PowerPoint exploring the contextual, thematic influences, and the literary and linguistic choices in the poem, with embedded questions to generate discussion. A Level/High School.

Useful for most A Level students as an overview of the origins of implicit and explicit political and cultural bias in British print media. Particularly useful as a springboard for units such as Language and Power, Language and the Media, in A Level English Language. Print as a “3 slide-per-page” for note-taking as a lecture, or use as an introduction for setting individual research tasks. (Have students place each newspaper on a continuum from left to right afterwards!)

A Level Literature - poetry of Edward Thomas. Powerpoint on the poem, with task sheet to consolidate learning.

A lesson which allows A level Language students to: -Identify and explain the use of the simple tenses -Produce and apply examples of these in their own work -Evaluate the role these play in a range of texts Useful for teaching Language and Language& Literature students to recognise and explain the use of this tense when applying the grammar level in analysing written texts. Includes opportunity for pair work and open-ended evaluation.

A3 graphical organiser to compare how linguistic features reflect audience, purpose, structure, register in texts from OCR EMC Language & Literature A Level anthology

A 53-slide ppoint presentation with embedded Q&A, consolidation tasks and links to wider reading. Provides a solid foundation for the unit on language change. Explores the process and theories of standardisation and codification of English and the political and social attitudes towards these processes. Explains key morphological, semantic, and grammatical changes undergone by the language. Suggestspertinent theories that account for language change.