This page has most of the sentence and grammar work done in class to help remind pupils of the work they have done and enable those to catch up who didn't manage to finish their work.
Parts of speech 26th May
1. The Dinosaurs lived over a million years ago.
2. The clever boy answered quickly.
3. In June I will make a cup cake.
4. He is fat and talks quickly and noisily by the coffee machine.
Adverbs,pronouns and adjectives 12thMay
1st May 2013 Acrostic Poems
Circle, gather, white, mountain, down, ground, morning
Wait, dream, naughty, blood, purple, octopus, people
turtle
Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
The Swoose 15th April
What do they eat?
What noise do they make?
Where do they live?
What do they look like?
English: Complete grammar page 42
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11th February
Old English words to help write your old poems
art - are
bequeath (one of my personal favorites) - To give or leave by will; to hand down.
beseech - request, ask.
besought – asked, made request. (past tense of beseech)
betwixt – between.
canst - can.
cometh – comes, or coming.
dost - do, does.
fullsome - rich, plentiful.
hath - has.
henceforth - from now on.
hither - here.
huzzah - It is what people used to cry out when cheering. According to a number of writers in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was originally a sailor's cheer or salute.
midst – Middle, or among. e.g., "in the midst of the storm…
naught – Nothing
shall or shalt - will
seek - To go in search or quest of; to look or search for.
tarry - to linger, deliberate, wait, stay, or pause.
thou - you
thee - you
thine - your
thither - there.
thy - your
whence - From where, e.g., "Whence, comest thou?" would translate to the modern "Where do you come from?"
wax - to grow, to become.
whither - To where, e.g., "Whither thou goest, I shall go." translates in modern English as "Where you go, I will go."
wilt – It can mean will; but then it could also mean what a flower does without water.
wist - knew; past tense of wit, e.g. He wist that his love was coming...
wit – To know, e.g., Canst thou wit what the day shall bring?
wrought - done, made, created; e.g. "...see what God hath wrought..."
ye - polite form of thou.
yore - years ago
5th February
Abstract Nouns 26th January
M G I W E L H E F L K S V R S I Y I W J Y R T N W P C N O V I X I R R M E A K U V L T V T N O N V J F A C K D A G U C M X N B H M E E H J Z P L R F X G A N Q L Z G A N S L L R S S W P A H K I R O T N T T J S I R N L E V O L E R O N U F X V E E J N Q G K D I K P M F T R A O F N C H V E R W S N C J G X W I H R T C H I P W S B R A V E R Y M E L O O C I Z C R R S S E N I P P A H P S N K O X O O A S H B L K N Q Y I J E J O S C W N N X N G Z B E U L S E K Z T Q H Q E E O D T G I I S G M K W I C X G O G H Z N X N P E C F M P I A B N X H Q Q J V M X D E D R R N O I B Y P K S V W J W J H Y T N B E L Z E M J D M T J V N E L P I Y X G I M R G X W E R N Q G R E Z Q N Y D A F M K T R A Y X Q W H J C H U W A M S Z B M O Z R B C C N E Y Y C K L D S B M M L S Z X U F E C Z S Q B E X B H L Q P S E T N I S
ANGER AWE BRAVERY COURAGE DESPAIR FEAR HAPPINESS HATE HOPE IMAGINATION INTELLIGENCE KINDNESS LONELINESS LOVE WONDER
21st January
Vocab for growing a plant: Soil, hole, bulb, pot, earth, tulips, leaves, petals, flower, beautiful, pretty,
buy, window, water, disappear.
15th January
Reading book
Title:
Character’s names:
What did you like?
How did it end?
Grammar preparation for test
Write these sentences out with three different words each 10th December 2012
1. Verb
The goats were _______ under a tree.
2. Adjective
The man looked at the _________ tree.
3. Adverb
Mr. Paul asked Leena to speak _______.
On the weekend 9th December 2012
I got up at 7 o’clock. I ate my breakfast quickly. I prepared myself to go to Al Ain.
I carefully got in the car and we went to the hotel.
We stayed a little in the hotel and then we went to eat lunch slowly.
We walked to the park. Then we went to the hotel and relaxed.
After that we visited Al Ain zoo. I saw zebras and black lions.
We went out of the zoo to a restaurant for supper.
I woke up at 10 o’clock in the morning. I ate breakfast, showered and got dressed.
Then I went with my parents to the beach. We rode horses, swam in the sea and
played on the swings. We went back home and showered because we were dirty.
We put on nice clothes and went to the restaurant. We went home and slept.
New planet scene setting 8th December 2012
It is two o’ clock at night on the planet Crystal.
I am seeing clouds covering the sun and myself in the crystal earth.
The weather is wet with constant rain.
I can feel my hands burning when I touch the ground and the crystals are sharp.
I am hearing the clinking of the crystals.
The air tastes sweet. I can see a moon crescent.
Phrenological character 26th November
In the 19th Century they used to believe the brain was made up of different parts. Make your own phrenological charater.
Friendly, kind, shy, nice, loves food, Tae Kwon-do, evil, strong, maths, brave,
neat, helpful, clever, silly, jokes, funny, colours, proud, greedy, honest, handwriting, idealistic, lying, polite, rude, painting, shouting, scared, driving car,
forgetting, football, lazy, bread munching, lasagna, cake, naughty.
Adverbs; Time, manner and place 20th November 2012
Put the adverbs in the correct column; time, manner or place.
18th November
Dictionary work; Find and complete the word. What type of word is it?
Ambival_ _ _
Borou_ _
Cavern_ _ _
Drumst_ _ _
Enlarg _ _ _ _ _
Forgi_ _
Gangs_ _ _
Halv_
Internati_ _ _ _
Jigs_ _
Knu_ _ _ _
Leag_ _
Matil_ _
Neph_ _
Occurr_ _ _ _
Possessiv_
Changing verbs from the active into the passive November 10th (grammar book p9)
B) In the raffle first prize was won by Mr. Azadi.
C) The dragon was killed by St George.
D) The stranded mountaineer was rescued by the helicopter.
F) Some fierce pirates boarded the merchant ship.
G) Amy switched on the computer.
H)The shop assistant picked up the telephone.
11th November 2012 Changing verbs from passive to active (grammar book p9)
A) Mrs. Baker was examined by the doctor.
The doctor...
B) The city gates were opened by the soldiers.
The soldiers opened the city gates.
C) The squirrels were chased by the neighbour’s ginger cat.
...
D) The small boy was bullied by a group of older children.
A group of older children bullied the small boy.
E) The princess was locked in the tower by Rumpelstiltskin.
Rumpelstiltskin locked the princess in the tower.
F) The washing was hung out to dry by Mr. Fensome.
Mr. Fensome hung the washing out to dry.
Punctuation (grammar book p9) 13th November 2012
· Full stops
· Capital letters (at the start of sentences and in proper nouns)
· Commas (for lists)
· Apostrophe (for the possessive)
1. The president of the United States summoned his advisers.
2. The gold medal was won by China.
3. Roald Dahl wrote many children’s books.