Our high-impact masterclasses break down the toughest GCSE English Literature texts with clear explanations, examiner insights, and grade-boosting techniques.
Available Masterclasses
⚬ Literature Masterclasses⚬
Macbeth
Power, ambition, and the supernatural explained!
Struggling with Macbeth? Conquer the Tragedy with Expert Guidance!
Macbeth is one of the most challenging texts in the GCSE syllabus – but with the right approach, you can master it. This exam-focused online masterclass will give you the skills, knowledge, and confidence to write top-grade essays on Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy.
🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Masterclass
✅ Key Themes & Ideas – Power, ambition, fate, and the supernatural explained clearly
✅ Character Analysis – Unlock Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and the witches with examiner-level insights
✅ Shakespeare’s Methods – Learn how to analyse language, structure, and dramatic techniques
✅ How to Write Grade 9 Essays – Master essay planning, structure, and evaluation
✅ Context & Big Ideas – How Shakespeare’s world influences the play and your analysis
✅ How to Start With the Extract for Top Grades.
✅ The Easiest Way to Get Top Grades - not starting with the extract.
✅ The Thesis Statement and Conclusion that fit every essay.
+ You will get a list of the best quotes to revise, the best analysis to write about them, and a grade 9 essay to adapt to any question. Just download them and print for your revision!
🎯 Why This Masterclass?
🔹 Exam-Focused – Get the exact knowledge and techniques examiners want
🔹 Perfect for All Levels – Whether you’re aiming for a grade 4, 7, or 9, this session will boost your skills
🔹 Replay Access – Watch again anytime to revise effectively
Romeo and Juliet
Love, fate, and conflict made simple.
Struggling with Shakespeare’s Most Famous Love Story? Master It Now!
From love and fate to conflict and tragedy, Romeo and Juliet is packed with big ideas that examiners love to test. This exam-focused masterclass will break down the play, helping you analyse it like a top student and write high-scoring essays.
🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Masterclass
✅ Key Themes & Ideas – Love, fate, conflict, and family pressure explained clearly
✅ Character Analysis – Unlock Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, and Tybalt with examiner insights
✅ Shakespeare’s Methods – Learn how to analyse language, structure, and dramatic impact
✅ How to Write Grade 9 Essays – Structure your responses like a top-level student
✅ Context & Big Ideas – How Elizabethan beliefs shape the meaning of the play
✅ How to Start With the Extract for Top Grades.
✅ The Easiest Way to Get Top Grades - not starting with the extract.
✅ The Thesis Statement and Conclusion that fit every essay.
✅ The Top Quotes and Anaylsis which fit every question.
+ You will get a list of the best quotes to revise, the best analysis to write about them, and a grade 9 essay to adapt to any question. Just download them and print for your revision!
🎯 Why This Masterclass?
🔹 Exam-Focused – The exact knowledge and techniques examiners look for
🔹 For All Levels – Whether aiming for a grade 4 or a 9, this session boosts your confidence
🔹 Replay Access – Watch again anytime to revise effectively
An Inspector Calls
Social responsibility and mystery decoded.
Confused by Priestley’s Play? Learn How to Impress the Examiner!
An Inspector Calls is more than just a whodunit – it’s a powerful critique of society. This exam-focused masterclass will help you understand themes, characters, and Priestley’s message, so you can write essays that stand out.
🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Masterclass
✅ Key Themes & Ideas – Social responsibility, class, gender, and guilt made simple
✅ Character Analysis – Understand the Inspector, the Birling family, and their secrets
✅ Priestley’s Methods – How structure, irony, and symbolism create meaning
✅ How to Write Grade 9 Essays – Organise and develop ideas to impress the examiner
✅ Context & Big Ideas – Why Priestley wrote the play and how it reflects society
✅ The Thesis Statement and Conclusion that fit every essay.
✅ An Essay Plan that fits nearly every essay.
✅ How the Theme Question is easier for Top Grades
✅ The Top Quotes and Anaylsis which fit every question.
+ You will get a list of the best quotes to revise, the best analysis to write about them, and a grade 9 essay to adapt to any question. Just download them and print for your revision!
🎯 Why This Masterclass?
🔹 Exam-Focused – The exact techniques you need for high marks
🔹 For All Levels – Whether you need a pass or a grade 9, this session helps you improve
🔹 Replay Access – Watch again to revise at your own pace
Power and Conflict Poetry
Ace your poetry analysis!
The Smart Student’s Shortcut to a Grade 9 — Without Studying All 15 Poems!
📚 Hate Poetry Revision? This Masterclass Is Built for You.
You don’t need to memorise 15 poems.
You don’t need to worry about comparing poems you don’t understand.
You don’t even need to be ‘good’ at poetry.
You just need to know this strategy.
This masterclass will show you the exact techniques top-grade students use — even if they secretly hate poetry too.
🔥 What You’ll Learn
✅ The One Poem That Fits Every Question
- Discover the one poem that works with every theme and past paper question — even the dreaded ones on power of nature.
