Key learning points

1. Notes should be written in note form and bullet points can be used to order notes.
2. Viewpoint fronted adverbials and formal fronted adverbials are used at the start of sentences for cohesion.
3. The purpose of the houses paragraph is to show how housing of the Mesolithic period differed to that of the Neolithic.
4. Mesolithic people were nomadic: they carried their homes with them as they moved.
5. Neolithic people began settling in small communties in houses built of stone.

Keywords

• Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject

• Plan - a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text

• Notes - written out of full sentences

• Subheading - a word, phrase or sentence used to introduce part of a text

• Nomadic - travels from one place to another rather than settling

Common misconception