Francis Gilbert
Teaching
Materials for students to download
Year 8
- 8.4 Lesson in ICT room on writing a speech on refugees
- 8.6 lessons and homework for FGI
- A sample of Alem's diary by a pupil in Year 8
- DAYS 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 ON THE SHIP
- Debate and wide reading homework
- Finishing off your script on The Ship
- How to write a review of Refugee Boy
- ICT Travel Brochure for 8.6
- Improving Argumentative Writing By Using Connectives
- Lesson about the chatshow based on Refugee Boy and homework
- Lesson and homework for 1st March
- Lessons and homework from 20th February
- Reality TV -- is it 'real' or not? Writing To Analyse, Review and Comment
- Review of Refugee Boy
- Summary of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner from Wikipedia
- The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
- The Ship -- a Reality TV script based on the Ancient Mariner for 8.6
- The Ship -- A Reality TV show based on 'The Ancient Mariner'
- Travel brochure based on The Ancient Mariner
- Wide Reading project on books by authors from different cultures
Year 9
- A review of 'Lean On Me'
- Acris
- Across The Barricades Classwork and Homework, tasks written by FGI
- Comprehension questions on Chapter 2 "Of Mice and Men"
- ENGLISH TESTS 2005 Top Tips
- Lessons for 9.2 from 20th February
- Research Homework on Northern Ireland
- Revising writing and reading at KS3
- Revision Homework
- Richard III homework
- SATS preparation for the Reading Paper and homework
- Writing to advise and persuade
- Year 9 revision lesson using BBC bitesize website
- Year 9 Romeo and Juliet quiz
Year 10
- Literary Heritage and Imaginative Writing -- a mock exam
- 666 -- a short story by a Year 10 Pupil, Richard Bounds
- Homework on The Tall Wife and Short Husband
- Leela's Friend
- Lessons and homework from 20th February
- Mock exam for English Lit 1914 texts
- Mock exam question on ‘The Winter Oak’
- Mock exam questions on War Poetry (ii) Opening Lines
- Mock exam questions on ‘Opening Worlds’ – Games at Twilight, The Red Ball, The Train From Rhodesia
- Mock Paper for English Literary Heritage
- Questions on Spring Offensive and Spring in Wartime
- Reading Act 1 of Death Of Salesman
- Reading Lesson on Death Of Salesman
- Revision booklet for Easter Holidays and Presentation
- Revision on War Poems
- Revision questions for GCSE Year 10 exam -- Literature
- The Red Ball -- homework quesitons
- The Story Of My Life
- The Winter Oak and Silver Pieces homework
- The Young Couple
- Train to Rhodesia question
Year 11
- Chapter 37 Homework
- Chapter 37 Homework
- Chapters 39-42 Far From The Madding Crowd
- Character exam questions with notes
- Comparing book extracts -- same subject, different author
- Exam extract question on 'Far From The Madding Crowd'
- Exam questions on Romeo and Juliet for Year 11 exam
- Lesson on the Red Ball
- Lessons and homework from 20th February
- Marked answer to mock exam question on Far From The Madding Crowd
- Mock English Literature Exam – OCR GCSE May 2007
- Mock exam question for Different Cultures exam, paper 2 English
- Mock exam questions on Far From The Madding Crowd
- Opening Worlds -- Exam Preparation and Homework
- Quiz questions on Far From The Madding Crowd for the OCR exam
- Revision exercise on learning media techniques for Unit 1 GCSE exam
- Revision questions on both GCSEs -- English and English Literature
- Romeo and Juliet Homework
- The Red Ball -- lesson and homework
- Writing to argue, persuade and advise and writing to analyse, review and comment
- Writing to persuade, argue and advise: write a letter to a friend of your parents...
- Year 11 lessons since February 20th
- Year 11 revision booklet -- write your own using these notes
Year 12
- Analysing school websites for Language and Technology and Language and Occupation
- Exam question on Accent and Dialect.
- Exam question on Accent and Dialects
- Hard Times Exam questions
- How To Write A Screenplay
- Investigation into School Websites for English Language
- Language and Occupational Groups exam question
- Language and Power mock question -- The PM and David Cameron
- Language and social contexts -- taboo language
- Language and Technology -- the language of television
- Language and Technology and homework
- Language and technology exam questions
- Lesson and homework on Internet Chatrooms, Synchronous and Asynchronous
- Lessons and homework from 20th February
- Mock exam question on accent and dialect: Cockney Rhyming Slang
- Mock exam question on language and occupation: an advert for a chef
- Mock exam question on language and technology -- text messaging
- Mock exam question on language and technology: radio phone-in
- Sample answers for AQA English Language AS and A2 Level
- Sample answers on Module 2 exam questions
- Speaking and Listening Investigation A2
- Teaching speaking and listening DfES research paper
- The Art Of Book Reviewing
- The Language of television, soap operas, live commentaries
- The Language of Web Pages, using Grice's Maxims, and homework
- Uesful websites for Accent and Dialects
- Useful resourches and websites for Language and Technology
- Useful websites for Speaking and Listening
- Useful websites on Child Language Acquisition
- War Assembly
- Year 12 English Language – Reading Investigation
Year 13
- Answers for Key Terminology Quiz for A2
- AQA answer for A Level English Language June 2007, question 3, language change
- Child Language Acquisition Project on Children's Reading books
- Child Language Mock Exam Question 2 by FGI/Myszor
- English Language Revision quiz on Acquisition
- English Language Test Question 1 of Unit 6, Child Language Acquisition
- Exam practice on January 2004 AQA B paper and homework
- Exam Practice – Language Acquisition Paper January 2004
- Exam question on Language Acquisition
- Going beyond Chomsky and Skinner in Language Acquisition -- Notes and question adapted from Myszor
- Guidelines for Language Investigation
- H G response to mock Child Language Acquisition exam question with teacher comments
- Halliday's Functions of Language in the Child Language Acquisition Debate (by Nick Christodoulou)
- Heather and Sarah's Powerpoint on CLA theories
- Homework on Child Language Acquistion, a mini investigation into children's writing
- June 2007 St. John’s Wort Language Change Question AQA Spec B English Language -- student answer
- Key Terminology Quiz for A2
- Language Acquisition – Frank Myszor: Framing questions about language acquisition
- Lessons and homework from 20th February
- Model exam question on Child Language Acquisition
- Notes on Unit 3-5 of Myszor
- Revision questions for Language Acquisition Unit 6
- Scheme of work for 13A English Language
- Social Contexts and Child Language Acquisition
- STUDENT ANSWER JUNE 2007 Question 1 Unit 6 -- Child Language Acquisition
- The Passionate Shepherd and the Nymph's Reply
- The Stages of Language Acquisition
- Useful website for grammar exercises
- Useful website for language change plus excellent quiz
- Useful websites for Child Language Acquisition
Year 10 -- Death Of A Salesman
- Act II -- writing Willy's diary after he has been sacked by Howard
- Exam questions on Death Of A Salesman
- Homework
- Write Biff’s diary for the restaurant scene in Act Two of Death Of A Salesman.
