This resource contains a Powerpoint and a running race worksheet with teacher answers.
You will first explain some common strategies for working out the meaning of new vocabulary with examples.
Students will then have a group running race in which they apply the strategies they have learnt to new words. They will have to come to you for each question with a correct answer before being allowed to access the next question. The first team to complete the quiz wins.
This is a tried and tested lesson which my students love. Engaging, fun and practical.
Suitable for KS3 or KS4 English for any exam board. Especially suitable for CIE First Language English 0500 in which students will have to define new words.
This is a complete lesson for CIE IGCSE English as a Second Language ESL Exercise 5. The lesson usually takes 1-2 periods to teach, including a model example, tips, writing time and peer assessment.
This lesson reviews the English names for common punctuation marks, how they are used and ends with students writing a short descriptive paragraph using these different punctuation marks.
This booklet is designed to work alongside the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2, looking at non-fiction texts. The booklet includes texts to analyse, a general structure for answering exam questions, and tips for analysing non-fiction texts.
The booklet consists of 20 pages, including three texts to analyse, an assessment, a teacher feedback grid and a chance for pupils to respond to feedback.
The booklet comes in both PDF format and Publisher.
NEW MUSIC QUIZ FOR 2022-23: /teaching-resource/resource-12785021
This fun music quiz has 70 questions all with song clips from 2021-22 chart toppers. This includes a PowerPoint with clips and answers, a student answer sheet and a teacher answer sheet.
Artists included (amongst many others!): Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Lil Naz X, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Owl City, The Weeknd, BTS, BLACKPINK, Billie Eilish, Adele, Ariana Grande…
Preview video here: https://youtu.be/ohRGaNDU2r4
The rounds all contain ten questions with clips:
Pop music (1) - recent chart toppers
Two second belters - two seconds of a famous artist singing
Finish the lyrics - song clip that cuts off before a crucial lyric, can students fill in the gap?
Kpop - recent Kpop hits
Guess the year - chart toppers from the 2010s, can students guess from a choice of three possible years when the song was released?
8 Bit - 2021 hits turned into 8 bit (polyphonic ringtone style) songs
Pop (2) - ten more recent chart toppers
This is a review lesson for language devices, which defines the language devices with examples, then moves onto identifying languagde devices in a text, before finally guiding students to use the language devices with a range of engaging picture stimuli. Originally planned for the CIE IGCSE English as a First Language scheme but would also work well for AQA English Language, as that has a picture stimulus based writing task.
Also includes a language device Kahoot I made including videos, pictures and music, such as Justin Bieber.
The file is a PowerPoint file.
This lesson guides students through analysing the opening of The Hunger Games film, looking specifically at the use of sound, camera angles, contrast and the portrayal of Katniss. I’ve also included some notes I made with my class about the opening film, with suggested talking points. Slides include screenshots and sound clips from the film.
I couldn’t share the whole opening of the film due to copyright issues, so you’ll need to get the DVD, download it using your own means, or rent it off Youtube.
This is a full mock assessment in the style of AQA English Language Paper 2.
I have two sources following the same format as past papers (one modern, one pre-20th century) on the topic of money.
Q1 - Tick 4 correct statements
Q2 - Summary of differences
Q3 - Language analysis
Q4 - Comparison
Q5 - Writing task
This lesson is a step-by-step guide for writing personficiation for ESL, EAL or SEN students. Particularly this was made for Chinese students, but it can act as a guide for any other language (just use Google translate!). For a larger class with multiple language needs, this will also be a great resource.
This Powerpoint lesson introduces students to the five-point narrative structure. The lesson has a listening task, discussions, group activity and a video task - optional to either analyse the plot structure of Cinderella or The Bodyguard (BBC), dependent on the ability of your group.
Inside, there are two versions of the same PPT, one differentiated for ESL/EAL students, specifically Chinese students.
This is a Powerpoint lesson differentiated for ESL/EAL/SEN students to teach them how to write similes step-by-step. Tried and tested.
This lesson was originally designed for Chinese speakers learning English, so I left in some of the Chinese (it’s minimal and easily deleted, or you can translate into your student’s native language using google translate for some translanguaging!)
This bundle includes:
Using language devices on descriptive writing
Analysing the opening of The Hunger Games film
Writing diaries for CIE exam
Writing letters for CIE exam
This 17 page booklet contains:
- Pre-1914 Source A: "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth - speech about black women's rights in America
- Modern Source B: "Supermodel Turned Spokesperson" on Tyra Banks. A humourous article packed full of language devices and interesting language on Tyra Banks deciding to 'speak up' for women's rights.
- Both sources are annotated with talking points
- Scaffolded tasks and guidance for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
- Exam style questions
- An additional exam booklet with these texts in should you choose to use this as an assessment
- PDF and editable Word Docs of both booklets
This scheme of work is aimed at KS3, building up the skills needed for OCR's English Literature New Spec GCSE.
This presentation includes 3 whole lessons.
I have taken extracts from Victorian literature, focusing on language analysis skills (AO2) and building in historical context (AO3).
These two lessons focus on introducing the skills needed for the OCR English Literature (new spec). Here I look at the poem 'Hawk Roosting'.
I focus on identifying and analysing enjambment and semantic fields.
Three PowerPoints for CIE English as a First Language, guiding students through an assessment Q1 and Q2. Third PowerPoint is a review lesson, looking over common mistakes my students made. Hope it’s of some use to any teachers out there as I know CIE First Language resources are spare on TES.
Included is a feedback sheet, three powerpoints and the exam question paper, mark scheme & insert.