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New term-test papers, 2026
31 school term-test papers for Grades 7, 8, 10 and 11, each linked from its original source and listed with the body that set it.
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Twenty picture readers for Grades 3 to 6
Stories in which a picture stands in for a word, written below textbook level for children who find reading English hard.
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A new PTE Academic section, with a full practice test
A complete guide to the PTE Academic test - the format, how the 10 to 90 score works and how it compares with IELTS - together with an original practice test and full answer key.
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10 new O/L English model papers, with answers
Ten model papers for the 2026 O/L English Language examination by Chamil Sumudu, published here with his permission. Answer keys for the first five.
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RCF Target Paper 2, with the answer key
The second complete O/L English Language paper written by RCF English, Papers I and II, following the 2026 examination model. The answer key is published with it. Free to download.
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English classroom games, grade by grade
Eighty-eight games, eight for every grade from 1 to 11, each tied to what that grade is learning. No equipment, and every one says what to do in a class of forty-five.
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English Day Resources
The English Day circulars, including the amended oratory and storytelling rules, with story skeletons, writing prompts and play scripts for a class to perform. The file size is on every card.
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Eighty creative writing model compositions
Ten for every grade from 6 to 13, written for learners of English as a second language at the length each grade is expected to manage - about 100 words at Grade 6 rising to 250 at Advanced Level. Each one has a note on the single thing it shows.
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AI Tools for English Teachers
Ready prompts for passages, comprehension questions and rubrics, what AI gets confidently wrong about a syllabus, and what must never be typed into it.
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Teacher Administrative Documents
A register of where the official documents governing your service live - transfers, promotions, the Efficiency Bar, foreign leave, pay and the Establishments Code.
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English Camp Activities
How to run a one-day English camp - the timetable, the oath and ground rules, and five activity sessions - with the Central Province English Unit's guide free to download.
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Ask RCF English
Type a question the way you would say it and get the page you need. It runs in your own browser and sends nothing anywhere - a search, not an AI, and the page says so.
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RCF Target Paper 1, with the answer key
A complete O/L English Language paper written by RCF English - Papers I and II, sixteen tests - following the 2026 examination model. The answer key is published with it. Free to download.
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General English 2026: answers to both papers
RCF English's answers to every question in the 2026 A/L General English paper, Paper I and Paper II, with full model answers for the two writing questions. Free to download.
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Pupil's Books and Teachers' Guides, free to download
Every English book and Teachers' Guide the government publishes free, Grades 1 to 13, with a direct download for each. Where the department's server is slow, the download comes from the RCF English Drive instead.
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Every competency level, Grades 6 to 11
The eight English Language competencies and all the competency levels for each grade, transcribed from the NIE Teachers' Guides, for your lesson plans, term plans and SBA tools.
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Twenty sample SBA tools, with rubrics
School Based Assessment tools for English from the primary grades to A/L, and five for O/L English Literature, each set out in the usual assessment tool format with its marking criteria and one tool to a page.
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Six school project proposals you can adapt
English Only Day, English Day, a class reading programme, a wall newspaper, an English Literary Association, and a spelling bee and quiz, each in the same simple format to hand to your principal.
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113 sample PPP lesson plans, Grades 3 to 13
Ready-to-teach Presentation, Practice and Production lessons built on the unit activities of the government Pupil's Books, with timings for a 40-minute period. Each page can be downloaded as an editable Word document or a print-ready PDF.
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Annual, term, daily and weekly planning templates
A yearly scheme of work and a term plan with each grade's units already listed, and record-of-work forms with a filled-in example for every grade from 2 to 13.
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Seven new interactive activities
Letter sounds, first words, rhyming, word meanings, sentence order and a reading passage, each one marking itself and explaining every answer.
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Primary English
A whole new section for younger children: alphabet practice, ten-minute activities, poems, short reading passages and games that mark themselves.
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Sixty worksheets, Grades 6 to 11
Ten printable worksheets for every grade from 6 to 11, covering reading, writing and grammar, each with an answer key and written by RCF English.
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Grade 5 Scholarship English
English-medium language practice for scholarship candidates, with an honest account of the part of the examination this site can help with.
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Literature Orientation: One-Month Course for New Teachers
A one-month online course for teachers new to English Literature: planning a lesson, teaching a poem, a story and a play, and marking written answers usefully.
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Grade 9 and Grade 10 English Literature classes
Two of the four Student Classes at RCF Online Academy, taking a student from first close reading through to the Ordinary Level texts.
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O/L and A/L Literature classes
Examination-year Literature taught online: texts studied in full, answers written under timed conditions and every piece corrected individually.
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RCF Publications
The support books and study guides written by Rohana Fernando, sold separately through the RCF Publications bookshop.
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Teacher Resources
Lesson plans, worksheets, marking guides and practical classroom support, gathered in one place for teachers of English and Literature.
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