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Macbeth Act One Scene Seven. I would highly recommend the BBC series Shakespeare Unlocked on YouTube as the workshop on this scene was a revelation. Really insightful and inspiring. This… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Act One Scene Seven: Analysis and Notes. (Bolton, Manchester English Tuition)
Ray Bradbury ‘Sound of Thunder’ Comprehension. 2) The dinosaur is described/evoked/presented in/through a language that communicates its physical immensity and athleticism as well as its predatory savagery and murderous cruelty.… Read More »GCSE English Language: AQA Sound of Thunder Possible Answers/Responses.
I had been wondering why my aunts had quit leaving me voicemails, why my cousin’s texts had dried up. I had figured, with a hot scraped soreness, that it was… Read More »GCSE English Language Analysis: Tana French, The Wych Elm. (English Tuition Bolton, Manchester).
MACBETH [Aside] Two truths are told,As happy prologues to the swelling actOf the imperial theme.–I thank you, gentlemen. AsideCannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,Why hath it given me… Read More »Macbeth Act One Scene 3: Self-deception-Everybody lies. ( GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton).
That are still courting-places(But the lovers are all in school),And their children, so intent onFinding more unripe acorns,Expect to be taken home.Their beauty has thickened.Something is pushing themTo the side… Read More »Afternoons by Larkin- Stanza Three analysis( GCSE English literature Tuition Bolton).
As we draw near to the English Language examinations here’s a wonderful insight into pace in storytelling. According to D B Pierre, writing is like running. It’s all about breathing.… Read More »GCSE English Writing Tips by D B Pierre Release the Bats!
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Bring out the tall tales now that we told by the fire as the gaslight bubbled like a diver. Ghosts whooed like owls in the long nights when I dared… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton : Best Christmas Writing Ever?
In Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes bestows on his hawk the gift of language and then imagines the outcome of such a gift in this dramatic monologue. The hawk’s words create such… Read More »Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes: GCSE English Literature Analysis of Violence and Introspection.
“Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! “But ranged as infantry, And staring face… Read More »The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy: Analysis GCSE English Literature Bolton Tuition
The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow . . . We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army … Read More »Wilfred Owen ‘ Exposure’ Analysis Stanza Three: AQA GCSE English Literature
AQA GCSE English Example: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. (Question 4). A student having read this section of the text said: ‘‘The writer brings the very different characters to… Read More »AQA GCSE English Example: Jamaica Inn By Daphne Du Maurier(Question 4)
The new GCSE AQA English Literature syllabus is very exciting, yet challenging too. In a world dominated by smartphones, I wonder how many students will find the prospect of a five hundred… Read More »GCSE AQA English Literature: Suspense and Uncertainty in Great Expectations ( English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
Writing spontaneously and with originality came easily to Ray Bradbury– because he employed a very natural technique that never failed to generate stories. He collided or juxtaposed ideas from his… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: A prompt courtesy of Saki and Ray Bradbury!
Steinbeck’s novel ends with Carlson(and Curley) looking after the departure of George and Slim, completely unaware of the magnitude of what has just happened. ‘Now what the hell ya suppose is… Read More »Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men – the ending of the novel: ‘Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?’
I first met Heathcliff one winter’s night in Chinley Women’s Institute. It was a wintry evening sometime in the 1960s and my seat was uncomfortable. Hot pot or pies… Read More »GCSE English tuition Manchester and Bolton: The Importance of Memory Anchors.
With Seamus Heaney’s very recent passing, I have been rereading some of my favourite Seamus Heaney’s poems and this poem about the death of his little brother remains one of… Read More »Seamus Heaney’s Mid-Term Break: Analysis Revisited.
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