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A complete lesson on the film Jaws! Students watch a 10 minute clip of Jaws (choose a dramatic section at the start of the film) and do an extract analysis using the planning and prompt sheets provided. Power Point includes additional prompts, starter and plenary ideas and lesson objectives. Resources included are: * Planning Sheet * Prompt Sheet * Additional Images (if required, these can be printed off and placed around the room for immediate impact to go with the starter.) For great more lessons and resources visit my shop here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (51���� free: to the best of my knowledge all images are copy right free.)

Descriptions of Paradise - Complete Lesson A descriptive writing lesson using beautiful images to engage students! Full lesson includes: * Clear image starter * Lesson objectives * Five things to help with descriptive writing slide (resource included) * Highlighter review * Main task description and lesson review Student checklist, things to include in descriptive writing, and a descriptive word mat resources included. Visit my page for more great lessons and resources: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (All images are copy right free from https://www.pexels.com/search/nature/.)

Visually attractive, observation graded good and outstanding, full lesson on poetic terms using the short poem ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Ideal for weaker KS3 classes or later KS2. Full Power Point and all resources included. Lesson features: • Visually engaging lesson starter and extension. • Graded lesson outcomes with the main objective being to learn poetic devices to further the understanding of a poem. • A poetic terms match-up activity featuring seven poetic devices – similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, vivid colour, the senses and imagery. This can be done on paper or made into a kinaesthetic task. (Resource included at the back of the Power Point.) • Poetic terms answer page. • Visual and simple explanation pages of similes, metaphors and alliteration with a short true or false task. • Link to video clip of a reading of ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. • Colour coded identification of poetic devices task – students are asked to stick the poem in their books (resource provided) and colour code the given devices. • Colour coded answer page. • Short plenary activity where students are prompted to write a brief comment about the poem or offer a more detailed response for more able students. You may also be interested in this complete lesson: /teaching-resource/literacy-health-check-full-lesson-11188874 Now includes two preview screenshots. * Thanks for the feedback. I have now included a higher range of differentiation for more able students.* (To the best of my knowledge, all images are royalty free.)

The Chocolate Bar Design Lesson Fun lesson where students get to design their own chocolate bar! Guaranteed to enthuse! Fun name the bar starter activity, links to video clips, discussion points and the design sheet. All resources included. For other engaging resources, including full lessons, visit my shop page here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Visually attractive full lesson on poetic terms using the short poem ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Ideal for weaker KS3 classes or later KS2. Full Power Point and all resources included. Lesson features: • Visually engaging lesson starter and extension. • Graded lesson outcomes with the main objective being to learn poetic devices to further the understanding of a poem. • A poetic terms match-up activity featuring seven poetic devices – similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, vivid colour, the senses and imagery. This can be done on paper or made into a kinaesthetic task. (Resource included at the back of the Power Point.) • Poetic terms answer page. • Visual and simple explanation pages of similes, metaphors and alliteration with a short true or false task. • Link to video clip of a reading of ‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson. • Colour coded identification of poetic devices task – students are asked to stick the poem in their books (resource provided) and colour code the given devices. • Colour coded answer page. • Short plenary activity where students are prompted to write a brief comment about the poem or offer a more detailed response for more able students. For more great resources and lessons, see my page here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (To the best of my knowledge, all images are royalty free.)

The Time Machine – Creative Writing Lesson. Highly engaging and visually appealing, creative writing lesson! Lesson scenario: When clearing out an old house, under a dust sheet in the attic, you discover some kind of strange machine. There is a chair and lots of odd looking machinery and dials. You sit in the chair out of curiosity and press a few buttons. Suddenly, things start to happen and you are transported in time. Where will you go? What will you do? Full lesson Power Point and planning sheet included. *Now available as a four lesson bundle – four great lessons for £6.95!* /teaching-resource/creative-writing-four-lesson-bundle-11256414 Visit my page for more great lessons and resources: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Emotive and visually appealing writing to advise lesson based on the excellent charity, Hope for Paws. Suitable for KS3 classes in particular. Attractive Power Point includes: * Video clip link starter * Diamond 9 activity (included) * Mini-writing task * Main writing task * Quiz and word puzzle plenary Visit my shop page for more great lessons and resources: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits from YouTube, Hope for Paws channel.)

All about you - a perfectly simple, but engaging lesson which explores students' wishes, dreams and hopes. The lesson is ideal as an introductory lesson or just as a one-off lesson any time. The main lesson objectives include testing students' ability to think creatively with emphasis on attention to detail and descriptive writing skills. Attractive lesson Power Point includes: * Word link puzzle starter activity. * Mini-task - three wishes, students choose any three wishes they would choose if given the choice (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Dream home and location - students choose their dream house and location (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Ideal job - students choose their ideal job (simple writing frame included for lower ability students.) * Main task perfect day - students describe their perfect day (writing frame and word bank included.) * Puzzle plenary activity. No photocopying or printing required, simply download and teach - word document writing frame included if needed. See my shop page for more lessons and resources: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish All images are copyright free (pixabay, wiki and clipart).

