms from the world of film. The first round gives a clue and the second round provides the answers. Cartoon graphics also give clues. A fun activity to help students write a film review.

This Powerpoint explains the concept of mnemonics, gives three visual examples and sets students the task of creating five mnemonics to learn to spell tricky words. This is a learning technique that can be applied to all areas of life and you can have fun teaching it with this visual Powerpoint which includes cartoons and animation.

Help your students to become better writers with this Powerpoint which explains how to construct complex sentences with embedded subordinate clauses. Students have several supported opportunities to practise the construction and the second section includes ten supported sentences where students have to come up with the embedded clause about X-Men superheroes. Finally, students create three sentences using the construction independently.

Get your students using the exciting language of travel writing with this Powerpoint that guides them through the techniques to sell two different Spanish cities - Malaga and Alicante. Authentic adverts for each city are analysed on the Powerpoint and then students are given information about a third Spanish city - Valencia, so that they can create an advert using the same style as the examples. The texts on Malaga and Alicante are included in the folder so that you can get your students to analyse the techniques before showing them the Powerpoint, if you prefer.

Enchant your students with these Harry Potter Day activities. There are three lessons in the bundle - one for year 7 where students create their own sweet; one for year 8 where they create their own potion and one for year 9 during which they create their own fantastical beast. Buy the bundle and you will have a lesson for each year on a rotating basis. No need to plan for Harry Potter day ever again!

Teach your students to think outside the box and the power of metaphors with the intense, five-line cinquain poetry lesson. The example poem compares anger to a bull, allowing you also to explore the nature of emotions and the representations of animals. A lot of lesson in just five lines! Enjoy!