English Resources (page 17)

A painful lesson Over four and a half million young people were due to sit their GCSEs and approximately 280,000 were meant to be taking A-level exams this summer. When the unpreced...

Looking back a few decades, rote learning was everywhere. Fast forward to 2020 and we`re steering away from it as much as possible. However, children in many schools are expected to l...

Crash! Bang! Splash! My pace quickened as I knew there was no escaping the bad weather. The thunder roared through the air I knew the heavy rain was approaching fast as the lightni...

To what extent are Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens conforming to Bildungsroman form in their aim to portray social mobility as a...

Love it or hate it (and plenty of students hate it), poetry will always be a part of GCSE English Literature. Why? Because poetry is probably the oldest written art form in the world ...

ACQUIRING ANY LANGUAGE EFFECTIVELY" Languages are acquired and not learned". Reason for this strange phrase is because we actually have to acquire any language we want to learn in ord...

Learning English Can Be Easy as PieFood and conversation go together like love and marriage they are a natural pairing, one that evokes home and comfort.That is exactly why the Free L...

We have all heard it s raining cats and dogs . There are many fun English idioms. You might be surprised to learn that native English speakers get a lot of them wrong! I ll g...

Learning English doesn t always have to involve big commitments and stressful social activities. Here are some ways you can make little improvements to your English every day:1. Wor...

In Binsey Poplars , the trees are presented as merciful beings. The short line, `not spared, not one` emphasises the innocence and helplessness of the trees and the brutality man...