An English Core Skills booklet designed for students in Year 8-10 but useful for other year groups also. Complete with explanations, examples and practice activities. The four key areas: Reading & analysis - PEEL, language techniques, structure, inference and zooming in on words. Creative writing - ‘show dont tell’, ‘camera’ structure, ambitious vocabulary and sentence variety. Grammar & Vocabulary - clauses, fronted adverbials, punctuation and apostrophes. Non-fiction & persuasive writing - purpose & audience, rhetorical devices and structuring an argument. Answers and model examples for every practice activity. This could be a very useful Summer Holiday booklet to prepare students for September or a helpful companion in class or for homework.

A complete bank of past Paper 2 essay questions for El Laberinto del Fauno. AQA and Edexcel - 29 past paper questions and detailed plans for each question. Comprehensive resource for teachers and students of A Level Spanish film.

Two sample complete essays: Laberinto del Fauno. 1: Analiza como presenta del Toro el tema del bien y del mal en la pelicula. (AQA past question). Analiza los temas prinpales de 'El Laberinto del Fauno y como del Toro los comunica al espectador a traves de sus tecnicas cinematograficas. (Edexcel past question). Each essay has an introduction, 5 PEEL paragraphs and a conclusion.

A 1 hour GCSE Spanish lesson ‘Un Viaje a Barcelona’. Complete with lesson slides, lesson worksheet, a Barcelona Fact Sheet, a model writing worksheet with examples and a sample answer sheet. Ideal follow on from ‘Un viaje a Sevilla’. Grammar, listening, reading, writing and speaking. Cultural focus: Barcelona and Catalonia. Preterite, imperfect and conditional tenses. A complete lesson with extension activities amd homwork tasks to teach students how to write about a past trip whilst learning about Spanish culture. Useful as part of the curriculum or as a great cover lesson.

A comprehensive literary techniques reference booklet for GCSE English Language & Literature. Complete with techniques, definitions and examples. Sections include: Figurative Language Sound Devices Structural Techniques Language & Word Choice Narrative Perspective & Voice Plus: Useful effect phrases - for analysis paragraphs. This booklet can be used from Year 7 upwards. Students can develop their skills as they move through the school and will be well prepared for GCSE.

A student guide to describing a picture/photo in Spanish. Suitable for students who are just starting to describe pictures as well as those revising for exams. Full of key structures and vocabulary for descriptions.

A complete, ready-to-use CPD pack designed to help teachers at every stage create classrooms where all learners can communicate, access learning, and thrive. CPD Presentation Slides: five key strategies with clear, visually engaging slides ready to deliver to your staff team Presenter Notes: detailed, structured notes to accompany every section of the presentation Teacher Self-Assessment Sheet: helps teachers reflect honestly on their current practice and identify priorities SLCN Noticing Checklist: a practical classroom tool to help teachers spot Speech, Language and Communication Needs before they become barriers to progress This pack is ideal for classroom teachers (primary and secondary) looking to strengthen inclusive practice, SENDCOs delivering whole-school CPD or working with individual staff, Heads of Department embedding communication-friendly approaches across a team and CPD leads planning staff training on SEND and communication.

A complete 1 hour lesson resource pack for GCSE Spanish. A trip to Seville. Grammar focus - using the preterite and imperfect tenses together. Cultural focus - Seville. All four skills. Resource includes: Lesson slides: Starter - grammar - listening, reading, speaking and writing activities - exit ticket. Seville fact sheet. Verb practice worksheet. Comparing two responses worksheet and answers.

