Topic: KS3

Goals:

• Explain what an Adverbial is and how they are formed 
• Distinguish between fronted and non-fronted Adverbials 
• Explore how Adverbials are used to order information. 

The lesson activities are divided into part 1 and 2. 

Part 1

Warmer

How do writers use language to create images in your mind? Read this extract and think very consciously about the kinds of images the language is conjuring up for you.

A rustle in the tunnel darkness; the knife was in his hand, and then it was no longer in his hand, and it was quivering gently almost thirty feet away. He walked over to his knife and picked it up by the hilt. There was a gray rat impaled on the blade, its mouth opening and closing impotently as the life fled. He crushed its skull between finger and thumb. (Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere)

This lesson asks students to think about tense and aspect, what they mean, and how else we can communicate those meanings.

Goals

• Identify verb tense and aspect. 
• Explain the meaning of verb tense and aspect. 
• Use multimodal literacy skills to present information from words as pictures. 

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will be describing some pictures using language, and then drawing some pictures to describe language.

In this lesson, students identify verbs in fictional extracts and discuss the reasons why authors may have chosen particular verbs in their writing.

In this lesson, students will analyse persuasive language in a charity appeal, and then write their own charity appeal. There is a particular focus on the way modal auxiliary verbs can be used to persuade.

Goals

• Identify modal auxiliary verbs.
• Analyse persuasive language.
• Practise writing persuasively.

Lesson Plan

Activity 1