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.
'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.
'Ullswater' is based on the short story by Romesh Gunesekera. It is about the relationship between two very different brothers and how various factors have caused them to grow apart. One brother describes their
This Kit. Based on the works of Jackie Kay and Ron Butlin this kit looks at theScottish city of Edinburgh. It differs from original BritLit kits in that there is no singlenarrative text to work through.
'Whose face do you see?' is based on the short story by Melvin Burgess. It is about an adolescent girl who is in a coma. It is also about her family and the dilemma they face when the doctors tell her there is no hope for their daughter.
For the first time, materials for the BritLit project have been produced outside of Portugal, where the project began. Teachers working on BritLit in Hungary have been busily devising a new approach,
