Grammar & Comprehension - 1.3, 1.4, & 1.5 (Workbook) (Monday; 18/9) (Friday; 22/9)

K: Know the grammar context.

U: Revise the topics for Unit 1.

D: Use sample answers to check answers 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5

Words of the Day

1. Revise

2. Tense

Workbook 1.3

1a. hyphen

1b. hyphen

1c. dash

1d. hyphen

1e. dash

2a. The box was full of interesting things -- things I had never seen before.

2b. My school --the one on the corner -- is the largest in the area.

2c. Gardening -- my favourite hobby -- is a relaxing weekend activity.

2d. We -- working together -- managed to build the model aeroplane before everyone else.

2e. I wish my friend -- the one from Kuala Lumpur -- would tell me some of the folktales from her region.

3a. climax

3b. additional information

2c. aside or comment

2d. climax

2e. additional information

Workbook 1.4

1a. Present

1b. It gives the sense of immediacy, as if the action is happening as the reader reads.

1c. It's talking about something in the past.

1d. The future tense tense is used in the last sentence - to foreshadow what is to come.

2a. First person

2b. Use personal pronouns like I and we.

2c. For emphasis - to make readers realize there is something special.

2d. It makes them stand out and implies that it's a name/person.

2e. It allows readers to fill in their own ideas about what will happen.

2f. (Open-ended. Give reason to your answer).

3. (Open-ended but make sure it's fictional)

4. (Write a short Chapter 1 that is related too the prologue).

Workbook 1.5

1a. knead - press and shape the mixture firmly and repeatedly with your hands to make bread; need - something you must have or do; kneed - hit someone with your knee.

need - too interested in your own appearance; vane - flat, narrow part of a fan, propeller, etc. that turns because of the pressure of air or liquid against it; vein - tube that carries blood to the heart from the other parts of the body.

2. (Make own sentence for each of the 6 words in 1a).

3a. adjective; antonym: heavy; example: (own answer)

3b. noun; example: (own answer)

3c. adjective; stressed/distressed/heavy; (own answer)

3d. adverb; none; (own answer)

3e. adjective; dark; (own answer)

3f. noun; none

3g. noun; (own answer)

3h. verb; put out/smother; (own answer)

4a. blinding

4b. smart

4c. happy