2023** Now updated with more activities for Act 2** This is a full scheme of work for Noughts and Crosses (the play version), ideal for KS3, year 8/year 9 English. Included: PowerPoint with 95 slides and three different assessment options for reading, writing and speaking. Fonts used (free to download - just go to Google Fonts): [Montserrat] and [Staaliches]. Act 1 is analysed in detail, then students read through Act 2, completing some optional tasks at the end, such as review writing or an empathic monologue. Context of racism, segregation and the IRA bombing Narration task for the trailer, where students take the trailer without sound and add on their own narration Group research and presentation task Language analysis, including a model answer Drama activities including hot seating Newspaper writing task that forces students to pick a biased perspective Review writing Empathic response - taking on the voice of one character to write a monologue Preview video: https://youtu.be/Q1QDDNe2L2c

This is my whole year’s worth of lessons that I used to teach CIE 0500 First Language English IGCSE to Chinese EAL students. I organised the files by topic, so it’s not chronological, as you can dip in to whichever section your class most needs. I also included my Forms quizzes, starter booklet with short answer practices and revision materials, including a link to my one hour video lesson for question 3. All the folders, files, worksheets etc, in the preview video are included. I put each folder into a zip file so that everything would stay organised. Included: Question 1 - Summaries: lessons going over paraphrasing techniques with a model answer and tips Question 2 - Language analysis: many lessons on this, including one on the song Blowin’ in the Wind and many from past exams. I also made a PowerPoint in which I go over common effects that I found when going over past papers (in the revision folder). Question 3 - Extended response: lessons for the major text types, speeches, newspaper, magazine, interview, diary and letter. Exam tips for approaching this question. Includes engaging material such as Harvey Milk and JFK speeches. Narrative writing - tips and tricks, going over plot structure and climax, looking at engaging openings. Descriptive writing - tips and tricks, exemplar, lesson on extended metaphors and developing a range of imagery. Evaluative response - PPT and resources to give a rebuttal to an article about school uniforms with a plan included. Six Forms quizzes (mostly self marking) which offer short answer question practice Starter booklet for short answer questions My video lesson for Q3 is included as a link in the revision folder Student friendly overview of the course **Please note that I planned this for the coursework element, but both coursework and Paper 2 need the same text types being taught with near-identical mark schemes: narrative writing, descriptive writing and the response to text. **Therefore I think that this resources is equally as valuable to everyone doing both assessed and coursework routes - but with exam route, of course you’d also want to give students some exam practices after teaching the skills in my lessons.

This fun music quiz has 86 questions all with song clips from 2022-23 chart toppers. I compiled this quiz using the most streamed songs on Youtube, Spotify and Apple. This includes a PowerPoint with clips and answers, a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet. Artists included (amongst many others!): Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Lil Naz X, Lizzo, Harry Styles, The Weeknd, BTS, BLACKPINK, Billie Eilish, Adele, Ariana Grande, Post Malone, The Kid Laroi, Kendrick Lamar, Sza, Glass Animals, Future, and more… Preview video here: https://youtu.be/cuSWYpH_6wU The rounds all contain 10-12 questions with audio clips embedded: Pop music (1) - recent chart toppers Two second belters - two seconds of a famous artist singing Finish the lyrics - song clip that cuts off before a crucial lyric, can students fill in the gap? Music videos - gifs of very famous music videos from the past year with an optional sound clue Guess the year - chart toppers from the last ten years, can students guess from a choice of three possible years when the song was released? 8 Bit - Recent hits turned into 8 bit (polyphonic ringtone style) songs Pop (2) - twelve more recent chart toppers

This pack includes a PowerPoint music genres quiz with eight rounds of different genres for pupils to guess. The first 20 second clips of songs are included within the presentation. Also included are pupil answer sheets and a teacher’s answer sheet. The presentation is colourful, exciting and engaging. I chose a mixture of songs that I thought pupils would know and a couple of more challenging entries. I made this genre quiz to suit diverse classrooms with different ‘cliques’ of students and an array of musical tastes… hopefully something to appease everyone! Happy quizzing! Genres: pop emo hip hop cheesy classics world music classic rock Disney electronic & dance

This resource contains a Powerpoint and a running race worksheet with teacher answers. You will first explain some common strategies for working out the meaning of new vocabulary with examples. Students will then have a group running race in which they apply the strategies they have learnt to new words. They will have to come to you for each question with a correct answer before being allowed to access the next question. The first team to complete the quiz wins. This is a tried and tested lesson which my students love. Engaging, fun and practical. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 English for any exam board. Especially suitable for CIE First Language English 0500 in which students will have to define new words.

