成人快手

Author Anthony Horowitz introduces English Literature and Language clips from the 成人快手 archive featuring famous faces including Stephen Fry, Kate Humble and Griff Rhys Jones.

Themes include:

  • Creative and narrative writing
  • Poetry
  • Reading 19th Century prose
  • Preparing and Drafting

These clips are from the 成人快手 series, Curriculum Collections.

Suitable for: KS3 and KS4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 3rd and 4th Level in Scotland.

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Comedy and tragedy in Great Expectations. video

Tony Jordan investigates Charles Dickens鈥 life during the writing of Great Expectations.

Comedy and tragedy in Great Expectations

Music in performance poetry. video

Anthony Horowitz introduces the work of Kae Tempest to consider the musical quality of poetry.

Music in performance poetry

What is the power of poetry? video

Griff Rhys Jones on why poetry is powerful and how it differs from other forms of writing.

What is the power of poetry?

What inspires a writer? video

Anthony Horowitz discusses writing the Sherlock Holmes novels and shares his top tips for writing.

What inspires a writer?

Comic strips and graphic novels. video

David Almond and Eoin Colfer explore flexibility of form in contemporary narrative writing.

Comic strips and graphic novels

What makes travel writing engaging? video

Kate Humble offers detailed practical advice for ways to make travel writing engaging.

What makes travel writing engaging?

What makes good story writing? video

Jamila Gavin, Keith Gray, Jacqueline Wilson, David Almond and Malorie Blackman share their writing secrets, giving consideration to where they find their inspiration, what their writing triggers are, and how they get writing started.

What makes good story writing?

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Where next?

How to write. collection

A series of short films where leading writers share their creative writing secrets.

How to write

Bitesize

Use these Bitesize resources to set homework, independent study tasks or to consolidate learning for your pupils.

Bitesize

Newsround

The latest news stories from Newsround to share in the classroom.

Newsround
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