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I am a teacher of secondary English, providing resources and lesson plans in this domain. My lessons are on the interdisciplinary side and as such can at times also be applied to other subject areas, such as history or drama. I hope you find them useful! Please don't hesitate to provide constructive feedback as I am always keen to improve my resources and ensure that you get the very best value for money.

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I am a teacher of secondary English, providing resources and lesson plans in this domain. My lessons are on the interdisciplinary side and as such can at times also be applied to other subject areas, such as history or drama. I hope you find them useful! Please don't hesitate to provide constructive feedback as I am always keen to improve my resources and ensure that you get the very best value for money.
Text types revision PPT
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Text types revision PPT

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This Powerpoint is most suitable for IB Diploma (Language A) or A Level language and literature students looking to revise text types. The Powerpoint covers the features of the following text types, as well as things that students can look for/consider when analysing an unseen text of this type: News article Editorial Blog or diary entry Political cartoons Graphic novels Brochures and leaflets Forum posts Academic journal articles Reviews Speeches and talks Tweets Letters and emails Interviews Advertisements Infographics The resource also covers reminders of the purposes of writing, the differences between literary and linguistic features, and further tips to enhance performance in analytical tasks of this nature (e.g. commenting on context, planning skills). This is not intended to serve as a full lesson in itself but could potentially be developed by teachers to create one according to the needs of their class. It’s perhaps more appropriate as a revision resource to be distributed for students’ own independent learning.
Concrete - abstract - proper nouns
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Concrete - abstract - proper nouns

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This is a useful worksheet to be used as part of a wider selection of class activities or if you need cover work. It defines concrete, abstract and proper nouns, and then gives students a selection to sort into a chart (provided). Five should then be chosen and used in students’ own sentences. Depending on where you are, you could either remove the example of ‘God’ or use it as a stimulus for debate (proper or abstract, or both?). This latter activity could also segue nicely into a lesson on discursive or argumentative writing. This activity is aimed at KS3 but has a broad range of appeal depending on your students’ needs: it could for example be used with able KS2s or with KS4s who lack grammatical knowledge.
Idioms
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Idioms

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This activity has 3 separate parts. After eliciting a class definition of idioms from students, the worksheet requires them to match idioms with their true meanings. Interesting discussion could follow, not just to correct the answers, but to explain how they knew/guessed if they were unsure. Students can then write sentences using the idioms before developing their ideas into a story (more than one idiom could be used in the story - e.g. through dialogue - or one idiom could be developed more thoroughly into a narrative). This was originally made to use with KS3 but could also be used with able KS2s.
Descriptive writing PPT based on Curious Incident
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Descriptive writing PPT based on Curious Incident

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This resource is a great introduction to descriptive writing for students in Years 8-9. It uses Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” as a stimulus but you could adapt this to suit any text where the character finds a journey difficult. The PPT should get you through a minimum of 2 lessons depending on your students’ abilities. It goes through the basics of getting students to name the five senses and to talk about journeys they have completed, before progressing to finding textual evidence for why Christopher finds his journey to London difficult and planning/creating their own piece of descriptive writing based on a journey. Opportunities for peer assessment are also included.
Character impressions grid: Death and the King's Horseman
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Character impressions grid: Death and the King's Horseman

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This grid serves as an ongoing revision resource that students build up themselves over time. It encourages students to take notes on characters encountered in Wole Soyinka’s play “Death and the King’s Horseman”, including appearance, speech, and attitudes. This grid could then be used to help students plan an essay on any topic relevant to the notes they have taken (e.g. compare/contrast 2 characters’ attitudes towards the British). Printing on A3 is recommended.
Ode to a Nightingale (Keats) comprehension questions
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Ode to a Nightingale (Keats) comprehension questions

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These two pages of comprehension questions are divided by stanza, enabling students to work on these as they progress through the poem and allowing teachers to use them as a carousel or jigsaw activity if preferred. The questions cover comprehension of techniques (e.g. imagery, symbolism, allusion) as well as ideas.
Literary and linguistic techniques matching game
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Literary and linguistic techniques matching game

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This literary and linguistic techniques matching game could be printed, laminated and cut out so that students can use it kinaesthetically (which is how I used it) or distributed as a worksheet where students just draw lines between the terms and their definitions (but you would need to mix up the definitions in the document first!). It was designed for IGCSE students but could be used throughout secondary depending on your students’ abilities. It includes literary devices such as flashbacks, as well as linguistic devices such as complex sentences. Great as a starter or plenary activity, or for revision.
Comprehension activity - Black Roses (Simon Armitage)
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Comprehension activity - Black Roses (Simon Armitage)

