Unit 5
While the boys did their jobs, their sister, Anita, ironed the school clothes. Five heavy irons sat on a hot plate over the fire. When they were all hot, Anita used one to iron clothes. After about two minutes, it grew cool so she put it back on the hot plate and picked up a hot one. And so she went on, putting down a cool iron then picking up a hot iron. Their older brother, Cedric, often went fishing with their father at night. The next morning,
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Information is organised into paragraphs. Each paragraph contains facts
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he scaled and cleaned the snappers and grunts which his mother later sold from
related to the same idea.
a table by the beach. After this job, Cedric always smelled of fish and he had
to take a bath before school or the teacher would send him home. At 8.00 a.m. the school principal rang the town’s bell, warning students that school would
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soon begin. The next bell rang at 8:30 a.m. when the students got in line for roll call.
Before roll call, the children played in the schoolyard. Among the games they played were hopscotch, kickstone, hide and seek, jump rope, marbles, tops, yo-yos and kites. Life was very different for children 80 years ago but some things have stayed the same.
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Summing up – the main idea
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Glossary Johnny cakes a small fat pancake manatee
a large mammal that lives in the sea, now in danger of extinction
tortillas
thin flat bread
• Ask students what they know about the games listed at the end of the text. Do they still play any of them? What games do students play? • Are there any words students don’t understand that are not in the glossary? Ask students to work in pairs to make up more glossary entries. DA Work with a small group, demonstrating how to find the meaning of an unfamiliar word by using context clues or developing dictionary skills.
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