Romeo and Juliet Prologue and Act 1 Revision Lesson An introduction, revision or recap lesson on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Prologue and Act 1. Lesson includes: * Starter cloze activity * Lesson objectives * DIRT/purple pen slide * Who’s who, character activity * One page brief summary * Guess the quotation quiz * Extract analysis and discussion prompt review Particularly suitable to lower ability students or those new to Shakespeare. For more great resources, visit my shop page here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Guess the country quiz! Round 1 – name the country from the flag – 30 flags with answers. Round 2 – remember the country from round 1 and try to guess and order the population size. 3 sets of 5 puzzles with answers. See my home page for more great lessons, bundles and resources: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Visually attractive Christmas descriptive writing lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson. Power point includes: * Active snow scene gif title page. * Lesson starter – post-it note activity. * Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and figurative language techniques. * A quick warm-up exercise where students finish off Christmas sentence in descriptive language (see image on the Power Point to support ideas.) * A recap of five language technique prompt. * Short writing activity prompt asking students to describe their perfect Christmas scene. * A review page encouraging some students to read out their written descriptions. * Fantastic “The Perfect Christmas Bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s caller's card and 30 * All resources included at the end of the Power Point. If you enjoyed this resource, you will enjoy the Christmas Murder Mystery: /teaching-resource/a-christmas-murder-mystery-full-lesson-11179016 (Snow image by Frank Norman, Flickr, Tree by Minden ami Karacsony, outdoors scene desttopnexus.com/wallpaper/676017/ bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)

The Hitchhiker by Roald Dahl - Fiction Complete lessons or lessons, on the excellent short story by Roald Dahl! Complete and attractive lesson pack includes: • Engaging starters • Lesson objectives ��� Full story and discussion prompts throughout (pdf of the complete story included) • Card sort and text search activity • Agree or disagree discussion prompt activity • Key quote analysis discussion • Main question and WAGOLL • The Hitchhiker quiz Resources included at the back of the power point and as a separate resource for ease of use. An engaging lesson to use time and time again. Visit my shop for more great lessons and resources: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits: outstanding images by Osian Grifford, https://osiangrifford.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/illustrations-for-the-hitchhiker/, font by cooltext.com, Roald Dahl PDF: http://ekladata.com/-DO9CNHfQY7PfrK84RVJXCJg6DM.pdf.)

Excellent and engaging bingo style literacy game. Students simply write True or False on their 5x5 true or false cards and mark them off if the displayed literacy clue is true or false. Subject areas include: capital letters, punctuation, their, there and they're; was and were; and spellings. Power Point game suitable for key stages 2 and 3, printable true or false cards included and further instructions on how to play inside. Great for spelling and SPAG. For more great resources and lessons see here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (51���� free images. Frog image from pixabay, public domain: https://pixabay.com/en/frog-green-animal-amphibian-48234/P

A Christmas Murder Mystery - Complete Lesson On Christmas Eve a train gets stranded in a snowdrift in the middle of nowhere. A group of passengers decide to leave the carriage and take refuge in a nearby hotel, only to discover in the morning, trapped and cut off from the outside world, that one of them has been murdered… Visually attractive Christmas murder mystery story lesson complete with all resources needed for a fun engaging lesson. Power point includes: * Title page. * Complete lesson objectives and outcomes (WALT and WILF) - with the focus on higher attaining students to use descriptive language for effect and to build up tension and drama within the story. * Lesson starter – winter weather anagrams. * Story scenario – dramatic scenario (as above) * Copy and complete first paragraph starter prompt – used in order help students start the story effectively (also given as a handout resource.) * Mini word bank. * Mini-prompt paragraphs two and images to help students write. * Fantastic “murder mystery bingo” plenary activity with teacher’s callers card and 30 unique bingo cards (with instructions on how to best play the game included.) * All resources included at the end of the Power Point. If you liked this resource, you will also enjoy – A Spooky Christmas Story: /teaching-resource/spooky-christmas-story-full-lesson-11177327 (Royalty free images included and bingo cards created from myfreebingocards.com.)

Titanic Descriptive Writing – Complete Lesson Fantastic descriptive writing lesson based on the images and film of the Titanic, with several warm-up activities and a descriptive writing bingo plenary. (Note: you could do with a copy of Titanic the film to show the sinking part which students will write about. If this is not possible, you could show some clips available on You Tube which show several scenes of simulations of the Titanic sinking. Other than that, images from the film are included in this Power Point resource.) Full lesson includes: · Attractive starter activity · Lesson objective slide · Tips on descriptive writing · Locating descriptive elements in two examples · Short descriptive writing task · Video clip and image slide · Fantastic key word bingo plenary activity All resources copied at the back of the Power Point. Everything you need for a full, complete and engaging lesson. For an informative Power Point on the Titanic see here: /teaching-resource/titanic-the-ship-of-dreams-11291754 For more great resources or lessons see here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (All images are copyright free from wikipedia.co)

A bumper 68 page quiz pack, featuring riddles, logo quiz, catchphrases and more. Hours of fun for just £2.00! For more great resources, see my page here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish

Hound of the Baskerville extract analysis/close reading lesson ideal as a one-off lesson or a link to gothic literature. Lesson includes: * Title page * Starter * Lesson objectives (with surprise face in background, linking to close reading) * Link to video clip * Extract prompt (extract included) * Highlight key words * PEE grid (resource included) * Review post-it-note plenary This lesson is available in a double pack with Dracula for £4.50 here: /teaching-resource/extract-double-pack-dracula-and-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-11302068 All resources included at the back of the Power Point. For more great resources and full lessons visit my shop page here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Credits, images copyright free and scenes from Youtube, copyright free text exact from Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles.)

Climbing Mount Everest Descriptive Writing - Complete Lesson Complete one-off descriptive writing lesson with all the resources included, easy to teach! Attractive Power Point includes: * Literacy starter * Lesson objectives (with the focus on sentence structure, but this could be tweaked to suit) * Map of Everest * Video clip * Discussion prompts * Main task and review prompts Descriptive word mat and lesson starter included. A simple but effective lesson. For more great lessons and resources, visit my page here: /teaching-resources/shop/EngageinEnglish (Royalty free images taken from You Tube.)