Starter quiz
- Which of these is in the past?
- yesterday ✓
- tomorrow
- next week
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- If something has happened in the past, it means that it has...
- not happened yet.
- already happened. ✓
- been planned to happen soon.
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- Talking or writing about past experiences is called what?
- counting
- recounting ✓
- recalculating
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- True or false? When we are recounting, the information we are sharing with someone is called a recount.
- True ✓
- False
- Chronological means...
- in the order in which things happened. ✓
- not in the order in which things happened.
- in any order.
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- A recount should be written in...
- non-chronological order.
- chronological order. ✓
- any order.
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Exit quiz
- True or false? A recount will involve you describing events and experiences in detail.
- True ✓
- False
- To add detail to a recount, a writer will use lots of...
- capital letters.
- expanded noun phrases. ✓
- questions.
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- Common nouns do not need...
- adjectives before.
- capital letters. ✓
- to be used in writing.
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- Match the noun to the noun type.
- Birmingham⇔proper noun ✓
- path⇔common noun ✓
- Bristol Zoo⇔proper noun ✓
- lion⇔common noun ✓
- Here is an expanded noun phrase: large, brown dog. Which word is the noun?
- large
- brown
- dog ✓
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- What separates adjectives in an expanded noun phrase?
- a full stop
- a question mark
- a comma ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A recount will involve you describing events and experiences in detail.
- An expanded noun phrase is a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun.
- Expanded noun phrases contain two adjectives, separated by a comma.
- When we write a plan, we use notes.
Common misconception
During the writing process, pupils may find it hard to come up with adjectives to describe the nouns they are using.
Teach the pupils that first we select a noun that will need to be described, then we select the most suitable adjectives to describe them. Encourage pupils to plan their expanded noun phrases first, so they can easily put these into their recount.
Keywords
Expanded noun phrase - a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun
Noun - a naming word for people, places or things
Adjective - a word that describes a noun
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text
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