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

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Nightingale and if so, what they know about her.
Ask the children to read the notes in the boxes in Exercise 
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9. Then work orally as a class to tell Florence Nightingale’s 
life story. Encourage the children to use time linkers 
instead of some of the dates.
When you think the children are ready, ask them to write 
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the life story in their notebooks.
Key
Example text:
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on 12th May 
1820. She was taught by her father. She liked helping and 
caring for sick people.
In 1849, when she was 29, she travelled to Europe to study 
European hospitals. Then she travelled to Egypt to study 
nursing. Soon she was in charge of a women’s hospital in 
London. Later she went to Turkey and improved conditions in 
hospitals. 
Florence Nightingale was given the nickname ‘The Lady of the 
Lamp’, because she worked all day and all night.
Writing (optional extension activity)
Ask the children to write some questions that they can 
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use to interview an adult about his/her childhood, e.g. 
When and where were you born?
 
Where did you go to school?
 
What did you like doing?
 
What were you good at?
The children interview an adult (e.g. a parent, grandparent 
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or neighbour) for homework. If the adult speaks English, 
they can ask the questions in English. Otherwise they will 
of course have to translate the questions into L1!
The children write a paragraph about the adult they 
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interview, using the third person.