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Read the following extract from Chapter 5 of Great Expectations and then answer the question that follows.At this point in the novel, Joe and Pip have just accompanied the soldiers as...

In this blog, we are going to explore the following:1. How to motivate reluctant writers 2. How to encourage children to expand their answers 3. How to magpie ideas.1. How to m...

Critical Thinking is important in almost all subjects. But what is it? One way into understanding critical thinking is to consider how we read a newspaper article, whether we trust ...

Fronted adverbialsAdverbials are used like adverbs. They are words or phrases that add more information to a verb, and explain how, when or where something happened.Fronted adverbials...

ExtractRight in the middle there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on its back and beheld the face of Edward Hyde. He ...

Reading is essential to make your child succeed at an English exam.But how to get your child to read? Children do nor always read what you want them to read. They prefer browsing the ...

In Sophocles Antigone, the audience s identification with Creon is heightened two fold, by demonstrating that he has free will, my opinion has come round to this, 2 and by ...

A noun is the name of a person, place or thing!There are five types of noun!Firstly we have: Proper NounsSecondly we have: Common NounsThirdly we have: Abstract NounsFourthly we have:...

Colons SemicolonsColons and semicolons are some of the most feared, omitted and misused punctuation marks in the history of English grammar. From children who never learn to use them...

Goblin Market and Addiction InterpretationContextIn the Victiorian era there was a growing awareness of the addiction of laudanum and opium although they were considered miracle cures...