- Learn how to compare it to any other poem convincingly, even if you barely remember the second one.
- What to do if this one poem turns out to be the named poem.
🧠 Essay Structure Made Stupidly Easy
- A clear, repeatable structure that works for every question.
- A loophole that lets you write more about the poem you know best – legitimately.
- How to include structure and form the smart way – even if you normally avoid it.
🧾 Top-Scoring Techniques You’ve Never Been Taught
- The subject terminology that always earns marks – and how to use it without sounding robotic.
- How to write about the poet’s message and ideas – even if you’ve never heard of them.
- The easy trick to sounding like a Grade 9 student – without writing more or using fancy vocabulary.
🧑🏫 Model Grade 9 Answers + Expert Commentary
- Get downloadable Grade 9 responses to every major theme and question type.
- My full commentary on what makes them excellent, what to steal from them, and how to turn them into revision gold.
- Includes unseen poetry comparisons, using the exact same structure – so you feel ready for anything.
🎁 What’s Included
✔️ Access to the full recorded masterclass – watch it as many times as you like
✔️ Downloadable model answers with detailed, annotated commentary
✔️ Revision planner tips so you know exactly what to revise and what to ignore
👩🎓 Who This Is For
- Students aiming for Grade 6–9
- Students who feel overwhelmed by 15 poems
- Students who want to revise smart, not hard
- Parents looking for proven, practical help that gets results fast
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Duality, science, and morality explored.
Find Stevenson’s Novel Confusing? Learn How to Smash the Exam!
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a mystery packed with deeper meanings. This exam-focused masterclass will help you unpack its themes, symbols, and characters, so you can write top-grade essays with confidence.
🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Masterclass
✅ Key Themes & Ideas – Duality, repression, science vs. religion explained simply
✅ Character Analysis – Jekyll, Hyde, Utterson, and Lanyon in depth
✅ Stevenson’s Methods – How language, structure, and setting create meaning.
✅ How to Write Grade 9 Essays – Strong argument, analysis, and evaluation
✅ Context & Big Ideas – How Victorian society shaped the novel.
✅ The Thesis Statement and Conclusion that fit every essay.
✅ 2 Essay Plans that fit nearly every essay.
✅ How to Start With the Extract for Top Grades.
✅ The Easiest Way to Get Top Grades - not starting with the extract.
✅ The Top Quotes and Anaylsis which fit every question.
+ You will get a list of the best quotes to revise, the best analysis to write about them, and a grade 9 essay to adapt to any question. Just download them and print for your revision!
🎯 Why This Masterclass?
🔹 Exam-Focused – Learn exactly what examiners look for
🔹 For All Levels – Whether aiming for a grade 4 or 9, this session boosts your skills
🔹 Replay Access – Watch again anytime for better revision
A Christmas Carol
Redemption and social injustice made clear.
Make Sense of Dickens’ Classic & Smash the Exam!
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is more than just a festive tale – it’s packed with powerful themes, deep symbolism, and social critique. This exam-focused masterclass will help you analyse the novel like a top student and write high-scoring essays.
🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Masterclass
✅ Key Themes & Ideas – Redemption, social injustice, and Christmas spirit.
✅ Character Analysis – Scrooge, the Cratchits, the Ghosts, and more.
✅ Dickens’ Methods – How structure, language, and imagery create meaning.
✅ How to Write Grade 9 Essays – Plan and structure your analysis effectively.
✅ Context & Big Ideas – How Victorian society influenced Dickens’ message.
✅ The Thesis Statement and Conclusion that fit every essay.
✅ An Essay Plan that fits nearly every essay.
✅ How to Start With the Extract for Top Grades.
✅ The Easiest Way to Get Top Grades - not starting with the extract.
✅ The Top Quotes and Anaylsis which fit every question.
+ You will get a list of the best quotes to revise, the best analysis to write about them, and a grade 9 essay to adapt to any question. Just download them and print for your revision!
⚬ Language Masterclasses ⚬
Paper 1
AQA English Language Paper 1
Unlock Grade 9 in AQA English Language Paper 1
The Masterclass That Reveals What Top Students Know – And Almost No Teachers Teach!
💥 Why This Masterclass Is a Game-Changer
Most students struggle with English Language Paper 1 because they’ve been taught to jump through hoops without ever being told why. This masterclass changes that.
🔓 Learn the secret techniques that top-grade answers use – techniques most teachers don't even know exist.
🧠 Make sense of the whole paper – once you learn how and why top students succeed, everything clicks into place.
💡 Spend less time remembering rules – and more time confidently writing answers that earn serious marks.
🔍 What You’ll Learn
📘 Questions 1–4: Precision, Power & Confidence
- The perfect order to tackle the paper for clarity and time management.
- How long to spend on each question (with a foolproof timer system).
- One simple method that works for Q2, Q3 and Q4 – no more confusion.
