Lesson video

Hello, I'm Ms. Chu, and I'm really excited to be teaching you English today.

Shall we get started? Today's lesson outcome is: I can write the conclusion of a non-chronological report about Anglo-Saxons.

The keywords in this lesson are, my turn, your turn: conclusion, summarising, formal fronted adverbial.

Good job.

A conclusion is the final part of a text that summarises the main points, providing closure to the subject.

Summarising is the process of capturing key points in a concise way.

A formal fronted adverbial is a sentence starter followed by a comma that is formal in tone and often found in non-fiction texts.

The lesson outline for today is in two parts: preparing to write and writing the conclusion.

Let's start preparing to write.

A non-chronological report can be structured into four sections: the introduction, section one on settlements, section two, farming, and the conclusion.

In this lesson, we will be writing the conclusion.

When we write, we should always try to do these things: plan and say each sentence before we write it, use punctuation where we know the rules, showcase each sentence type we know, write our letters neatly on the line in joined handwriting, and use spelling strategies to spell words accurately, and finally, when we've done all of the writing, we check and improve our writing when we think we have finished.

The purpose of the conclusion is to: summarise the key information from the text, that's one of our keywords, tell the reader what to do if they want to find out more about the subject.

And the thing to remember is there is no new information about the subject in the conclusion.

Let's do a quick check for understanding.

True or false? This sentence would be in a conclusion: The main grains grown were barley, oats and wheat.

Point to whether you think this is true or false.

Ready to show me in three, two, one.

That's right, it's false.

What's the reason? Specific and detailed facts about the subject come earlier in the report.

Or the purpose of the conclusion is to give final, detailed facts.

Well, the conclusion does not give final, detailed facts, so it's a.

Specific and detailed facts about the subject come earlier in the report in section two, the farming section, which tells us what they grew in the Anglo-Saxon era.

The conclusion includes the following features: a formal fronted adverbial, a summary sentence, a suggestion to the reader of where to find out more information should they want to.

What is the purpose of using a formal fronted adverbial in a conclusion? Well, it's to signal that the writing is coming to an end.

Here are some examples of formal fronted adverbials.

In conclusion, my turn, your turn.

To summarise.

To conclude.

Well done, you said those really, really brilliantly.

Format fronted adverbials are sentence starters followed by a comma that are formal in tone.

A summary sentence is the opening sentence of a conclusion.

It summarises the key points of a text in a concise way.

In conclusion, this is an example, the settlements and farming practises of the Anglo-Saxons played an important role in shaping British history.

You can see that no new information about Anglo-Saxons is given in the conclusion.

Ready for another true or false? This is an appropriate summary sentence of a conclusion: To summarise, Anglo-Saxons used oxen and ploughs.

Hmm, is this true or is this false? Is it an appropriate summary sentence? Get ready to point to the answer.

Three, two, one.

It is false, you're right.

And why is it false? The summary sentence summarises the key points of a text.

Or the summary sentence repeats a specific fact from one of the sections in the report.

Well, it doesn't repeat a specific fact, so it is a, it summarises the key points of a text.

The conclusion is the ending of the report and summarises the main points, providing closure.

We already learned that.

In our non-chronological report, we write about Anglo-Saxon: settlements, societal structure, farming, and diet.

Let's just do a quick check for understanding.

Which sentence would appear in the conclusion? This report has provided information about the Anglo-Saxons.

This report has provided information about the settlements and farming practises of the Anglo-Saxons.

Or this report will inform you about the Anglo-Saxons.

Pause the video and have a think.

Okay, I hope you managed to get the answer.

So point to the right answer in three, two, one.

That's right, this report has provided information about the settlements and farming practises of the Anglo-Saxons.

It is not a, because it's too vague.

And it's not c, because we are writing the conclusion, so it's already informed us about the Anglo-Saxons.

It's not going to inform us.

The final part of the conclusion ends with a suggestion to the reader to find out more about the subject.

This is something that we could write in our conclusion.

If you would like to learn more about the Anglo-Saxons, continue your research online, or visit your local library.

The reader is encouraged to find out more information.

Now we are onto your first task of this lesson.

Say the first sentence of the conclusion.

Make sure you include the following: a formal fronted adverbial, a summary sentence, using this sentence scaffold.

In conclusion, Anglo-Saxon, um and um continue to have a lasting impact on the world.

I want you to pause the video and think about what would fit really well in those spaces.

Off you go.

Okay, let's check your sentence.

Does the first sentence include a formal fronted adverbial? Does the summary sentence summarise the key points of the text? This is what your sentence could have sounded like.

