A really fun tutor /icebreaker / starter activity on year book comments. These are really funny and end with an activity where the students create their own year book quote!
The students love this! A PowerPoint and video looking at being moral and moral dilemmas. The PowerPoint has definitions, explanations, group activities and a number of interesting, fun dilemmas the students can debate for hours!
A collection of resources for writing a show, not tell story for GCSE English Language. This includes a 60 slide PowerPoint, a grade answer, a worksheet and a lecturer podcast.
A resource bundle on 'writing a review' includes: 51 slide PowerPoint, video clips, grade 9 exemplar work and exemplar work annotated with language techniques.
The lesson theme is Louis Theroux's documentary, 'Drinking to Oblivion' and creates a great discussion. The students find it really interesting and more interactive than a 'typical' film/book review!
The doc is available on Netflix or just follow this link: https://123moviesonline.io/movie/louis-theroux-drinking-to-oblivion/?watching=OlqSlDYmfT
A 150 slide PowerPoint looking at key revision for the GCSE. The first half looks at paper 2 reading using the June 2017 exam paper. The second half looks at writing a narrative piece.
The resource has exemplar work, real exam questions, tips, explanations. Everything that the students need are included.
I have also included a Word page of a grade 9 narrative and a two PowerPoints with fun exam starter activities.
Two separate revision workbooks on the writing exam on paper 1 and paper 2. The following are included:
Paper 1:
Paper 1 overview
Narrative structure (with modern movie examples)
Individual tasks and activities
Teacher tips
Real EDUQAS exam questions
Openings
Endings
How to impress the examiner
Dialogue
Grade 9 example
FInal tips
Revision PowerPoint
Paper 2:
Paper 2 overview
Letters
Leaflets
Reports
Reviews
Speeches
Articles
Individual tasks and activities
Teacher tips
Real EDUQAS exam questions
Figurative language
Sentence starters
How to impress the examiner
Grade 9 examples of each format
FInal tips
Revision PowerPoint
An ‘outstanding’ lesson on the language question in paper 1. This fantastic lesson uses the exam question, ‘How does the writer make the lines tense and dramatic?’
The resource includes the following:
Model answer
Language analysis
Examiner insight
Modern, fun and dynamic images to help analyse the text.
Connotation advice
Answer structure
TWO fantastic PowerPoints on writing a GRADE 9 LEAFLET. Also comes with a podcast from an examiner. One lesson looks at Monkey World and the other looks at an anti-smoking campaign.
The resource bundle includes the following:
GRADE 9 example
Sentence starters
LEAFLET form
LEAFLET conventions
DAFOREST
Stylistic devices
Lecturer tips
Common mistakes
SPAG
A comprehensive revision PowerPoint on every question in the paper 1 exam. I have also included grade 9 examples of all the tasks (reading & writing( on separate Microsoft Word pages. The following topics are covered:
Every reading question
Creative writing
Narrative writing
Paper 1 overview
Exam marks and timings
Exemplar material
Examiner tips
Sentence Starters
SPAG
Writing devices
Layout
Revision quiz for the paper 2 writing exam available in PowerPoint and video formats. Students must look at 11 separate (and real) exam questions and answer the following questions:
Letter? Article? Review? Leaflet? Report? Speech?
Formal or informal
Which of the DAFOREST can I use?
What do I DEFINITELY need to include?
This is a fun and beneficial exam revision task to make sure the students are able to identify each type of question in the writing exam.
Revision quiz for both reading exams (papers 1 &2) in PowerPoint and video formats. Students must look at 15 separate (and real) exam question and answer the following questions:
What type of question is it and what question number would it be?
Information
Think and feel
Impressions
HOW
Compare
Easy compare
Evaluation
How would you answer it?
Bullet points
Simple sentences
PEE
PEE and compare
This is a fun and beneficial exam revision task to make sure the students are able to identify each type of question in the reading exams
THREE SEPARATE Fun anagram starters. The students are given a list of celebrities / foods/ countries/ movies/ animals. All of the letters have been jumbled up. They have an allotted time to unscramble all the words. Activity and cut-out cards included.
This lesson looks at the 2017 coming-of-age film, ‘Lady Bird.’ The lesson includes: quiz questions, the plot analysed, genre discussion, the importance of the soundtrack, Lady Bird discussion/writing questions, teenage stereotyping questions and a fun memory starter.
A PowerPoint and resources on how to write a grade 9 narrative. The students really love this lesson as it' s modern topic they all have an opinion on. The following topics/resources are included:
- grade 9 structure
- character
- dialogue
- SPAG
- exemplar material
- adjectives, adverbs & verbs
- sentence starters
- figurative language
- sensory language
- dialogue tags
- show, don't tell
12 different PowerPoints on writing A* grade PEEs (+zoom in + context) on Of Mice and Men. Each PowerPoint comes with an excellent lecturer podcast. The following topics each have their own PowerPoint and podcast on writing A* PEEs:
The colour red
Crooks
A different side to Curley's wife
Dreams
Steinbeck's use of light
Loneliness
Curley's wife's relationship with Curley
Curley's wife lack of name
Personification
Rumour
Women being treated like sex objects
1930s USA
A fun, informative and interactive quiz on letter writing.
It comes in a PowerPoint or video format.
I have also included marked exemplar working on letter writing. Marked by the exam board.