A lovely little open-ended resource perfect for World Book Day!
Open book ‘Tell me a Story’ template for the children to draw or write about their characters - it could be their favourites or their own!
A range of different Fairy Tale/Traditional Tale characters on disc cut outs. You could also include your own images of popular books (I was unable to include these due to copyright)
Includes table sign
Two standalone worksheets to support pupils to talk about holidays in the past tense.
Resource 1: Introduces key past tense verbs and recycles key language with a sentence builder, gap fill reading and translation practice. There is also a summary of how to form past tense verbs with avoir and a grammar gap fill task.
Resource 2: Review of key past tense verbs with a GCSE reading comprehension task (a note taking question with a vocabulary search).
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
GCSE lesson on the topic of healthy living (sub-topic of doctors / saying what’s wrong).
In this lesson students learn key vocabulary for body parts and different ailments. The lesson includes a wide range of activities which serve to enhance listening, reading, writing and speaking skills.
I have done this lesson many times with my GCSE classes and students always enjoy playing the different games and activities.
Also includes printable copy of crossword understanding of key vocabulary in Spanish.
Checking Out Me History - AQA GCSE Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology
This two-lesson unit teaches students about John Agard's 'Checking Out Me History' in detail. Designed for GCSE pupils studying AQA Power and Conflict poetry, the resource explores the poem in depth and explains how to compare it to other poems from the anthology. It is made up of a 49-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and 3 accompanying worksheets.
The lessons contain the following:
Lesson One
Context - An introduction to John Agard and the social and historical context of ‘Checking Out Me History’.
First Reading - A reading of ‘Checking Out Me History’ with comprehension / consolidation questions - answers included.
Language and imagery - Analysing the poem line by line. Exploring language and answering questions that delve deeper. Model answers provided.
Essay Writing - An essay question to assess students' initial understanding of the poem. An example response is included.
Lesson Two
Imagery - Analysing Agard's use of imagery.
Themes - Discussing Checking Out Me History's themes.
Structure and Form - Considering how Agard uses form, structure, rhythm and rhyme.
The GCSE exam - Comparing ‘Checking Out Me History’ with ‘London’ and explaining how to write a comparison essay in the exam.
This is a comprehensive resource containing a range of activities, however it can also be edited, personalised and differentiated to suit your teaching needs.
To preview a selection of slides from 'Checking Out Me History’, please click on the images.
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 2: Prose → Science and society → Frankenstein and Never Let Me Go
Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
A lesson on John Agard’s ‘Checking Out Me History’ aimed at lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now task (shown on cover slide)
Contextual information regarding the historical figures and events referenced in the poem, with corresponding worksheet.
Link to relevant video + the meaning of ‘Eurocentric’
Quotation Hunt + Challenge Task
Imagery in the poem worksheet
Comparison table to complete with ‘My Last Duchess’ in terms of the presentation of the abuse of power.
Review learning with challenge question.
Anita and Me - Unit of Work
'Anita and Me' is made up of a 150-slide PowerPoint presentation, an 8-page booklet of worksheets and a 21-lesson unit of work overview.
Our 'Anita and Me' unit is designed to develop pupil knowledge and understanding of the plot, characters, language, themes and the social and historical context of the novel. It contains a collection of activities for pupils of all abilities, including:
- A brief biography of Meera Syal
- An explanation of the social and historical context of the novel (1970s Britain, the Black Country, immigration in 70s Britain, racial tensions, the partition of India)
- Plot tracking and consolidation activities
- Activities to explore the narrative structure of Anita and Me
- Analysis of the characters of Meena and her family as well as Anita, Tracey and Robert
- Exploration of the key themes of Anita and Me - identity, racism, family, friendship, childhood, growing up, the cultural diversity of C20th Britain
- Developing understanding of the features of a novel – character, theme, plot, style and language
- Examining Meera Syal's use of language - setting, description, contrast, symbolism and pathetic fallacy
- Exploring character development through Meena
- Reading and discussion tasks and questions
- Diary writing (empathetic writing) to consolidate a deeper understanding of Meena's development
- A 21 lesson unit of work (following the four part lesson structure)
- A 150-slide PowerPoint presentation (see preview below)
- 8 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint
All PowerPoint slides are fully editable, so you can personalise and differentiate the resources as much or as little as you want. Add extra slides, delete pages, change the text and imagery and update it as is necessary to suit your teaching needs. In addition, the resource contains a unit overview and a student booklet with worksheets created to be used in conjunction with the PowerPoint.
To preview a selection of slides from the unit, click on the images.
A set of four standalone resources on the topic of free time and hobbies - mes passe-temps.
Resource 1: Introduction to hobbies: vocabulary, writing/speaking mat & translation to embed vocabulary
Resource 2: Reading: a GCSE style reading comprehension with key vocabulary search and reformulation translation tasks.
Resource 3: Grammar practice, reading and further translation practice
Resource 4: A GCSE style reading comprehension - a multiple-choice style question recycling vocabulary in the previous resources.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
Three resources to help pupils to talk about illness, health and body parts in Spanish.
There is a reading comprehension, vocabulary activities, practice with me duele/ me duelen and a grammar gap fill task.
There is also a speaking/writing mat on illnesses and needs with translation practice and answers.
A reading comprehension on the topic of body parts, accidents and injuries in the past tense (preterite) with a scaffolded text: tuve un accidente de esqui
Answers included.
One lesson based on Studio 3 (priorities) low ability group. French.
Lesson contains:
starter/vocabulary introduction
Beat the teacher game
Speed game
Listening activity
Writing about priorities in life
This bundle contains all of the Never Let Me Go lessons, the comprehension activities booklet, the knowledge organiser and the Pointless game!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel ‘Never Let Me Go.’ The lessons enable students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key features of content, language, and structure, in addition to considering Ishiguro’s key intentions in writing the novel.
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
Characterisation of Tommy;
Ishiguro’s Use of Language;
Ruth;
The Dystopian Novel;
The Human Cloning Debate
The Theme of Life and Death
Plus the 30-page comprehension booklet, the knowledge organiser and the Pointless Game!
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
A3 Worksheet for Checking Out Me History.
Perfect for KS4 studying AQA Power and Conflict
Useful for revision, cover lessons, homework, independent learning, working from home.
Fully editable word document and PDF included
Saves you time and effort putting this together yourself.
Disclaimer - this unit is a mixture of my own creation and resources from my department.
Unit aimed as a film study for the 1986 film directed by Rob Reiner. S3 are 13/14
Unit includes
Recap of media techniques
Narrative study - The Hero’s Journey
Essay based on character - aimed for National 5
Characterisation, Themes and key sequences worksheets.
This Spanish Powerpoint Tutorial introduces body parts and the expression 'Me Duele(n)&' and the Verb &';Doler'. Uses the theme of the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona to introduce the Writing and Speaking tasks. I started the lesson with video clips from the internet of the bull runs. The PP ends with photos of injuries encouraging students to say the correct sentence for each one. Follow up Homework was to research the festival and produce a poster.
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