Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a recount about a family visit to a swimming pool, a vocabulary word bank to select time adverbials to use when sequencing events in a recount and a template to compose a recount about a visit to a leisure activity using special vocabulary to sequence the events.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a recount about a family visit to a swimming pool or other leisure attraction in the local area.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to compose recounts using time adverbials to sequence the events in family visits to familiar and unfamiliar locations. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.