Activities in this teaching pack include display posters and a vocabulary word bank to identify and define special vocabulary words that can be used to describe nouns connected to a desert and a worksheet to select and order sets of adjectives that can be used to describe desert nouns such as the dunes and an oasis.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to order powerful adjectives that can be used to describe nouns connected to parts of a desert.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise making lists of synonyms for different adjectives to use in sentences describing some of the special places that can be found in the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.