Tiêu đề Y4 English 4017b - 2024 Week 19 Notes.pdf ✅

GRADE 4 ENGLISH Term 3, Week 1 (19) – 4017b Warm Up: How many adjectives can you write down in two minutes to describe the appearance of a cane toad! Student answers could include - large, warty, bumpy, brown, rough- skinned, squat, wide-mouthed, speckled, bulbous, puffy, ugly, unattractive, knobbly, lumpy, compact, stumpy, stocky, repulsive, menacing, invasive, dappled, spotted, and mottled. There are estimated to be more than 200 million cane toads in northern Australia today. Note – the teacher could choose an image of any animal for this warm up activity – the cane toad is just an example. Word of the Week – cascaded (passage 2, page 6) meaning: covered or draped over something, resembling a tumbling waterfall synonyms: descended, tumbled, drooped, dipped opposite (antonyms) ascended, rose up sentence: Under the warm winter sun, tantalizing bunches of grapes cascaded over the vines. STUDENT WORK AT HOME - Complete English Homework Practice 4017b. - NEW textbook ‘Year 5 Vocabulary Skills’ – complete pages 1-2 and 5-6. - Learn the spelling test words. - Read the teacher notes on the exams.institute website, particularly the definitions for the reading comprehension passages. - Read each night for at least 30 minutes.
Spelling test words 1. tantalize (tantalise – Aus. spelling) The aroma of freshly baked biscuits would tantalise the children. 2. mentor She acted as a mentor to students in the Homework club. 3. jumbo A jumbo sandwich made in the Unites States contained 117 kgs of cheese. 4. boycott The workers planned a boycott, demanding a pay rise. 5. Victorian In Victorian times, a lot of people only had a bath once or twice a month. 6. leotard She looked like a glittering star in her black and gold leotard. 7. atlas The most expensive atlas in the world sold at an auction for $4million. 8. silhouette He bought black cardboard to make a silhouette of his cat. 9. nemesis Does Harry Potter finally defeat his nemesis, Voldermort? 10. mesmerize (mesmerise – Aus. spelling) The new video game tended to mesmerise young players. Spelling test words for next week – page 2 of the Homework booklet clarity clarify clarion predict diction declare declaration dictate dictator dictionary Part 1: Vocabulary:
The vocabulary on page 2 of the booklet will require further explanation. Clar means clear 1. clarity explaining something clearly 2. declare make something known 3. clarify explain something again, so that it is easier to understand 4. declaration a formal statement 5. clarion
Dict means say 1. dictate say it out loud for someone to write down 2. predict say a particular event will happen in the future It is claimed that Nostradamus, for example, predicted the French Revolution, the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte, the atomic bomb, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the September 11 attacks and even the COVID pandemic. Nostradamus 3. dictator a person with total control over a country Napoleon Bonaparte, a French military dictator, from 1799-1809 4. diction a person’s manner of speaking 5. dictionary a book containing the meaning of words