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Do you sometimes find TALKING about texts better than writing about them? Imagine being able to listen into a lively and original conversation about books or poems you need to write about.… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy, Owen Sheers, Robert Browning, Shakespeare, Tennyson and Mimi Khalvati! : Analysed in Ebook Conversations!
Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry deals with many different relationships, events and predicaments She is a time traveller fond of exploring the lost narratives of the past through a range of speakers and characters. If you… Read More »English Revision Bolton and Manchester: Carol Ann Duffy FREE Video-15 ideas to boost your essays !
You are probably in the middle of your English REVISION and are looking for QUICK and POWERFUL ways to improve the range of ideas you have for your final examinations. … Read More »Carol Ann Duffy’s Medusa, Before You Were Mine and Havisham on FREE VIDEO, Ebook and Kindle! NEW!!!
The last chapter of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men resolves the death of Curley’s wife through George’s humane killing of Lennie. George’s action protects Lennie from Curley’s pursuing vengeance-most likely involving torture… Read More »Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men:Analysis of the last Chapter with FREE VIDEO!
Here is a short video analysis of the last chapter of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird where I look closely at THREE quotations, offering at least FOUR very useful interpretations of the… Read More »Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mocking Bird: Analysis of the Last chapter-FREE VIDEO!
English Revision Tutorials offer you a powerful opportunity to tackle those problems in your English Studies that need sorting out. Are your essays a little vague or lacking in inspiration?… Read More »GCSE English Revision in Bolton and Manchester: Chapter 28 of To Kill A Mocking Bird.
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there… Read More »Browning’s My Last Duchess:Analysis- How does the characterization of the Duke affect you?
As part of my annual spring cleaning binge I decided that the living room bookshelves were long overdue a good dusting, and whilst balancing on top of a chair… Read More »Curiosity didn’t Kill the cat; it found it a great book! by Guest Writer Jenny Bennion.
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Examine the presentation of Susan Hill’s Woman in Black using just THREE quotations. This question needs careful organisation around just THREE moments in the text. These moments could be chronologically arranged so… Read More »The Woman in Black by Susan Hill : Analysis GCSE English-the malignancy of inconsolable mourning?
EASTER REVISION – NOT TO BE DREADED AND DEFINITELY NOT TOO EARLY! by Jenny Bennion You may be sat at home thinking that the summer exams are miles away (and… Read More »Easter Revision-not to be dreaded and definitely not too early!
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered… Read More »Shelley’s Ozymandias: Commentary/Analysis with THREE questions!
Q: How do you write effectively about Slim’s character in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men? A: The character of Slim in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men provides the reader with a… Read More »Of Mice and Men: Slim- Character and significance in Steinbeck’s novel(GCSE English Revision)
Quickdraw I wear the two, the mobile and the landline phones, like guns, slung from the pockets on my hips. I’m all alone. You ring, quickdraw, your voice a… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy QuickDraw : Analysis of AQA Anthology poem-NEW!!
Time and time again students ask how can they improve their writing and I always reply with the same imperative. READ! How simple and how empowering! Reading inspires you to… Read More »English Tutor Bolton and Manchester: Creative Writing the Saki way!
This still remains one of the most vivid and revealing dreams of my life! I woke up feeling so protective of my dream companion; deeply affected by the emotional power and resonance… Read More »Amore: A Perfect Night’s Dream For Valentine’s Day!
Who told my mother of my shame, Who told my father of my dear? Oh who but Maude, my sister Maude, Who lurked to spy and peer. Cold he lies,… Read More »”Sister Maude” by Christina Rossetti: Analysis of GCSE AQA Anthology poem.
Demeter had seen her. She had been waiting and now she had seen her.Of course Demeter knew that if she looked for the woman then the woman would not be… Read More »English Tuition Descriptive Writing: Manchester, Bolton and Bury- Demeter and the Golden Light.
I am hooked on Father Brown– currently drip feeding myself his adventures via the iplayer! This new interest has temporarily broken my fixation with another murderous area, Midsomer, whose perfect… Read More »English tuition Manchester and Bolton: The knowledgeable innocence of Father Brown.
I love writing six word tales. They have a intimate compression that ‘leaks’ drama and mystery, adding resonance to a simple idea so that the idea becomes wider and suggestive.… Read More »GCSE/GCE/Creative Writing Bolton and Manchester: Reflections on a Wolf sequence.
They shouted for me when their horses reared at the burning straw and eyes revolved in stately heads. I would pull a frog’s wishbone, tainted by meat, from a puch,… Read More »Andrew Forster ‘Horse Whisperer’ Analysis TWO: GCSE AQA English tutor Bolton, Manchester.
” ‘There they go,’ cried Constance, and then added in a gasp, ‘In Heaven’s name, what are they hunting?’ “It was certainly no mortal fox. It stood more than… Read More »GCSE/GCE English Tuition/Tutor Manchester, Bolton and Bury: Saki’s Esme-a surreal encounter.
They shouted for me when their horses snorted, when restless hooves traced circles in the earth and shimmering muscles refused the plough. My secret was a spongy tissue, pulled bloody… Read More »Andrew Forster The Horse Whisperer Analysis One: GCSE English tuition Manchester, Bolton and Bury
Demeter was walking in her favourite wood. She had left school for the dentist and then found no reason in her form diary to return that day. All the golden… Read More »GCSE/GCE English Tuition Bolton, Manchester and Bury: Demeter walks out.
At first there were just two. A pair of heavy hands that did things and then suddenly could do nothing at all. Looking back there, I am aware… Read More »GCSE/GCE Creative Writing Bolton, Manchester: HANDS-PROLOGUE.
The December bride who, bored with dancing, skipped from the castle hall to play hide-and-seek, a white bird flickering into the dark . . . The groom, who searched each… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy ‘The Mistletoe Bride’: Analysis of strangely haunting new poem. GCSE/GCE English tutor/tuition Bolton, Manchester.
Saddled with you for the afternoon,me and Paul ambled across the threadbare field to the bus stop, talking over Sheffield Wednesday’s chances in the cup while you skipped beside us… Read More »Andrew Forster’s Brothers: Commentary Revisited-the importance of brothers!
Demeter could not easily differentiate between one shape and another. Her toes would stroke over objects at night and she would wonder what she was sleeping with- an old shirt,… Read More »GCE/GCSE English Tuition Bolton and Manchester: Demeter Part One.
I first met Katherine Mansfield in a hut. Every Friday in the Upper Sixth form we would read a short story from a battered collection extracted from the English book… Read More »English Tuition Manchester, Bolton and Bury: Katherine Mansfield’s enduring love.
She first saw him one Sunday afternoon amongst her magnolias. She had finished with the paper and was sitting as neatly as she could (angles were important to her) in… Read More »English Tuition Manchester and Bolton: The Roman Centurion-Janet Lewison