- Top-tier vocabulary that instantly lifts your mark.
- Insider mark scheme tips – what examiners really reward.
- A full breakdown of Grade 9 answers with my comments on why they worked.
✍️ Question 5: Description & Story Made Easy
- The 5 features examiners love in high-mark stories.
- How to prepare descriptions and stories in advance – and still hit the brief!
- Mark-winning sentence structures that you can copy and adapt.
- A full breakdown of Grade 9 answers with my comments on why they worked.
📥 What You Get
✅ Full access to the recorded masterclass – rewatch it any time, as often as you like.
✅ Downloadable top-grade model answers, annotated with expert feedback.
✅ Bonus resources to help you practise smarter, not harder.
🧑🎓 Who This Masterclass Is For
- Students aiming for grades 6 to 9
- Anyone who finds English confusing or wants to finally understand what the exam wants
- Students who are ready to boost their marks fast
- Parents who want their child to get the edge others won’t have
Paper 2
AQA English Language Paper 2
Why This Recorded Masterclass Will Transform Your Exam
Most students approach Paper 2 with guesswork or confusion of methods for each question. They try to remember too much, panic over timing, and lose marks on the questions that should be the easiest to conquer.
This masterclass puts a stop to all that.
🔓 Use the same breakthrough techniques from Paper 1 – they work just as powerfully here.
🧠 Know exactly how to answer every question – in the best order, with perfect timing.
💡 Reduce stress and skyrocket confidence – because now the exam finally makes sense.
🔍 What You’ll Learn
📘 Questions 1–5: Clear, Confident, High-Scoring
- What order to tackle the questions in for maximum clarity and focus.
- How long to spend on each part, so you never run out of time again.
- One simple method that works across Q2, Q3 and Q4 – no more overthinking!
- The precise vocabulary and structure that pushes answers into the top bands.
- Examiner-backed tricks that most students never get taught.
- Access Grade 9 model answers, complete with my comments breaking down how and why they worked.
✍️ Question 5: Persuasion That Actually Works
- Discover the persuasive techniques that really get top marks – forget the overused ones you always get given.
- Learn how to plan your answer fast, with a range of original, high-impact ideas that grab the examiner’s attention.
- Develop a structure that makes your writing feel confident, natural, and powerful from the very first sentence.
- Access Grade 9 model answers, complete with my comments breaking down how and why they worked.
📥 What You Get
✅ Access to the full recorded masterclass – rewatch any time, as often as you like.
✅ Downloadable model answers for every question – fully annotated with expert insights.
✅ Bonus resources to take your revision further and faster.
🧑🎓 Who This Masterclass Is For
- Students aiming for grades 6 to 9
- Anyone who finds Paper 2 confusing, frustrating or stressful
- Students who want to learn faster, revise smarter, and walk into the exam confident
- Parents who want their child to stand out with original, top-grade writing
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RECORDED MASTERCLASSES
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If we haven’t met before - Hi, my name’s Mr Salles 👋
I started teaching English in 1992, then began making videos for my students in 2011, and writing exam guides in 2016.
I knew nothing about exams when I started (because English used to be 100% coursework!). Every time a new GCSE comes out, I sit the exam papers multiple times. Sometimes I even pay to sit them with my students.
Understanding what the examiners wanted was a challenge at first.
I was a husband, dad, a head of department and then an assistant head, running a YouTube channel on the side, and still wanted to spend time with my family and friends.
That didn’t leave a lot of time to learn exam techniques (without just copying what everyone else was doing).
But I knew I wanted the inside knowledge which would mean most of my students could gain top grades…
Over 20 revision guides later, I knew I understood the exam inside and out.
I read hundreds of exam answers, fully marked by senior examiners. I rewrote them, tore them down and built them back up again, in order to find out exactly how each mark was earned.
Then I wrote dozens of my own exam answers at every grade to exactly match what top grade students wrote.
Each year I get hundreds of messages and emails after the exams, telling me how I helped students get top grades. In fact, 55% of viewers on my channel, Mr Salles Teaches English, say they got grades 8 and 9. And another 22% say they got grade 7.
Wait, what? How do students do across England then?
Only 4.9% of students in the country got a grade 9 in 2023. 7.1% got a grade 8. 9.6% got a grade 7. Add them all up, and 22% of students gained a grade 7 or more.
On my channel, it was 77%! (If 4200 students are to be believed).
Over 4000 viewers responded. And that was students just watching my videos.
I know, it's absolutely mental.
I think it’s fair to say that my advice can completely change your grades.
And I fundamentally believe that you can jump two or three grades very quickly.
Over 7000 students on my channel said this happened for them.
These results are fantastic.
But how many videos did students watch? Were they the right ones, with the best advice, or older videos, where I was still learning what gets 100%?
This is what my viewers said:
Nearly 9000 students responded. At least 74% of said my advice really helped them and improved their grade.
But what if I could get 100% of my viewers top grades? How would I do that? Well, it’s pretty simple…
