This lesson presentation aims to introduce children to ways of joining ideas other than using conjunctions like ‘and’. In this case, it shows them that ‘The cat sighed happily. She curled up on the mat’ can become ‘With a happy sigh, the cat curled up on the mat.’

This can follow on from ‘Fronted adverbials starting with -ing verbs’, or it can stand on its own.

The presentation is aimed at Upper Key Stage 2. It may be used as one lesson or several.