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Teachers' resources

This area is for teaching resources of all sorts: student exercises (written and practical); lesson plans; scripts suitable for use by high school students etc.

Recommended teaching resource sites

Teachit is well worth a visit. It contains practical resources compiled by English and Drama teachers in the UK these resources have been centrally collated and edited. Teachit shares a proportion of its subscription revenues with the teachers who contribute materials. The company works closely with the National Association for Teachers of English (NATE), is part of the National Grid for Learning, and is a Registered Content Provider and Retailer for Curriculum Online.

Cummings study guides especially Cummings Shakespeare study guide - Rated an A+ Shakespeare resource by Web English Teacher, an American Internet site. Recommended in England by the BBC, the British Library, the UK SchoolsNet, Universal Teacher, and the University of Birmingham. This site contains guides for every play and poem Shakespeare wrote, as well as literary works Shakespeare was reported to have have written. This site also includes essays, glossaries, quotations, historical background, a complete description and history of the Globe Theatre, and other information related to Shakespeare.

Shakespeare resource links

• Taming of the Shrew exercises from Teachit
  • A series of exercises that increase in difficulty and complexity leading up to an essay/assignment of the play in context.
  • The first exercises require very little preparation before presenting them in your lesson.
  • You can print this material and photocopy it for your lessons. It is rights-protected by teachit so you cannot copy or modify these pages.
    1. Prereading exercise on character
    2. A listening test on plot
    3. Annotation exercise for Katherina’s last speech.
    4. Text familiarization exercises prior to writing an essay includes:
       1. List of quotations and imagery exercise
       2. True and false statements regarding marriage supported by quotations
    5. Essay question: What does a modern audience learn about marriage and the roles of men and women in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew ?
    6. Detailed essay plan
    7. Assignment and assessment criteria
       

• Cummings Shakespeare study guide.

• Shakespeare quizzes (BBC) - fun quiz where participants find out which Shakespeare character they most resemble!

A Doll's House

• A Doll's House and View from a Bridge
  • An annotation exercise that explores use of language to convey characters sense of themselves and character development.
• A Doll’s House
  • Study questions and answers that give a basic description of some of the issues raised in the relationship between Torvald and Nora.
  • Essay questions.
    

Waiting for Godot

Lucky’s speech

Here are three versions of Lucky’s speech

1. film montage
2. stage performance (film)
3. written text
   

These online resources can be used to consider medium, relationship between text and audience etc or they can form a basis for a compare and contrast text question.

1. Film montage of Lucky’s speech

2. Stage version of Lucky’s speech (on film)

3. Written version of Lucky’s speech

Also contains a brief but interesting dotpoint analysis.

• Lucky's speech.

Pygmalion

• Exercises from Teachit
  • A selection of activities on social class in the play
  • Society and the play
  • Speech and language in the play
  • Summary spider diagram
  • The character of Alfred Doolittle
  • The character of Eliza
  • The character of Henry Higgins