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      1. Write your own sentences using the following words. Look them up in a dictionary if necessary.

      (a) lens

      (b) photographic

      (c) influence

      (d) illustrate

      (e) dialogue

      (f) neigh

      (g) element

      (h) practise

      (i) optical

      (j) mechanical

      2. Correct the following spelling:

       donkies, monkies, lilys, neice, decieve, naghbour, frieght train, abilitys, fasilitys

      3. Write a dialogue between the farmer and his wife from the story on p. 15 after the two tragedies. Let each speak three times.

      4. Punctuate the following paragraph:

      why would a farmer want to have photographs taken of himself and his animals most farmers sell their animals for meat and so breed them for the market perhaps some breed prize animals imagine slaughtering your prize bull to eat do some farmers love their animals in the same way they love their dogs cats and other pets perhaps some just want a record of their lives

      5. Make a list of ten words borrowed from other languages.

      6. Below are eleven sentences that make up a paragraph. They are not in the correct order. Rewrite them in the correct order. Underline the main idea of the paragraph.

      (a) Andrew grabbed the cell phone and took several photos of the man.

      (b) They crept closer and saw a man with his hand over a girl’s mouth.

      (c) The boys felt like heroes.

      (d) He was trying to wrestle her to the ground.

      (e) They had decided to go and fish at the stream near their school.

      (f) They arrived immediately, but the man ran away when he saw them.

      (g) As they arrived, they heard a girl screaming softly.

      (h) John and Andrew had a very exciting Saturday.

      (i) Then he called the police on it.

      (j) However, because of the photos, he was later arrested and charged with assault.

      (k) Andrew’s mother gave them her cellphone so that she could call them if she wanted to.

      Introduction

      Module 2 is all about family. In this module you are going to read about family, talk about family, listen to each other’s ideas about family and write about family. You are going to read a diary entry, a time line, different kinds of poems and an extract from a novel called My family and other animals, by Gerald Durrell.

      Before we begin with this module, think about your own family. How big is it? Do you get along? Do you have younger or older siblings? Who do you live with? If you had to describe your family, what adjectives would you use? Think of three and share them with a partner.

      Read a diary extract

      An extract is a short piece of writing that comes from a bigger piece of writing, such as a story or magazine article. In the next activity, you are going to read an extract out of the diary of a girl named Catherine Smith.

      1. Read the diary extract below to yourself:

       Tuesday 8 June

       Today my grandmother went back to the farm. She was here for almost two weeks, looking after my brother and me while my parents were away overseas. I like it when Gran visits because she always brings us presents and she lets us eat chocolate between meals and she doesn’t mind if we stay up after our bedtime, which is exciting. But I don’t like it when my parents go away because my brother is very naughty and he doesn’t listen and he always gets me into trouble. He is also always banging away on the piano. He says he’s going to be famous one day, but I don’t think he’s very good. He can’t even read music yet.

      2. Answer these questions about the diary extract you have just read:

      (a) Who do the pronouns ‘my’, ‘me’ and ‘I’ in the extract refer to?

      (b) Who does ‘she’ in the first line refer to?

      (c) Quote one fact that the writer gives.

      (d) Quote one opinion that the writer gives.

      (e) How many members are there in Catherine’s immediate family?

      (f) What tense does the writer use in sentences 3-7? Why?

      (g) Write a diary extract about the last time someone in your family came to visit. What did you like about the visit, and what didn’t you like about the visit? Also say what you would have liked to have happen, and what you would do differently next time. You will see that you have to use different tenses in your diary extract.

      Your teacher will use the following checklist to assess your diary entry:

      (h) Write a detailed description of one of the visitors.

      Spelling: words that end in ‘e’

      English has spelling rules that are often difficult to learn. Here is one for you. Look at these words from Catherine’s diary entry: exciting, famous.

      These two words are adjectives (describing words) that are made from other words.

      ‘Exciting’ is made from the verb ‘to excite’.

      ‘Famous’ is made from the noun ‘fame’.

      Both these root words end in an ‘e’.

      When we add a suffix that starts with a vowel, such as -ing, -ous, -able or -ier, the ‘e’ at the end of the word falls away.

      1. In the list of words below, which ones end in ‘e’ in their root form? You can use a dictionary to help you. Write the root words in your workbook.

      2. Look at your own diary entry. Can you find any words there that have a root that ends in ‘e’? Write out both the word you used and the root.

      3. Are there any words in your diary entry that you can

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