I've been teaching English for over twenty years now. Let me share with you the game-changer that I've discovered this year... vocabulary PowerPoints. Classes love being read to, and whilst GCSE students 'should' be able to read chapters of a set text themselves, you need to know that they've done it properly - that they've … Continue reading GCSE: ‘Lord of the Flies’ Vocabulary
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TTT: Ten texts that I’ll be teaching this year
A little excerpt from my 'real' job as an English teacher.
Things to do during lockdown…
Take a school trip out of the country When I returned from a school trip to Berlin, a week before the schools closed and we all went into lockdown, I was a little bit apprehensive about just what was going to await us. Berlin had been like a ghost town in many places: tube stations … Continue reading Things to do during lockdown…