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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 resource includes the scheme of work overview (2024-2025) for Higher Project Qualification (HPQ) with Pearson. This course booklet presents the information around the course HPQ (Level 2) that I have lead for the last 3 years. It includes an overview of what students need to submit, useful links to aid research, a Harvard Referencing Guide they can refer to, and a submission checklist complete with a student declaration. The overview of submission points is dated for the academic year 2024-2025, but can be adapted for future years. 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 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 workbook was designed to meet the criteria of Unit 32 - Job Search Skills. The workbook is self-explanatory and guides learners through the process of job searching, creating a personal career plan and understanding the process of appraisals. This workbook is worth 1 credit towards the qualification with a recommended 6 hours worth of guided learning hours. #TIP Alongside the workbook, I use resources and templates from Indeed and Reed to support the teaching of the career plan and appraisals. *Note: I have also created workbooks for Unit 1 - Understanding Mindset and Unit 13 - Presenting Yourself. *

These two workbooks have been created for the NCFE Employability Skills (Level 2) qualification for my Restart to Education and/or Employment course. Workbooks Unit 1_Understanding Mindset (2 credits) and Unit 13_Presenting Yourself (2 credits) are included here. Each activity is guided for learners to complete and the assessments are fit for purpose (i.e., they meet the requirements of the specification). I have adapted and jazzed up the NCFE preexisting material for Unit 1_Understanding Mindset, so I have included this in the sale price. Enjoy! T.

This English resource, inspired by Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, supports learners with proofreading skills, dictionary finding skills, vocabulary, and diary writing. There are three extension writing tasks where learners are put into the perspectives of Lumiere, Cogsworth or the Beast, and have to write a leaflet, report or letter, respectively. I have used this activity with Functional Skills and GCSE English. It can be used as an independent activity for marking or 1:1 sessions. Enjoy, T.

Print these language features posters (on A3, A4 or on card) to make an excellent classroom display for English language and/or literature. The posters include: a language feature / method a song lyric with the feature included a definition of the language feature an appropriate visual representation of song lyrics / method. Language features: Metaphor, simile, hyperbole, semantic field, personification, pathetic fallacy, onomatopoeia, assonance, alliteration, statistics, juxtaposition, oxymoron, anthropomorphism, emotive language, repetition and rhetorical question. Enjoy, T.

This resource is for GCSE English Language Paper 2, Question 4. It includes a few visuals / scaffolding activities for learners, so they can deepen their understanding of what they need to do for one of the more difficult questions of the paper (worth 16 marks). I have also included a supporting ‘Quick wins’ document for the Paper 2 (Elephants past paper Nov 2019). Learners use this to support their responses to the questions for Paper 2. This can be adapted/edited to suit other past papers too. Enjoy! T.

This resource is for GCSE English Language and contains various song lyrics where learners spot the language features and respond to various exam-style questions to deepen their knowledge of using subject terminology, making inferences and working out the meaning. There are activities on metaphors and similes and semantic fields (5-min starters?) Song titles include: Dark horse Grenade I wanna be yours Paint it, black Queen for tonight Poker face Love is a losing game BONUS: Follow me on Kahoot! https://create.kahoot.it/profiles/7700c097-19bc-407d-ac39-6d3a8d44a491 (twheeler190) for quizzes on language features in songs. Enjoy, T.

This resource is a GCSE English Paper 1 walkthrough for the November 2020 exam (The Silk Factory). Included is a PowerPoint of the walkthrough, using the mark scheme and responses. The question paper, sources and mark scheme is available from AQA. At the beginning of the PowerPoint there are two activities on language features.

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 supports the development of identifying symbolism, introducing semantic field through the use of songs and other unique activities to support the development of identifying language features and making inferences. The main activity will involve students watching the opening montage of the hit TV series of Dexter. They will analyse the structure and symbolism of the montage (through media/film analysis) and create a storyboard of the main events within the montage. They will then apply this visual learning to Lindsay’s Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Something different. 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 is an introductory lesson to the skills needed for GCSE English language Paper 1 using Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It includes: a spelling test script, worksheet with 3 activities and a ppt. I will be using this lesson as an Assessment Point 1 using the activities: spelling test, information retrieval, words and phrases, and a creative writing activity. 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.

For GCSE English Language AQA, the following resources support the content of Paper 2 using the theme of ‘being held against your will’ through a slavery nonfiction text (‘Twelve Years a Slave’) and a hostage nonfiction text (‘An Evil Cradling’). This lesson lasts around 6 hours. The slavery text is challenging therefore I suggest prior reading and annotation before beginning the lesson which may support the group. The texts work alongside a booklet that guides learners through Paper 2. I have attached some support activities alongside the booklet to help with differentiation. Enjoy! T.

This resource uses Ravenscroft’s ‘You’re a Mean One Mr Grinch’ to support students in identifying language features. This could be used as a fun starter activity, perhaps around Christmas time! Enjoy! T.