Lesson video

Hello everyone.

Welcome to today's lesson with me, Ms. Chu.

In today's lesson, we are going to be writing the conclusion of a non chronological report about anglerfish.

Sounds exciting, doesn't it? So when you're ready, let's get started.

Today's lesson outcome is, I can write the conclusion of a non chronological report about anglerfish.

The key words for this lesson are conclusion, your turn, summarising your turn, formal fronted adverbial your turn.

What do they mean? A conclusion is the closing part of a nonfiction text.

Summarising is the process of capturing key points in a concise way and a formal fronted adverbial is a sentence starter followed by a comma that is formal in tone and often found in nonfiction texts.

The lesson outline for today is split into two parts, preparing to write and then writing the conclusion.

Let's start preparing to write.

Before we can write, we need to know what is in a non chronological report.

Well, it's structured into four sections.

There's the introduction, there's the section on the appearance, the section on the habitat, and the section on conclusion.

In this session we are writing the conclusion.

When we write, we should always, always try to do these things.

We should plan and say each sentence before we write it.

We use punctuation where we know the rules.

We showcase each sentence type we know.

We write letters neatly on the line in joined handwriting.

We use spelling strategies to spell words accurately and we check and improve our writing when we think and we know we have finished.

What is the purpose of the conclusion? Well, the purpose of the conclusion is to summarise the key information from the text.

It's also to tell the reader what to do if they want to find out more about the subject.

There is no new information about the subject or the topic in the conclusion.

True or false? This sentence would be in a conclusion.

The bioluminescence in the illicium is produced by bacteria.

Seems quite specific to me.

I don't know.

Pause the video and think about whether this is true or whether this is false.

Get ready to point in three, two, one, it is false.

Why? Specific detailed facts about the subject come earlier in the report.

The purpose of the conclusion is to give final facts.

Do we give more facts? Do we give new facts in the conclusion? No we don't.

We only give specific and detailed facts earlier in the report.

The conclusion is just about summarising what we already know.

The conclusion includes the following features.

It has a formal fronted adverbial, a summary sentence and a suggestion to the reader of where to find out more information.

The purpose of a formal fronted, adverbial in a conclusion is to signal that the writing is coming to an end.

So this is what we would use, we would use in conclusion, your turn.

Good, To summarise, your turn.

Yes.

And to conclude.

Brilliant.

So these are formal fronted adverbials that we use in a conclusion.

A formal fronted adverbial is a sentence starter followed by a comma.

Can you see the commas, point to them? One.

You're not doing it.

Come on, I wanna see your finger.

Two, three.

Well done.

It's followed by a comma that is formal in tone.

What's a summary sentence? Well, a summary sentence is the opening sentence of a conclusion, it summarises the key points of a text in a concise way.

Let's have a look at this example.

In conclusion, the remarkable adaptability of the anglerfish is apparent through its appearance and hunting strategies.

So that is the concluding sentence of the whole report.

That's what the whole report has essentially told us in one sentence.

No new information about anglerfish is in the conclusion.

I've said this before and I'm gonna say it again because people do try and include new information.

I don't want them to do that.

True or false.

This is an appropriate summary sentence of a conclusion.

To summarise, anglerfish eat crustaceans and small fish.

Is this an appropriate summary sentence of that first sentence of that paragraph of that section? Is it appropriate? Pause the video and have a really good think about about that.

Okay.

Get ready to point with me in three, two, and one.

It is false.

Yes you're right.

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.

Is it about repeating a fact or is it about summarising? Yes, it is about summarising.

The conclusion is the ending of the report and summarises, we've said this quite a few times, that's why it's one of our keywords for this lesson.

It summarises the main points providing closure.

Closure.

Show me with your hands closing, closure.

Well done.

In our non chronological report we wrote about the anglerfish's.

What do you remember? Appearance, habitat and diet.

Which of these sentences or which one sentence would appear in the conclusion? This report has provided information about anglerfish.

This report has provided information about the appearance, habitat and diet of anglerfish.

Or this report will inform you about the anglerfish, will inform you.

Okay, pause the video and have a think about which sentence would appear in the conclusion.

Okay.

Let's have a look, shall we? It is, this report has provided information about the appearance, habitat and diet of anglerfish.

I don't know if you remember, we recapped the different sections that we wrote about in our non chronological reports.

So we need to say that's what they've learned.

Now the final part of the conclusion does end with a suggestion to the reader to find out more about the subject.

We always want the reader to find out more, more, more.

Here is an example of how you could tell the reader to find out more.

If you would like to learn more, if you would like to find out more, both good ways to start, about anglerfish, continue your research online or visit your local library.

The reader in this sentence is encouraged to find out more information.

There are two things a reader could do.

Two suggestions.

What are they? First one is research online or what's the second one? Visit your local library.

We're now onto task A.

You are going to say the first sentence of the conclusion.

