There are loads of activities in development so keep coming back as new programs will be appearing regularly. When you subscribe you get full access to all our resources in all of our subject areas.
Here's the current list of English literature applications you can access when you subscribe: |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare |
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Hamlet – William Shakespeare |
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Macbeth – William Shakespeare |
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Macbeth: plot and character bounce quiz
How much do you know about the book? This quiz game, requiring knowledge and lightening reactions, will test just that. This application also contains a teachers resource for conducting whole-class tests and a worksheet. |
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Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare |
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Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare |
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Much Ado About Nothing: another general knowledge quiz |
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The Tempest – William Shakespeare |
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More Shakespeare |
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The life of Shakespeare
Find out how much you know about "The Bard" with this quiz. |
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King Lear: character quiz
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King Lear: quotes quiz
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An Inspector Calls - J B Priestley |
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An Inspector Calls family tree activity
How well do you know the characters? Your task is to drag and drop the character names onto the correct place on the family tree. |
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Animal Farm - George Orwell |
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To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee |
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Blood Brothers - Willy Russell |
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Lord of the Flies - William Golding |
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Of Mice and Men -
John Steinbeck |
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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen |
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A View from the Bridge - Arthur Miller |
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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens |
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Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte |
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The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy |
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Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte |
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Poetry |
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Poetry terms: glossary games
A compendium of on-line games to ensure you know the definitions and spelling of key words used to describe poetry: jigsaw puzzle, cloud-click quiz, hangman, anagrams and our froggy-spelling challenge. |
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Seamus Heaney
A quiz in which you must read the quotes from Seamus Heaney’s poetry and decide which poem they come from. |
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Gillian Clarke
A quiz in which you must read the quotes from Gillian Clarke’s poetry and decide which poem they come from. |
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Figurative language
Match the jigsaw pieces together to combine the figurative language terms with their definitions. |
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Literary terms
Are you frustrated by losing marks in English exams just because you can’t remember the terminology? Compete with yourself or fellow students and you’ll soon have all the terms at your disposal! |
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General resources & fun stuff |
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Class scoreboard
If you're playing a game or a quiz and you need to keep score for several teams then this is the tool for you. Choose between a number of themes: 'Alien abduction', 'In your face' and 'Snail race'. |
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Dragonfly training: English literature resources
This archive of quizzes and Venn diagrams was created for Dragonfly's teacher training courses. The content was provided by the trainers or, in some cases, by the delegates attending the training day. |
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Timer
A new improved timer that now includes a countdown timer as well as a standard timer. Some of the alarm sounds are not for those of sensitive disposition. The time is given in Hours, minutes, seconds and hundredths of a second. Handy for timed tests, exams and activities.
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Class minder
A digital assistant that keeps an eye on your class on those rare occasions when you have to pop out. |
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