by melaniewp | May 4, 2013 | 11+, Character, Common Entrance, Complex Vocabulary, Describing Words, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Mood, Unseen Poetry, Vocabulary
Get these words to improve your essay grades in English. Use them to describe mood, point of view and character, and also to build your own insults. Genius! Words with positive connotations are bold. Negative words are in italics. For every other word, it depends...
by melaniewp | May 3, 2013 | Common Entrance, Complex Vocabulary, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3
Boost your brainpower with this sublime collection of scintillating words. How many do you know already? Get the definitions below. This list is to print with students, sellotape to your wall or wherever you like. Bookmark this page so you can keep learning more!...
by melaniewp | May 1, 2013 | Blessing, GCSE, Gillian Clarke, IGCSE, Imtiaz Dharker, Limbo, October, Perch, Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Theme, Unseen Poetry
How to work out the theme of a poem… This baffles a lot of GCSE and IGCSE students, so here’s a lesson we did on how to work out the theme in poetry. This is important if you have an unseen poetry exam. What is the theme of:[1] The poem...
by melaniewp | May 1, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Lord of the Flies, LOTF Key Quotations
Get a super-detailed set of the most important quotes for The Sound of the Shell. Discover how Golding introduces all the main characters, themes and creates mood and atmosphere at the start of the novel. I’ve sorted them by theme and character and there’s...
