Never Let Me Go: Activity Pack for GCSE

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Challenge students to appreciate the nuances of this influential, debate-provoking text with a variety of stimulating, ready-to-use activities covering all aspects of the text.

Activities include:

  • Insightful questions
  • Stimulating reading and writing tasks
  • Pair and group work
  • Creative activities for visual and kinaesthetic learners

Carefully considered structure develops understanding:

  1. Build a foundation for learning and get students interested with introductory pre-reading exercises.
  2. Dig deeper with text-based activities. Every chapter is explored through a range of thought-provoking tasks.
  3. Consolidate knowledge with whole-text activities focusing on: Characterisation • Relationships • Setting • Themes • Ideas and Messages • Language • Form • Structure • Context

All activities are perfectly matched to the GCSE Assessment Objectives, and the fantastic structure makes the pack accessible for your whole class.

Plus! Suggested answers for questions and activities included.

What do teachers say about this resource? (10791)

A good resource which contained a wide range of activities that were very relevant to the study of the text. The questions and activities were comprehensive and meaningful and clearly critically dealt with significant sections of the text... I really appreciated the wide range of different activities: there were questions on each chapter, but alongside these questions there were tables, TED Talks to watch, timelines to fill in and character diagrams to populate... This resource enhances learning through the sheer range of activities that do not just take a standard, pedestrian rather plodding approach through the novel but rather force pupils to engage with the issues being discussed. I appreciated the range of creative tasks at each stage of the text that gave pupils a chance to respond to the text in a non-critical essay format.

J Hathaway, Head of English, Glenalmond College & Peer Reviewer

Very detailed and would support a teacher in delivering the text.

Includes tasks that address different learning styles.

It is also possible to use it as a supplement for independent study.

I like the detailed questions on the chapters. 

C Allison, Teacher & Peer Reviewer

A useful resource.

It is written by someone who clearly knows the text well, and will be useful in supporting students' revision and consolidation of the text.

I like the jokes and puns (dystopiYA or dystopiNA!) and think students will respond well to this.

The short answer questions can be used for consolidation of chapters. The longer tasks can be used by teachers to create tasks for the classroom.

C Morris, Associate Head of English & Peer Reviewer