Including a range of key quotations from across the play, this great English resource is aimed at helping students understand the play in preparation for their AQA or EDUQAS exam. It has been affectionately christened the ‘Standing Ovation Musical’, as inevitably it “brings the audience cheering to its feet and roaring its approval” (The Daily Mail). I have uploaded it as a Powerpoint, a JPEG and a PDF so that you can download the format you'd prefer.

During this time, Sam trained as an examiner in AQA and iGCSE and has marked GCSE English examinations across a range of specifications. Encourage learners to consider the historical context of the play, or look in detail at Willy Russell’s characterisation of main characters like Mickey, Edward Lyons, Linda, Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons. While Blood Brothers speak about issues of its time and location, you should try to consider what the text has to say about people, human nature, societal structures etc. From there, she went on to manage KS3 and GCSE English language and literature, as well as leading the Sixth Form curriculum.Covering both acts, themes, characters and even the lyrical content of the songs themselves, everything you need to explore the play can be found below. This great Blood Brothers classroom display helps GCSE English students better understand Willy Russell’s play using character profiles and quotations.

Two brothers' relationship strains when the younger one receives news of a strange inheritance complicating their competition for a mysterious young woman who arrives on their island.I ask because I have mostly uploaded my posters as JPEGs only and I'm wondering if it is better to offer both options every time. It has been affectionately christened the Standing Ovation Musical, as inevitably it: “brings the audience cheering to its feet and roaring its approval” (Jack Tinker, Daily Mail). British society changed significantly between those two periods and so both have significant political as well as societal differences. Rise of mass advertising and colour television, children were exposed to films, televison programmes and celebrities. The bond continues when the boys are teenagers and both live in the countryside, despite them both being in love with Mickey’s neighbour Linda.