Unit 1
A sentence must make sense. is coming the ✗ The teacher is coming. ✓
2 Which of these are sentences?
1 In school 2 Martin stopped splashing. 3 clothes dirty my
4 Raining was 5 My clothes are dirty. 6 It was raining.
These are statements . They tell us something. I stopped. It is raining. These are questions . They ask us something. Why did you stop? Is it raining? A question ends with a question mark.
3 Is it a question or a statement?
Example: 1 asking
1 Who is Martin? 2 Jaydon is seven.
3 Can Jaydon run fast? 4 Where is the teacher? 5 I dropped my book. 6 I like skipping.
DA Exercise 2: You may ask some pupils to write the answers to fewer questions according to their ability. • Exercise 2, extension: Ask pupils to say why the words are or are not a sentence. • For more work on sentences, see Workbook 2 pages 37–38. NOTE: In these teacher’s notes, the symbol DA is always followed by a teaching suggestion for working with pupils of different abilities.
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