Bonfire Party

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night. The class can practise using adverbials of time to specify when, how long or how often something happened.

Select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night

Lesson One : Bonfire Guests

Identify and record some of the special formal and informal vocabulary that might be used when inviting different groups of people to a Bonfire Night party

Lesson Two : Firework Display

Practise using some different adverbials of time when describing the sequence of events that might happen during a family Bonfire party

Lesson Three : Bonfire Invitations

Explore how to select and use formal and informal language to compose example texts inviting different groups of people to a family Bonfire party

Lesson Four : Firework Complaint

Investigate how to select and use formal language when composing and presenting a letter of complaint about what happened during a neighbour’s firework display

Lesson Five : Bonfire Speech

Practise composing and presenting a speech to open a town’s firework display using matching formal language and sentence structures

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