An Inspector Calls: Activity Pack for GCSE

Set text for: AQA | Edexcel | Eduqas | OCR | WJEC

Choose Priestley’s ever-popular play as your modern set text and supplement your teaching with this collection of ready-made activities targeting exam requirements. The wide variety of tasks provided, in combination with Priestley’s gripping storyline, means your whole class will remain motivated throughout their studies.

Made our lives easier

A Pattinson, Deputy Head of English & Customer (on previous edition of A View from a Bridge)

Activities include:

  • Insightful questions
  • Stimulating reading and writing tasks
  • Pair and group work
  • Creative activities for visual and kinaesthetic learners
  • Appealing tasks based on modern media
  • Regular ‘Dig Deeper’ tasks to stretch more able students to enhance their understanding
  • ‘Fun Fact’ boxes to keep your class interested

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.

Time saving for a specialist to deliver in class

N Selwood, HoD English & Peer Reviewer (on Blood Brothers)

What do teachers say about this resource? (6441)

I really enjoyed the variety of activities this resource contained... As a teacher, there were so many ideas and activities I could use very easily, with very little or no adaption... The resource is an excellent activity pack to teach the text as a whole. I liked the structure of the resource and the way it gave activities before studying the text, then activities for each Act, and then final activities following the finishing of the teaching of the text. This basic organisation made it very easy for me as a teacher to navigate... All of the activities were worthwhile, clear and targeted at developing the knowledge of the text and its context. There was not a single activity in this resource that was superfluous or not focused on developing knowledge and understanding... The resource meets the specification easily and in great detail. I thought the sheer variety of different activities and the creative approach to looking at the text in more detail was backed by a robust focus on AOs. I particularly felt that certain activities would work well to support pupils that had missed lessons for whatever reason and to help them catch up... This was a resource that stimulated my own creativity as I reviewed it: it gave me lots of ideas that I could use to approach other texts!

J Hathaway, Head of English & Peer Reviewer

Some good tasks... The sample essay is useful... The ‘during reading’ activities are varied... There a clear focus on wider contextual information... A promising resource that is clearly focused on getting students involved in ideas relevant to the play.

T Garland, Teacher & Peer Reviewer