Extensive coverage of the curriculum for KS4 English
Explore English with comprehensive and varied teaching material. This slide from the Romeo and Juliet unit is editable so you can adapt the material to suit the needs and abilities of your students. Attractive artwork helps students to visualise characters and brings stories to life.
- There will be two resources available for teaching KS4 English: KS4 English Language and KS4 English Literature. Both will be mapped to the major 2010 GCSE specifications for GCSE English Language, GCSE English Literature and GCSE English.
- The resources will focus on preparing students for Controlled Assessment and are mapped to functional skills.
Well-organised resources for whatever you're teaching
All presentations are logically structured and contain a wealth of material to help you get the most from your lessons. Clearly defined and editable learning objectives at the beginning of every presentation enable you to convey the aims of each lesson to your class in a straightforward way.
- The comprehensive interactive menu system makes it straightforward to find and select the material you want to teach, and easily incorporate it into your lesson structure.
- Differentiated worksheets cater for a range of abilities, helping you to adapt the lessons to the needs of your class.
- Photographs, web links and contextual information provide useful examples and maintain class interest.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are fully prepared and contain a wide variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. Use this interactive slide to create a character study of Curley's wife from Of Mice and Men.
- Interesting and varied resources support core learning objectives and develop essential skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening.
- Innovative interactives, attention-grabbing audio clips, editable worksheets and whole-class activities represent ready-to-use resources that stimulate your students.
- Teacher's notes guide and support you through all aspects of the course.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the technological and creative potential of your whiteboard by engaging your students in inspiringly interactive lessons. Packed with dozens of interactive quizzes, games, whole-class activities and brand-new audio clips, Boardworks will engage and inspire all your students.
- Approximately one in four slides is enriched with interactive content.
- Colourful animations and engaging artwork convey key ideas in a visually-appealing and easily-relatable way.
- Numerous audio clips inspire your students and improve speaking and listening skills.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Explore all aspects of English with interesting, thought-provoking and easily-recalled activities. This audio-enhanced interactive, for instance, contains everything you need to get students thinking about non-standard English.
- Encourage students to explore key topics and concepts in more detail with powerful animations, imaginative games and open-ended exercises.
- Many interactives are enhanced with illustrations, photographs and audio clips to help underpin learning.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks English, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. Typical slides, like this one about spoken language, can be used flexibly, either as they are, or adapted with examples and questions more suited to the abilities of your class.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Exercises and activities can be used flexibly to support your own teaching methods and perfectly fit the abilities of your students.
Additional teaching support
Information-packed additional resources accompany many presentations and complement and enhance lessons in a multitude of ways. Hundreds of comprehensive worksheets underpin learning and allow students to work on a subject independently and at their own pace.
- Detailed contents documents serve as handy reference guides and are great for lesson planning.
- Teacher's notes provide useful tips and ideas for presenting the information on the slides, extension activities and suggested answers.
- Suggested extension activities like this one for Touching the Void provide opportunities to stretch higher ability students.
Engaging summary material
Round up your lessons with motivational and wide-ranging summary material. This sorting plenary activity consolidates students' understanding of the structure of an effective presentation, preparing them for their Speaking and Listening Controlled Assessment. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a topic from start to finish.
- Innovative review material helps students to master each topic and facilitates revision.
- End-of-topic quizzes, multiple choice plenaries and evaluative games definitively cover the entire content of the course.