Students watch the TED talk in which William Kamkwamba is interviewed about his innovative method to produce power for his vilage in Malawi. They are then assessed on their listening skills.

A revision guide for students reading the novel ‘Zoo City’ by Lauren Beukes. 48 slides that simplify the content. Useful when preparing for assessments.

A realistic writing assignment that asks students to investigate an area of their high school which needs improvement and write seven business-related pieces in connection with their chosen area. The task includes the instructions and format for formal letters, interviews, blogs and proposals. A rubric is included for assessing the pieces.

Pupils select three related transactional writing tasks. They may choose any event that happened in the past, on the day of their birthday.

An internally set English HL Paper 1, for Grade 10 (IEB). Written in June 2019 This IEB formatted, English HL Grade 11 exam paper is intended to be used with the the video lesson, available on the ‘Mrs M teaches English’ YouTube channel. Link to the video lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm5eaADASso A word of caution: this paper is freely available and your students will have access to it. It should be used for revision purposes only, NOT for formal mark collection and NOT as an SBA portfolio piece.

Students select a film to study and analyse. They are required to write guided notes on the chosen film, analyse a key scene, design a ‘one pager’ that illustrates their understanding of the film and write a formal movie review.

Inspired by the popular ‘This I believe’ American radio broadcasts, students are asked to reflect on the core beliefs that underpin their lives. There are pre-writing and drafting activities, leading to the writing of a 500 - 600 word essay on the topic. Links to suitable video clips are provided. There is a rubric for assessing the final essays.

A guided essay task, in which students select an event that happened on the day and month of their birth. They research the event and then turn an aspect of it into historical fiction.

Students are allocated a contemporary poet. They have to select one poem and design a 30-minute lesson in which they teach their classmates about the poet and the poem.

An essay task for Grade 12 students in the South African English Home Language IEB curriculum. Students work through a number of talking points / starter activities and then write their own ‘Hero’s Journey’ story. This is suitable for the ‘Extended Writing’ section of the SBA (school-based assessment) portfolio.

Three worksheets that introduce the students to the 'back stories' of Andy Capp, Hagar the Horrible and Redeye, while revising visual literacy, humour and general language knowledge (such as punctuation).

An internally set English HL Paper 1, for Grade 11 (IEB). Written in June 2019 This IEB formatted, English HL Grade 11 exam paper is intended to be used with the the video lesson, available on the ‘Mrs M teaches English’ YouTube channel. Link to the video lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDH50WwUq3U A word of caution: this paper is freely available and your students will have access to it. It should be used for revision purposes only, NOT for formal mark collection and NOT as an SBA portfolio piece.

A structured approach to writing a persuasive essay - on any topic that the student holds dear. The task is set for the South African IEB curriculum, but is suited to anyone teaching writing at a Grade 10, 11 or 12 level.

Students analyse a newspaper article and photograph (showing the rivalry / bad sportsmanship between Arsene Wenger & Jose Mourinho). They are tasked with writing a letter, advising on how the conflict can be resolved.

A middle school oral & writing assignment. Pupils are asked to design their ideal school (oral activity). Afterwards, they write the agenda & minutes of a meeting in which their plans are discussed by stakeholders in the process.

An assignment for senior pupils, who undertake a week-long job shadowing / work experience assignment.

Lists of high frequency words for senior high school students to study for a quiz every few weeks.

An essay topic for Middle School pupils in which they are required to write a narrative essay - using topics from their Social Sciences or Natural Sciences textbooks.

A collection of QR codes, linking students and teachers to videos and online lessons on all the poems in the South African IEB (Independent Examination Board) English Home Language poetry curriculum for 2021 and 2022. The poems (as titled in the anthology ‘Clusters’) are: Love’s Farewell (Sonnet 61) - Michael Drayton To Althea, from Prison - Richard Lovelace To the Night - Percy Bysshe Shelley Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson My Last Duchess - Robert Browning Refugee Blues - WH Auden The Cry of South Africa - Olive Schreiner Penguin on the Beach - Ruth Miller Touch - Hugh Lewin Portrait of a Loaf of Bread - Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali Lost or Found World - Mongane Wally Serote I Have My Father’s Voice - Chris van Wyk The Tenant - Na Ngulube Nightsong City - Dennis Brutus Assassination - Don L. Lee Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen No longer mourn for me when I am dead - William Shakespeare The wind begun to rock the grass - Emily Dickinson nobody loses all the time - ee cummings

This is a virtual library, where pupils can look through book titles and watch video recommendations by clicking on the covers. This was made for my students in the South African IEB curriculum, who have to read an additional seven novels for the independent reading requirements.