Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe what could be seen and experienced during a visit to London, and templates to record a written recount about a family holiday to the capital of England and a pictorial storyboard to record information about the visit using pictures and word phrases.

The interactive presentation gets the children to locate the city of London as the capital of the country of England and suggest what makes the location special and distinct from other locations in the UK.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to Identify the name and location of the four main countries in the UK and describe their matching capital cities  and investigate the seas that surround each country. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.