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 | Apr 30, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Poetry, Sensory Language, Technical Terms
What is sensory langauge?It’s description that appeals to the five senses in a noticeable way.e.g.Images flashed at the front of the room: smashed up forests smouldering, hillsides washed away in swirling brown mud, seabirds flapping in oil, flames sweeping across...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, KS3, Sensory Language, Setting
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Context: The main character, Marlow, is travelling into a remote part of the Congo to recover an employee of his company, Kurtz, who has ‘gone native’. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization (of...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | Animal Farm, Common Entrance, Corruption of Ideals, GCSE, KS3, Model Essays
How does Orwell use the different characters and structure of the book to portray the corruption of ideals in Animal Farm?Orwell originally titled the novel ‘Animal Farm: A Fairy Story’. It can also be described as a fable as it is a morality tale where...
by melaniewp | Apr 29, 2013 | Common Entrance, Complex Sentences, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Writing
This is a lesson I did specifically for a student aged 13-14, who wanted to know how he could improve his writing level. We took a story that he had written for homework using pathetic fallacy. Most of his sentences started with a noun or pronoun. This is the...
by melaniewp | Apr 29, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Fragments, GCSE, Grammar, IGCSE, KS3, Punctuation, Technical Terms, Writing
A Fragment – is ‘an incomplete sentence’. In other words, it’s a sentence without a subject or a verb. What is the effect of using a fragment?[1] Sometimes this gives the effect of confusion, ragged thoughts. The incompleteness...