A complete 1 hour lesson with follow up resources. Lesson Slides Student worksheet to accompany the lesson. Cultural Focus factsheet - Una quinceanera, Mi cumpleanos. Model writing worksheet - Foundation and Higher. Sample Answer sheet. This lesson prepares students to speak and write about a past birthday. The key grammar points: Preterite & Imperfect tenses together. Indirect object pronouns. The superlative. Lesson Activities: Starter: Grammar Detectives - identify the underlined grammar. Pre-teach vocabulary: Key vocabulary and phrases for the lesson. Grammar : Review and teach new grammar point in context - Indirect Object pronouns. Listening: Listen and answer questions in English . Listen and complete missing words. Reading: Read and answer questions in English. Read and conjugate the verbs excercise. Cultural Focus: Birthday traditions in the Spanish speaking world. Speaking: Talk about your past birthday party. Writing: Foundation and Higher writing tasks. Translation sentences: Spanish to English, English to Spanish. Exit ticket/Plenary: Translation There is a lot more than one hour’s worth of work so it allows for differentiation and plenty for the fast workers! Students could complete the worksheet for homework to review and extend the lesson, complete the writing tasks or prepare a speaking presentation (or all of these!). This is designed for AQA GCSE but suitable for all exam boards and IB Ab Initio.

Designed for Year 7 English to develop ability to write in Point Evidence Explain Link paragraphs. Useful for KS3 and KS4 English also. There are three paragrpahs made up of four sections (PEEL) but they are in the wrong order. Students read carefully and reorder the paragraph sections into the correct PEEL order. They have to justify why they have chosen that order. This could be used as a starter activity, a think-pair-share or a homework task. Answers are included.

Introduction to El Laberinto del Fauno film by Guillermo del Toro. Lesson 1: Synopsis, context and themes. Lesson slides and student notes. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the film for A Level Spanish students. Ideal for teachers or for independent study.

Lesson slides/notes on the characters in the film El Laberinto del Fauno by Guillermo del toro. Useful for teachers or student self study.

These resources are designed for KS3 English but are also useful for KS4 English to help students to use more ambitious vocabulary in their descriptive writing. Included in the resource: A Vocabulary Upgrade reference sheet An Upgrade Activity sheet - to replace the boring vocabulary in the extract with more ambitious words. An Answer Sheet - for the Upgrade Activity, with suggested answers. Useful for teachers and Teaching Assistants supporting vocabulary.

Year 7 English skill activity sheet Q1-5. Find four things about…in the extract. Useful practice activity with 5 questions and sample answers for each. Also useful for other Year groups with students who would benefit from practising this skill. Could be used as starters, think-pair-share activities or homework.

This resource is designed for Year 7 to develop awareness of literary techniques. Students have to identify the literary techniques in a piece of descriptive writing, This is useful for KS3 and KS4 English also, depending on ability. This would make a great think-pair-share activity or an individual task for the classroom or for homework. There is an annotated teacher version with the answers. This is great preparation for analyzing a fictional extract.

Complex grammatical structures for essays on El Laberinto del Fauno by Guillermo del Toro. A set of complex A Level Spanish structures, rooted in example sentences for the Paper 2 film essay. Useful for teachers wanting to teach grammar in context or for student self study.

A list of key quotations from El Laberinto del Fauno. Listed thematically with notes on each one. Useful for teachers or student self study.

Synopsis and study notes for El Laberinto del Fauno. FREE resource.

Lesson notes on cinematic technqiues in the film El Laberinto del Fauno by Guillermo del Toro. Notes in Spanish and in English. Useful for teachers or student self study.

El Pacto del Olvido y la Ley de Memoria Historica and relation to the film El Laberinto del Fauno by Guillermo del Toro. These lesson notes relate to the context but go into a bit more detail. Useful for teachers or student self study. Notes in Spanish and in English.

A step by step guide to speaking and writing about yourself in French. Suitable for beginners or as a refresher for intermediate users. Complete with an audio track, students begin by reviewing the key vocabulary and phrases to introduce themselves, listening and reading an example and then planning and preparing their own written piece and conversation responses. This method will help students grow in confidence by engaging in deep learning. The steps include think-pair-share as well as activities to learn how to build a logical piece of writing. Teachers could award XPs to students for completing each step until the final challenge of speaking and writing about themselves off by heart. This resource promotes a growth mindset and can help students overcome limiting beliefs about their ability in French/oracy/literacy/ long term memorisation and more. This could be used over a series of lessons or as a consolidation at the end of a unit.