Starter quiz
- True or false? To write from Florence Nightingale's perspective, you'll need to have good knowledge of her life.
- True ✓
- False
- Where was the hospital that Florence worked in located?
- Crimea
- Scutari (Turkey) ✓
- Russia
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- Why were the soldiers lying on the floor in the hospital?
- because there weren't any beds
- because the doctors thought it would help
- because there weren't enough beds ✓
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- When writing about what Florence did to improve the conditions at the hospital, you'll be using lots of...
- past tense verbs. ✓
- future tense verbs.
- present tense verbs.
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- Which of these is a past tense verb?
- scrub
- scrubbed ✓
- scrubbing
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- Which of these sentences is not written in the past tense?
- I scrubbed the floors all day.
- I cleaned the bed sheets straight away.
- I will organise the medical equipment tomorrow. ✓
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Exit quiz
- True or false? A diary is a formal piece of writing.
- True
- False ✓
- Informal writing contains more of the writer's ...
- drawings.
- personality. ✓
- personal details.
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- Who is the intended audience of a diary entry?
- children
- adults
- the person writing it ✓
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- What does the word 'contract' mean?
- to pull apart
- to push together ✓
- to split up
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- What two words have been contracted to make the word 'couldn't'?
- did not
- could not ✓
- would not
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- True or false? An apostrophe usually takes the place of the letters that have been removed from the second word.
- True ✓
- False
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A diary is an informal piece of writing.
- One of the features of informal writing is contracted words.
- When writing informally, we use apostrophes for contraction to show two words connected together.
Common misconception
Pupils may inaccurately use an apostrophe for contraction by not removing letters and just putting the words together with an apostrophe.
Teach them that the apostrophe indicates where letters have been omitted. Give children examples and non-examples to sort and explain why they are right/wrong.
Keywords
Apostrophe for contraction - a punctuation mark used to contract two words together
Contraction - two words pushed together
Informal - a style or manner that is casual, relaxed, or not bound by strict conventions
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