George Orwell's Essays: Shooting an Elephant
This week, we are publishing teaching materials for the study of George Orwell’s essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’. This is arguably Orwell's most well known essay, and it forms part of a series of pages on...
Do You Speak Emoji?
At the beginning of the course, you may want to run a quick lesson (or two) about a concept – language change in this instance – that helps you identify or quickly assess your student’s analytical abilities....
George Orwell's Essays: A Hanging
This week, we are publishing teaching materials for the study of George Orwell’s essay ‘A Hanging’. This is often regarded as his first important essay, and it forms part of a series of pages on the literary...
Paper 1 Practice Exam – Round 3
In this week's update, we’ve added three more Paper 1 Practice Exams. You can find them linked below. Paper 1 Practice Exam: Comic Paper 1 Practice Exam: Website Article Paper 1 Practice Exam: Online...
George Orwell's Essays: A Literary Work
Happy 2024 to all of you! Hopefully, many or most of you are still on a well-earned break from school as we publish this week's page. As many of you prepare to return to school - particularly in northern...
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Gender Stereotyping (Advertising)
While we have published many non-literary bodies of work, not everything we do in our Language and Literature classroom has to be tied to a body of work. In fact, once the Individual Oral and the Higher...
Discussing Tone
This week, we have published a few straightforward and engaging activities to help students better identify and discuss tone. Subscribers can find the page here. As we approach the end of 2023, those...
Best Books - July - December 2023
Over the last six months, my nonfiction reading ended up being about either trying to live forever - I'm exaggerating of course - or coming to terms with the end of life. I don’t know why I was drawn...
Time and Space: Thinking Pluralistically
As you are likely to know, time and space is one of three areas of exploration that guide the construction of the Language A: Language and Literature course. The areas of exploration are hardly discrete,...
May 2023 Paper 1 (No Diet, No Detox) - Two Exemplars and a Lesson Plan
This week, we are publishing two Paper 1 exemplars from the May 2023 time zone 2 exam. One of the exemplars is quite strong. The other model example is a typical or average response. While we can’t...