GCSE A Taste of Honey Revision Workbook

GCSE A Taste of Honey Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Shelagh Delaney’s modern drama set text, board-neutral and mapped to the DfE subject content and the Assessment Objectives (AO1 informed personal response with references, AO2 analysis of language, form and structure, AO3 context). Because the play is in copyright it is taught analytically and no line is reproduced: every focal fact is paraphrased in our own words. Students place the play in its 1950s Salford setting and its “kitchen-sink” realist style; get to know Jo, her unreliable mother Helen, Helen’s younger husband Peter, Jo’s sailor boyfriend and the caring gay art student Geof; and follow the story as Jo is left pregnant and Geof looks after her. They explore the play’s themes — social class and poverty, the mother–daughter relationship and neglect, gender and the limited choices open to women, race, sexuality and loneliness — and understand why it was groundbreaking for showing race, single motherhood and homosexuality sympathetically in the 1950s. Race and sexuality are handled factually and respectfully throughout. Context, character, plot and theme questions are auto-marked on screen, while open analysis and essay-planning tasks build the extended writing examiners reward. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and student notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.