GCSE An Inspector Calls Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Priestley’s modern set play, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas 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 still in copyright, it is taught analytically and no dialogue is reproduced: every focal box is a key fact or paraphrase in Learnaroo’s own words. Students follow the plot — the Birling family’s celebration of Sheila’s engagement to Gerald Croft, the arrival of the mysterious Inspector Goole, the revelation that each of them played a part in the downfall and death of the working-class woman Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton), and the twist that a real inspector is still on his way — and get to know Arthur and Sybil Birling, Sheila, Eric, Gerald and the Inspector. Pupils practise close analysis of Priestley’s methods, such as the dramatic irony of Mr Birling’s claims about the war and the Titanic, and connect them to the themes of social responsibility, class, gender and the divide between the older and younger generations, all in the context of a play set in 1912 but written for a 1945 audience. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open character-analysis and essay-planning tasks build the extended writing examiners reward and keep pupils writing in their own words. 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.
GCSE Blood Brothers Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Willy Russell’s modern drama set text, 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 lines or lyrics are reproduced — every focal block states a key fact or paraphrases an idea in Learnaroo’s own words. Students follow the plot — the working-class Mrs Johnstone gives one of her twins to her wealthy employer Mrs Lyons, the boys Mickey and Eddie grow up apart in Liverpool, meet by chance and become blood brothers, are pulled apart by class as Eddie prospers and Mickey ends up in prison, and both die at the end — and get to know Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Lyons, Mickey, Eddie, the Narrator, Linda and Sammy. Pupils practise close analysis of methods such as dramatic irony, the Narrator and symbolism and connect them to the themes of social class, fate and superstition, and nature versus nurture, all in the play’s early-1980s Liverpool context. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open close-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.
GCSE DNA Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Dennis Kelly’s modern drama set text, board-neutral and suitable for the WJEC/Eduqas drama option, 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 lines are reproduced: pupils describe the drama in their own words. Students follow the plot — a group of teenagers bully a boy called Adam, a prank goes wrong and they believe he is dead, the cold and logical Phil devises a cover-up, and the group frames an innocent postman by planting DNA evidence — and get to know Phil (the silent strategist, often eating sweets), Leah (talkative and anxious), Cathy (increasingly ruthless) and Adam, who is later found alive but then killed for real. Focal blocks are key facts and paraphrase in plain English so pupils can practise close analysis of peer pressure and group mentality, morality and guilt, power and leadership, and the individual versus the group. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open character-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.
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.
GCSE The History Boys Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for Alan Bennett’s modern drama set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas 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). The play is in copyright, so it is taught analytically with no verbatim quotation, and its adult themes are handled maturely and without explicit content. Students learn the set-up — clever sixth-form boys at a northern grammar school in the 1980s being prepared for Oxford and Cambridge (Oxbridge) entrance — and get to know the three contrasting teachers Hector (who loves learning for its own sake, though his conduct with pupils is a problem), Irwin (the young, cynical, exam-focused coach) and Mrs Lintott (the sensible history teacher who notes that women are overlooked by history), plus pupils such as the confident Dakin and the sensitive Posner. Focal blocks present key facts and paraphrased ideas in plain language so pupils can weigh the play’s big themes — the purpose and value of education, knowledge and history, class and social mobility, sexuality and growing up. Plot, character, theme and context questions are auto-marked on screen, while open close-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.
GCSE Othello Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas 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). Students follow the plot — Othello, a respected Moorish general in Venice, secretly marries Desdemona; his ensign Iago, bitter that Cassio is promoted over him, seeks revenge and manipulates Othello with a handkerchief as false “proof” of an affair; consumed by jealousy Othello kills Desdemona, and after Emilia exposes Iago’s lies he takes his own life — and get to know Othello, Desdemona, Iago, Cassio, Emilia, Roderigo and Brabantio. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“Put out the light, and then put out the light”, “I am not what I am” and “It is the green-eyed monster”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as metaphor and dramatic irony and connect them to the themes of jealousy, deception and prejudice. The theme of race is handled factually and sensitively: Othello is a respected outsider who faces prejudice. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.
GCSE Julius Caesar Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas 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). Students follow the plot — Caesar’s triumphant return to Rome, the Soothsayer’s warning to beware the Ides of March, the conspiracy in which Cassius persuades the honourable Brutus to join the plot, the assassination and Caesar’s dying words to Brutus, Mark Antony’s funeral speech that turns the Roman mob against the conspirators, and the civil war that ends with defeat at Philippi — and get to know Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Casca and the Soothsayer. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“Beware the Ides of March”, “Et tu, Brute?” and “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as rhetoric and dramatic irony and connect them to the themes of power, honour and persuasion, all in the ancient Roman context of a republic that feared kings. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.
GCSE Much Ado About Nothing Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas 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). Students follow the plot — the two couples of Messina, the “merry war” of wit between Beatrice and Benedick and the match-making trick that unites them, the villain Don John’s plot to slander Hero, the shaming at the altar and Hero’s pretended death, and the way the bumbling constable Dogberry and his Watch expose the lie so the play ends in a double marriage — and get to know Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio, Hero, the prince Don Pedro, Don John and Dogberry. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me”, “I do love nothing in the world so well as you” and “Kill Claudio”) so pupils can practise close reading of methods such as the pun on “nothing”/“noting” and connect them to the themes of love, deception and reputation, all in the Elizabethan context of honour and a woman’s good name. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.
GCSE A Midsummer Night’s Dream Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas 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). Students follow the plot — the four Athenian lovers (Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius) fleeing into the enchanted wood near Athens, the quarrel between the fairy king Oberon and queen Titania, Puck’s magic love-flower muddling the lovers, the weaver Bottom transformed with an ass’s head, the mechanicals’ play “Pyramus and Thisbe”, and the triple wedding that ends the comedy — and get to know Theseus, the four lovers, the fairies and Bottom. Three short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“The course of true love never did run smooth”, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” and “Though she be but little, she is fierce”) so pupils can practise close reading and connect methods to the themes of love, magic, dreams and appearance versus reality, all in the play’s contrast between ordered Athens and the chaotic wood. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.
GCSE The Merchant of Venice Revision Workbook is a five-mission activity book for the Shakespeare set text, board-neutral across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas 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). Students follow the plot — Antonio the Venetian merchant borrowing from the Jewish moneylender Shylock so his friend Bassanio can woo the heiress Portia, the bond of a pound of flesh, the casket test at Belmont where Bassanio chooses lead, the loss of Antonio’s ships, and the trial where Portia, disguised as a lawyer, defeats Shylock over a single drop of blood — and get to know Antonio, Bassanio, Portia and Shylock across Venice and Belmont. Two short, certain public-domain quotations are printed as focal blocks (“The quality of mercy is not strain’d” and “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”) so pupils can practise close reading and connect method to the themes of justice versus mercy, prejudice and antisemitism, love and friendship, and appearance versus reality, all in the Elizabethan context. Plot, character, theme and quotation questions are auto-marked on screen, while open quotation-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.
