Just a few possible practice exam questions for A Level English Literature AQA 7711/7712 Paper 2B. Option 1 Questions 5 and 6. (Comparing Drama and Prose) Could be tweaked for the other options on the paper.

Empty Facebook template. Could be used to fill in character details or even as a PSHE activity.

Fun little activities for 1.2

Overview of the key points in the Nettie Letters Group task for students to prepare to present back on set letters

Outline for possible group task based on Dowd's 'The London Eye Mystery', where students are placed into differentiated groups and asked to complete witness statements, collect evidence, make a missing person's poster and prepare to feedback to the rest of the class on their findings.

This is a rework of another resource (can't remember where it's from but am sharing for free). It has a greater focus on British Values, democracy etc, which might tick some boxes for observations/inspections! The resources could form part of a longer activity, where students prepare their evidence when putting George on trial for the murder of Lennie. There are stimulus materials for for the Defense team and the Prosecution.

Fun little end of term/topic quiz. 20 quotes from either Taylor Swift or The Great Gatsby. Answers included!

Designed as a starter to go alongside the teaching of Dowd's 'The London Eye Mystery', but could be used as a starter activity for any lesson. Different images of clouds are used as a prompt for the description of thoughts, feelings, physical features. A good build up to the creative writing tasks in the new GCSE, which require descriptive writing from picture stimulus. Could also be printed off and used as a group/carousel task.

Discussion based questions with video links, based on Act 2 Scene 2 of 'Macbeth'

A feedback Powerpoint for the English Language Paper 1 Silk Factory paper from AQA. The feedback from my class after their Mock. Provides a summary of the advice from the examiner’s report in an easy and accessible format. Hopefuly will save you a little bit of time!

A PowerPoint to help Key Stage 3/Lower ability Key Stage 4 practice questions 1 and 2 of the AQA English Language Paper 1 Reading section. The stimulus material is from War Horse (the questions themselves and the extracts are from another free resource I found on TES). I’ve broken the extract up to allow for discussion and annotation on the board and have popped half of a level 4 response on there to get them going.

Some discussion questions and tasks for A Level English Literature teaching of the novel. One slide includes a task to compare with the poetry anthology.

Originally designed with 'The London Eye Mystery' in mind, but could be used for any class as a quick starter introduction to idioms. Match the idiom to the meaning.

A worksheet to prompt students at A Level to explore the issues in 'A Doll's House' in the style of a Jeremy Kyle talk show.

A short PowerPoint (9 slides) explaining the epistolary form and the structure of the novel. The resource considers the way the letters start and end, as well some of the novel’s motifs and symbols. Works as a lesson and includes an independent task at the end, suitable for remote learning. Created with AQA English Literature A Level in mind, bu there are no specific references to Assessment Objectives or exam boards, so easy to tailor to your own needs. If you like this resource, you may be interested in my other resources on ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

Quick quiz on chapter 14 with answers, I’m making them do it from memory, but could also be used alongside the text as a comprehension activity.

Just a blank table for them to fill in with notes on the poems. Should get them comparing in terms of theme, tone and language. Might save you a job during a busy stretch!

A starter activity to encourage students to engage with critical views about the ending and play as a whole.

A worksheet to prompt A Level/GCSE students to plan and present a 'Jerry Springer' style talk show based on 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' and/or 'The Great Gatsby'

This is a possible structure/essay plan for students to use in answering the question: Compare how the authors of two texts you have studied present ideas about infidelity. It is for those comparing ‘Rebecca’ with the first cluster of poems in the Love and Relationships anthology. (AQA A Level) It is intended to be talked through and used to prompt discussion in advance of students writing the essay themselves.