Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to compose and publish a letter for a specific purpose and a template to structure and format a letter from a football player to someone on another team commentating about past matches.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a series of letters between football players on different teams commentating about past matches.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.