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Hello, everyone.

My name is Mr. Brown and I'm here to teach you your English lesson and I am delighted to be here because it's such a fun lesson.

We are going to be learning the features of a non-chronological report.

Don't worry if you aren't sure what a non-chronological report is.

This lesson is going to explain all of that to you.

So let's get started.

The outcome for today's lesson is I can identify the different features of a non-chronological report.

I can identify the different features of a non-chronological report.

And the keywords which will help us on our learning journey in today's lesson are information, non-chronological reports, and features.

Information, non-chronological reports, and features.

So let's take a look at the lesson outline, reminding ourselves that our lesson today is on learning the features of a non-chronological report.

We are going to start by looking at the difference between chronological and non-chronological, really exploring and understanding what that means.

We will then move our learning onto looking at the features of non-chronological reports.

So my first question to you is, do you love to read? I'm sure you do.

Have you noticed that there are many different text types that you can read? Not all books are the same.

There are different types of texts.

Have you noticed that? I wonder if you think about your book corner in your classroom or the books that you have at home, they are probably not all the same text type, are they? The simplest way to organise them is to separate them into two categories, one being fiction and the other non-fiction.

Let's check our understanding.

True or false, texts can be separated into two categories, fiction and non-fiction.

Is that true or is that false? Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

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Okay, let's see if you were right.

Texts can be separated into two categories.

Fiction and non-fiction is true.

You're absolutely right.

That is the simplest way to separate and organise different texts.

Now, fiction texts, they are made-up stories with characters, a setting, and a plot from the author's own imagination.

They are made-up.

They do not exist.

They are not about real things.

You will likely have read lots of fiction texts before.

Types of fiction texts include stories, poems, and plays.

Here are two examples of fiction texts that you might have seen before.

Let's check our understanding.

Which two of these would you be likely to find in fiction texts? Is it A characters B, information about real events, C, a setting, or D, true facts? Which of these would you likely find in fiction texts? Characters information about real events, a setting or true facts.

Pause the video and decide which two of these you'd find in fiction texts.

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Let's see if you found the two correct answers.

So we were looking for a, characters.

Do you remember we said that characters are created by the writer? They are made-up from their own imagination.

They would be in a fiction text.

Now b, is information about real events.

Fiction texts do not include real events.

They're about made-up events so it's not b.

So we're looking at c or d, a setting or true facts.

Which one is likely to be found in a fiction text? Well, well done if you said c, a setting.

A setting has to be created by the writer's imagination.

It is in a fiction text.

True facts, well, that's what you would find in a non-fiction text.

There are many different types of non-fiction writing.

A non-fiction text provides real facts and information.

The writer can't just make it up.

The types of non-fiction texts include information texts.

So texts that will tell you about something.

And this could be about anything.

It could be about an animal, could be about a country around the world, a food, that's an information text.

Non-chronological reports, we're going to dive into those today, so I'll hold back on explaining that as we look into that.

Instructions.

Instructions are something that you will have written before they tell someone how to do something.

They are non-fiction.

And biographies, and here's a couple of examples as well of non-fiction texts that you might have seen before.

One of them is a newspaper.

That's another example of a non-fiction text.

Let's check our understanding, which two of these are types of non-fiction texts? Is it a, stories, b, information texts, c, instructions, or d, poems? Pause the video and decide which two of these are types of non-fiction texts.

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Let's see if you were right.

So non-fiction texts, a, is stories.

We know that stories are something that are created by a writer from their imagination, so it's not a because non-fiction texts are things like b, information texts.

They give you information, they tell you something, they contain real facts.

So now we're down to c and d, instructions or poems. Which of these is a type of a non-fiction text? Well done, if you said c, instructions.

Instructions are telling the reader how to do something.

They are based on real information.

Poems are created by the writer from their own imagination.

So well done if you said b and c.

A non-chronological report is a type of non-fiction text.

I'm gonna say that one more time.

It's very important.

A non-chronological report is a type of non-fiction text.

It's provides factual information about a subject, person or event.

This means the writer cannot make up the information using their imagination like they would if they were writing fiction.

So a non-fiction text, an example of a non-fiction text would be a non-chronological report.

It's a type of non-fiction text.

It gives information about a subject, a person, or an event, and this means that the writer cannot make it up themselves.

Let's check our understanding.

A writer can use their imagination to make up events when writing a non-fiction text.

Can a writer use their imagination to make up events when writing a non-fiction text? What do you think? If you think they can, then it's true.

If you think they cannot, then it's false.

A writer can use their imagination to make up events when writing a non-fiction text, true or false, pause the video and decide now.

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Let's see if you were right.

Congratulations if you said false.

Absolutely.

A writer cannot use their imagination to make up events when they're writing a non-fiction text.

If I'm writing a non-fiction text all about basketball, I can't use my imagination to make up rules that are not actually part of the game of basketball.

That's not the job In a non-fiction text, well done if you said false.

So here's a big question for you.

What does non-chronological mean? Take a moment to think.

What does non-chronological mean? Let me help you.

Chronological means the order in which things happen.

You might have heard someone say chronological order.

Perhaps in a history lesson, someone would say that these events are in chronological order.

