A resource that provides material for lessons to improve student writing with the pupose of describing. It contains many examples of description from both fiction and non-fiction writing and numerous tasks for students that will assist in their ability to describe events, people and places.

Introduction, analysis, discussion points and writing tasks on the poem by Robert Frost.

How to write a summary for English as a Second Language students. Cambridge board, 0510.

This is a PowerPoint I used with my students to revise the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’. It includes background notes, discussion slides and line by line account of the poem. There are also questions at the end and on the worksheets.

A PowerPoint with a lot of notes (including background) and discussion of the sonnet by William Wordsworth.

Notes on the text, activities, questions, discussion points, reading and writing tasks for the Edexcel English Language extract. This is for the new Edexcel Language course from September 2016.

Numerous activities for the film The Truman Show, centered around the theme of Censorship.

Notes and task on the Edexcel extract (for IGCSE English as a First Language). The article from The Guardian and weblink to the original page is also on there. There is also another news report, same incident, same day, which reports the story more 'factually' for comparison.

An analysis of the extract in the Edexcel IGCSE first language anthology. I've included a worksheet to make it better for teachers.

An explanation of the short story 'A Hero' which features in the Edexcel First Language IGCSE anthology. There are two different work sheets for students as well.

A PowerPoint with background notes, explanations and questions on the poem.

A PowerPoint of the poem, explaining the meaning line by line. Please leave a review or a comment! Thanks.

Notes for the Edexcel extract, IGCSE English as a First language.

Pretty much everything you need to know about the Edexcel extract with some student activities. Please comment if you like it!

A PowerPoint discussing the more salient points of the extract for Edexcel IGCSE English as a First Language with a line by line analysis.

Notes, activities, discussion points, reading and writing tasks for this Edexcel extract. This is for the Edexcel Language course from September 2016.

These are notes for the poem, explaining the very many different ways she loves him.

Some ideas on how to write an article, what to include and some topic ideas for students to try.

IGCSE English Literature short story, 'The Moving Finger', by Edith Wharton. Notes and thoughts on the interpretation of the text.

Notes on the poem.

As I work in Kuwait, this was particularly interesting for my students. Please comment if you like it!