I. Read the following passage and answer the questions below. They are loading a lifeboat, “Woman and children first!” The officer in charge says as we approach. I freeze. “Get in the boat Elizabeth,” Charlie says, as he hands Aileen to a woman in the lifeboat. I hesitate before climbing in. “I’ll be on a later boat,” he says before stepping back. Soon the boat is lowered, like a lift going down and we start to row away. I take Aileen back and shiver. I watch as the Titanic slowly rises out of the water. It is beautiful but frightening. Sometime later the lights flicker out and it was the stars shone in the night as bright as a bag of gems. 1. The author uses similes (where something is like or as something else) to help describe what is happening. Find one example of simile in the passage. 2. Write one word or phrase from the text, which shows how Elizabeth feels about the getting into the life boat? 3. Complete the sentence using a metaphor. a. The Titanic……………………………………………………….. 4. The text is an extract from a story. (a) From the evidence in the text, which genre do you think the story is? (b) fantasy story real life story historical fiction What is the main reason you chose this option in question 3 (a)? II. Read the following play script, which is an extract from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and answer the questions below. Characters Susan Peter Lucy (Susan, Peter and Lucy stepped into Mr Tumnus’ house and looked at the chaos and disaster. They read the note from the White Witch stating that Mr Tumnus had been arrested.) Susan: (Nervously) I don’t know that I am going to like this place after all. Peter: (Turns to Lucy) Who is this Queen Lu? Do you know anything about her? Lucy: She isn’t a real Queen at all! She is a horrible Witch, the White Witch. Everyone, all the wood people- hate her. She has made an enchantment all over the whole country so that it is always winter here and never Christmas. Susan: (Stuttering) I-I wonder if there’s any point in going on. I mean it doesn’t seem particularly safe here and it looks as if it won’t be much fun either and it is getting colder every minute. Any we’ve brought nothing to eat either. What about just going home? Lucy: (Pleading) Oh but we can’t, we can’t…don’t you see? We can’t just go home, not after this. It is all on my account that the poor Fawn has got into this trouble. He hid me from the Witch and showed me the way back… 5. Find 2 adverbs from the play script. 6. Write down the names of the characters in the play script. 7. Write down one stage direction from the play script. 8. Write two sentences to explain in your own words what is happening in this play script. III. Read the extract give below which is the play script, written in the style of a story. Susan, Peter and Lucy stepped into Mr Tumnus’ house and looked at the chaos and disaster. They read the note from the White Witch stating that Mr Tumnus had been arrested. The children stared at each other with a little nervousness in their eyes. ‘I don’t know that I am going to like this place after all,’ said Susan. She was starting to worry about her decision to come back here. ‘Who is this Queen Lu?’ said Peter anxiously. ‘Do you know anything about her?’ He asked impatiently. ‘She isn’t a real Queen at all,’ answered Lucy, ‘she’s a horrible Witch, the White Witch. Everyone - all the wood people - hate her. She has made an enchantment all over the whole country so that it is always winter here and never Christmas.’ Lucy half hoped that this information would not want to make them change their minds. 9. How is this story different from the play script? 10. Find an adverb from the text. 11. Complete the sentence using a simile. The winter……………………………………………………………………….. IV. Read the Non-chronological report and answer the questions Weather, Climate and Climate Zones What is weather? Different places around the world have very different weather and climates. Weather is the temperature and precipitation from day to day. What is climate? In contrast climate is the average temperatures and precipitation over a much longer time period like 100 years. Temperature is how hot or cold it is and is measured in degrees (°) centigrade or degrees (°). Rain gauge is the collective word for all the different ways that water can fall from the sky, such as rain, snow, hail and sleet, and is measured in mm, cm or inches by a rain gauge What is a climate zone? Large areas of the Earth have the same sort of climate, and these areas are known as climate zones. In a climate zone the temperatures and precipitation are similar. The four major climate zones are temperate, desert, polar and tropical. Temperate areas are mild, which means they are comfortable to live in because they get enough rain, but not too much, and temperatures are not too high or too low. Deserts are arid (dry) and hot, whereas the Polar Regions are extremely cold. Tropical regions have high temperatures and rainfall all year round. A region is a large area of the Earth’s surface. The main influence on climate is distance from the equator, which is measured in degrees (°) of latitude e.g. 27° north. Each degree of latitude represents around 70 miles. The equator is an imaginary line running around the middle of the Earth (see fig. 3). At the top of the Earth is the North Pole and at the bottom is the South Pole. The poles are the coldest places on Earth because they are the furthest places from the equator. 12.Give a suitable subheading for the 4th and 5th Paragraphs. 4th Paragraph: _____________________________________________________ 5th Paragraph: _____________________________________________________ 13. How are the subheadings written? 14. Copy one subheading from the above report. 15. What tense is the report written in? 16. Find one fact from the text. V. Grammar 17. Rewrite the following sentences by adding a subordinate clause to each sentence. a. Bugs can do a great deal of damage. b. The field was full of insects. c. Bees can be a nuisance. Answers I. Read the following passage and answer the questions below. They are loading a lifeboat, “Woman and children first!” The officer in charge says as we approach. I freeze. “Get in the boat Elizabeth,” Charlie says, as he hands Aileen to a woman in the lifeboat. I hesitate before climbing in. “I’ll be on a later boat,” he says before stepping back. Soon the boat is lowered, like a lift going down and we start to row away. I take Aileen back and shiver. I watch as the Titanic slowly rises out of the water. It is beautiful but frightening. Sometime later the lights flicker out and it was the stars shone in the night as bright as a bag of gems. 1. The author uses similes (where something is like or as something else) to help describe what is happening. Find one example of simile in the passage. Like a lift going down Stars shone in the night as bright as a bag of gems. 2. 