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.

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

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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