Starter quiz
- Which of these are types of fiction text?
- stories ✓
- poems ✓
- newspapers
- plays ✓
- reports
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- Which of these are types of non-fiction text?
- reports ✓
- stories
- plays
- instructions ✓
- newspapers ✓
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- A non-chronological report is a type of which text type?
- fiction
- non-fiction ✓
- neither
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- Which of these are features of a non-chronological report?
- paragraphs ✓
- title ✓
- subheadings ✓
- characters
- introduction ✓
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- Put these parts of a non-chronological report in the correct order.
- 1⇔title
- 2⇔introduction
- 3⇔subheading
- 4⇔paragraph 1
- 5⇔subheading
- 6⇔paragraph 2
- Titles and subheadings are always ...
- written in coloured ink.
- underlined. ✓
- written in all capital letters.
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Exit quiz
- What year did The Great Fire of London take place?
- 666
- 1660
- 1666 ✓
- 1966
- 2066
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- What day of the week did the fire start?
- Monday
- Thursday
- Saturday
- Sunday ✓
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- What sort of shop did the fire start in?
- a butchers
- a bakery ✓
- a supermarket
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- Who owned the bakery where the fire started?
- Thomas Farriner ✓
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Baker
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- Where was Thomas Farriner's bakery located?
- Dinner Drive
- Downing Street
- Pudding Lane ✓
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- How many days did the fire burn for?
- 1 day
- 2 days
- 3 days
- 4 days ✓
- 5 days
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Key learning points
- The Great Fire of London happened in the past.
- The fire started on Sunday 2nd September 1666.
- The fire started in Pudding Lane in Thomas Farriner’s bakery.
- The fire spread quickly due to the houses being made of wood, being close together and the windy conditions.
- The fire lasted for four days before it was stopped.
Common misconception
Pupils might think that the fire happened in the more recent past.
London was a very different city to what it is now and the buildings were entirely different, which played a key part in the fire spreading
Keywords
Knowledge - Facts, information and skills acquired through experience or education.
History - Things that happened in the past.
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