Activities in this teaching pack include a display poster to identify and describe a location found in the European country of Italy, a shared reading text to explore daily life in Italy from an example letter from a penpal and a template to format and structure a letter to find out about life in Italy to compare with the UK.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to write a reply to a letter from an Italian penpal to explore life in the Italy and make comparisons to the United Kingdom.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to explore and record how cities and other locations in Italy are physically and politically the same or different from similar places in the United Kingdom. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.