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Generating ideas and vocabulary for instructions for how to make a monster pizza

Monster pizza: instructions writing

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils write a set of formal instructions, including a title and an ingredients list, for a fantasy disgusting pizza. Pupils learn about imperative verbs and precise adjectives that match the informative and formal tone of writing.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to generate ideas and vocabulary to use when writing instructions for how to make a monster pizza.

Key Notes

  • Your imagination can help you to think of things that do not exist in real life.
  • A noun is a naming word for people, places or things.
  • An adjective is a word that describes a noun.
  • It is easier for the reader to picture the nouns we are writing about if we describe them using an adjective.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • imagination: the creative tool that helps you to think of things that do not exist in real life
  • noun: a naming word for people, places or things
  • adjective: a word that describes a noun

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may think that all adjectives are equally precise when describing a noun.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.

Your imagination can help you to think of things that do not exist in real life. A noun is a naming word for people, places or things.

2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'imagination'

the creative tool that helps you to think of things that do not exist in real life.

3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.

Mistake: Pupils may think that all adjectives are equally precise when describing a noun. Correction: Teach pupils that adjectives need to be carefully chosen and selected because they describe the noun in the most precise way.

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