Planning the paragraph about diet in the Stone Age | English

Starter quiz

Which of these need a capital letter?
- mesolithic ✓
- farmers
- neolithic ✓
- hunter-gatherers
Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
- They domesticated animals to produce food. ✓
- they domesticated animals to produce food.
- They domesticated animals to produce food
- they domesticated animals to produce food
In which sentence is the comma used correctly?
- In addition they cultivated crops such as wheat.
- In, addition they cultivated crops such as wheat.
- In addition, they cultivated crops such as wheat. ✓
- In addition, they cultivated crops such, as wheat.
'They gathered berries and nuts.' I which section of a non-chronological report about the Stone Age would you find this sentence?
- Introduction
- Diet ✓
- Housing
- Artefacts
- Conclusion
What is the purpose of a subheading?
- to make a text longer
- to summarise the text
- to signal the reader to each section of the text ✓
'Amazingly,' and 'Interestingly,' are types of ______ fronted adverbials.
- 'viewpoint' ✓

Which of these are subject-specific vocabulary?
- Neolithic ✓
- hunting ✓
- nature
- walking
- domesticated ✓
What is in a plan?
- full sentences with capital letters and full stops
- bullet points for notes ✓
- subject-specific vocabulary ✓
- unnecessary information
Which of the following is true of the Mesolithic period?
- They hunted wild animals and gathered nuts and berries from nature. ✓
- They grew crops and prepared the land for farming.
- They domesticated animals such as sheep.
- They sold food.
Which of the following are true of the Neolithic period?
- They moved around depending on where they could find animals to hunt.
- They domesticated animals such as sheep, cows and chickens. ✓
- They sold food to make money.
- They cultivated crops and prepared the land for farming. ✓
Match the type of fronted adverbial to its example.
- formal 'and' fronted adverbial
  
  ⇔
  
  In addition, ✓
- formal 'but' fronted adverbial
  
  ⇔
  
  However, ✓
- viewpoint fronted adverbial
  
  ⇔
  
  Interestingly, ✓
Complete the following sentence. 'Farming had a positive impact on their diet because...'
- they could grow crops such as wheat and barley to eat. ✓
- they could sell the food.
- they could domesticate animals to produce food. ✓
- they could hunt more easily.

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Notes should not be written in full sentences and bullet points can be used to order notes.
Viewpoint fronted adverbials and formal fronted adverbials are used at the start of sentences for cohesion.
The purpose of the diet paragraph is to show how the diet of the Mesolithic period differed to that of the Neolithic.
Mesolithic people were nomadic hunter-gatherers (they hunted animals and foraged for berries for food.)
Neolithic people began farming, growing crops and using domesticated animals.

Planning needs to be detailed and include full sentences.

Planning should only have keywords and be written in note-from using bullet points.

Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject
Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text
Notes - written out of full sentences
Hunter-gatherer - a person who hunted animals and foraged for berries and other natural products for food.