Hi,
This week it's another reading comprehension activity. All the instructions are on the sheet I gave you in the lesson.
Have fun!
Thursday 27 November 2014
Thursday 13 November 2014
Homework: 13th November, 2014
Hi,
This week I would like you to answer some comprehension questions based on a couple of pages from Two Weeks With The Queen. Comprehension means understanding, so comprehension questions test how well you understand what you have written. You should have the photocopied pages from the book and question sheet which I gave you in the lesson.
Some of the questions are very straightforward and you can find the answer just by looking at the text.
Example:
What did Colin try to tell mum about on the train to Sydney?
All you have to do to answer this question is skim through the text and pick out some of the key words, e.g. 'Colin', 'mum', 'tell' and 'train', then copy down the answer. We'll call this a Level 1 question.
Some of the questions, however, get you to think a bit more about what is written in the text.
Example:
Why do you think the other people on the train suddenly became 'even more interested in the black and white photo of the Lithgow suspension bridge'?
To answer this question, you have to find the quote in the text, read around it, then think for yourself about why the other people on the train behaved as they did. We'll call this a Level 2 question.
You can write your answers on the lined paper I gave you along with the other bits, or on a computer and print it out.
Good luck!
This week I would like you to answer some comprehension questions based on a couple of pages from Two Weeks With The Queen. Comprehension means understanding, so comprehension questions test how well you understand what you have written. You should have the photocopied pages from the book and question sheet which I gave you in the lesson.
Some of the questions are very straightforward and you can find the answer just by looking at the text.
Example:
What did Colin try to tell mum about on the train to Sydney?
All you have to do to answer this question is skim through the text and pick out some of the key words, e.g. 'Colin', 'mum', 'tell' and 'train', then copy down the answer. We'll call this a Level 1 question.
Some of the questions, however, get you to think a bit more about what is written in the text.
Example:
Why do you think the other people on the train suddenly became 'even more interested in the black and white photo of the Lithgow suspension bridge'?
To answer this question, you have to find the quote in the text, read around it, then think for yourself about why the other people on the train behaved as they did. We'll call this a Level 2 question.
You can write your answers on the lined paper I gave you along with the other bits, or on a computer and print it out.
Good luck!
Thursday 6 November 2014
Articles
Hi,
Homework will start up again next week, but in the meantime, I thought you might like to know what we will be studying between now and Christmas. We will be looking at articles - what they are, what they aren't, where we find them and how we write them. We will be studying the following features specifically:
* Headlines/titles
* Subheadings
* Paragraphs
* Quotations
* Interesting content
You can find them in the following example, which we looked at in class:
Bradley Wiggins out of running for Sports Personality
of the Year contest due to lack of personality
Dull
Tour de France winner
Bradley Wiggins was today forced to withdraw from the BBC’s annual Sports
Personality of the Year competition because he does not actually have a
personality, it emerged yesterday.
Sporting hero
Wiggins, 32, yesterday
admitted that he did indeed ‘lack any kind of personality whatsoever’, and that
‘there was nothing interesting’ about him, aside from the fact that he was a
Tour de France winner and Olympic gold medalist.
Murray
When asked who he thought
would win the award, he said ‘Andy Murray, although he’s not exactly the
brightest bulb in the chandelier either.’ Wiggins is currently preparing for
next year’s Tour de France, which will, interestingly, take place in Mexico.
We will also be reading the novel Two Weeks With the Queen by Maurice Gleitzman and writing some articles about what happens to the main character, Colin.
If you want to do some extra work on this, my advice would be to try and read at least one article everyday, either in a newspaper, a magazine, or online, and think about all the different topics that articles can be about and all the different ways writers make them interesting.
Have fun!
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