Lesson Two – Zoo Map Instructions

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select a range of different instructions that can be used to guide visitors around enclosures and attractions at a zoo during their visit.

The class can explain and model how to use Standard English when talking professionally to visitors to a zoo to provide them with some visit instructions.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select a range of different instructions that can be used to guide visitors around enclosures and attractions at a zoo during their visit

Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record how to answer questions from visitors to the zoo using different instructions written in Standard English sentence forms.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explain how to select and record instructions that can be used to guide visitors around enclosures and attractions at a zoo during their visit.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write different instructions that can be used to support visitors to a zoo. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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  • Changing Numbers

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