The aim of BritLit is to help teachers from around the world to exploit English literature in the ELT classroom as a language tool. Here you can find a range of materials based around the works of various authors. Find out more about the BritLit project.
Each BritLit resource kit contains a range of materials to help students understand the context of the literature as well as the language and the works themselves. Find out more about the BritLit kits.
Many of the BritLit Kits contain complete texts, tasks for students , teachers' notes as well as audio recordings of interviews with the authors and readings of the text.
Based on a short story by the British born Indian writer, Bali Rai, 'The White Towel' relates a minor accident which prompts painful memories of innocence and questioned virginity.
These three short kits were the result of a collaborative event in Segovia, Spain, between the organisers of the Hay Festival Segovia 2008 and the British Council, Spain.
The kit is based on the short story of the same name by author Andrea Levy. The story was first published in ‘The Independent on Sunday' and later in the anthology ‘Underwords - The Hidden City' published by Maia Press Limited.
'Weekend' is a short story by the author Fay Weldon, and published by Penguin in 'Modern British Short Stories'. It originally appeared in 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in 1978.
This project is something out of the ordinary for BritLit as it supports a major piece of performance poetry. The materials here have been designed to support a series of workshops and performances of ‘Chinese Whispers' by Francesca Beard, one of the UK's leading performance poets.
This kit is a departure from the other kits and, like its companions, based on poets Levi Tafari and Benjamin Zephaniah, concentrates on the work of an author rather than on a particular piece of
