eChalk: English literature preview

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:

 
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
       
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
       
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
   
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.
   
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
   
Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare
       
Much Ado About Nothing: another general knowledge quiz
   
The Tempest – William Shakespeare
   
More Shakespeare
   
The life of Shakespeare
Find out how much you know about "The Bard" with this quiz.
   
King Lear: character quiz
   
King Lear: quotes quiz
   
   
An Inspector Calls - J B Priestley
   
   
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.
   
Animal Farm - George Orwell
       
To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee
   
Blood Brothers - Willy Russell
   
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
   
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
   
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
       
A View from the Bridge - Arthur Miller
       
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
       
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
       
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
       
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
       
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
       
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
       
Poetry
   
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.
   
Seamus Heaney
A quiz in which you must read the quotes from Seamus Heaney’s poetry and decide which poem they come from.
   
Gillian Clarke
A quiz in which you must read the quotes from Gillian Clarke’s poetry and decide which poem they come from.
   
Figurative language
Match the jigsaw pieces together to combine the figurative language terms with their definitions.
   
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!
   
   
General resources & fun stuff
   
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'.
   
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.
   

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.

 

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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