Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to select and define vocabulary to use in a recount of an imagined expedition to a dangerous location, a shared reading text to how to structure and format a recount of event, a vocabulary word bank to select adverbials of time to sequence events in a recount text and a template for support ability levels to compose and publish a recount of an expedition to somewhere special in the world.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a recount of an imagined expedition to a dangerous location using adverbials of time to indicate the timing of events.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to some different locations that can be found around the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.