GCSE English RevisionPod

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RevisionPod - English revision made easy.Follow us on Twitter @GRevisionpodEvery week, Mr Forster and Mr Gallie bring you a dose of high energy revision to help you achieve the best possible marks in your English GCSE's. Each episode will look at a different question from your set texts and explore how we would analyse the language and contextual factors and how you can then use this knowledge to boost your essay writing. Click on the bio of each episode to download your GCSE RevisionPod handout, complete with the question we are discussing, the quotations and vocabulary we use in the pod and some extra contextual information.

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Episodes

An Inspector Calls episode 1 - Sheila

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe 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 attributes a human can possess. Though her actions may have been horrible, she at least shows the ability to learn and take respons...

Jan 13, 2019•20 min•Season 4Ep. 1

Jekyll and Hyde episode 3 - Mr Utterson

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe 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, as with so much in the novella, a hidden side to him? We also explore the shocking revelation that Mr Forster sympathises with the 'boring' member of the group who would much ...

Jan 11, 2019•21 min•Season 2Ep. 3

A Christmas Carol episode 2 - The Cratchits

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe It's a new year, and what better way to celebrate than another journey into Dickensian London? Find out why even though Scrooge has seen the light by the end of the novella, his Christmas preparation would still have been disastrous - the man clearly knows nothing about cooking times - and how the Cratchits' Christmas Day glass issues have never really gone away. <p> <b> https://drive.google.com...

Jan 03, 2019•21 min•Season 3Ep. 2

A Christmas Carol episode 1 - Wealth

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe In the sixth episode of GCSE RevisionPod, recorded in the luxurious surroundings of Mr Forster's car, we delve deep into the miserly world of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol . Find out why money truly doesn't make you happy, how trees can sometimes represent all that is wrong with the world, while fires, by way of contrast, can depict the best sides of humanity -- thankfully no trees end up on fire or wh...

Dec 19, 2018•19 min•Season 3Ep. 1

Jekyll and Hyde episode 2 - Importance of Place

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe In the fifth edition of RevisionPod, Mr Gallie and Mr Forster look at the importance of place in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . Find out why the end of term brings out every teacher's inner Hyde, why London was once a labyrinthine nightmare that played host to all sorts of terrible debauchery and why you should most certainly never judge a book by its cover (or a man by his house).<p> <b> Download the ...

Dec 07, 2018•21 min•Season 2Ep. 2

Jekyll and Hyde episode 1 - Hyde as a Dangerous Outsider

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe In the fourth edition of GCSE RevisionPod, Mr Forster and Mr Gallie celebrate that Friday feeling with a trip into the depths of Victorian London. Find out why Hyde is not actually an outsider (and why that frightens the Victorians so much!), why being ugly could be considered a criminal offence back then, and hear the brutal tale of Mr Forster channeling his inner Hyde by snapping a leg on the rugby field....

Nov 30, 2018•22 min•Season 2Ep. 1

Romeo and Juliet episode 3 - Family

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe In the third episode of GCSE English RevisionPod, Mr Forster and Mr Gallie get all sad as they explore broken families in 'Romeo and Juliet'. Find out why Juliet faces a decision very similar to that of Rose in Titanic, why Lord Capulet perhaps isn't quite as bad as you thought (although he is still pretty bad!) and why a deeper reading of the play shows how family is just another inevitable victim of the v...

Nov 26, 2018•20 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Romeo and Juliet episode 2 - Mercutio

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe 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, if he were a sixteenth century poet (which he basically is). Oh, and learn how you can take ownership of your most feared ...

Nov 19, 2018•21 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Romeo and Juliet episode 1 - Love

Subcsribe to GCSE English Revisionpod + here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/227488/subscribe 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 heartbeats in the words. Download the handout here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JglcJ9GAyQXx4AWBrrnc5NypNPxqSfuQ/view?usp=...

Nov 16, 2018•19 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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