Editable Explorers or Boys Messing About Resources

This resource contains everything you need to teach ‘Explorers or Boys Messing About? Either way, taxpayer gets the bill’. Based on the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language curriculum, but easily adaptable to any curriculum that you teach, this product contains:
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• 58 Editable Google Slides with notes on each slide containing tips for how to use the information for different classes
• Interactive quizzes and activities with answer keys included
• Printable PDF versions of all activities
• Engaging starter activity, including key vocabulary, discussion questions and work on tabloid/broadsheet newspapers
• Definitions and examples for 10 literary techniques used in the extract
• Detailed annotations of language and structure for the whole extract
• Comprehension quiz on the text with answer key
• Mind mapping activity for the text
• Practice exam questions based on the Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE English Language exam (questions 4 & 5) but easily adaptable to any other curriculum
• Structure, plan, mark schemes for each question + example answer for Q5
• Question 5 (22 mark essay) comparison with 'Beyond the Earth and the Sky: A Journey into Bhutan’ - rubric, planning table, paragraph structure & example
• Optional creative activities based on text, designed to develop skills in preparation for the transactional writing component of the exam - can be used as extension or homework
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  I would love to see your students engaging with this activity in the classroom. Feel free to post pictures and tag me on Instagram.
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  I hope you find the resource useful for you and helpful to your students. If you have any questions or comments about the resource, contact me on expatedventures@gmail.com.
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  If you enjoy this resource, you might also enjoy my comprehensive resources for other English Language texts, such as Between a Rock and a Hard Place and Out, out’.
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  Thank you and enjoy!
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