3. 4. Write one word or phrase from the text, which shows how Elizabeth feels about the getting into the life boat? hesitate before climbing Complete the sentence using a metaphor. b. The Titanic was a stone in water. The text is an extract from a story. (a) From the evidence in the text, which genre do you think the story is? historical fiction (b) What is the main reason you chose this option in question 3 (a)? The story takes place during the sinking of the Titanic which is a real historical event and Elizabeth and Charlie are fictional characters. II. Read the following play script, which is an extract from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and answer the questions below. Characters Susan Peter Lucy (Susan, Peter and Lucy stepped into Mr Tumnus’ house and looked at the chaos and disaster. They read the note from the White Witch stating that Mr Tumnus had been arrested.) Susan: (Nervously) I don’t know that I am going to like this place after all. Peter: (Turns to Lucy) Who is this Queen Lu? Do you know anything about her? Lucy: She isn’t a real Queen at all! She is a horrible Witch, the White Witch. Everyone, all the wood people- hate her. She has made an enchantment all over the whole country so that it is always winter here and never Christmas. Susan: (Stuttering) I-I wonder if there’s any point in going on. I mean it doesn’t seem particularly safe here and it looks as if it won’t be much fun either and it is getting colder every minute. Any we’ve brought nothing to eat either. What about just going home? Lucy: (Pleading) Oh but we can’t, we can’t…don’t you see? We can’t just go home, not after this. It is all on my account that the poor Fawn has got into this trouble. He hid me from the Witch and showed me the way back… 5. Find 2 adverbs from the play script. nervously, always, stuttering, pleading, particularly, much 6. Write down the names of the characters in the play script. Susan, Peter and Lucy 7. Write down one stage direction from the play script. Susan, Peter and Lucy stepped into Mr Tumnus’ house and looked at the chaos and disaster. They read the note from the White Witch stating that Mr Tumnus had been arrested OR Turns to Lucy 8. Write two sentences to explain in your own words what is happening in this play script. Susan, Peter and Lucy have read the note from the White Witch. Susan and Lucy are worried about the whole situation and want more information about the White Witch and Lucy given them more details about the white witch, but is trying to convince both Susan and Peter that they cannot go back home. III. Read the extract give below which is the play script, written in the style of a story. Susan, Peter and Lucy stepped into Mr Tumnus’ house and looked at the chaos and disaster. They read the note from the White Witch stating that Mr Tumnus had been arrested. The children stared at each other with a little nervousness in their eyes. ‘I don’t know that I am going to like this place after all,’ said Susan. She was starting to worry about her decision to come back here. ‘Who is this Queen Lu?’ said Peter anxiously. ‘Do you know anything about her?’ He asked impatiently. ‘She isn’t a real Queen at all,’ answered Lucy, ‘she’s a horrible Witch, the White Witch. Everyone - all the wood people - hate her. She has made an enchantment all over the whole country so that it is always winter here and never Christmas.’ Lucy half hoped that this information would not want to make them change their minds. 9. How is this story different from the play script? What is the difference between Story and Script? • Definitions of Story and Script: • A script has to be understood as the written text of a play, film, or broadcast. • A story can be defined as an account of imaginary or real events. • Connection: • A script is inspired by a story. • Character Details: • In a script, the details of each character are provided in a profile. • In a story, the reader has to unravel these. • Scenes vs Chapters: • In a script, there are scenes. • In a story, there are chapters. • Imagination: • In a script, imagination has a small part to play. • In a story, a lot is left to the imagination of the reader. • Form: • A script is in dialogue form. • A story is in prose form. • Time: • A script is in the present. • A story is not always in the present. 10. Find an adverb from the text. Anxiously, impatiently 11. Complete the sentence using a simile. The winter was like it white carpet on the landscape. IV. Read the Non-chronological report and answer the questions Weather, Climate and Climate Zones What is weather? Different places around the world have very different weather and climates. Weather is the temperature and precipitation from day to day. What is climate? In contrast climate is the average temperatures and precipitation over a much longer time period like 100 years. Temperature is how hot or cold it is and is measured in degrees (°) centigrade or degrees (°). Rain gauge is the collective word for all the different ways that water can fall from the sky, such as rain, snow, hail and sleet, and is measured in mm, cm or inches by a rain gauge What is a climate zone? Large areas of the Earth have the same sort of climate, and these areas are known as climate zones. In a climate zone the temperatures and precipitation are similar. The four major climate zones are temperate, desert, polar and tropical. Temperate areas are mild, which means they are comfortable to live in because they get enough rain, but not too much, and temperatures are not too high or too low. Deserts are arid (dry) and hot, whereas the Polar Regions are extremely cold. Tropical regions have high temperatures and rainfall all year round. A region is a large area of the Earth’s surface. The main influence on climate is distance from the equator, which is measured in degrees (°) of latitude e.g. 27° north. Each degree of latitude represents around 70 miles. The equator is an imaginary line running around the middle of the Earth (see fig. 3). At the top of the Earth is the North Pole and at the bottom is the South Pole. The poles are the coldest places on Earth because they are the furthest places from the equator. 12.Give a suitable subheading for the 4th and 5th Paragraphs. 4th Paragraph: What are the major climate zones? 5th Paragraph: Why do different places have such different climates? 13. How are the subheadings written? They are written in bold and as questions. 14. Copy one subheading from the above report. What is weather? / What is climate? / What is a climate zone? 15.What tense is the report written in? Present tense 16. Find one fact from the text. V. Grammar 17. Rewrite the following sentences by adding a subordinate clause to each sentence. (a) Although helpful, bugs can do a great deal of damage. (b) The field was full of insects, in summer. (c) Bees can be a nuisance, while playing outside.
