Other resources

• The Poetry Archive includes priceless archive readings from poets of the past such as Tennyson, Sassoon, Larkin and Yeats, classroom favourites such as Armitage and Causley, and lesson plans too, http://www.poetryarchive.org/ [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .
• The British Library, http://www.bl.uk/, see especially the Learning section.
• JISC Collections for Schools enables schools to access a range of high quality online subscription resources at discounted prices: http://www.jcs.nen.gov.uk/
• British Pathé News Archive, an agreement between British Pathé and the regional broadband consortia allows schools free access to high-resolution digitised clips of news film dating back to the 1890s. The collection includes 3500 hours of film and 12,000,000 stills, http://www.britishpathe.com/.
• The British Film Institute has a wide range of resources, including film clips freely available to schools and colleges, http://www.bfi.org.uk/. The BFI’s Screenonline site is also worth a visit, http://www.screenonline.org.uk/
• You and your students may also find some useful material on this site, TrueTube, a free UK educational website which uses ‘real-life stories and issues to encourage teenagers to explore and debate the world of morality, ethics, politics and religion’, http://www.truetube.co.uk/.

This is one of a series of units written for Vital by Trevor Millum, Chris Warren and Tom Rank on behalf of the National Association for the Teaching of English. NATE is the professional association for those involved and interested in the teaching of English at any level in the United Kingdom.