by melaniewp | Feb 17, 2014 | AQA Controlled Assessment Creative Writing, Creative Writing, GCSE, IGCSE, Story Structure
Choose a location you’d find interesting like a tropical jungle, a city, ancient ruins or a mountain. Create two characters who would have a good reason to go there and make them hate each other for some reason. Think what they’re looking for, or being chased by; then...
by melaniewp | Feb 16, 2014 | 11 plus, 11+, Common Entrance, Complex Vocabulary, English Language, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, Learning Vocabulary, Vocabulary
rigid adj stiffindecision noun inability to decideingratitude noun not-grateful(ness)portray verb to show, depictresidue noun stuff left over, what remainsanew adv afreshsolemn adj seriousreluctant adj not keen (to do something)wanly adv palely (i.e. not...
by melaniewp | Feb 12, 2014 | 11 plus, 11+, Common Entrance, KS2, KS3, SPAG, Spelling
Test your spellings on these plurals. Do you add -s or change the ending to -ies?lady >cherry >donkey >berry >baby >monkey >abbey >journey >dictionary >library >
by melaniewp | Feb 11, 2014 | Analysis, Edexcel Anthology, Edexcel IGCSE English, GCSE, IGCSE, Poetry Analysis, Tiger Tiger, Tyger Tyger, William Blake
Get an A* analysis of William Blake’s poem ‘The Tiger’ (‘The Tyger’) below the full text of the poem.TIGER, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant...
by melaniewp | Feb 10, 2014 | Controlled Assessment, English Language, GCSE, Obama, Spoken Language, Winston Churchill
If you’re doing the spoken language controlled assessment, you might like to practice on this question about language and power. The two texts are: an Obama speech and Churchill’s speech, ‘We Will Fight them’.* *You’ll need to scroll to...