For example, the events from a day at school put into chronological order would look like this.

First, you would arrive at school.

Then it's the morning register, then morning lessons, next lunch, afternoon lessons, and home time.

Those events are in chronological order.

They are in the order in which they happen.

First, you arrive at school.

Last is home time.

They're in chronological order.

If chronological means the order in which things happen, can you work out what non-chronological might mean? When we have non in front of a word, it means no or not.

So what would non-chronological mean? Have a think.

Non-chronological means things are not in the order that they happened.

They are not.

It is the opposite of chronological order, non-chronological.

For example, the events from a day at school put into non-chronological order might look like this.

Lunch, home-time, arrive at school, morning lessons, afternoon lessons, morning register.

Now that would be a strange day at school, wouldn't it? These are not in chronological order.

They are not in the order in which they happened.

Let's check your understanding on that important knowledge that you've just learned.

True or false, non-chronological means things are not in the order that they happened? Is that true or is that false? Non-chronological means things are not in the order that they happened.

True or false? Pause the video and decide now.

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Okay.

I am confident that you have got this one.

I've got my fingers crossed.

True or false, non-chronological means things are not in the order that they happened? Well done if you said true.

Absolutely.

Non-chronological is the opposite of chronological.

Chronological order means things are in the order that they happened.

So non-chronological is the opposite.

It means they are not in the order in which they happened.

Well done if you said true.

Okay, let's have a practise.

I would like you to put these instructions for washing your hands in chronological order.

Label them a to d, a if it's the first instruction, b, then c, then d.

Okay, let's take a look.

The first instruction that I've given you is dry your hands with a hand dryer or towel.

You've got use soap and rub your hands together.

Rinse the soap off your hands under warm running water.

And wet your hands with warm water.

Your job to order those chronologically, to put these instructions in chronological order by labelling them a, b, c, d.

Pause the video and have a go now.

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Okay, let's have a look and see if you were right.

Well done if you said a, the first thing we do is wet your hands with warm water.

So if we're putting these in chronological order, that is first it's a.

b, would be use soap and rub your hands together.

c, rinse the soap off your hands under warm running water, which means d must be dry your hands with a hand dryer or towel.

So chronologically it would be wet your hands with warm water.

Use soap and rub your hands together.

Rinse the soap off your hands under warm running water, and finally, dry your hands with a hand dryer or towel.

Well done if you ordered those chronologically.

Let's move on to looking at the features of non-chronological reports.

Features are the parts or characteristics that make something unique, make it different to everything else, make it recognisable.

We often use features to help us recognise something.

For example, the features of our classroom might be desks, pegs, a book corner, an interactive board.

If I walk into a room and it has desks, and pegs, a book corner, an interactive board, my brain is going to tell me, ah, these features are recognisable of a classroom.

So we are probably in a classroom, which of these is a feature of a birthday party? Is it a, cars, b, beds, or c, cake? Which of these is a feature, a thing you might see, something that would tell you, ah, it's a birthday party? Which of these is a feature of a birthday party? Is it a, cars, b, beds, or c, cake? Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

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Let's see if you are right.

So I have been to a few birthday parties in my life and they don't have beds very often.

Maybe if it was a sleepover birthday party, but this is not a feature that I would think, yeah, definitely, I'm at a birthday party.

Look how many beds there are.

So it leaves me with a, cars or c, cake.

Now, I know that at a birthday party there is often a cake, and candles, and people sing Happy Birthday.

Cars, I don't think so.

I can't think of any birthday parties I've been to where there's been lots and lots of cars.

So I'm gonna go with c, cake and it's the right answer.

Well done if you said c, cake.

Non-chronological reports have features that help us to recognise them and to know what to include in them.

So when we are reading and we spot these features, our brain will say, ah, this is probably a non-chronological report.

And then when we are writing a non-chronological report, these features, our brain will say, ah, we should include these in our non-chronological reports.

The features of a non-chronological reports, are a title, an introduction, subheadings, sections.

Which of these is not a feature of a non-chronological report? A, title, b, introduction, c, subheadings or d, characters.

Which of these is not a feature of a non-chronological report? Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

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Okay, let's see.

So we said that a title is a feature of a non-chronological report.

Also, the introduction is a feature of a non-chronological report, which leaves us with subheadings and characters.

Now we know that characters are made-up.

The writer creates characters from their own imagination, which means that that is something which would go in a fiction text and a non-chronological report is a non-fiction text, so therefore the answer must be characters.

Well done if you said d, characters, the sections of a non-chronological report will be structured in this order.

You'll have your introduction section first, then section one, and then section two.

Each of these sections has a different purpose and we're going to look at that in detail in this lesson.

In year two, you will write one paragraph for each section.

So for each section we will write a paragraph, which will be around four sentences or five sentences.

Here is an example of how a non-chronological report looks.

Don't worry about trying to read the text.

We're going to look in detail each of these sections, but I wanted you to see how it would look complete.

And you can see at the top there is a title and the title of this is "The Great Fire of London", and we're going to look in detail at "The Great Fire of London" in this unit.

We then have our introduction, section one, and you can see a subheading at the top there.

