Attitudes to Language Change
Covers prescriptivism and descriptivism, the role and history of dictionaries of English, Deborah Cameron's Verbal Hygiene and a practice question.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
A Level Language Change: Attitudes, Why, and How.
This has been my pet project since August! Lots of reading went into it. It's a mammoth presentation split into three main sections: 1) attitudes (prescriptivism, descriptivism, dictionaries, verbal hygiene); 2) reasons for language change including theories); 3) types of language change (lexical, s...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lang
Unit: Paper 2: Language diversity and change
Topics: Language diversity and change
Exam/Board: AQA
The Handmaid's Tale Student Responses
A short student response for the presentation/significance of Serena Joy. This also includes the mark scheme and WWW/EBI space for students to assess the piece.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Paper 1 - telling stories
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
Yr 7-8 model language analysis paragraphs
Based on a variety of different texts ( not included). Useful as starter, examining the structure of an analytical paragraph and emboldened useful words and phrases to help pupils understand how to word their analysis. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 3
Course: A Level Lang & Lit
Unit: Reading
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
Paper 2 q 5- Theme parks
Short extracts to practise with first, theme parks question and planning grid, ARRESTED table with examples (based on q about the merits of prom) } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
A Christmas Carol Starter Task
A starter task on the context introduced in stave 1,2,3 and how this links to characters, useful for year 10/11} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: 19th Century Literature
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
Photo prompts for creative writing
A collection of photographs to choose from to inspire your students' writing. I've cropped short most of my portrait shots to help them suit a slide better, and over-saturated the colour on many of the images so that they hold their tones when projected onto the board. There's a mix of urban, rural...} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Topics: Imagined Worlds
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen Prose Practice Questions (Modern times)
Practice unseen prose questions I have made for AQA English Literature A Paper 2: Texts in Shared Contexts. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 5
Course: A level lit (A)
Unit: Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Exemplar Paper 1, q4 City of the Beasts: extract, question and exemplar response
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen Poetry Practice- 24 mark q and 8 mark comparison q- Westminster Bridge and Winter Night Edinburgh
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen Poetry- Helpsheet- Ideas and Techniques to Look for
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Yr 9 Planning and Writing a Poetry response -Planning grid plus poem to practise- Not My Business by Niyi Osundare
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Level: Key Stage 3
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
AQA Power and Conflict Cluster Exemplar: Personal loss in Poppies and My Last Duchess
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Paper 1, q5 Descriptive Exemplar- Describe a place that is far away.
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 1
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Word Banks for Poetry anthology-useful for analysis of either cluster
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Poetry Anthologies
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Unseen Practice questions plus 8 mark comparison exemplar
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Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Literature
Unit: Unseen Poetry
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
P2 Language Self-Assessment Q2-4
It's a word document, so you can edit as you wish. I've used wording which mirrors the AQA mark scheme. } VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Paper 2
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
Describing the weather
This is a sheet of words to describe different types of weather. We use for Paper 1 Question 5 and teach students to start their descriptions by concentrating on the weather.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
English Language Paper 2 Question 5 - school uniform
This PPT helps students to prepare a school magazine article about the advantages/ disadvantages of school uniform. It includes model introduction and a model of a weak point to improve. We use it for intervention after school.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Writing
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: AQA
IGCSE English Language
A PowerPoint presentation for Year 10 or Year 11. This contains exercises which cover some of the Key Skills for the IGCSE English Language Reading Paper 1.} VIEW
Level: Key Stage 4
Course: GCSE Language
Unit: Reading
Topics: Option 2: Modern times lit from 1945-present
Exam/Board: IGCSE