Lesson Four – Country Research

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise researching and collecting facts and information about one of the different countries participating in a football tournament.

The class can identify and explain how to convert a set of abbreviated notes into matching sentences for a report describing what life is like in a country in the world.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise researching and collecting facts and information about one of the different countries participating in a football tournament

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify the meaning of abbreviated notes collected about different countries in the world and differentiated templates to research and collect facts and information to answer key questions about a particular country participating in a football tournament.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to research and collect facts and information about one of the countries participating in a football tournament.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to research and write a non-chronological report presenting facts and information about one of the countries participating in a football tournament. 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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