Pirate Soup
This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to read, sequence and write a set of instructions about how to prepare a vegetable soup for the crew of a pirate ship to make and enjoy eating when at sea.
The class can identify and define the imperative verbs that can be used at the start of each instruction to initiate commands about how to make soup from different vegetables.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to read, sequence and write a set of instructions about how to prepare a vegetable soup for the crew of a pirate ship to make and enjoy eating when at sea
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a set of instructions for a recipe, a worksheet to identify key vocabulary in a set of instructions that can be used to answer different questions, a set of cards to sequence a set of instructions about how to make soup into the correct order and a vocabulary word bank to write a set of instructions about how to make soup.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sequence and write a set of instructions about how to prepare a vegetable soup for the crew on board a pirate ship.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and model how to compose different sets of instructions for pirates to follow when working on board a pirate ship. 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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