Extensive coverage of the curriculum for KS4 English Language
Explore English Language with comprehensive and varied teaching material. In this role-playing activity, students are asked to respond to a variety of questions and scenarios as a chosen character. Boardworks ensures you have all the resources you need, whatever exam board you follow.
- Boardworks KS4 English Language is mapped to the 2010 GCSE specifications for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC.
- The resources focus on preparing students for Controlled Assessment and are mapped to Functional Skills.
- A unit on Spoken Language Study supports you in fulfilling the 2010 specifications.
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. The interactive menu system makes it straightforward to find and select the material you want to teach, as well as a host of supporting documents.
- Each presentation begins with editable learning objectives, making it easy for you to adapt the lesson aims to the needs of your students.
- Differentiated, editable worksheets cater for a range of abilities.
- Each presentation is split into bite-sized chunks that are easily digestible for teacher and student alike.
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. As shown on this slide, stimulating materials are prepared for you, but they can also be edited and adapted to the ability of your class.
- Interesting and varied resources support core learning objectives and develop essential skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening.
- Attention-grabbing audio clips, fun interactives and editable worksheets stimulate students of all learning styles and abilities.
- Teacher's notes guide and support you through all aspects of the course.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the technological and creative potential of your whiteboard and other classroom IT by engaging your students in inspiringly interactive lessons. Open-ended activities inspire debate and encourage students of all abilities to participate and develop their critical thinking.
- Approximately one in three 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 Language with interesting, thought-provoking and easily-recalled activities. Students are asked to read the newspaper article on this slide and identify language features typical of the text type. To aid their analysis, students can then press on highlights in the activity to reveal some suggested answers.
- Encourage students to explore key topics and concepts in more detail with powerful animations, imaginative games and open-ended exercises.
- A wealth of licensed articles, adverts and videos help to engage students and contextualise content in Boardworks KS4 English Language.
- Example videos in the 'Speaking and Listening' unit demonstrate the key skills required in the presenting and listening and discussing Controlled Assessment tasks.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks English, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. This audio-enhanced slide, for instance, contains everything you need to get students thinking about non-standard English.
- 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 enhance lessons in a multitude of ways. Teacher's notes provide useful tips and ideas for presenting the information on the slides, extension activities and suggested answers.
- Detailed contents documents serve as handy reference guides and are great for lesson planning.
- Dozens of comprehensive worksheets underpin learning and allow students to work on a subject independently and at their own pace.
Engaging summary material
Round up your lessons with motivational and wide-ranging summary material. In this activity, students are encouraged to self-assess their performances throughout KS4 English Language. This slide also has an accompanying worksheet.
- Innovative review material helps students to master each topic and facilitates revision.
- Multiple-choice plenaries and evaluative games consolidate students’ learning in a fun and engaging way.
