Lesson video

Hello everyone, it's Mr. Brown here with your English lesson for today and in our lesson today, we are going to be planning, planning to write a section of a non chronological report on the Great Fire of London.

And the topic of this section, well, it's going to be about how the fire started.

So let's get planning, shall we? The outcome for today's lesson is I can make a plan for writing about how the Great Fire of London started.

And the keywords that will help us with our learning are plan, notes.

My turn, your turn.

Let's say those out loud.

Plan.

Notes.

Very good.

Well done.

Here is the lesson outline.

We will be looking at preparing to plan first of all, this will involve us gaining as much knowledge as we can about the topic we will be writing about.

And then we will move our learning onto writing the plan, so creating an actual plan that we can use when we're writing in the future.

In this lesson, you'll be making a brief plan that will support you when writing a section of a non chronological report about the Great Fire of London.

A plan helps a writer to organise their ideas, thoughts, and the information they want to include in their writing.

However, in order to plan effectively, you need to prepare by becoming familiar with the key information you'll be sharing in the first section of your report.

You need to know what you're going to be writing about before you can start writing.

The sections of a non chronological report are structured in this order.

First we have our introduction, then section one and section two.

And in this lesson, we are planning the first section, section one, and that will be all about how the fire started.

To explain how the fire started, you'll need to tell the reader when the fire started, where the fire started, what happened, and who was involved.

So where, or when, sorry, when did the fire start? Let's focus on when did the fire start? The fire started over 350 years ago, on Sunday, the 2nd of September, 1666.

It started in the evening and continued for four days.

And you can see the timeline at the bottom tells you that between the years 1666 and 2024, that's 358 years, a long, long time ago.

When did the Great Fire of London start? Let's check your understanding.

Do you know? Did you remember? Was it A, Sunday, the 2nd of September, 1660? B, Sunday the 22nd of September, 1666? Or C, Sunday, the 2nd of September, 1666? A, B, or C, pause the video and decide now.

Welcome back everyone.

I have my fingers crossed that you remembered the dates.

The Great Fire of London started, well done if you said C.

It is Sunday, the 2nd of September, 1666.

All the S sounds.

Sunday the 2nd of September, 1666.

Well done if you said C.

Where did the fire start? We know when it started, but where did it start? The fire took place in England's capital city, London.

I wonder if you've ever been to London before.

You can see there's a map with a big arrow pointing to where London is.

It's in the southeast corner of Great Britain.

Specifically, it took place on Pudding Lane.

That was the place that took place.

So the fire started in London and specifically on Pudding Lane.

What happened? The King's Baker accidentally started The Great Fire.

There was no electricity or gas, so people used fires for light, heating, and cooking.

And bakers used fire in their ovens to cook the bread sold in their bakeries.

And you can see a picture there of what a bakery might have looked like 350 years ago.

It is believed that this particular baker forgot to put out his oven at the end of the day, and a spark from his oven caused a fire to break out in the bakery.

So something so small like a spark from his oven started something so huge.

Let's check your understanding.

True or false.

The king's baker accidentally started the Great Fire.

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

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Okay, true or false, did the king's baker accidentally start the great fire? Yes, he did.

It's true.

Well done if you said true.

So let's think about who was involved.

The King's Baker was a man named Thomas Farriner.

It was his bakery on Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London started.

So Thomas Farriner is a really important person, obviously, in the history of the Great Fire of London.

What was the name of the baker who accidentally started the fire? Was it A Thomas Farriner? B Thomas Edison? Or C Thomas Baker? A, B, or C? Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

Welcome back everyone.

Let's see if you were right.

I hope you remembered that it was A, Thomas Farriner.

Well done.

Thomas Farriner was the king's baker who accidentally started the Great Fire of London.

Let's have a practise, shall we? I want you to fill in the blanks with the words below.

The fire took place on hmm.

Second hmm, 1666.

So that's some dates knowledge you'll need there.

It began in a hmm on Pudding Lane.

Hmm, it began in, where did it begin? Where did it begin on Pudding Lane? The king's baker, a man named hmm Farriner accidentally started the fire when he forgot to put out the fire in his hmm.

And here are the words that you can use.

So, pause the video and fill in the blanks with the words that you see in the box below.

Over to you.

Good luck.

Welcome back.

Let's see if you were right.

So here we go.

The fire took place on Sunday.

So well done if you said Sunday.

The 2nd of September, so that's Sunday in September.

It began in a bakery on Pudding Lane.

The King's Baker, a man named Thomas Farriner accidentally started the fire when he forgot to put out the fire in his oven, of course.

Well done if you managed to fill in the blanks with those words.

Let's move on to writing the plan.

When we write a plan, we use something called notes.

Notes are short and capture key vocabulary and important information.

The purpose of notes is to help the writer to organise information easily for future use.

We use bullet points when note taking and they look a bit like this.

Bullet points have a circle filled in, like a thick, big, full stop.