In conclusion, or you could've said, to summarise, Anglo-Saxon farming innovations and social structures continue to have a lasting impact on the modern world.

And in this concluding sentence, we have talked about farming and the social structures, which we've already talked about in detail in sections one and section two.

Amazing, we have done so much practising of writing the conclusion.

Now we are ready to write the conclusion.

Are you ready? Let's go.

Before we start, let's have a look at the success criteria, because this will really help us to structure our writing effectively.

I have written a subheading and underlined it.

I have written a formal fronted adverbial.

I have written a summary sentence.

I have outlined what the report was about.

And I have written a suggestion to the reader to find out more information.

Before you start writing the conclusion, I'm going to show you the first few sentences of my conclusion.

And I'm going to show you how to use your success criteria to structure the paragraph.

We're going to start with a subheading, and then we're going to move on to the first sentence, which is an overall summary sentence about the whole non-chronological report.

Within that, I'm going to show you how to include a formal fronted adverbial, and then later on, we're going to look at how we outline what the whole report was about.

And finally, I'm going to leave the last bit for you to do.

Let's get started.

Okay, let's start our conclusion paragraph.

The first thing we need to do is write a subheading and underline it.

So let's do that first.

Start over here, capital C for conclusion.

And then we underline with a ruler.

Great.

Let's tick that one off.

The next thing we need to do is: I have written a formal fronted adverbial.

So because we're writing the conclusion, let's use the formal fronted adverbial in conclusion, or we could use to summarise.

I'm gonna choose in conclusion.

I'm just gonna make a slight indent, start my word there, make sure that I am joining my letters.

Well, and then I've got to have my comma because it is a fronted adverbial.

In conclusion.

We need to say a summary sentence.

In conclusion, Anglo-Saxon farming innovation and social structure, just make sure the pen is working, continue to have a lasting, might need to change pens, a lasting impact on the modern world.

Full stop, so now I have written a summary sentence.

I can tick it off.

And I have used a formal fronted adverbial: in conclusion.

What's the next thing I need to do in my success criteria? I need to outline what the report was about.

So I need to write this report, and I'm going to start with a capital letter because I'm starting a new sentence.

This report has provided information about, and do you remember what the report was about? The settlements, comma, what else? Social structures, farming practises, and finally, we learned a little bit about their diet.

Great, so I've now outlined what the report was about.

So I can tick that one off.

The last thing I need to do is I need to write a suggestion to the reader to find out more information.

I would say: If you would like to find out more, and I'm gonna leave that one for you to do when you come to write yours.

Now it's your turn to write the conclusion of the non-chronological report about Anglo-Saxons.

Use your success criteria to help you structure your section.

Let's have a look at it one more time just to make sure.

I have written a subheading and underlined it.

I have written a formal fronted adverbial.

I have written a summary sentence.

I have outlined what the report was about.

And finally, I have written a suggestion to the reader to find out more information.

At the end of every writing task, we always need to read through and check our writing.

Let me do that now.

Have I written a subheading and underlined it? Yes, I have.

I can tick that one off.

Have I written a formal fronted adverbial.

Yes, I have.

I've used in conclusion, so I can tick that one off.

Have I written a summary sentence as my first sentence? In conclusion, Anglo-Saxon farming innovation and social structure continue to have a lasting impact on the modern world.

Yes I have written a summary sentence.

I can tick that one off.

And I've outlined what the report was about.

I've said it was about settlements, social structures, farming practises and a diet.

So I can tick that one off.

And my final thing is I needed to have written a suggestion to the reader to find out more information.

Yes I have, it's my final sentence in my conclusion paragraph.

If you'd like to find out more, and I've said where they can go, visit your local library, or use the internet.

So I can also tick that one off.

I'd like us to just quickly look again at that final sentence: If you would like to find out more.

It begins with the subordinating conjunction if, which makes it a complex sentence.

If you would like to find out more is the subordinate clause.

However, visit your local library, or use the internet, there are two main clauses there, and they are joined by the coordinating conjunction or.

So we've written a really tricky sentence there, and we should be really proud of ourselves.

To summarise what we have learned in this lesson: the purpose of the conclusion is to summarise the key points in a text, providing closure to the subject or the topic, there is no new information about the subject or the topic in the conclusion, a subheading introduces and organises the section of a text, and finally, a formal fronted adverbial is used to signal that the writing is coming to an end, just like this lesson is.

I hope you have enjoyed learning as much as I have loved teaching you this lesson.