An Inspector Calls – Complete Teaching Bundle (Booklet + PowerPoint)

This bundle contains a complete GCSE teaching resource for J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, including a PowerPoint and student workbook designed to support teaching from first reading through to revision and exam preparation.

The resources guide students carefully through the play while developing retrieval skills, contextual understanding, vocabulary and analytical thinking.

The resources also support GCSE exam preparation, helping students practise explaining quotations, analysing characters and linking ideas to Priestley’s message about responsibility.

What’s included

• Full teaching PowerPoint to support lesson delivery
• Student booklet / guided workbook covering the entire play
• Act-by-act walkthrough with key quotations and explanations
• Retrieval and inference questions for every major section
• Vocabulary support to help students understand key ideas and language
• Exam-style discussion tasks and scaffolds
• Context pages explaining Priestley, social class, and the 1912 / 1945 context

The booklet follows the play step-by-step and encourages students to think about:

• Character responsibility
• Priestley’s message about society
• Class, gender and power
• Dramatic irony and structural techniques

For example, students explore moments such as Mr Birling’s confident but misguided predictions, which Priestley uses to undermine his authority and criticise capitalist attitudes.

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How it can be used

• Teaching alongside reading the play in class
• Retrieval starters or plenaries
• Homework tasks
• Revision resources
• Independent study

The materials are written in clear and accessible language, making them particularly useful for SEN, EAL and mixed-ability classes, while still supporting deeper literary analysis.

The materials are designed to be clear and accessible, making them suitable for mixed-ability classes while still encouraging deeper analysis.

Suitable for

• GCSE English Literature
• KS4 classes studying An Inspector Calls
• Any exam board

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