Idioms

£35.99

Subject: English as an Additional Language
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11-14 and 14-16
Order Number: 5042

Texts for Bilingual Pupils

Quite often the content of the National Curriculum can be intractable for pupils who speak English as a second language. The teaching of English can now be made wholly accessible using these new photocopiable resources. Set texts have now been effectively differentiated so that they are understood by pupils who may find the original versions difficult.

The texts chosen have been widely used in English and Special Needs classrooms and promote the development of reading, writing and listening skills. They have proven to be very popular because of their accessibility and at the end of each section there are a series of stimulating exercises which are designed to enhance language acquisition. Developing literary appreciation is an integral part of the National Curriculum and these resources are designed to develop this skill.

John Steinbeck

Set in the 1930s this is a story about two friends Lennie and George. These two men have a dream to work hard and buy a farm, will their dream come true?

6 Chapters: 26 pages of story text with illustrations, 32 pages of exercises.

£35.99

Subject: English as an Additional Language and English Literature
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11-14 and 14-16
Order Number: 5278

John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men’ has been a standard text for both set texts and folio work for many years now. Now that Hollywood has seized on its play-like structure to make in into a motion picture, it will surely retain or even increase its popularity, providing the teacher with a handy package of film and print text.

Teenagers are at an age where their mental antennae are beginning to listen in to the larger world, a world where the United States is currently the only superpower. Quite possibly, these teenagers had an early mindset – forming image of the American superhero settling everything with failing fists and flying bullets.

The whole social dimension of Steinbeck’s book offers a different point of view.

It offers a candid view of the American Dream, Race, Gun Law and Violence, and Alienation, issues which are still at the white hot heart of American politics.

This resource is multi-layered in use.

Those seeking top-grade answers will find many nuggets here, dealing with both theme and characterisation sides of answer. How about an answer based on Lennie as a tragic anti-hero? And without wasting any words, the resource also looks at allegory in American Literature and glances sideways at the book’s roots in the works of Robert Burns and Rousseau.

But even at the most basic foundation level, every page in the book is tracked for the main threads of plot and basic word meanings, with ‘translation’ of American (standard and dialect) into British English.

To consolidate learning, each section has a multi-choice test yourself set of questions to keep the attention focused on the three essentials of Plot, Character and Theme.

The resource also contains Multi-Media guidance, set out in bold print for ease of access.

Key Quotations for exam purposes are tracked through every page.

Sample essays on Character and Theme are included at the end of this resource. These essays are constructed on the sound assertion – proof basis.

For an exhaustive study of ‘Of Mice and Men’, you need go no further.

The text used in this resource is the Longman (2008) edition.
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