Language Tree SB 1

Unit 16

4 Use and or but to finish these sentences.

Example: 1 I drank water but I didn’t eat.

1 I ate a cake ________ I ate a bun. 2 I ate cake _________ I didn’t eat ice cream. 3 We saw a grey cat _______ we saw a black cat. 4 We saw a cat ________ we did not see a dog. 5 He ran very fast _______ he did not win.

Word work: root words

Anansi said, “You must wash your hands.” Wash is a root word .

We can add ‘ed’ or ‘ing’ to a root word to make new words: Old Turtle wash ed his hands. I am wash ing my hands.

1  Make new words by adding ‘ed’ to these root words. Example: splash + ed â splashed

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jump play want look

+ ed

• Point out that we add letter(s) to the end of a root word to change its meaning or to show number. These added letters are called inflected endings . • Remind pupils that ‘ing’ tells us that something is happening now; ‘ed’ tells us that something happened in the past.

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