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Year 5
English
Course

Get a head start on the 11+ with our Year 5 English course.

Louis Provis introduces students to everything from Wordsworth, Kipling and Aesop’s fables to short stories and the differences between fiction and non-fiction.

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Lesson duration: 45 mins

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What you’ll learn

Unit 1

Pastoral, seasons and cityscapes

  • Pastoral writing intro: Wordsworth
  • Winter Morning (Ogden Nash)
  • Describing the Seasons: Winter
  • Describing the Seasons: Spring
  • Describing the Seasons: Summer
  • Describing the Seasons: Autumn
  • Pastoral settings Vs. City Settings
  • Making pastoral settings "urban"
  • Cityscape descriptions: what you can see
  • Cityscape enhanced: soundscapes
  • Oliver Twist extract ("filthy odour") ("market-morning")
  • The Prince and the Pauper extract (Ch.1-3: inner/outer city)
  • London by William Blake
  • Villete by Bronte (Chapter 6)
  • The Sign of the Four extract "mud-coloured clouds"
  • Cheering it up: bleak to beauteous
  • Comparing Wordsworth vs. Blake
  • Writing comparisons

Unit 2

Fables, nursery rhymes and fairytales

  • Aesop: The Crow and the Pitcher
  • Aesop: The Golden Goose Egg
  • Kipling: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
  • Kipling: How the Camel got his Hump(h)
  • The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
  • Little Bo Peep 
  • Rumplestiltskin
  • The Shoemaker and the Elves 
  • Making fairytales factual: extracting the facts
  • Making fairytales factual: writing in a genre

Unit 3

Story openings, settings and dialogue

  • Flash Fiction vs. Short Stories
  • Introduction to Story Arcs
  • The best story openings in history
  • Writing compelling beginnings
  • Describing settings (pastoral, urban and more)
  • Settings that match character (Miss Havisham)
  • Dialogue: the rules
  • Dialogue: making it sparkle

Unit 4

Show-don’t-tell, figurative language and endings

  • Show-don't-tell
  • Figurative language: introduction and similes
  • Figurative language: metaphor and personification
  • The best story endings in history
  • Writing amazing endings

Unit 5

Fiction vs non-fiction, arguments and speeches

  • Fiction vs. Nonfiction: knowing the difference
  • Using facts: numbers, provable ideas, appeals
  • Proving a point: using facts as evidence
  • Proving a point: coming across as trustworthy
  • Proving a point: making your audience "feel something"
  • Writing a speech, using GRIME
  • Using facts in the news: main body
  • Drawing in an audience: headline-writing
  • Writing a formal letter
  • Writing an informal message
  • Converting informal to formal

Unit 6

Poetry forms and writing

  • Reading and Defining: Haikus
  • Writing: Haikus
  • Reading and Defining: Limericks
  • Writing: Limericks
  • Reading and Defining: Sonnets
  • Writing: Sonnets
  • Reading and Defining: Narrative poems
  • Writing: Narrative poems

Unit 7

Playscripts and Shakespeare

  • Playscripts: unique features
  • Using stage directions to add and meaning
  • Direct speech vs. playscripts
  • The Tempest: Meet Calliban (I.ii)
  • The Tempest: Write conflict
  • Using video to build a story

Unit 8

Grammar and skills

  • Grammar 

Meet your teacher

@LouisDoesEnglish
  • Head of English at MyEdSpace
  • BA from Oxford, Master's degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, and ongoing PhD study
  • Over 11 years of teaching experience, including a Head of Sixth Form position

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  • Year 5: Maths, Science, English, 11+

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  • Year 12: Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English Literature

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