Sensory Description This is another great tool that will help you to establish sense of place and sensory description: here Imagery Imagery is a powerful tool in a writer's arsenal. Whether you decide to make explicit comparisons (through simile) or implicit comparisons (through metaphor), you can draw upon a range of connotation already held by [...]
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Legacy of the UAE: English and Arabic Roots
Look at the English words below. Seven of them have roots in the Arabic language and three have roots in other languages. Your task is to: Find out which words have roots in Arabic using the links below. Decide which word with Arabic roots you think is most useful in English and explain why on [...]
ESL: English and Czech
English as a Second Language Resources for students translated into Czech
‘Of Mice and Men’ Quotations
These follow a similar style and purpose as the 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Quotation Retention Challenge cards posted here and here. They can be used in class for analysis, as part of self-quizzing and for display material.
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
A compendium of useful links, exemplar material, resources and home learning: Introduction and Context: British Library Overview of 'Ode to a Nightingale' Exemplar Analysis on the theme of Transience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N6KctWeXLs
To Kill a Mockingbird Revision: Indicative Content
Using past papers and their indicative content are an excellent way to prepare for examinations; pre-planning responses which with any luck will come up in the actual exam. Here are three different sets of indicative content from the old spec Edexcel examinations which we have discussed and annotated as a class. These have formed comprehensive [...]
What beginning to learn Arabic has taught me about teaching ‘English as a Second Language’
Our school is wonderfully tight-knit which comes from the small through-school qualities and has fostered more primary/secondary collaborations than I had experienced in the UK. As an English teacher, my day-to-day teaching was greatly affected by the change in cohort comparably: my previous UK schools were in deprived areas with predominantly white working-class families with [...]
Lit Crit Postcards – The Tempest
Stretch and Challenge Material 'Postcards from the Dead' Literacy Criticism for Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'
