Blood Brothers revision

A selection of GCSE English literature Blood Brothers revision lessons, booklets and activities designed to help your students explore and analyse Willy Russell's play

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Linked hands to demonstrate themes and analysis in Willy Russell's Blood Brothers at KS4

Bring Blood Brothers to life in your classroom with these KS4 lessons, activities and revision resources

Set in the 1960s, Willy Russell's Blood Brothers is a staple play in most English classrooms. The play explores a range of themes, from childhood and superstition to social class and family, and requires students to get to grips with some detailed language analysis. So, to help your students get their heads around the analysis of Blood Brothers and keep them engaged with the play, we have brought together a selection of lessons, activities and revision resources.

Lessons and units of work

Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers explores a range of powerful themes, including family, social class and inequality, nature vs. nurture, superstition and fate, and violence. Whether you’re introducing these ideas to GCSE students for the first time or planning lessons that dive deeper into thematic analysis, the play offers rich opportunities for discussion. Below, you’ll find a selection of hand-picked lessons designed to support both classroom teaching and focused revision.

Blood Brothers - Mothers in Act 2
Alicekmw

Blood Brothers - Mothers in Act 2

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A lesson exploring and comparing the characterisation of Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons in Act 1 to Act 2 (Mrs Lyons confronts Mrs Johnstone), focussing in on the power balance shift between the two women.

Revision booklets and activities

With English literature exams approaching, your focus will naturally turn to revisiting key scenes from the play and making sure your students feel confident in their revision. To help you deliver engaging and effective revision lessons, we’ve put together a collection of quizzes, games and Blood Brothers revision booklets designed to support learners in the run‑up to their GCSEs.

Blood Brothers Escape Room
EnglishGCSEcouk

Blood Brothers Escape Room

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Recap Blood Brothers by Willy Russell through an engaging escape room lesson! It is filled with codes, puzzles and activities to get students to revise characters, themes and contexts as they work in groups or escape crews to get out of Mrs Johnstone's house! Includes answers for every mystery...
Blood Brothers Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
TandLGuru

Blood Brothers Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!

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This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Willy Russell's 'Blood Brothers.' It contains comprehensive sections on: - Context; - Scene by Scene Summary (with quotes); - Main Characters; - Themes; - Russell's Dramatic Devices; - ...
Blood Brothers - Revision Quiz
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Blood Brothers - Revision Quiz

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Quiz designed for full lesson with team answer sheets and answers at end of quiz -- covers range of general questions; characters; themes; structure and language features. Enjoy!
Blood Brothers - Homework tasks
Alicekmw

Blood Brothers - Homework tasks

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Includes 6 weekly set homework tasks based on key themes, context, conventions and genre of Blood Brothers. Tasks have been created in such a way that the work can be self/peer assessed within the lesson on hand in day, to limit/reduce teacher marking workload, but still able to 'assess' students pr...