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GRADE 4 ENGLISH Term 4, Week 8 • Homework Practice Booklet: 4031b • Year 5 Vocabulary Skills, Synonyms pp 53-57 • Learn the spelling test words that are on page 5 of this week’s Homework Practice Booklet • Read every night for at least 30 minutes • Continue your vocabulary list and add at least 10 words – use a dictionary to look up unfamiliar words from the Homework Practice Booklet and personal reading • Record definitions. Warm-up: Word Pyramid 1. The top card in a standard deck of playing cards. I have 3 letters. ACE 2. You might find me on a dress or on a table cloth. I start with the letter l. LACE 3. I am a very small, thin, plate like structure on the skin of a fish. SCALE 4. This building has tall walls, towers, and a drawbridge. CASTLE 5. You find me in hair ties, making them flexible. What am I? I start with the letter e. ELASTICS 6. Words often have different meanings or sounds depending on where you are. That's because of d____. It's like languages within a language. DIALECT Word of the Week: snickering Meaning: quiet laughing, often in a way that is making fun of other people Synonyms: smirking; giggling Antonyms: crying; sighing Sentence: During the film, the children couldn’t help snickering at the funny scenes. Spelling test words for this week gullies The sudden downpour flooded the gullies in the foothills of the Dandenongs. ballad Waltzing Matilda is a famous Australian ballad. mustered The stockmen mustered the sheep into the pens ready for shearing. fiercely As the wind picked up speed, the bushfire spread fiercely through the dry bushland. undaunted Josie was undaunted by the difficult exam question. saplings Eucalyptus saplings take about ten years to grow to maturity. unassisted Rebecca climbed unassisted into the cable car.
summit A group of hikers were exhausted when they reached the summit of Mt Baw Baw. cowed The cat cowed in the corner, frightened by the thunderstorm. pursuit The aggressive cassowary ran for one kilometre in pursuit of the park ranger. Spelling test words - page 5 of the Homework Practice Booklet sandwiches potatoes singular quantified uncountable expressions library throat beauty biscuits Part 1 - Countable and uncountable nouns Task 1: The teacher could explain the concept of countable and uncountable nouns and go through the prepared Powepoint slides with the class, with students ascertaining whether the images show countable or uncountable nouns. or The teacher could read out some examples that are on page 2 of the Homework Booklet. Task 2: Teacher to explain the grammar rules on page 4 of the booklet. The first few could be done together as a class so that students understand how to complete the task for homework. Task 3: Students are very familiar with this format of writing 4 sentences. Teacher to read out the nouns that will be included in their sentences (bottom of page 4). Remind students to write imaginative sentences,with attention to correct spelling and punctuation. Part 2: Reading Comprehension: Definitions in the context of the passages Passage 2: The Australian Pelican gliding flying slowly and lightly breeding sites a place where animals produce their young skidding sliding; slipping make a touchdown landing crustaceans sea creatures, such as crabs and lobsters tadpoles larval stage of a frog shrimp prawn; it has a narrow tail and slender legs; lives in water inundated flooded squawking screeching; shrieking cause havoc results in damage rehabilitate injured pelicans restore to health
Passage 3: Storm Boy the Coorong a small fresh water area (lagoon) that extends for 140 kms in south- eastern South Australia windswept unprotected from strong winds tussocky grass that is densely clumped together endless slam of the Southern Ocean continual pounding from the waves of the sea whip of the wind a very strong wind, striking sharply at people’s bodies the winds lost their senses personification; implies that the wind is extremely angry like rolling embankments similar to mounds of earthat the sides of train tracks like a milky stain figurative language; looks like white coloured marks in the sky devil dance a type of dance performed to get rid of bad spirits coiled curled a light sinker a thin weight so that the fishing line will sink tugboat a form of transport that pushes or tows boats and ships great gust of wind a sizeable blast of wind banked sharply drifted suddenly to the side snickering smiling in a self-satisfied, smug way snackering snacking between meals Passage 4: The First Chinese Immigrant in Australia immigrant a newcomer to a country; a new arrival carpenter a person who cuts, shapes and installs building materials such as wood pastoralist a person who breeds cattle or sheep on an Australian farm merino sheep a breed of sheep that produces soft, fine wool merino sheep pioneer someone who helped introduce the breeding of merino sheep in Australia. foreign status not a citizen of a country granted a licence given a permit the deeds legal documents; contracts historical records authentic papers, such as books, documents and journals containing information about the past Peacock Inn a country hotel that provided a accommodation for travellers, food and drink, and stables for the horses