And section two, which has its own subheading.

Let's look at first of all the title.

Now the title is the name of the report, and that is "The Great Fire of London".

The title should tell the reader what the report is about.

We then move on to subheadings, subheadings introduce each section of the report.

And our report has subheadings, how did the fire start and how did the fire spread and stop? They are the two subheadings.

The title and subheadings are always underlined.

What are they? Always underlined.

User ruler to very carefully underline your title and your subheadings.

Let's focus on the introduction.

The introduction has two important purposes, to give brief general information about the subject.

So to not go into detail, just to give brief general information, just a flavour of the report and to give an outline of the report to entice the reader, to keep reading, to give them an outline, to tell them just a little bit about what they are going to read about in the report, what the report will do.

I'm now going to read you an example of an introduction, and this is an introduction from a report with the title, "The Great Fire of London".

A really important event in London's history, but also in British history too.

Have you heard that over 300 years ago, there was a huge fire in England's capital city of London? The fire is now called "The Great Fire of London", and it is a very interesting event in London's history.

Shockingly, the vast, fast-moving fire destroyed thousands of homes, but it is thought that only six people died.

In this informative report, you'll learn about how the fire started, and how it spread, and stopped.

Read on to find out more about this fascinating event, and that's your introduction.

It does not give lots and lots of detail about "The Great Fire of London".

Doesn't really tell you how it started, doesn't tell you how it spread or stopped.

That's all coming later.

It tells you that there was a fire, told you how long ago it was, and it gives you a little bit of general information, tells you that it was a fast-moving fire, it destroyed lots of homes, and then at the end, there is a command, it instructs you read on to find out more.

Let's check your understanding, which two are true? The purpose of the introduction is to a, give brief general information about a subject, b, give detailed information about the whole event, or c, give an outline of the report and entice the reader to keep reading.

Which two are true? Is it a, b, c? What do you think? Pause the video and decide which two of these are true now.

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Okay, well done if you said a and c, a, give brief information about a subject and c, give an outline of the report to entice the reader to keep reading, to make them want to keep reading.

b, give detailed information about the whole event, that's coming later, not in the introduction.

The two sections in the report give information about a specific part of the overall topic.

The subheadings tell the reader what that part will be about.

So we know if the subheading is, how did the fire start? This section's going to all be about how the fire started.

Let me read you a section on how the fire started.

"Were you aware that the blazing inferno started in a bakery? On Sunday the 2nd of September 1666? The fire began in a bakery that belonged to a man called Thomas Farriner.

Unfortunately, Thomas Farriner had forgotten to put out the fire in his kitchen and the fire soon grew out of control.

Before long, the whole bakery was alight and Thomas and his family had to escape or risk being trapped in the burning building.

On Pudding Lane, the fire started to spread.

What a terrifying time it was." And that is a section which tells the reader how the fire started.

Let's now look at the section with the subheading, how did the fire spread and stop? In 1666, buildings were made of wood and straw, and they were close together on narrow crowded streets.

Also, the weather was hot, dry, and windy when the fire started.

These were good conditions for the blaze to spread quickly.

Unfortunately, there was no fire service in 1666 and people only had buckets, axes, and water squirts to tackle the flames.

However, the Lord Mayor ordered houses and shops to be blown up with gunpowder to try and stop the fire spreading further.

Finally, after four days, the fire was under control and it was successfully stopped.

It took London over 50 years to be repaired and people still learn about this devastating part of history today.

Let's check your understanding.

What tells the reader what a specific section will be about? Is it a, the title, b, subheadings or c, the introduction? What tells the reader what a specific section will be about, a, b, or c? Pause the video and decide now.

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Okay, let's see if you're right.

The title that tells the reader what the whole report will be about, not a specific section, so it's not a.

b or c, subheading or introduction.

Now the introduction is giving general information.

It might give an outline of the report, but it's the subheadings which will tell the reader what a specific section will be about.

The subheading for a section will tell you what only that section will be about.

Well done if you said b.

Okay, time to practise.

I would like you to match each feature to its purpose, so you'll see you've got title, introduction, subheadings, and sections, and then you've got four different purposes.

Your job is to match those features to their purpose.

I'll read through the purposes now.

One of these features gives brief, general information about the subject.

One introduces each subject, each section, sorry, one introduces each section in the report.

One tells the reader the name of the report and one feature gives information about a particular part of the overall topic.

Pause the video and decide how you are going to match the features to their purposes.

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Okay, let's see if you were right, the title, first of all, which purpose belongs to the title.

Well done if you said the title tells the reader the name of the report.

The introduction gives brief general information about the subject.

Subheadings introduce each section in the report and sections give information about specific parts of the overall topic.

Well done if you managed to match those features to their purposes.

Okay, let's summarise our learning.

Today, we have been learning the features of a non-chronological report.

We know that non-chronological means things are not in the order that they happened.

Non-chronological reports are non-fiction.

They are examples of a non-fiction text.

Non-chronological reports often have titles, an introduction, subheadings, and sections.

Well done today.

Excellent learning.

I am sure you are now confident on non-chronological and ready to write your very own non-chronological report.

I will see you very soon.