Checkpoint test year 2 lesson 1

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Checkpoint test year 2

Reading comprehension

Homework: grammar recap

Checkpoint test year 2

Reading

Grammar: Adjective, verb, proper noun, pronoun,  fronted adverbial, prepositional phrase, complex noun, collective noun

Summary writing

Writing a letter or article

Which questions were difficult for you? Tell me the subject not the number

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Which of these is a proper noun?

1. Amsterdam
2. Tomorrow
3. He
4. Laughing

Which of these is a verb?

1. Amsterdam
2. Tomorrow
3. He
4. Laughing

What is a preposition?

1. Tells us more about the noun
2. Tells us more about the verb
3. Is stuck to the start of a noun to change it
4. Tells us where or when something happened

What is a phrase?

1. A very short sentence
2. A group of words giving extra information
3. A saying people use to describe something
4. A part of time

What are phrases

Definition:

A phrase is a group of related words that is used as a single part of speech. It does not contain a verb or it's subject

I really like eating for example pizza, pasta, peanut butter.

Teachers like to laugh, especially at their own jokes.

Which sentence is gramatically incorrect? Tip: focus on the adverb!

1. Finally, the test week was over!
2. The test week finally was over.
3. The test week was finally over.
4. The test week was over, finally!

A fronted adverbial goes after the verb

1. True
2. False

Which of these is a fronted adverbial?

1. I went to the park at lunch
2. I went to the park
3. At lunch, I went to the park

Which of these does not have a fronted adverbial?

1. Dad shouted angily
2. Carefully, she crept out the door.
3. Quietly dad snored

Rewrite the sentence using a fronted adverbial:
The dog walked home quickly.

Give an example of a verb

What does a preposition tell us?

1. What happened
2. How something happened
3. When or where something happened?

Which word is a preposition?
He looked inside and found them hiding.

1. Look
2. Inside
3. Hiding

Which word is the preposition?
He id under the bed

1. He
2. hid
3. under

Which word is the preposition?
They were building outside,

1. outside
2. building
3. were

Which word is not a preposition?

1. off
2. around
3. the

Which of these is a pronoun

1. Amsterdam
2. Tomorrow
3. He
4. Laughing

Assignment

Write 5 sentences using:

verb, proper noun, pronoun, fronted adverb, prepositional phrase

example:

1 Carefully, Tomas walked over the ice in fear of falling like he did last time.

Articles

Headline

Introduction

Subheading

Body paragraph(s)

Conclusion

Writing an article

The introduction - LIGHT UP MY BRAIN!

Ideas

First sentence - light up your readers brain or they switch off

Keep it short and:

Ask a question or

Tell a story or

Tell them a shocking fact or

Tell them a very short anecdote

Tell the reader to imagine...

Examples

Imagine if you will. After a long day at school, and a long evening ahead of you that in the touch of a button help is at hand. I want to tell you about how learning to plan changed my life, how it gave me more time for fun and ow my grades are increasing with minimum effort. Sounds too good to be true right? Well read on for the best life hacks!

This article is all about how to plan your life. I will discuss how it may give you more time, how you may get to see your friends more and how important planning is. Teenagers are not good at planning. Here is how you should learn to plan to be better at it.

In pairs

For 3 minutes each question (for the article writing part)

Discuss all possible ideas - even ones you might disagree with

This is your chance to really think about the possibilities you can write about.

Only opinion - not fact based!

Homework

For the next lesson I will be testing your grammar and punctuation knowledge. Please make sure you can tell me what the following are:

Adjective, verb, proper noun, pronoun

Know how to use the following punctuation marks: "" ?.!, '

(there is a punctuation cheat sheet in magister homework to help you)

Poem common mistakes

Repeating adjectives: small, silly, small

Metaphor - not a metaphor

Class examples...

No key for language provided

Poem feedback USG

  Grade 0 - 5,4  = U                 

5,5 - 7,5 = S

8.0 - 10 = G

Important dates

Checkpoint test (x2) - 4th November

Refugees book - 8th November (bring to class)

Junior Speaking contest speeches - test week 2

Summary

Take notes from this short film

You will need them for the next 

assignment and the test. 

Reading comprehension

Get the practise test from the teacher

Complete the questions up to question 10b

Most won't be able to answer question 7 - if so, skip it!