Neighbour Complaint

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and record how to work with formal language when composing and presenting a letter of complaint about what happened during a neighbour’s garden party.
The class can explain and model how to structure and format a specific type of letter to match the intended audience when presenting complaints about an event.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record how to work with formal language when composing and presenting a letter of complaint about what happened during a neighbour’s garden party
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to convert between informal and formal language when writing a letter of complaint and a template to structure and format a letter of complaint about a neighbour’s firework display using formal language.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use formal language when writing a letter of complaint about a neighbour’s garden party.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to format and structure writing when composing letters of complaint about different issues and scenarios. 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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