Waiting for Godot - Lucky's Speech criticism

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on Silas Marner for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on A Christmas Carol for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on Dorian Gray for questions a-f but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

Breaks down the comma rule into 5 main contexts or "ball-games"

The worksheet has general advice regarding P2B with some guidance on reading the question and the types of questions which might be asked. Pupils then write two plans for a question “The Last Train Home” and then develop their favoured idea. There’s then a PPT with examples to improve grammar but pupils can also rewrite the examples to develop interest and ambition.

EDUQAS/WJEC English A-Level Unseen Prose 1918-1939 practice papers with supporting extracts A range of topics including: race; gender; war; class; politics; queer sexuality; colonialism; monarchy. D. H. Lawrence; Evelyn Waugh; Katherine Mansfield; Zora Neale Hurston; Ford Madox Ford; E. M. Forster; Virginia Woolf. These practice papers come with supporting extracts - critical quotations which must be invoked in the response.

Explicitly for Pre U but there is a booklet of Auden's poetry which could be used for coursework, along with a wealth of critical material and images/paintings/resources which accompany the poems.

A look at some paintings to practise comparative skills

An exemplar essay to discuss

Worksheet for Chapter 1 of Spies

Critical quotations for Austen's Persuasion

This SoW goes with the “Jane Eyre Consolidation Pack” (separate resource) and tracks the first fourteen chapters of the novel.

Scaffolding approaching an extract-style question with a series of stages on the worksheet.

Waiting for Godot

Wordsworth sonnets worksheet - The world is too much... it is a beauteous evening... suprized by joy

Writing intros for the IGCSE Literature comparative unseen - Aunt Jennifer's tigers practice paper. Pupils write what the intros do well and less well

Worksheet for 3.1 in Merchant of Venice

A consolidation booklet for pupils to use as they study the novel to aggregate quotations, think about themes, track characters, and think critically about the novel.

A simple introduction to writing non-fiction with a view to audience. Looks at model answers, techniques, and then brainstorms using four OCR English Language non-fiction composition tasks - but useful for all Language boards. Pupils write the first paragraph to these examples.