In this activity students will discuss the benefits of sports, complete a listening activity followed by creating their own crossword with new vocabulary they have learnt.

This stand alone drama lesson introduces Bertolt Brecht’s acting technique - Gestus. The lesson combines a little bit of theory and practice as an excellent starting point. This would be the perfect foundation to build upon, or simply a once off lesson as you explore different practitioners and their techniques.

This Folder contains several activities based around My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. This includes vocabulary review, introduction and a summary. This isn’t a complete unit of work but this activities could easily be incorporated with other work.

Through these worksheets students will review the features of narrative writing and practice their descriptive writing skills.

Students will explore themes through the short film ‘Partly Cloudy.’

A range of useful drama comments to assist in your report writing. These comments are divided into two categories: general comment and improvement comment. These comments touch on a range of skills explored in the classroom.

This PPT consists of 33 slides covering the whole of the novella. It includes reading and writing skills and would make an excellent foundation to work from. There is also a slight focus on analytical skills based on AO1 and AO2 (as in Y7 students should start to think about this).

In this worksheet students will explore different blogs to become more familiar with the text type as a pre-activity before creating their own blog.

In this resource pack students will be asked to create their own board game based on the novel, ‘Kesuke’s Kingdom.’ In actual fact the material could be changed to be based on anything. Students will be allowed to create their own design, pitch and presentation. It is highly creative and fun.

Through this worksheet students will work on using imagery to create a picture with their words. They will also apply the use of poetic devices in order to achieve this.

This worksheet contains two descriptive writing tasks that can be used to inspire extended writing pieces.

This resource can be used as a stand alone lesson or combined with other lessons in order to explore different language features found in descriptive writing. The four language features used in the lesson are pathetic fallacy, personification, juxtaposition and extended metaphor.

An interactive double lesson introducing Ebenezer Scrooge as a character. The lesson explores the first few pages of the text and how the setting reflects Scrooge’s character.

This resource is a fantastic foundation covering the short story Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant. It includes reading comprehension questions and answers as well as key vocabulary. With an extended writing task if you want a more extensive lesson.

In this lesson parents will be exposed to a philosophy for children (P4C) lesson in order to understand what their children are experiencing in the classroom. The topic is based on ‘allowing children to fail in order to learn.’ Parents will explore different situations and when it is acceptable to allow children to make their own mistakes. Parents should come away from the lesson feeling postive about P4C and having a better understanding of the lesson structure and overall benefits.

Students review a number of useful words that can be used in their day to day work. After this the teacher could encourage students to use this vocabulary in a piece of writing.

This vocabulary list is based on a short films and theme studies unit introducing new vocabulary and reviewing it.

A lesson designed to introduce short films and what themes are. This is aimed at junior secondary level.

In this worksheet students will complete a vocabulary exercise to discover new vocabulary for their character profile. Followed by a list of areas (personal/personality/appearance) to describe in order to understand their character better.

These two worksheets take students through different exercises in order to work on their descriptive writing skills.

In this lesson students will be exploring fantasy and reality through philosophy for children (P4C). Defining these abstract concepts and exploring to what extent they impact one another and often overlap.