English Resources (page 5)

Analysing poetry - how to start!Highlight the key words from the question, then read the title and the poem carefully thinking about words and phrases that are relevant to the questi...

Your teachers and tutors might be asking you to write PETAL paragraphs? If this is proving to be a bit of a struggle, try out these sentence starters!POINTThroughout the text/novel/p...

Vocab Adjectives lithe, skulking, myriad, inimitable, salientAdverbs sullenly, dejectedly, serenely, spitefully, indeliblyVerbs saunter, cajole, chrysalise, ensconce, c...

One of the things students find most challenging is how to put their words on paper. When you have a conversation with students about the texts they study, their knowledge is often mu...

The term COMPOSITION according to Wikipedia comes from the Latin ; com "with" and ponere "place".As part of our BASIC PRINCIPLES series I am developing the imp...

An Introduction to William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare is widely considered to be one of the greatest playwrights in the history of the English language. Born in 1564 in the town o...

Co-ordinating conjunctions are words used to join main clauses (ideas that make sense on their own) to create a compound sentence. Co-ordinating conjunctions include: for, and, nor, ...

Write a paragraph about how Stephenson creates mystery and setting in the `Search for Mr Hyde` chapter. Here`s an example:In this chapter, Stevenson creates an atmosphere of mystery ...

A fundamental skill to ace any English examination is to understand and recognise the literary devices being used by a writer. This informs the examiner that you have knowledge of lit...

There is a simple common mistake made by teachers and students up and down the UK when studying GCSE English Literature texts.Making this mistake limits responses to the lower end of ...