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This file consists of 9 questions in relation to poems 4-6 from Simon Armitage’s Black Roses collection. (The questions are repeated twice on one page in the file for easy printing/cutting out/distribution). Students could complete these in small groups or on their own. These were devised for a sixth-form group of EAL students. However, they could be used in KS4 as well (not sure I would recommend for KS3 as the content of the Black Roses collection could be disturbing for children who are too young).
Possible reasons for Blanche's behaviour (sc 1)
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Possible reasons for Blanche's behaviour (sc 1)

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This revision sheet lists possible reasons for Blanche's behaviour in scene 1 of A Streetcar Named Desire. Underneath are spaces for students to write in evidence from the scene supporting each point. This could therefore be used not just for revision but also as a scaffold for weaker students&' essay-writing.
Contextual information: Machiavelli
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Contextual information: Machiavelli

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This handout is designed to provide students with background information regarding Machiavelli. Presented as a list of bullet points for easier absorption of information, the text is also printed three times on one page for ease of photocopying/printing and distribution. Useful for the study of both English and History.
Full Wuthering Heights unit WITH POWERPOINTS
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Full Wuthering Heights unit WITH POWERPOINTS

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This Wuthering Heights unit is designed for students aged 16-18. The lesson plans are not fully developed with objectives etc but these should be implicitly clear and give you the freedom to adapt them for your own class. The lesson plans are based on the idea of virtually all reading being done in advance of the lesson taking place. Many lessons are supported by Powerpoints, but not all are.
The Great Gatsby 4-week unit plan - NEW AND IMPROVED!
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The Great Gatsby 4-week unit plan - NEW AND IMPROVED!

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This unit plan for The Great Gatsby is aimed at students aged 14+. While many ideas will suit abler students more, it is ultimately made accessible to all with differentiation suggestions included. The unit should take around 4 weeks to complete (based on the idea of 4 x 55-minute lessons per week), but this may vary depending on your class' ability. Also included is an extension task regarding the reference to the 'Platonic conception of himself'.
Terminology for analysing comics and graphic novels
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Terminology for analysing comics and graphic novels

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This handout provides students with a glossary and definitions of key terms to help them analyse comics (e.g. political strips in newspapers) and graphic novels (e.g. Maus, Fun Home, Persepolis), and is useful for revision purposes so that students can use the correct terminology accurately in assessment situations.
Reliability in 'The Handmaid's Tale'
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Reliability in 'The Handmaid's Tale'

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This resource relates to the end of Margaret Atwood’s novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and contains questions encouraging students to assess the reliability of the novel, its narrator, and its ending. This helps to integrate critical thinking into English lessons, and as such is especially helpful for teachers teaching the text as part of the IB Diploma programme, which requires integration of the IB core component of Theory of Knowledge.
Comprehension questions: Presents From My Aunts in Pakistan
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Comprehension questions: Presents From My Aunts in Pakistan

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This resource consists of 7 comprehension questions (printed on the page three times for ease of printing/distribution) based on the Moniza Alvi poem ‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’. The questions help students to interpret the use of techniques including juxtaposition, metaphor, and imagery, and to better understand the effects of these on the reader.
Personification/anthropomorphism examples PPT
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Personification/anthropomorphism examples PPT

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This Powerpoint introduces the etymology of ‘anthropomorphism’ and explains the differences between personification and anthropomorphism. The PPT then showcases examples of texts which use these, before setting students a task to anthropomorphise a classroom object and write a monologue ‘in character’ (students should be familiar with monologue-writing). There is still scope to add additional imagery/animations to the PPT if desired, as well as film clips (e.g. Fantastic Mr Fox, Toy Story, Cars).
Literary and linguistic techniques: 'Blackberrying'
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Literary and linguistic techniques: 'Blackberrying'

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This resource begins with a simple matching game to reinforce/refresh student knowledge of techniques found in poetry. While this resource was designed with Sylvia Plath’s ‘Blackberrying’ in mind, it could be easily adapted for other poems. There are also sentence starters to help students write an analytical paragraph about the poem, as well as extension tasks for early finishers. Printing on A3 is recommended to give students maximum space for note-taking. Note that a copy of the poem is not included but is easily accessible online.
Analysis of speech features: Jamie Oliver/Delia Smith
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Analysis of speech features: Jamie Oliver/Delia Smith

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This resource bundle contains 2 video clips (of Jamie Oliver and Delia Smith making a Victoria sponge), a grid for students to fill in with instances of linguistic features such as hedging and fillers, and an answer grid for the teacher. For extension purposes, the grid contains some blank lines for students to fill in any other features they believe they have spotted. The ‘cosmetic surgery or speech feature?’ game is also included along with the lesson plan.