Introduce this unit, explaining what the pupils will experience and a possible outcome of their work.

The main purpose of this unit is to teach the method and understanding for writing questions suitable for quizzes and questionnaires.

Show pupils the presentation about quizzes and questionnaires. There are notes1a to accompany the presentation.

Develop the introduction by:

• Asking what is meant by local?
• What do they understand the difference is between fact and local hearsay?
  • e.g. during the war a bomb was dropped on the town, this is recorded in the local paper for that day with photographs or the local postman remembers a loud explosion while planes were flying overhead one night during the war.
• Discussing facts that they already know about their local area.
• What would not be suitable information for a local quiz run by the school PTA.

Tell pupils to complete worksheet1a about collecting information suitable for their local quiz - this will help them plan.

Show pupils the language cards language1 for this lesson.

Explain to the pupils that they will now use the Internet to research and gather suitable resources that can be used next lesson when writing their quiz.

Most pupils should be able to search the Internet successfully for relevant information but some require help to save any resources found.

Resources will probably be in the form of:

• Text - copy and paste relevant information to base written questions on.
• Images - used for pictorial questions.

It is important that pupils now acknowledge and record where the resources that they are using originated from. Encourage them to record the web page, author etc.They should also be able to organise and save resources in a logical way using suitable file names and folders.

Point out that there are skills available within the pupil activities if they need help.

Tell pupils to create a suitably named folder to save their resources into.

Review the lesson and what pupils have learnt.

Key questions should relate to:

• Have they found useful facts?
• Are any of these facts new and of special interest?
• Are there any web sites of particular value that others could look at?

You may ask a pupil to act as a scribe during this session.

Give out the sheet homework1. This asks pupils to draft out possible questions that could be used for the quiz based on the information gathered during the lesson.

You may feel it appropriate to provide the homework sheet in electronic format for those pupils with computer access at home. Consideration should then be given to:

• How they would return the work and the style - electronic or printed.
• Virus protection.
• Authenticity of the work.