This fun Christmas grammar quiz is ideal for English class, where it could be used as a whole lesson quiz or as a 10 minute starter every day. It would also work well in tutor time. Included is a 99 page Powerpoint that has questions covering a range of grammar points, with explanations of answers included. The rounds are as followed: Correct the spelling: correct the spelling of Christmas words Add the punctuation: add the missing punctuation to Christmas lyrics with the songs included in the background of each slide Splice or no splice: a series of Christmas related questions in which the students have to identify whether the sentence includes a comma splice or is grammatically accurate. Example and explanation of comma splicing included. Semi-colons & Santas: write a semi-colon sentence about a series of celebrities dressed in Santa hats. Explanation of semi-colon use included. Ho ho ho or no no no: series of sentences that the students have to identify whether there is a grammar mistake and if so what mistake (no no no) or if there is no mistake present (ho ho ho). Common mistakes such as use of they’re/their/there and possessive apostrophes are used here with explanations of the mistakes. There are a total of 50 questions included. You could do this in teams on paper or individually with whiteboards would also work well. Slides include timers and fast paced music to keep to a good timing. Fun, cute and Christmassy quiz that makes grammar fun!

Six units, which took me about 6 months to teach, for academic writing for KS4/KS5 students on researching, gathering data and writing up a research report. Over 30 PowerPoints are including, as well as worksheets, readings and self-marking Forms quizzes. Students will undertake a research project centered around their school on a topic of their choice. Eg. To what extent does the mobile phone policy at X School improve student learning? To what extent are students at X School satisfied with the school uniform policy? Please see my preview video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Jp61qsTsRH4. Everything you see in those files is included. I organised the folders into zipped files to maintain the organisation system. I taught this course to second-language Y13 learners. It would be appropriate for KS5 and KS4 students. This 6 unit scheme of work takes students through the basics of academic writing, creating a research question, gathering data and writing up their own academic research report. Most units also contain a seminar and a lecture lesson to help prepare students for university. Unit 1: The Basics. How to reference, using academic language, quoting and summarising from an academic source, structuring an academic paragraph, lecture lesson and a seminar lesson on vaping, culminating in a quiz to check understanding Unit 2: Writing Introductions. Creating a research question, writing context and rationale sections, seminar and lecture on gender identity. Quiz is included also. Unit 3: Writing literature reviews. How to find relevant studies using Questia/JSTOR, how to structure a literature review, seminar and lecture on parental control. Unit 4: Methology and Data Collection. Designing a research instrument, ethics of research, creating a poster to get people to take their surveys, finishing with a group seminar to give feedback on each other’s data tools. Exemplar included. Unit 5: Data Analysis. Creating data visuals, how to analyse their results, writing data analysis section with exemplar and worksheet, seminar to get feedback on their writing so far. Unit 6: Writing Conclusions, Abstracts and Redrafting. Guidance on writing abstracts with a worksheet, guidance on conclusions with an exemplar and peer feedback session to give students advice on how to redraft and improve their final essay. Also included is a final summative quiz, mostly self-marking. Quizzes, rubrics and whole year overview are included.

This booklet contains two whole lessons plus fast finishers. I structured this booklet so that pupils will have visual cues in the form of icons to help them structure their story: who, where, when, problem, solution and ending. This mini icons help to signal to pupils what is required of them. The booklet contains many many colourful images to generate ideas for writing and engage pupils. There are also two stories in there to use as a starting point, with images and comprehension questions. This is suitable for KS2 and SEN and low ability KS3.

This is a complete booklet designed for SEN KS3, full with colourful pictures and fully scaffolded. As always with my SEN material, I use a colour coded key for each activity to guide pupils through tasks. There is a full planning section and a fast finishers section at the back. This 12 page colourful booklet comes both as a PDF and in editable Word format.

This complete Powerpoint lesson introduces students to Shakespearean language, explaining common grammar/language changes. Suitable for KS3/KS4/KS5 Literature. This begins with an explanation of language change, from Old to Middle English up to Early Modern Shakesperean. Students then have a match-up challenge with common vocabulary. Finally, students will try to translate the prologue of Romeo and Juliet into modern English. Tried and tested lesson!

This is one of my favourite lessons to teach, tried and tested, and always gets good results! Students will learn step-by-step how to write extended metaphors, with videos, model answers and a nicely designed ppt.

