Homework, 31st October, 2016

Hi,

This half term we will be learning how to write letters. For your first homework, I would like you to read the example of an informal letter and answer the comprehension questions that follow. As always, you have everything you need in your homework folder, but just in case anything is missing, it is all below for you:

Mark Quillfeldt

12 Bishop’s Avenue

Fulham

SW6 6EG

1^st October 2015

Dear Tiffany,

How are you? Actually, that’s kind of a silly question – I know how you are, you’ve got a broken leg. But how are you generally? I’ve been okay – a bit nervous about exams, so I haven’t been sleeping that well, but I’m mainly good. What are you going to do about your exams? Will they let you take them in the hospital?

I was thinking that when you get out of hospital, we could go bowling. Remember how we used to love going when we were kids, well, we haven’t been for years, so we should do that again. It was always so much fun. We could also go to the cinema – there are loads of new films out that I want to see, although I guess they’ll all be finished by the time you’re out. Oh well, I’m sure there’ll be loads of new films out by then. I must get by the hospital to come and see you soon. I haven’t been yet because I’ve been revising so hard, but that’s not really much of an excuse because friends are more important than exams. How about next Wednesday? I should be free from about 2pm onwards.

Anyway, I have to go – got more revision to do, obviously, but hopefully I’ll see you soon.

Lots of love,

                             Mark

Friend in hospital letter questions

Read the letter and answer the questions below

1. What is at the very top of the letter?

2. What is the date, according to the letter?

3. What has happened to Tiffany (the person the letter has been written to)?

4. What question is asked in the last line of the first paragraph?

5. In the first line of the second paragraph, what activity does Mark (the person writing the letter) suggest he and Tiffany do?

6. What other activity is mentioned in the paragraph?

7. Why has Mark not been to visit Tiffany yet?

8. What, according to the letter, is more important than exams?

9. Why, according to the last paragraph, does Mark have to go?

Half term homework, October 2016

Over the half term I would like you to have at go at the reading comprehension activities based on an extract from The Hobbit. 

I'm not able to put any of the materials on this post, but, as always, everything you need is in your homework folder. 

I would like this handed in on the first day back, which is Monday, October 31st (Halloween!). 

Good luck!

Homework, October 17th, 2016

Hi,

Today I would like you to complete the comprehension questions based on the extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. 

You will find the extract and the questions in your homework folder.

This is due tomorrow (Tuesday, October 18th). 

Good luck!

Homework, 10th October, 2016

Hi,

Read the extract from The BFG below, then answer the questions that follow. 

This is due on tomorrow (Tuesday).

Good luck!

The Giant ran on and on. But now a curious change took place in his way of running. He seemed suddenly to go into a higher gear. Faster and faster he went and soon he was travelling at such a speed that the landscape became blurred. The wind stung Sophie's cheeks. It made her eyes water. It whipped her head back and whistled in her ears. She could no longer feel the Giant's feet touching the ground. She had a weird sensation they were flying. It was impossible to tell whether they were over land or sea. This Giant had some sort of magic in his legs. The wind rushing against Sophie's face became so strong that she had to duck down again into the blanket to prevent her head from being blown away.

          Was it really possible that they were crossing oceans? It certainly felt that way to Sophie. She crouched in the blanket and listened to the howling of the wind. It went on for what seemed like hours.

          Then all at once the wind stopped its howling. The pace began to slow down. Sophie could feel the Giant's feet pounding once again over the earth. She poked her head up out of the blanket to have a look. They were in a country of thick forests and rushing rivers. The Giant had definitely slowed down and was now running more normally, although normal was a silly word to use to describe a galloping giant. He leaped over a dozen rivers. He went rattling through a great forest, then down into a valley and up over a range of hills as bare as concrete, and soon he was galloping over a desolate wasteland that was not quite of this earth. The ground was flat and pale yellow. Great lumps of blue rock were scattered around, and dead trees stood everywhere like skeletons. The moon had long since disappeared and now the dawn was breaking.

The BFG comprehension questions

Read the extract and have a go at answering the questions below on the lined paper provided. They get more difficult as they go along.

1. What word does the author use to describe the change that takes place in the way the BFG runs?

2. Complete the sentence: ‘He seemed suddenly to ...’

3. What happens the landscape as their speed increases?

4. ‘She had a weird sensation they were flying.’ What is the adjective in this sentence?

5. Look at the last sentence of the first paragraph (it begins ‘The wind rushing …’). How does the author create a sense in this sentence that they are going very, very fast?

6. ‘She crouched in the blanket and listened to the howling of the wind.’ What two verbs are used in this sentence?

8. Which of the following literary techniques are used in the sentence?

a)   Simile

b)   Personification

c)   Metaphor

d)   Rhetorical question

9. ‘Sophie could feel the giant’s feet pounding once again over the earth.’ How does the writer create a sense in this sentence that the BFG is very, very big?

10. Look at the last five lines of the extract (beginning ‘He went rattling through a great forest …’) How does the writer describe the landscape?

EXTENSION ACTIVITY (You only have to do this if you want to push yourself!):

Write your own description of the landscape that is described in the extract. Try and avoid using the words used by the author in his description.

Homework, 3rd October, 2016

Hello!

This week I would like you to read a short story and answer the comprehension questions that go with it. Unfortunately I only have hard copies so I can't provide you with a link, but everything you need is in your homework folder. 

This is due tomorrow (Tuesday). 

Good luck!

Homework, 3rd October, 2016

Hello!

This week I would like you to read a short story and answer the comprehension questions that go with it. Unfortunately I only have hard copies so I can't provide you with a link, but everything you need is in your homework folder. 

This is due tomorrow (Tuesday). 

Good luck!