”Sometimes our words are like our gardens and sat navs, they take strange routes/roots!” For Words take us places, they govern us because they transport us in directions and encourage feelings that root us elsewhere….they… Read More »English Tuition and Confidence Coaching Bolton Manchester: Jackie kay and Root/Route Word
About His Person Five pounds fifty in change, exactly, a library card on its date of expiry. A postcard stamped, unwritten, but franked, a pocket size diary slashed with… Read More »Simon Armitage ‘About his person.’ Unseen poetry Analysis-METONYMY and STRANGENESS!
Perhaps one of the most limiting claims I get to hear as an English Tutor is the phrase ‘I don’t know’. ‘I don’t know.’ These words are often spoken when we arrive at… Read More »GCSE/GCE English Revision Manchester, Bolton: The Importance of your intuition !
“Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his… Read More »WJEC English Tuition Bolton Manchester: To Kill a Mocking Bird-Tips for the examination.
You may not know this but onions do have a heart. In fact they know far more than we give them credit for as this story will show. Tony Cliff… Read More »English Creative Writing Bolton, Manchester, Bury: The onion.
Here’s one of my favourite examination tips and it works for all levels of exam when students are writing analytical essays, doing close readings of texts and even writing creative, descriptive pieces. As you… Read More »GCSE/GCE English Tutor/Tuition, Bolton, Manchester, North West: A favourite examination tip!
Sometimes as you approach the Easter holiday break, the texts you studied seem distant memories, and you feel less confident about your knowledge and essay writing. If this is you… Read More »English GCE, GCSE Revision Bolton, Manchester and Bury.
