Unit 10
Unit 16 What have I learnt? Can Do Skills
1 L isten to your teacher then answer the questions. 1 Which two of these words describe Sonny? unpopular popular lazy musical talkative 2 What is the meaning of supreme? a) knowledgeable b) excellent c) poor 3 As tall as a lamppost is a) a simile b) alliteration
b) a metaphor
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Read the play then answer the questions. KELEB: Hey Trisha, what are you doing? TRISHA: ( peering up into a tree ) Grandma’s parrot, Ivy, flew off my shoulder and into the tree. KELEB: Oh yes. I see her. ( pointing up ) TRISHA: It’s my fault! ( almost crying ) I shouldn’t have come outside with her. KELEB: What does she like best to eat? TRISHA: She’s wild about peanuts…but why is that important? KELEB: I’ve got an idea…
1 What are the names of the speakers? 2 How many stage directions are there?. 3 How does Trisha feel? Why? 4 What do you think Keleb’s idea is?
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Find the part of speech in brackets. 1 Yesterday we missed a lesson. (noun)
2 The top class performed a play for us. (pronoun) 3 It was very funny and they acted well. (adverb) 4 We all clapped at the end. (verb)
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It’s or its? 1 Look at the cat. _______ upset. The dog drank it_____ milk. 2 The tree has lost most of ______ leaves and ________still very windy.
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There, they’re or their? 1 Do the actors know _______ lines? 2 Yes and _______ ready to begin. 3 Let’s sit _________.
• Exercise 1: Read the character description in Listening Texts page 165 to students. • Extension: to assess students’ understanding of the structure of the play in Unit 16, you can ask them to copy and complete the cause and effect Graphic organiser on page 160.
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