Romeo and Juliet
- A Year 11 student's essay on Romeo and Juliet
- Compare Romeo and Juliet’s different attitudes towards love in the play -- a pupils essay with teacher comments
- Exam questions on 'Romeo and Juliet' with page references for quotes
- Exam questions on Romeo and Juliet for revision
- PUPIL ESSAY: What do you think that Shakespeare is trying to say about the feud in this play?
- Pupil essay: Youth and Age. Should Friar Lawrence and the Nurse have been more careful about the way they encouraged Romeo and Juliet's love? To what extent does Shakespeare present them as being to blame?
- Revision Quiz for Romeo and Juliet
- To what extent does Shakespeare present Capulet as being to blame for the death of his daughter? A pupil's essay with teacher comments
Opening Worlds
- Lesson on Red Ball and Pieces of Silver from Opening Worlds, and sample essay
- Writing an essay on Games at Twilight and The Young Couple
Year 11 -- Town and Country Poetry
- Chinwe Nnaijuba's excellent notes on the poems
- Comparing On Wenlock Edge and Beeny Cliff -- MOCK EXAM QUESTION
- Comparing poems from Town and Country -- working in the computer room
- Comparing poems from Town and Country by FGI 8th December 2005
- Comparing the Song Of The Shirt and A Dead Harvest -- homework
- Comparing ‘London’ and ‘The World’ -- MOCK EXAM QUESTION
- Mock exam questions for 2007 exam
- More mock exam questions
- Revision test on poems
- Tom Paulin's analysis of London
- Town and Country Poetry Comprehension Questions
- Year 11 Poetry Project
Year 11 re-sit revision
- GCSE Mock Exam – Paper 2: Different Cultures, Argument and Analysis
- Media Paper 1 revision
- Media, Non-Fiction and Information revision
- Mock exam question for Different Cultures exam, paper 2 English
- Mock exam questions and B grade answer
- Mock exams for Media and Different Cultures
- Non-fiction, Media and Information GCSE English exam – mock question
- The Winter Oak – Mock GCSE Paper 2 question
- Uesful websites for revision
Year 12 English Literature
- A thematic approach to the Edexcel Anthology
- Dreams and Yearning -- Yeats' dreamy love poetry
- Hard Times Revision Pack
- July 2004 Exam Questions on 'Translations'
- Practice questions for Units 1 and 2
- Preparation for Translations Unit 1 exam questions
- Revision questions for AS units 1 and 2
- Spirits in the Material World -- a homework project to prepare for studying Yeats
- The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland -- notes and comprehension questions
- The Raging Embittered Old Man – Yeats’ later short poems
Revision booklets for Years 10 and 11 English
- Death of A Salesman Revision Booklet
- Far From The Madding Crowd Revision Extracts and Questions
- Far From The Madding Crowd Short revision questions Chapters 1-24.
- Far From The Madding Crowd Short revision questions Chapters 25-
- Opening Worlds Stories Revision Booklet
- Revision Project on Far From The Madding Crowd
- Town and Country Poetry revision
- War Poetry revision booklet Year 10 and 11
Year 13 English Literature
- Elegy Written in a County Churchyard -- notes on poem
- Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot -- notes on poem
- Past Papers Summer 2004
- Past Questions for Poetry Pre-1770
- Poetic Terms – Glossary
- Unit 6 June 2003 Edexcel Questions for Synoptic Paper
- Unseen poetry questions
- Unseen prose
- Winter 2004 Past Papers
Websites for teachers
Villiers Park
- Definitions for labels
- Developing good reading and investigative skills:
- G and T task based on satirical poem about a popular tourist site
- Games to play with Language Cards
- Giving able students a solid theoretical foundation: establishing key concepts without fostering rigid, inflexible thinking. Contexts and pragmatics. Applying terminology.
- Great film website by Villiers Park veteran James Tatham
- Labels for Language Games
- More words for albels
- Teaching linguistic theory: applying linguistic theory to data and texts.
- The New A Levels
Reading lists
Year 7 -- New National Curriculum Sept 2008
- Homework project for DICKENS -- a CHARLES DICKENS scrap book
- Language Change Homework Project
- Long term plan
- Medium term planning DICKENS
- Medium term planning LANGUAGE CHANGE
- Medium term planning MEDIA
- Medium term planning PLAYS
- Medium term planning POETRY FROM OTHER CULTURES
- Medium term planning SPY FILE
- Mid term planning template