Nod your head if you think you can do that.

Yes, I think you can too.

Make sure you include the following in your talk task, you are going to use a formal fronted adverbial to introduce that first sentence.

And you are going to say a summary sentence.

A sentence that tells us about the whole report.

What have they learned in this whole report? And of course you can use the sentence scaffold to help you or you can say your own one.

It is completely up to you.

Let's have a look at the sentence scaffold, shall we? In conclusion is the formal fronted adverbial we would use for a conclusion section.

The adaptability of the anglerfish is apparent through its what and what? Do you remember the two main things that we spoke about, through its, and that's probably not a very good hint, but I want you to really think deeply about what those two blanks could be.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay.

Are you ready to see what the answer is? Let's check the sentence.

Does the first sentence include a formal fronted adverbial? Does the summary sentence summarise the key points of the text? You should have said, "In conclusion, the adaptability of the anglerfish is apparent through its unique appearance and hunting skills." Oh, that one was a bit tricky, that one.

Hunting skills.

Yes, that's right.

We are now onto the second part of our lesson, writing the conclusion.

The exciting part, we get to write.

Yay.

And before we write, let's have a look at our success criteria.

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.

I would like you now to watch me write the first few sentences of the conclusion.

Make sure that I'm using my success criteria properly and effectively to help me to write it.

I also need to use my plan from the other lessons to help me to think about what the whole report was about.

Are you ready? Let's go.

Okay, I have written my subheading and underlined it with a ruler.

Conclusion.

Tick it off.

Let me start with my formal fronted adverbial.

In conclusion, I'm going to indent and I'm going to start way over here.

In conclusion.

In conclusion, have I spelled that right, in conclusion? Yes.

And then I need my comma because it is a fronted adverbial.

It's a formal fronted adverbial.

So comma, and then I'm going to start my summary sentence.

The remarkable ability, ability of the anglerfish is obvious or apparent through it's what? It's, oops.

My S is below the line.

So I'm going to write that one again.

It's appearance.

And what else is apparent? So the way it looks and the way it hunts.

So let's write in hunting strategies.

Full stop.

In conclusion, the remarkable ability, is it ability or should we change it and replace it with adaptability? 'Cause I feel like that is more appropriate.

Adaptability.

Adaptability.

The remarkable adaptability.

Yes, that's more appropriate, of the anglerfish is apparent or obvious through its appearance.

What should we say about, let's say it's distinctive or defining? So something that makes it really obvious, it's defining appearance and ingenious, we could say, ingenious hunting strategies.

So here I've edited my writing because I feel like I could have added a little bit more precise vocabulary and also added some adjectives as well.

Okay.

So I've done, I've written my formal fronted adverbial, I've written a summary sentence.

Now I'm going to outline what the report was about.

This report has provided information about what, do you remember? The appearance, that was one of our sections.

Habitat was our other section.

And within that section we wrote also about the diet.

So let's pop that in the list.

This report has provided information about the appearance, habitat and diet.

And let's extend it actually, of what, this fascinating, you can choose your own adjective here, creature.

Full stop.

Amazing.

And now my final thing is I have to write a suggestion to the reader.

So let's say if you, you the reader would like to find, Ooh, my handwriting's a bit funny today.

I don't think I've done my finger and hand exercises, to find out more.

What could they do? They could visit your local library.

They could just do that.

Or they could use the internet or do some research online.

If you would like to find out more, is our conditional clause, visit your local library or, oh, we've got a coordinating conjunction that or, use the internet.

So I've got my two main clauses within this complex sentence.

It's a multi clausal sentence.

Okay.

I've ticked that one off.

Amazing.

So there is my conclusion.

I am happy.

Okay.

Now it's your turn to write the conclusion.

You're going to use the same success criteria to help you to structure your section.

Do you think you're ready? Give me a thumbs up.

No, give me two thumbs up if you think you are ready to write your own conclusion.

I definitely think you are.

Pause the video and good luck and enjoy.

Okay, let's just quickly check that I've done everything in my success criteria 'cause I might not have, but I think I might be okay.

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

Have I written a formal fronted adverbial to start off my first sentence? Yes, I have.

I can tick that one off.

Have I written a summary sentence? In conclusion, the remarkable adaptability of the anglerfish is apparent through its defining appearance and hunting strategies.

Amazing.

I can tick that one off.

And have I outlined what the report was about? Yes.

This report has provided information about the what, appearance, habitat and diet of this fascinating creature.

Great.

I can tick that one off.

And then finally, have I written a suggestion to the reader to find out more? Yes, if you'd like to find out more, visit your local library or use the internet.

Yes.

To summarise, the purpose of the conclusion is to summarise the key points in a text, providing closure to the subject.

There is no new information about the subject in the conclusion.

A subheading introduces the section of a text.

A formal fronted adverbial is used to signal that the writing is coming to an end.

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to write the conclusion.

Goodbye.