A fully-resourced, differentiated lesson for Year 10 on one of the key scenes in Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 1. Observed by an Ofsted inspector and graded outstanding.

2 festive lessons that would be great for any KS4 group (or higher ability KS3 group!). The first is a reading lesson based on a Christmas extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; this is followed by a series of reading questions in the style of the new Edexcel Language paper 1 questions. The second is a creative writing lesson based on a clip from Home Alone, which encourages students to write in the third person using a range of sentence structures. These festive lessons can be enjoyed by all ages and require no extra planning.

This is a full marks model answer comparing how the theme of anger is presented in A Poison Tree and Half-caste, two poems from the Edexcel (new spec) Conflict Poetry cluster.

This fifty question quiz is designed to test your A Level students on the Child Language Acquisition module and guide them in their revision.

A two-hour lesson that is perfect for revising the transactional writing element of the GCSE English Language exam. This lesson includes a walk-through of the skills required, a full marks exemplar answer which can be analysed and used as a model, followed by a task.

This 4 week fully-resourced scheme of work gives your students the opportunity to analyse, evaluate and compare famous speeches in preparation for writing and delivering their own (the spoken language endorsement). Through this scheme of work, students learn the terminology associated with the techniques they can use to make their writing more engaging (also excellent for the imaginative/transactional writing task) before analysing, evaluating and recreating them. This scheme of work serves as excellent practice for both Edexcel language papers, building in the spoken language endorsement in a useful way.

Seven mock papers for the Edexcel Conflict Poetry cluster question.

This two/three hour lesson is a detailed walk-through of everything students need to know and demonstrate in the imaginative writing section of Edexcel’s Language paper one exam. It includes a full marks model answer that is analysed and then used as an example for students; they use this as inspiration for their own writing.

This 40/40 piece of imaginative writing demonstrates the skills and techniques that students need to be able to use in order to achieve a grade 8 or 9 in the Edexcel Language exam. This piece of writing is based on a moment from the movie John Wick - I encourage students to use poignant moments from films/shows as inspiration.

In this lesson, students explore four ways in which different technologies (including texting and Twitter) have had an impact on our language. There are references to key theories/theorists to enable students to meet AO4. Students work towards writing their own topical language piece focused on technology, using an exemplar to guide them.

A fill-in-the-blanks pop quiz that tests students ability to remember key quotations from each poem in the anthology.

A full marks Animal Farm Literature essay answering the question ‘Explore the significance of Boxer’. This is the style of question asked in the new Edexcel 9-1 Literature exam.

This is a fully-resources scheme of work that I created for Year 7 students. After visiting a local primary school and learning more about the KS2 SATs requirements, I designed this scheme of work to ensure that our KS3 students continue to build on the skills learned in primary school. Every lesson has a powerpoint, worksheets, homework activities, differentiation (including differentiated learning objectives) and there are assessment opportunities built into the scheme of work.

Here are eight practice papers for the Macbeth questions on the new Edexcel English Literature 9-1 GCSE.

We used these 10 lessons with our lowest ability Y7 pupils in order to help them to develop basic literacy skills such as scanning texts, summarising information and decoding texts. They are based on engaging, low ability texts and cover fiction and non-fiction texts.

A fun Macbeth quiz to help your students revise plot, characters, key quotations and themes. Also, this quiz contains a fun music round where your students have to link a song to a key theme, for example Beyonce’s Crazy in Love (links with the theme of madness). Answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/answers-to-macbeth-pub-quiz-11460545

A fill-in-the-blanks pop quiz that tests your students on their ability to remember key quotations from the novel.

A 40/40 essay answering the following Animal Farm question: ‘Explore the significance of Snowball throughout the novel’. This has not yet appeared as an exam question, so a great exemplar to use with groups, especially those you are challenging to achieve grades 8 and 9.

A preview of the first 7 pages of the Jekyll and Hyde revision booklet - available to purchase in full for £10 if you follow the link to my ‘shop’. Full booklet is 57 pages in total and covers every chapter. Each chapter includes space to summarise, comprehension questions, vocabulary/glossary work, character/thematic exploration opportunities and key quotations for analysis.

Here are the answers to go with my resource 'Macbeth Pub Quiz - 1 hour'.