GCSE English RevisionPod

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Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Episode summary: Welcome to your Monday dose of GCSE English RevisionPod. Today we look at how power can be abused, and we're not just talking about the fact that Mr Forster has seized control of the podcast! Download the handout here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZtcIc4W1rJoXazcHZ8t-yrJdFGZ2mNyD Fo...

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Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Episode summary: Two podcasts in one day! You lucky, lucky people. As promised, Mr Forster now has a go at exactly the same question that Mr Gallie did earlier. It's not a competition (Of course! But we would like to know which one you preferred ;)). Instead, what we hope to show is that having multiple...

Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Episode summary: These next two episodes of GCSE Revision Pod are going to work slightly differently. Mr Forster and Mr Gallie take the same poem, 'Kamikaze', and explore two different ways of answering the same question. Hopefully this will show how important it is to think about multiple different...

Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Episode summary: This week on GCSE Revision Pod, we delve into the world of poetry. With two texts to cover, the analysis comes thick and fast (two words sometimes used to describe Mr Gallie and Mr Forster, respectively) so make sure you have downloaded the handout here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OUla...

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Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Episode summary: In our first exploration of J.B. Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls', we look at how young people -- young people like your good selves -- are the only hope we have for the future. Through the character of Sheila, we see how having a capacity to change is one of the most important...

To listen to the rest of this episode, don't forget to subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Episode summary: In our third delve into the duplicitous world of Jekyll and Hyde, we find out that Utterson is perhaps not all he seems. Is this man indeed the bastion of Victorian decency, willing to go to any length to help his friends or is there...

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Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Episode summary: In the second episode of RevisionPod, Mr Forster and Mr Gallie discuss how to write an essay on the one question that fills every GCSE student with fear: Mercutio. Find out why Romeo's best friend would have failed his biology exams and how Mr Forster would write a poem about Mr Gallie,...

Subscribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe Episode summary: In the first episode of RevisionPod, Mr Forster and Mr Gallie discuss how to write an essay on perhaps the most important theme in 'Romeo and Juliet': Love. Find out why Mr Forster thinks that Romeo is a mix of Rhianna and Adam from Love Island, and why Mr Gallie thinks he can hear...