And then we write some notes next to each one.

That's what bullet points look like.

Which two of these are things that notes help us to capture? A, full sentences.

B, unimportant information.

C, key vocabulary.

And D, important information.

We're looking for two of these.

Which two are things that notes help us to capture? Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

Welcome back everyone.

Let's see if you manage to find the two.

So, A, full sentences is not the right answer.

We are not using full sentences when we are making notes.

B, unimportant information.

Well, if it's unimportant, then we do not need to even make notes about it at all.

So it's not A or B, it's C and D, key vocabulary.

The key words you need to use when you are writing should be in your notes and important information.

If it's important, you want to make notes about it so it can be included when you come to write.

Notes are not written in full sentences and do not require capital letters, full stops, or commas.

However, capital letters should still be used for proper nouns, things like London or Thomas Farriner.

They can be made of just a few words.

Your notes do not need to be long.

The writes up making the notes just needs to understand them.

They are for you.

They are personal to you.

Your teacher will not need to see them, I do not need to see them.

As long as you understand your notes and may help you, then that's all that they need to do.

The writer then takes the notes and turns them into full sentences, and that's what we'll be doing in the future.

When we write a plan, which of these do we use? A, full sentences.

B, drawings.

Or C, notes.

Pause the video and decide now.

Welcome back everyone.

So when we write a plan, which of these do we use? We do not use full sentences.

You do not use full sentences when you are making a plan.

Drawings, they might be helpful to help you remember something, but the time it's going to take you to draw.

This is not an art lesson, it's English, so therefore it's C, notes.

That's the one.

When we write a plan, we use notes.

Here is an example of some notes from a plan about how the Great Fire of London started.

Fire started Sunday, 2nd of September, 1666.

Is that a full sentence? No.

Does it have capital letters at the start and a full stop at the end? No.

It doesn't need to because it is an example of notes.

The writer can take these notes and turn them into a full sentence.

For example, the Great Fire of London started over 350 years ago on Sunday, the 2nd of September in the year 1666.

I have taken the words fire, started, Sunday, 2nd September, 1666.

I've turned that into that full sentence you see at the bottom of the page.

Let's check your understanding.

Which notes helped the writer to write this sentence? Okay, so the sentence is, the devastating blaze started in a small local bakery on Pudding Lane in England's capital city of London.

Which notes help the writer to write that sentence? Is it A, fire tarted on Sunday second September 1666? B, started in a bakery on Pudding Lane in London? Or C, Thomas Farriner forgot to put out his oven- spark started fire? They're all examples of notes, but which notes would've helped the writer to write that sentence that you see at the top.

I'll read it to you one more time.

The devastating blaze started in a small local bakery on Pudding Lane in England's capital city of London.

Which notes helped the writer to write that sentence, A, B, or C? Pause the video and decide for yourself now.

Welcome back everyone.

So let's have a look.

A, fire started on Sunday, 2nd of September, 1666.

Well, there's nothing in my sentence about that date.

So that tells me that it's not A.

C says Thomas Farriner forgot to put out his oven- spark started fire.

Well, my sentence is about how the fire started, but it's not in that detail about who was involved and how it's actually started.

So it's not C.

B is the correct answer.

Well done if you said B.

It started in a bakery on Pudding Lane in London.

And that's all I've put in my notes and then I've taken those notes and turned them into a full sentence.

Well done.

Time for a practise.

I would like you to write three sets of notes about how the fire started.

Use the words below to help you.

So here's some prompts.

September, London, Pudding Lane, bakery, Thomas Farriner.

All of these I would expect to see in your notes about how the fire started.

You can write, I've said three sets of notes.

If you want to write more, you can.

But at least three sets of notes about how the fire started.

Use bullet points for each sets of notes.

Okay, this might take you a little while so take your time.

And remember, these notes are personal to you, they are not to be written in full sentences.

Don't worry about capital letters unless it's a proper noun like September or London or Pudding Lane.

Pause the video and write your notes now.

Welcome back everyone.

Let's have a look at an example.

Fire started on Sunday, 2nd of September, 1666.

That's a really clear note that tells me when the fire started.

I know I can turn that into a full sentence.

Started in a bakery on Pudding Lane in London.

Very clear.

I can tell the reader where the fire started, which city it was in, what type of building it started in.

And Thomas Farriner forgot to put out his oven- spark started fire.

I know I can make a full sentence all about how Thomas Farriner accidentally started the fire.

Let's summarise our learning today.

The fire started on Sunday, the 2nd of September, 1666 in a bakery on Pudding Lane in London.

The fire was accidentally started by a man named Thomas Farriner.

He was a baker.

A plan helps a writer to organise their ideas, thoughts, and information they want to include in their writing.

Notes can be used in a plan to help organise key information and are not written in full sentences.

Excellent work today.

I think you are ready to write the first section of your report on the Great Fire of London.

I will see you soon.