Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe how to structure and format an explanation about a robot that might be developed in the future, a vocabulary word bank to select special connective words to link paragraphs in an explanatory text and a worksheet to edit and correct the format and structure of an explanation about a robot that can complete different jobs and tasks.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write an explanation to describe how different robots might work in the future.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and model how to structure and format explanation texts about why and how robots function to complete tasks 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.