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All my resources are aimed at teaching students to the top, that's the USP! You can find them on the UK's second largest English teaching channel, Mr Salles Teaches English, and also see how I deliver them there. If you want to be an even better teacher, try The Slightly Awesome Techer, https://amzn.to/2GtQu6l
This is an amazing bundle.
It contains texts for every question, usually more than one.
It gives you model answers for every question, annotated and explained, all at grade 9.
It gives students the mark scheme in language they can understand, and tells them a series of clear steps to follow for each question.
It includes a glossary of terms, covering skills like juxtaposition and allusion which helps access grades 8 and 9.
It teaches 15 rhetorical techniques for each of questions 2, 3 and 4. And you get a mnemonic to help students remember them.
In short, you won’t find a better bundle for this paper, anywhere.
And, at 62% off, can you afford to turn this opportunity down?
Teach your students how to use the indicative content to write their revision essay.
Then show them how to refine this to a grade 9 essay which can be done under exam conditions.
Next teach them from the model.
Show exactly how it meets all the exam criteria for AQA and Edexcel.
Here is an extract:
This is a comprehensive resource to teach your students how to get 100% in all aspects of the question. It teaches 11 different skills for the question:
1.Highlight the key words in the question which tell you what to look for
2.Highlight the margin of the part of the text you are told to look at
3.Find quotations as you read
4.Name a descriptive or narrative technique for each quotation you use
(These will always be about imagery – simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration – and then perhaps onomatopoeia, sibilance, synesthesia, assonance, pathetic fallacy)
5.Refer to individual words in the quotation
6.Name their parts of speech – verb, adverb, noun, adjective
7.Find a long complex sentence, especially one with listed descriptions
8.Comment on the effect of contrast or juxtaposition, which will be in any description
9.Relate these quotations to the writer’s purpose, to discuss their effects
10.Use tentative language, like ‘perhaps’ to suggest your interpretation of the effect or purpose
11.Do not write in PEE paragraphs, but sentences which include embedded quotations
It contains several models of how to write about complex sentences, with several practice paragraphs from Kipling, Conrad and Dickens for your students to practise on.
It shows students how to model their own writing on that of other writers, using Brighton Rock. Students get to see why knowing parts of speech is so important to developing their own skills as writers. This then makes the job of writing about the effect of language features so much more easy and explicit for them.
If you want to try without buying, all the PowerPoint is covered in a video at Mr Salles Teaches English, which you can find here:
http://bit.ly/Question2Paper1
This PowerPoint is taken directly from The Mr Salles Guide to 100% in AQA English Language GCSE, which you can sample here:
http://amzn.to/2phxxaS
What This Resource Includes
11 Steps: Just Tell Me What to Do
Sample Question
What the mark scheme says
Why students should always write about complex sentences
How to write great complex sentences in students’ own writing
How to write about contrast and juxtaposition
Model text, based on Brighton Rock
3 Further texts for practice: Little Dorrit, Oliver Twist, Household Worlds extracts
Model Answer, to get 100%
Model Answer which can be written in the 12 minute time limit, to get 100%
15 skills to learn from the model answer
How to move on from PEE paragraphs so students can write more in fewer words, and sound like an expert
10 great jokes
What this resource includes:
10 Steps: Just tell me what to do
Sample Question
4 Student misconceptions
The marks scheme explained
Exam tactics
Glossary of terms: 15 of them, with 3 examples of each
Sample texts: The 39 Steps, by John Buchan, CHAPTER ONE, The Man Who Died
Sample texts: Call of the Wild, Jack London, Chapter I. Into the Primitive
11 techniques to teach from these extracts
What does the examiner really want?
Model Question
Model Answer
Colour coded Model Answer to show how to get rid of PEE paragraphs and write like an expert
The Magic Finger: the technique for finding quotations to write about
14 Skills common to questions 3 and 4
How do you get a student who is packing their description and narrative with too many adjectives and adverbs to pick them carefully.
How do you help them choose when to speed action up, and when to slow it down?
Sometimes this feels as though we have to get them to unlearn what we have taught them! It’s hard.
But this lesson will help you do that quickly, and in a way your students will understand.
A video goes with it, so you can see how I teach it.
You also get a copy of the all the writing in Word, so it is easy to edit and print off. It gives the original version, and then the improved version.
Also included is the rest of the story, which you an get your students to edit and rewrite in response to your teaching.
This powerpoint covers comprehensive themes:
Ambition, Masculinity and Cruelty, The Divine Right of Kings, Tyranny, The Psychology of Guilt, Fate, Prophecy and Free Will, Violence, and The Ambiguity of Reality.
There are a range of quotations for each theme, from different characters’ perspectives.
Each slide has engaging images which should help to make your teaching memorable.
An in depth approach to each slide is also available in my free videos on YouTube. You can find over 600 useful videos at
Or follow the link to the precise video on Macbeth’s themes.
Quite simply, there is no more comprehensive guide to how to teach these 4 questions.
It includes advice for students on each question, the mark schemes, sample questions, sample answers, plenty of fresh texts to practise on, a glossary of terms, how to move beyond PEE paragraphs and, if you are in the mood for more, over 30 English jokes.
All in Word, for you to edit and reproduce as you please.
And all for an unbelievably good price.
This resource is a copy of the student essay, done under timed conditions.
They will learn more from this if you give it to them to edit and improve, so that it is 1. a perfect story. 2. a perfect description, which does not become a narrative.
There is a powerpoint to teach the 12 techniques which make it a top answer.
