Key Stage Two : English : Extra : Bonfire Party : Lesson Five – Bonfire Speech

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise writing a speech to open a town’s firework display using formal language and sentence structures. The class can suggest how to use the correct voice tones and registers when performing their speeches to an audience.
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Learning Objectives
Recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing. Selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning.
Learning Outcomes
I can identify vocabulary and structures that can be used in formal writing. I can select and use appropriate vocabulary when writing a formal speech.

Bonfire Speech
Teaching sequence to help the children practise writing a speech to open a town’s firework display using formal language and sentence structures

Town Fireworks
Shared reading text to help the children explain how to convert between informal and formal language when writing a speech for a specific purpose

Bonfire Speech
Template to help the children structure and format a speech to open a town’s firework display using formal language

Bonfire Speech
Interactive activity to help the children practise writing a speech to open a town’s firework display using formal language and sentence structures
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise writing a speech to open a town’s firework display using formal language and sentence structures
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