NEW MUSIC QUIZ FOR 2022-23: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12785021 This fun music quiz has 70 questions all with song clips from 2021-22 chart toppers. This includes a PowerPoint with clips and answers, a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet. Artists included (amongst many others!): Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Lil Naz X, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Owl City, The Weeknd, BTS, BLACKPINK, Billie Eilish, Adele, Ariana Grande… Preview video here: https://youtu.be/ohRGaNDU2r4 The rounds all contain ten questions with clips: Pop music (1) - recent chart toppers Two second belters - two seconds of a famous artist singing Finish the lyrics - song clip that cuts off before a crucial lyric, can students fill in the gap? Kpop - recent Kpop hits Guess the year - chart toppers from the 2010s, can students guess from a choice of three possible years when the song was released? 8 Bit - 2021 hits turned into 8 bit (polyphonic ringtone style) songs Pop (2) - ten more recent chart toppers

This lesson guides students through analysing the opening of The Hunger Games film, looking specifically at the use of sound, camera angles, contrast and the portrayal of Katniss. I’ve also included some notes I made with my class about the opening film, with suggested talking points. Slides include screenshots and sound clips from the film. I couldn’t share the whole opening of the film due to copyright issues, so you’ll need to get the DVD, download it using your own means, or rent it off Youtube.

This lesson contains a Powerpoint that analyses Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare. Detailed and comprehensive.

This is a unit of work aimed at the CIE English as a First Language GCSE spec. It could be adapted for other specifications, especially for creative writing. Simply remove the CIE question and insert your own prompt, using my stimulus text too if you choose. This unit took me around five weeks to teach. Each powerpoint took around 3.5 hours on average to cover in class (including discussion time, time to write and give feedback, etc). Differentiated for ESL/EAL learners with key vocabulary, word of the day and prereading homeworks. It covers letter writing, interview writing and diary writing for question 1. Mock CIE style assessments are also included to support this, along with annotated inserts. It also has a lesson for writing a dystopian story for the coursework unit. The scheme also covers using language devices in creative writing and analysis of film, looking at the opening scenes of The Hunger Games film. Included are: one full unit plan, seven ppts, two homework tasks, three mock Q1s based on the novel, and an example planning sheet.

This booklet enables pupils to write a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, scaffolding the process along the way. I encourage pupils to think about setting, costume and character, and how this might alter as we bring the play into a different era.

My fun Christmas music quiz has a variety of rounds and artists aimed at students aged 11-18 with tunes that should be commonly recognisable to students around the world. There’s a good mix of classic Christmas songs, like Wham’s Last Christmas, and more modern artists like Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me. This resource includes a PowerPoint with 76 slides and high quality clips of the songs embedded, a total of 88 marks available. I have also created a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet too. More difficult rounds also include an optional clue - just press the blue clue button! The rounds include: Partridge in a Pear Tree - Can you name each of the twelve animals alongside the instrumental track? (Clue included for this round!) Complete the lyric - Fill in the missing lyric for some famous Christmas songs. There will be a music clip which stops before the missing lyric and a gap fill on screen to help students know how many words they’re missing. Pop artist Santas - From the most streamed pop stars of 2022-23, can you identify the photo of the pop star hidden under the Santa hat? Also includes an optional clue of each celebrity singing a Christmas song. Artists include BTS, Olivia Rodrigo, The Weeknd, and so on! Famous Christmas songs - Listen to the Christmas hit songs that are most often played on the radio. Can you identity the name of the track? 8-bit Christmas songs - Famous Christmas songs have been turned into 8-bit tracks (like polyphonic ringtones). Can students identify the song? Christmas around the world - Famous Christmas songs sung in other languages (French, German, Chinese, etc). Can students identify the song and the language? This round also includes an optional clue to help students identify the language being used. Christmas songs of the 21st century - Can students identify the artist and song title of these more modern pop hits by arts such as Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Sia?

This ppt contains rules and 24 debating prompts, along with a timer. This is intended for speed debating in a speed dating style, with pairs of students faced opposite each other. The teacher decides which side is agreeing and which side is disagreeing and then students have 3 minutes to debate. I usually then open up the topic to the class to have a whole room debate, but that’s up to you. Some controversial topics included, to be used at your discretion depending on the personality and ability of your class. Easily modifiable format for you to include your own topics. I originally used this with a top set year 11 class with lots of second language learners. Could be used for first language or second language learners, depending on ability.

This scheme of work is aimed at KS3, building up the skills needed for OCR's English Literature New Spec GCSE. This presentation includes 3 whole lessons. I have taken extracts from Victorian literature, focusing on language analysis skills (AO2) and building in historical context (AO3).