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Composition - Introduction to News Report Writing (Friday; 12/6)

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K: Being familiar with the news report features. U: Understand the chronological order of events. D: Write a news report.   Words of the Day 1. Reality 2. Saviour   Let's Begin! Do you remember what a news report is? News report -  Share important information with people about what is going on in the world.   Features of a News Report 1. Headline  - The title  - A short, simple sentence of the main event. - First letter of each word is capitalized (10-Year-Old Gets Driver's License)   2. Introduction - Write a short summary about the main event. - Use the 5W1H to figure out what to add in the context (Who is involved? Where did the event happen?)    3. Moments before the main event  - What happened before the main event? - Use the 5W1H again to help you. - Did anything happen that led to the main event happening?   4. The main event - It has more detail than the headline and introduction. - Goes in order as to what happened and how ...

Comprehension - Seal Saves Drowning Dog (Tuesday; 9/6)

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K: Know the purpose of a news report. U: Understand the context of the news report. D: Answer the question based on each context of the news report.   Words of the Day 1. Seal 2. Gashed   Let's Begin! Flip to page 6 in your purple Schofield & Sims book. Write today's day and date at the top of the page. Let's read the news report together!   Do you know what a news report is? -  to inform readers of what is happening in the world around them.   Did you know that a news report is also a chronological text? How so?         Task 1 In your group, work together to answer questions 1-11 on page 7. You have 30 minutes for this task. 

Grammar - Direct & Reported Speeches (Monday; 8/6)

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K: Recap about the differences of direct and reported speeches. U: Understand the rules of direct and reported speeches.  D: Convert the speeches.   Words of the Day 1. Chuckle 2. Allegory   Let's Begin! Do you remember the speeches? Time to remember the rules with this little tune .   Task 1 Once you receive a speech present from Ms Farah, write your name, day, and date at the top of the page. Read the instructions carefully. You have 10 minutes for this task.   Task 2 Continue your present with Focus 1. Remember to read the instructions carefully and use the notes given to identify the speech rules. You have 5 minutes for this task.     Once done, you may proceed with Practice 2. Remember to read each instruction and sentence  You have 10 minutes for this task.   Task 3/Homework Finally, do all of Challenge 3-5. Let's do question 4 together with Ms Farah! You have 20 minutes for this task.   Since this is partly homework, write down ...

Comprehension - Heat (Thursday; 4/6)

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K: Identify the types of clauses used in a text. U: Understand the main summary of the informational text. D: Answer questions in regards to the text.   Words of the Day 1. Artificial 2. Corrigible   Let's Begin! What do you understand by heat?     Task 1 Do you remember what text type this is?     What are the features of an informational essay? - Main title  - Non-chronological - Mostly present tense - Has graphics or photographs   Let's read this informational text together! You have 10 minutes for this task.   Task 2 Time to answer some questions! Remember to write your name, day, and date at the top of your worksheet. Please answer 1 to 8 individually.  You have 20 minutes for this task.

Grammar - Homophones, Homographs, & Homonyms (Tuesday; 26/5) (Wednesday; 3/6)

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K: Explore the difference between homonyms, homographs, & homophones. U: Understand the use of words in its respective sentence. D: Identify the correct homophones and homonyms.   Words of the Day 1. Bow 2. Loose   Let's Begin! Today, we're going to look at this Venn diagram.    Now, let's learn a little sentence: SO SP ee D y Sound Spelling Definition   Write the little trick for all the homo- prefixes: Homophone: Has the word 'phone' so ring ring! Same sound. SO ✓ SP D  Example: hour/our; idle/idol; poor/pour; they're/their/there; steal/steel; right/write   Homograph : Graph comes from the Greek word, 'writing' so same spelling.  SO  SP  ✓ D  Example:   console (cabinet) / console (to comfort); lead (soft, heavy metal) / lead (to head up); wound (injury that breaks the skin) / wound (past tense of wind); produce (fruit and vegetables) / produce (to bring into existence); present (a gift) / present (showing)   Homo...

Composition - Finishing Our Science Report (Monday; 25/5)

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K: Know what we have in our science report so far. U: Understand the features of a chronological science report. D: Finish our science report by using adverbials and sentence types.   Words of the Day 1. Stir 2. Gelid   Let's Begin! Do you remember your science report? Let's finish it! Yay! Task 1 Remember the IMRAD method when writing your essay: 1. Do I have my purpose and prediction in the introduction? 2. Do I have the summarized steps of the experiment? 3. Do I have the results of my experiment? 4. Do I have the prediction of my experiment because of the results? 5. Do I have my conclusion?   Task 2 When you write, remember to make a mixture of simple, compound, and complex sentences. But most of all, remember to put a comma (,) when you start a sentence with a subordinate clause!  Here are some tips to use when you write your essay. When you start a paragraph: 1. Use paragraphs starters like: Once this experiment was done, / As a result of this experiment, / Wi...

Comprehension - Freezing in Different Temperatures (Friday; 22/5)

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K: Know how to skim through a text. U: Understand critically on what the text is about. D: Find questions and answer them.   Words of the Day 1. Thermostat 2. Calcify   Let's Begin! Prepare your English notebook. Write the day and date in your notebook. Now, do you remember this text?  What are the features of a science report?   Task 1 There are questions hidden inside the class. Yay! You need to spread out and find these questions. Keep in mind about the rules: 1. You are not allowed to take the question off the place. 2. Only 2 people are allowed to be in the question area.  3. Write the questions down in your English notebook. Whether you want to write the question and answer first, or write all the questions and then the answers in the next pages, that is entirely up to you. You have 30 minutes for this task.   Task 2 Once you have the questions, answer them in your English notebook. You can work together as a group but make sure to answer individual...