'Wuthering Heights' really informed my expectations of romantic love! I studied the text at A-Level and it quickly became my favourite book, inspiring a vision... Read More...
Lots of the Sound of Pen classes are aimed at simply heightening your enjoyment of English - but each one does also tie neatly to a particular unit or theme. S... Read More...
Lucas Woodland talked to Sound of Pen about the themes threaded throughout his own work. Note how relevant his ideas are to the texts we’ve been studying in the classroom!
Listen to the Sound of Pen podcast. Click here to hear Lucas talk abo... Read More...
We know what butterflies are but why do so many writers fill their pages with them? Let's make sure we have something interesting to say about that butterfly i... Read More...
Madonna's music a made an enormous impact. Let's think about how her songs hit even harder than they might have otherwise because of the world - Ronald Reagan'... Read More...
Listen to the brilliant Andrew McMahon and then have a think about your own brilliant life!
For lots of my generation, Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin (two bands with singer/songwriter/piano player Andrew McMahon at the helm) created... Read More...
To rhyme or not to rhyme, that is the question!
ACTIVITY 1
Match each of the lyrics below with the relevant type of rhyme. Choose from:
absent: n... Read More...
