Oxford Primary Skills Unit Teaching Notes Oxford University Press 1 Lesson objectives

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words to make collocations.
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Writing (page 31)
Talk about different ways of raising money for good 
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causes. Children can look back at the ideas on page 29, 
and suggest further ideas of their own. Ask them if they 
have ever raised any money for charity themselves.
Read the text while the children follow it in their books. 
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Then ask some questions to check understanding, e.g. 
Why did Lily and Poppy want to raise money for the hospital? 
How did they get people’s attention? How long did it take 
them to collect £80?
8 Change these sentences into news report 
sentences. Put information before peoples’ names.
Read the text in the blue box. Ask the children to point 
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to each of the examples in the model text above. Point 
out that the headline is written in the present tense, even 
though the report below it is written in the past tense.
Write this sentence on the board: 
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Kent schoolgirls Lily and 
Poppy Brook have collected £80 for their local hospital.
Make 
sure the children understand that this is news report 
language – we don’t usually talk like this. Turn it into 
normal English by crossing out the first two words and 
adding a clause: 
Lily and Poppy Brook, who are schoolgirls 
from Kent, have collected £80 for their local hospital.
Draw 
the children’s attention to the commas, and point out that 
there aren’t any commas in the news report sentence. 
Explain that newspapers often use place names as 
adjectives.
Look at Exercise 8. Working orally with pencils down, ask