Complete A-level English language grammar lesson on verb phrases. Includes slide presentation and worksheet with exercises (answers included in slide presentation). The lesson covers: grammatical person grammatical number active and passive voice of verbs verb tense (past, present and future) verb aspect (progressive, perfective and perfect progressive)

Course notes to explain relevant aspects of grammar and lexis to students of A-Level English Language.

Provides detailed explanations of the 9 word classes along with examples. It’s designed to be printed on the front and back of a single sheet of A4, and both colour and black and white versions are included (to make allowance for photocopying budgets at different schools). A useful resource for the cost of a cup of coffee! If you find this useful, please leave a review.

Complete lesson covering aspects of phonology and phonetics for A-level English Language as well as A-level English Language and Literature Combined. Lesson covers the following: Consonants voicing place of articulation manner of articulation glottal stops Vowels monophthongs diphthongs Phonetic transcription using the IPA (with practice exercise) Sound iconicity lexical onomatopoeia non-lexical onomatopoeia alliteration consonance assonance sibilance

Complete lesson designed for students taking A-level English Language as well as A-level English Lang/Lit Combined. Slideshow covers the following: schema, face theory, politeness theory (positive face, negative face, face-threatening acts), the cooperative principle, Grice’s maxims, implicature, deixis (personal, spatial, temporal).

Complete lesson covering terms and concepts linked to the language level of semantics. Designed for students taking A-level Language as well as A-level Language and Literature Combined. The lesson covers the following: literal language vs. figurative language figures of speech (metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, metaphor, simile, personification) denotation connotation synonyms and antonyms hypernyms and hyponyms semantic fields semantic change (ameiloration, pejoration, broadening, narrowing and semantic reclamation)

Complete lesson on language levels with slide show, printable exercise sheet (answers included in slide show), and printable notes for teacher and/or students. Designed for use with both A-level English language and A-level English language and literature combined classes. Introduces students to the following language levels: lexis, grammar, discourse, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, graphology. Also explains and provides students with practice in identifying the following sentence elements: subject, copular verb, main verb, subject complement, direct object, indirect object, object complement, adverbial.

Two-part lesson on written and spoken discourse, designed for students taking A-level English Language as well as students taking A-level English Language and Literature combined. The first slideshow (focusing on written discourse) covers: mode genre structure cohesion and referencing (exophoric, endophoric, anaphoric and cataphoric) intertextuality interdiscursivity The second slideshow (focusing on spoken discourse) covers: turn taking adjacency pairs phatic expressions back-channelling false starts fillers repairs ellipsis

Two lessons on Seamus Heaney’s ‘Digging’ (day 1 - reading and analysing, day 2 - discussing student findings), designed for students studying the Poetic Voices portion of the AQA A-level Language and Literature Combined course. Also includes a slideshow explaining the format and mark scheme for the *Poetic Voices *assessment (Paper 1, Section C)

I created this matching exercise for my students in A-Level Language and also in A-Level Combined Language and Literature, who were confident in applying literary terms to texts but who consistently neglected to apply language terminology in their analyses. We’ve drilled on this a few times now, and I’m starting to see more confident application of these terms. I’ll continue to use this exercise as a starter activity from time to time to keep these terms at the front of their minds.

Worksheet with explanation of the concept and 3 different exercises: Adding punctuation to sentences that contain noun phrases in apposition; Removing unnecessary uses of ‘who’ and ‘which’ to transform relative clauses into noun phrases in apposition; Combining sentences to create new sentences with nouns phrases in apposition. This resource can be used as the basis of an in-class lesson or as revision homework.

Each card includes key events from one scene in the play. Students arrange the cards in the correct order (either on the A3 placemat provided or in their exercise books, whichever you prefer). This provides an engaging and fun way to revise the plot of the drama. The task can be completed individually or in groups, allowing for friendly competition either way. The scene cards have been organised so that this task can be a two-lesson activity or a one-lesson activity: As a two-lesson activity, students arrange the scenes of the first two acts after they finish reading Act II, then arrange the remaining scenes in another lesson once they have finished reading the play. As a single-lesson activity, students arrange the scenes of the entire play at once (after reading the play in its entirety). Several different levels of challenge are provided; simply select and print the level that suits your students.

Explanations and examples of the different types of subordinate clause. Copies are available in colour or black and white to accommodate printing capabilities and budgets in different settings.

Explanations and examples of main and subordinate clauses as well as simple, compound and complex sentences.

Explains and provides examples of the five phrase classes (prepositional phrases, adjective phrases, adverb phrases, noun phrases and verb phrases). It further explains how prepositional phrases can function as adverbials (fronted and not) as well as post-modifiers in noun phrases. I’ve uploaded colour as well as black & white versions to suit different printing budgets and toner/ink levels at different schools.

Complete lesson which includes a slide show explaining concepts to students, a printable worksheet with exercises for practice (answers included in slide show) and a printable knowledge organiser (in both colour and black and white). Focus of the lesson is on lexis and identifying these 9 word classes within texts: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, determiner, interjection.

A series of peer editing sheets for use across the curriculum, designed to develop writing proficiency without sacrificing attention to subject-specific content. Worksheets are differentiated into bronze, silver and gold levels, with increasingly challenging targets for each level in organisation, grammar, punctuation and use of language. There are separate sheets for explanatory, instructional and persuasive writing. Students simply follow the instructions on the sheet, looking for specific features in their partner's work and circling the corresponding recommendations accordingly. No specialist knowledge is required on the part of the classroom teacher. For teachers in Wales, the targets are in line with those of the National Literacy and Numeracy Framework, with bronze targets aligning with the objectives for year 7, silver matching those of year 8 and gold matching those of year 9.

A series of peer editing sheets for use after students have finished drafting descriptive or narrative texts. Sheets are organised into Bronze, Silver and Gold levels with increasingly challenging criteria included in each. Criteria are based on the Literacy and Numeracy Framework for Wales, with Bronze corresponding to Year 7, Silver to Year 8 and Gold to Year 9 expectations.

Question paper, source insert and and mark scheme with exemplar response samples plus response planning grids for each question to help students prepare answers as well as DIRT sheets to help you provide feedback more quickly. The source text is an extract from The Call of the Wild by Jack London. As always, please leave a positive review if you find this resource helpful to help spread the word!