English Resources (page 35)

“Lear enters Act 3 the least introspective of Shakespeare’s protagonists but leaves it a man who, immersed in the cauldron of internal and external turmoil, develops, or at l...

CHALLENGES OF VOCABULARIES ON STUDENTS AND HOW TO COUNTER THEMVocabulary size predicts comprehension, but learning new words is especially hard for students who come to school with...

Good teaching practice is a key influence on student learning. In order to give students high-level teaching performance, teachers should partly think as learners. To begin with, th...

The notion of sight having powerful and moving effects can be considered a common trope within Middle English literature. This is partially due to the ideas of sensory perception w...

Picture yourself, standing still in the middle of a very busy Victoria Station and not understanding English too well. Silently, for two minutes. You hear the noise of voices you d...

Central to Virginia Woolf s Jacob s Room is the character of Jacob. The title takes his name and throughout the novel we see him from multiple different characters perspecti...

What are Phonics?Phonics is simply a way of teaching children to read intuitively and quickly. By breaking words down to the sounds of letters and letter combinations, these sounds ca...

The role of technology today has expanded the learning environments beyond classrooms, which has resulted in more responsibilities for the teachers and more independence to the learne...

Thoughts of perfectibility were surrounded by much controversy and excitement for Victorian England. It was widely agreed that the existential industrial growth in Britain at the time...

A careful look at Jack Kerouac s On the Road brings the concept of excessive pleasure to the forefront, changing the tone of this particular extract from light-hearted fun to someth...