Freya Weaver

I offer one on one aided learning and revision sessions to supplement and consolidate in schools learning to help raise grades and test experience. Along with the one on one tutoring I offer written resources to aid in memorisation of techniques and quotes and to help further develop analytical skills need to pass and succeed at both English Language and Literature GCSEs. I also have extensive experience in tutoring Neurodivergent children in both maths and English so my teaching style is adaptable and patient.

Example document (lacking usual visual aids provided):
Inspector Calls
Structure
The structure of the play is the way the play is organised. An Inspector Calls follows the conventional three acts and has several distinct features.
• The curtain lifts on a celebratory dinner.
• When the Inspector arrives the mood quickly changes and there are revelations involved the characters.
• There is a build-up of tension and a climax at the end of Act 1 and 2 followed by a release of tension and further revelations, but the tension and the climax are greater in Act 2.
• Act 3 follows a similar pattern to the first two, except that the climax of the play is reached when the Inspector delivers his final monologue.
• There is a release of tension when the Inspector leaves and the remaining characters believe they are finding a resolution.
• At the very end there is a twist to the denouement and the audience are taken back to the beginning of the play.
Priestley uses the Inspector to link the chain of events of Eva Smith’s story through ‘One person and one line of enquiry at a time’ and also through the use of the photograph and the diary. The way characters exit or enter allows particular characters to be questioned, or subsequent events to occur that might not have otherwise.
When the Inspector has left, Priestley carefully structures the events. Sheila’s comment ‘was he really a police inspector?’ introduces suspicions about Inspector Goole. The Inspectors case is then logically dismantled, particularly by Gerald, so that not only is the Inspector’s identity questioned, but also Eva Smith’s. This rational approach has the effect of making the audience feel that the characters will return to the stable situation depicted at the beginning of the play, just like an ordinary resolution in a narrative. Consequently, the final phone call as the twist at the end of the play comes as an even greater shock than it might have.