| Lesson objectives |
Handling information
Report writing |
| Starter |
Students should listen to 2 or 3 bulletins. The telegram studied for homework should be read out.
Students compare the two formats.
Students should create a list of features of bulletin/telegrams, for example - informative, brief, clear language etc |
| Development |
The students are asked to revisit the poem and to hypothesise and speculate. They should consider the facts as investigators and begin to think about what might have happened [the teacher add some details].
In pairs, students are asked to imagine that they have visited the scene of the mystery and found further clues. They are asked to write a detailed report on what happened and to give their explanation of the mystery.
It may be necessary to revisit report writing features; the qualities are; formal, past tense, factual, impersonal |
| Plenary |
The class should listen to some of the reports above although they may be incomplete - this provides an opportunity to emphasise the features of report-writing and the nature of a preliminary report. |
| Homework |
Students to complete their reports. |
