This lesson by Nic Worgan focuses on revising Act 2 of An Inspector Calls. It includes plenty of scope for creativity and encourages the development of questioning.
This download contains a lesson plan, a sheet of starter questions and a sheet of question stems.
Lesson structure
Q&A (10 mins): Recall information from Act 1 by working in pairs to make up questions for a set of five “answers” (included in the download)
Class reading (10 mins): Read the beginning of Act 2 of An Inspector Calls
Questioning (25 mins): In groups, devise six questions using Bloom’s question stems (included), with one question in each level. Swap questions with another group and answer them
Group work (10 mins): Visit other groups to gather information about other topic areas. Feed back to the group
Plenary (5 mins): Create a graffiti page of everything learnt in the lesson
Bloom’s question stems
Knowledge
For example:
Can you name the…?
Describe what happened at…?
Who spoke to…?
Analysis
For example:
What were the main differences between…?
Can you contrast the different experiences of …. with your own?
Can you explain what might have happened when…?
Synthesis/evaluation
For example:
Can you create a solution to…?
Can you devise a way to…?
What happens if…?
Nic Worgan has been teaching English for 13 years, in secondary schools and in further education, and has a lot of TEFL experience. Nic has also been a GCSE examiner.
