A fun selection of starter activities providing quotes for learners to guess whether they from a famous writer (ie: Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe etc) or song lyrics?

Sentence Form Starter Activity

GCSE English Language Revision Booklets for Paper 1 and 2.

Name that language feature with examples.

Learner progress tracker aimed at GCSE English language. Learners can track their own progress with each of the AO’s.

Name that sentence type activity with answer sheet.

Feedback stickers to save time with marking :)

GCSE English progress tracker - I have my learners stick this in the front inside of their exercise books to keep a track on their own progress.

Group Task – Hand out the cards with different ‘ways to assess’ on. Students to stick them on the whiteboard under the headings ‘effective’ or ‘ineffective’. Open Questions: • Does everyone agree with each other’s choice of heading? • Did the students group the more ‘common’ assessment types under ‘effective’? Question their groupings – Are their choices more effective or are they the assessments the students are more familiar with?

A fun ‘who killed Santa?’ powerpoint activity.

GCSE revision presentation (I print it off at a booklet for my learners as well as going through it as a group via powerpoint).

GCSE English Paper 2 Revision powerpoint (AQA)

Lesson on structure and how it is effective

Improving vocabulary full lesson

Interpret the sysmbols activity - a good starter activity or piece of homework to encourage learner to develop their analysing skills and look at implicit information rather than just what is directly obvious.

Descriptive writing/ letter writing worksheet related to the nightmare before Christmas.

Mix and Match Sentence Types

Word definitions guide - a handy list of useful (and some higher level) words used in English to improve writing and analysing text.

Word Type Starter

A literature themed quiz: General knowledge, Children’s books, Film adaptations and a picture round complete with answers.