What messages are you sending to your class? 55% of communication occurs through our body language, 38% from the tone, speed and inflection of our voice and a mere 7% from what we're actually saying! Inspired English Teaching will help you to use your voice, facial expressions and movement to assert your authority in the classroom, make the boring bits that you have to do fun and get great results from your students. The book also contains 20 ready-to-use lesson plans that will excite, intrigue and entertain your Secondary English class, and a companion website that includes: · links to useful websites · PowerPoints to display on the board · handouts for students · Cheat Sheets for teachers; and · extra games and activities to supplement those in the book. Whether you are a newly qualified teacher or a seasoned professional wanting some new ideas - this book will show you how to inspire the students in your classroom.

Acknowledgements/Introduction/Chapter 1: Use your body language/The face/Basic emotions/Posture/Eye movement/Hands/The voice/Chapter 2: Taking charge of your classroom/A question of space/Displays/Seating arrangements/Procedures - make your classroom your own/Teaching styles/Planning teaching and learning in English/Chapter 3: Getting to grips with school issues/Literacy as a whole-school issue/Assessment in English/Reports that count/Use of plenary sessions/Use of technology - the whiteboard as a learning tool/Rewards and sanctions/Chapter 4: Making it all seem like fun/Sentences/Paragraphs/Recognizing an interesting story start/A spelling game/Stimulus/Boy-friendly poems/Making a drama out of verbs, nouns and adjectives/Non-fiction materials that are boy-friendly/Non-fiction material/Draw before you write/A new planet - Silvershine/Persuasion/Writing reviews/Chapter 5: Making the assessment focus work/Tackling the assessment focus/Chapter 6: Mostly drama/Mysteries/Drama as a learning tool/Soliloquies/Other activities for Macbeth/Using hot-seating to reinforce learning/Freeze-framing/Giving witness/Re-enactments/From book to script/From script to book/Role play - somebody else's shoes/Drama ideas bank/Media - they've all watched a film/Use of circle time in English/Chapter 7: Lessons that really work/Tribes/Your product/Traditional version versus modern version/Soaps - for characters/A comprehension to inspire less able students/Using the story as a stimulus for improving English/Ghost stories/Student-friendly news and newspapers/Postcards home/Wordbag/Starter lessons/Chapter 8: For the older students/GCSE English: AQA/Fact and opinion/Looking at audience and purpose/Exam practice/Looking at stylistic techniques/A brief look at the A-level syllabus (AQA)/Chapter 9: Answers/Sentences/Capital letters/Full stops/Sentences ending in full stops, question marks or exclamation marks/Vowels/Empty House/Group/pair work/The sinking of the SS Golden Gate/Foxes/Silvershine/Woman in White/Computer Nerd/Juliet's Lament/Questions on Macbeth/Macbeth's speech/Sinister Monologue/Trapped/Sentences/Jumbled sentences/The Attic/Plurals not apostrophes/The Lake Isle of Innisfree/Conclusion/References/Index