This lesson explores the use of narrative hooks and Freytag’s Pyramid to create an engaging narrative. The lesson builds to the students writing their own narrative and then self assessing. This lesson can be used for KS3 or KS4 and could also work as a cover lesson.

This lesson is designed to introduce the Cambridge iGCSE 0990 course in a fun and engaging way. Those ‘introduction to the course’ lesssons can be so dry for everyone. Thus, I have created a virtual escape room to engage the students more in the lesson.

General lesson on descriptive writing. Would we good to introduce descriptive writing to GCSE students. Could also act as a good cover lesson if needed as the lesson can sit in isolation. It focuses on understanding the key skills descriptive writing and differentiating it from narrative writing.

This lesson is primarily about planning, critical thinking and spoken language practise. After an engaging starter that invites students to move around the room as well as quickly form their own opinions, they will be guided to consider a debate topic for the lesson. All resources for the lesson are included.

This lesson encourages students to explore the environmental messages of Melt by considering the impact of oil extraction. The slides cover how extensively we consume oil. There is a BBC article that explores which countries have claims over oil found in the sea and then the lesson culminates in the students writing a letter to an oil company. This lesson is fully resourced and will get your class thinking about an important environmental issue.

This lesson invites the students to consider the perspectives of Yutu or Bea depending on thier preference. Activites include a cloze extract to encourage recall as well as an extract from the text that asks them to recognise the characters’ thoughts and feelings.

Students begin the lesson by reflecting on where they might like to go. They will then consider the conventions of travel writing by analysing an extract by Bill Bryson. Finally, they will put those skills to use by imagining that they are visiting the Arctic with Yutu as their guide. This lesson is fully resourced.

This is a fun revision lesson designed to be presented as a series of challenges for the class. There are 5 rounds in total including: completing missing words, sequencing the play, true or false, spot the lies and who said it.

This resource contains an extract from The Hunger Games as well as comprehension questions. This resource would be particularly useful for a cover lesson.

This lesson takes inspiration from the book Melt by the Ele Fountain to teach advice writing. It is fully resourced with an example advice response as well as an extract from the text to inspire writers to create their own letter of response. The lesson plan and accompanying slides mean that a teacher can run with this lesson easily.

This attractive resource is best printed on A3. Students annotate the worksheet thinking through the following: What ‘crime’ did Sheila commit? How does she respond to the Inspector’s message? What does Sheila represent in the play? Who does she contrast with? Quote analysis.

This worksheet is aimed at lower ability groups. It features 4 quotations from An Inspector Calls which need to be analysed in order to establish aspects of her characterisation. In order to make the resource accessible, some of it has been completed for the students.

This worksheet works best when printed as A3. The resource features 5 important quotes about Sheila. These quotations should be annotated to evidence key aspects of her characterisation in the play.

This sheet translates key terms for the study of English into Ukrainian. It is helpful resource to include Ukrainian students who are new to the English classroom.

This is a fun lesson designed to creatively engage students in War Photographer. The lesson requires students to consider what techniques can be employed to create a successful piece of description. The lesson will also ask them to consider the back story to the poem.

This resource is useful to aid discussing the character of Eva Smith. On the worksheet there are 8 boxes that accurately describe Eva and 8 that do not describe her. Students must identify the 8 relevant boxes.

This worksheet is useful for discussing the conventions of a Shakespearean tragedy. Students must identify 8 conventions of tragedy from 16 possible options.

This worksheet is aimed at lower sets. Students are required to explain how thw quotes link to the conventions of a Shakespearean tragedy. As a means of scaffolding the task, some of the analysis has been completed for them.

This resource is 8 full pages of Macbeth key quotations with detailed analysis. The quotes are in scene order. The resource is useful to provide GCSE students with quotes to fit all essays that might come up in the exam.