Lesson Two – Country Facts

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using brackets to add extra information to example sentences about some of the different countries that are playing in a football tournament.

The class can identify and model the special sentence structures and vocabulary words that can be used to compose factual sentences about a country for use in a report.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using brackets to add extra information to example sentences about some of the different countries that are playing in a football tournament

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to identify and record how to add facts and information to example sentences for a report text using brackets to describe some of the countries participating in a football tournament.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use brackets to add extra information to sentences about a range of different countries playing 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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