Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to use persuasive language to argue a viewpoint in a letter, a set of cards to select and record different reasons for and against holding the Olympics at the school and a worksheet to check and make corrections and improvements to a letter that uses persuasive language to argue a point of view.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a letter to persuade the Olympic committee to hold the next games on the school field.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise using persuasive language and sentence structures to compose and present requests about different things that could happen in the school. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.