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This resource supports the learning of onomatopoeia. Learners must identify the English spelling word that sounds like how it sounds per image. This can be used as a starter or quick AfL activity. Enjoy! T.

For GCSE English Language (AQA): Paper 1, Question 5. By entering the fantasy realm in this creative writing workbook, students will develop their imagination through making and creating a dragon. The resource supports character development, identifying language features, making inferences, improving vocabulary, describing using the five senses and other targeted activities related to dragons. The resource includes an extract from J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit (Smaug’s lair) and exam-style questions. The end activity is a creative writing piece based on an image of a dragon. Learners can choose to describe the image or write the climax of a story titled ‘Peril’. The resources has been used on post 16-19 and adult learners. It is 9 pages long and could last the entirety of a 3-hour lesson. Enjoy! T.

Using the horror genre, this lesson supports the development of descriptive writing through making imaginative suggestions using three images of a haunted castle (the castle, the hall and music room). The only piece of information you need to give is that Vladimir is a vampire and let the learners do the rest. This promotes class discussion and is great over the Halloween period. Enjoy! T.

These resources can be used for GCSE and/or Functional Skills English courses. The worksheets support learners with understanding and using apostrophes in sentences. It includes instructions and activities on apostrophes for contractions, ownership and irregular plural nouns. There are two worksheets - the second worksheet should be used to solidfy learning as it includes a mini assessment. I recommend having your own copy and going through the activities together giving students time to complete the activities in between. Enjoy! T.

These bookmarks can be given out at the beginning of the year or during the revision period as a visual aid to support learners with answering exam-style questions. They include the formula MEME that I use with my GCSE English Language (AQA) learners which stands for: Method (identify the language / structural feature) Evidence (back up with a small quote) Meaning (interpretation / inference) Effect (what it makes you Feel, Imagine, Think) Enjoy! T.

This resource includes various activities based around the concept of dark tourism. This includes extracts around dark tourism for Auschwitz and 9/11. These activities focus on Question 3 and 4 of Paper 2. They include: finding definitions, summarising, feature spotting, inferring, finding quotes and answering exam-style questions. Enjoy! T.

This resource is full of guided student activities developing their reading skills for GCSE English Language. The extract is from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and the well-known chapter of Gatsby extravagant parties. Students must use the extract to answer exam-style question 2 and question 3. Beforehand, they must list 4 things, find definitions and synonyms, watch a video and pick out certain scenes, feature spot, mind-map structural features; all tasks which lead up to answering question 2 and question 3. Enjoy! T.

This is a guided student resource full of activities using an extract from Stephen King’s Shawshank Redemption (extract included). These activities lead to an exam-style Paper 1, Question 4 (for GCSE English Language AQA 8700). Activities include, finding definitions and synonyms, information retrieval, finding suitable quotations in an extract and attempting an exam-style question. The extract is small (not daunting), so could be used as a revision resource or at the start of the year. Enjoy! T.

This colourful PowerPoint focuses on the language analysis question of Paper 1 on the AQA 8700 spec. It includes information retrieval, a Q1, videos, exemplars, chunking, scaffolding, visuals, a Q2, and an extension of creative writing at the end. Alongside the PowerPoint, I have included an extended extract from the chapter. The extract is from the part of the book where Sam and Frodo are climbing Mount Doom where they must destroy the one ring.

This resource has been adapted from the Chapter 4 of ‘Book 1 AQA GCSE English Language: Developing the Skills for Learning and Assessment’ (Backhouse and Emm, 2015). I have created a PowerPoint lesson out of the extracts and activities within Chapter 4 of the said book. Learners will be practising their AO1 skillage with the theme of talking cats from Alice in Wonderland and Coraline. Enjoy! T.

This GCSE ENGLISH Language (AQA) resource includes a PowerPoint lesson and two extracts about P T Barnum (a review of Hugh Jackman’s portrayal and an autobiographical account of PT Barnum). I cannot take full credit as the extracts and exam style questions, I believe, came from TES, but it inspired me to create this lesson. This includes discussions on being an outsider, disability, child exploitation and exploitation for entertainment purposes. The hit “This is Me” is also used as a starter for students to analyse the language features and make inferences. Enjoy! T.

This resource supports the up-skilling of vocabulary for GCSE or Functional Skills (Level 2) English learners or, in fact, any course to embed English in the curriculum and develop vocabulary. It can be presented as a game where learners have to create sentences with the same letter of each word using the formula: adjective, noun, adverb, verb, adjective, noun. I use this to stretch and challenge, giving letters Q and K to those with a faster pace. Enjoy! T.