Do you want a bundle which will equip your students with all the tools to write great informative writing and great travel writing?
Would you like them to see models of grade 9 writing, fully explained? How about grade 6 writing which gets improved to grade 9?
Will you give them a glossary of all the skills they will need, and numerous examples of each one, so that they can begin to use them themselves?
Would you like more than 50% off?
This resource includes a typically uninspiring picture.
How to plan.
How to write a description which lasts only a few seconds, so does not turn in to a narrative.
How to select an interesting viewpoint.
A model answer, around 500 words long.
The marking criteria.
An explanation as to why it is grade 9.
How to write an article.
This shows students how to move from grades 5 to 6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8 and 9.
It also teaches 10 techniques that will get students grades 7 and above:
Start each sentence with a different word
Write about the future
Not only…but
Show me…show me
Pair your verbs for emphasis
Extend your simile or metaphor
Anecdote
The contrasting power of ‘but’
Humorous comparison
Go to town on triplets. More anecdotes. Load your sentences with techniques which fit
Teach from part of a sample answer.
Go through the 9 skills that students need for a grade 5.
Then teach the same skills to grade 6 using the same essay, with an extra one - skill 10 which tips the balance between grades 5 and 6.
Finally, exemplify a crucial tactic to approaching the question which makes grades 5 and 6 so much easier to get. Should students start with the extract or the whole text? There really is a right answer!
What does the examiner’s report have to tell us about teaching Romeo and Juliet?
Learn how to write about more than one interpretation for the top grades.
Take opposing views about the role of the Friar in bringing peace to Verona, but upsetting the social order.
About Romeo and Juliet’s love representing the passion of the individual, or the error of challenging social conventions.
Relate their marriage to the potential tragedy of Shakespeare’s marriage to Ann Hathaway.
Or alternatively, understand the play as a celebration of his own marriage in contrast to social conventions of Verona and Shakespeare’s audience.
Find alternative perspectives on the Nurse, so that she is both hero and villain.
See how a contemporary audience might well have seen Capulet as a model father.
Follow the link to my video to see how to use the presentation to teach your students.
All the themes of Jekyll and Hyde, with precise quotations to teach them. A 42 minute video showing you what to teach if you want it. Great to set for homework.
A beautifully presented PowerPoint which you can teach from or print off as revision cards for your class.
As always, the presentation links to my videos on Mr Salles Teaches English, so you can get even more tips on how to teach from it.
Includes themes of women and femininity, duality, hypocrisy, repression, violence, duality, friendship, appearances, the house as a metaphor, science and evolution, and Christianity, curiosity, drug taking…
This is a unique resource, an anthology of original short stories to teach your 14-16 year old students how to craft short stories.
Each one is utterly different, filled with real voices, amazing plot twists, and description you’ve never met before.
Each one will act as a springboard to your students’ imaginations.
You will also be able to deal with issues of the day: celebrity culture, feminism, homophobia, vegetarianism, drug abuse, cheating in sport…
Each story is in a different genre. This really is a collection like no other.
And all for an utterly amazing price, at 60% off!
What this resource includes:
Mnemonic to remember rhetorical, persuasive techniques: MAD FATHERS CROCH
How to plan an answer
9 skills necessary in a top answer
The mark scheme explained
Model answer, grade 6
Model answer, grade 9
Model answer, annotated and explained
Why exam topics will never be interesting
Sample topics and question
Here is the beginning of the model text:
Annotated 100% Model: Writing to Inform
Every actor wants to be Tom Cruise, and every actress longs to be Jenifer Lawrence. So why settle for Danny Dyer and Letitia Dean?
1. Contrasting pair
2. Rhetorical question
3. Alliteration
You wouldn’t, and you shouldn’t. It’s exactly the same thing with revision guides. Yes, they come with pretty pictures, and jokes, and everything is chunk sized so that it fits a single page.
Emotive language
Repetition
Triplets
Creating an enemy
But do they push you, pull you, and propel you to get a grade 8 or 9?
Alliteration
Contrast
Triplet
You’ve spotted that’s a rhetorical question, but do you know the other 14 rhetorical devices?
Direct address
Contrasting pair
Rhetorical question
Mr Salles won’t just list them: by the time you finish his guide, you will know them by heart. Fact.
Contrasting pair
Direct address
Opinion
Mr Salles believes that all students can ace the English language exam; that every student can learn from beyond grade 9 answers that are properly explained; that every student can remember if they are shown how.
Emotive language
Triplet
Repetition
What the resource Includes:
5 Steps; Just tell me what to do.
Model answer 444 words
Model answer 550 words
Model answer annotated for descriptive techniques
What do I have to do to get 100%?
How to be original: Breaking the Vase
How to adapt the description to a series of photographs in the exam:
Here’s how mine might start if the photograph were of a train.
Or imagine it was the park.
Or, the ultimate vase breaking, you can simply have it as the photo in the room. Imagine a photo of a road.
What does the examiner really want?
21 ways to look at Descriptive Techniques and Interesting Writing (More Than Just SOAPAIMS)
Propel students to top grades in their full understanding of the context of this poem. It is propaganda, we know. But teaching the rhyme scheme and dactyl metre reveals a surprising alternative, that Tennyson is horrified at the senseless slaughter of the soldiers. Students who understand ‘form and structure’ achieve at least grade 7.
A video also explains everything, so your students can follow up the lesson with homework, or can use it as flipped learning before you teach the poem.
Every to grade idea you’ll ever need. Boost students’ grades, because top level analysis is just knowing stuff. Understand interpretations you’ve not met before and help your students stand out from the crowd.