Theme Parks: formal complaint letter writing at KS3

Encourage students to stand up for their rights, using their language skills to influence the world.

This unit is ideally for KS3 students. It has been designed to teach the skills to write a formal letter of complaint by opposing the development of a theme park in the local area. There are 17 lessons which examine the layout of a letter as well as formal phrases to use. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, brochures, theme park maps, persuasive adverts and debate cards.

Lesson 1: Language to advertise
Lesson 2: Holiday brochures
Lesson 3: Advertising theme parks
Lesson 4: Descriptive Writing
Lesson 5: Online holiday webquest
Lesson 6: Holidays gone wrong!
Lesson 7: Writing a letter of complaint
Lesson 8: Writing an application letter
Lesson 9: Evaluating a theme park leaflet
Lesson 10: Evaluating a website
Lesson 11: Designing a theme park
Lesson 12: Theme park debate
Lesson 13: Theme park poetry
Lesson 14: Theme park letter of complaint
Lesson 15: Theme park TV advert
Lesson 16: Plan your assessment
Lesson 17: Write your assessment