Week 1 Monday Comprehension 1/ Spoken Language 1

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Pictures of merpeople - Mermaids and Mermen!

1) Name and describe the main characters in the story. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2) What do you most like (or dislike!) about the story, and why? Give reasons with as much detail as you can. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3) Why do you think Eliza decided to return the mirror to Freya? What were her feelings at this point in the story? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4) How did Eliza change as the story progressed? Why did she change, do you think? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Think about the story ‘Can you Catch A Mermaid?’ by Jane Ray.

First, talk through your ideas with a partner, and then answer these

questions.

Week 1 Tuesday Comprehension 2

Can you catch a Mermaid? By Jane Ray

And that day, Eliza made new friends. Now she loves playing with the other children. They collect shells and Eliza shows them how to build mermaids out of sand.

When she puts the beautiful pink and gold shell to her ear she still hears Freya’s sweet voice singing to her, and the songs she sings are of her ocean home and the silver fishes that play there.

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But that day. Tom came back with nets full of fish.

And from that day on, the village fishing nets were always full, and Tom’s was the fullest of all.

And sometimes, in still rock pools or in the deep green ocean, when Eliza is out in Tom’s boat, she thinks she sees Freya smiling up at her through the water.

Or maybe it’s her own reflection.

Week 1 Wednesday Grammar 1

The present perfect: how to form it, and how it is used!

The structure of the present perfect form of the verb is:

subject + auxiliary verb + main verb

have past participle

Here are some examples of the present perfect:

subject auxiliary verb main verb

+ I have seen the Ice Age.

+ You have eaten my apple.

- She has not been to France.

- We have not taken your ball.

? Have you finished?

? Have they done it?

Contractions with the present perfect

When we use the present perfect in speaking, we usually contract the subject and auxiliary verb. We also sometimes do this when we write.

I have I've

You have You've

He hasShe hasIt hasAlison hasThe dog has

He'sShe'sIt'sAlison'sThe dog's

We have We've

They have They've

For a detailed explanation of how the present perfect is used, look at http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/present-tense/present-perfect

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Examples: when hot-seating Eliza, you could ask questions such as:

Have you seen Freya recently?

Have you ever been out fishing with your Dad?

Have you ever found any other interesting things on the beach?

Since you met Freya, how many other friends have you made?

Do you think Freya has gone back to her mother?

Week 1 Wednesday Grammar 1

What would you ask them?

Write some questions in the speech bubbles that you would ask the characters in the story. Remember to include at least one ‘Have you ever....?’ question for each character!

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Freya, have you ever...

Eliza, ...

Tom,

Week 1 Wednesday Grammar 1

The possessive apostrophe

Read and look closely at these sentences. Do you think they show the apostrophe used correctly? Re-write the sentence with apostrophe used properly if you think it needs to be put right!

1) Eliza liked collecting pebble’s and shell’s from the beach near her house.

2) Eliza was standing waiting for her fathers boat to return when she first saw Freya.

3) The two girl’s played by the seashore all day, and became firm friends.

4) Because she didn’t want to lose her friend, Eliza kept Freya’s mirror hidden away and did not return it.

The possessive apostrophe in plurals. Draw and write another example!

The girl’s shell The girls’ shell

The dog’s bone The dogs’ bones

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The shell belonging to the girl

The shell belonging to the girls

The bone belonging to the dog

The bones belonging to the dogs

Week 1 Thursday Transcription 1

A Village by the Sea – the setting for ‘The Seal Children’ by Jackie Morris

Maes y Mynydd is the setting for the village in The Seal Children. This ruined village lies behind a high ridge of rock to the north of St David’s in west Wales.

Once it was a small but busy community, with upwards of thirteen cottages. The people who lived there were fishermen and farmers, the cottages tied to the rich farms over the hill. In the later years of the life of the village the people who lived there were thought to be Quakers, escaping from religious intolerance on the other side of the hill. Old maps of the area show the road to the village to be named as either the road to Pennsylvania, or the road to New York.

Life for the villagers was little more than slavery, with even small children working hard in the fields. The villagers kept their fishing boats in a sheltered cove called The Gessel, and as late as the 1940's it was possible to descend a steep path to the cove where iron rings that the boats would have been fastened to could still be seen rusting in the rock face. The path has long since fallen away and now only seals and oystercatchers are seen on the beach.

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The ball belonging to the boy.

The ball belonging to the boys.

In the 1890's there were only 6 people left in the village, all over the age of 60. All the other people had left for what they believed would be a better life in the towns, working in the coal mines. These six old people lived in a place with no roads, no electricity, they drew their water from a well and the nearest small town was 3 miles away. By the turn of the century the village was empty and after that the houses were occasionally used by travelling workers. Stones were taken away, roofs fell in, and now all that remains are the echoes of past lives carried on the wind and the bones of a few cottages.

The fields worked by the people are still farmed, and the walls surrounding the small gardens of the houses can still be seen. Stonecrop and moss grow on the walls and birds and mice wander the ruins. In one of the cottages the chimney fawr can still be seen, with the chimney held up by a rotten piece of wood for a lintel, a piece of wood that may well have come ashore as driftwood centuries ago. When this breaks the chimney will fall.

A hawthorn tree grows from a window. In spring it is covered with white blossom like sea spray before the wind catches it and blows the tree bare. Buzzards call a mournful mew, and if you listen carefully you can catch the song of the seal on the wind.

Week 2 Monday Comprehension 3

‘ The Seal Children’: write a paragraph describing the scene from the illustration.

Try to use powerful imagery, and make your writing sound like the language in the book! Can you use some of the words or phrases you magpie-d? How would you describe the sea? The Moon? And the feelings of the children at this point?

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Week 2 Tuesday Spoken Language 3/ Composition 1

Read the paragraph from the story, and re-write it from Beowulf’s point of view. Remember to change the pronouns from third person to first person!

So Beowulf went to his bed, and his men too, but in truth they slept only fitfully, for there was not one of them, not Beowulf himself even, who could be certain of how the night would end, whether any of them would ever again see

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First person pronouns (singular) I me my (plural) we our us

Third person pronouns

(singular) he she it his her (plural) they their them

the light of dawn. They all knew well enough how many brave Danes this Grendel creature had dragged lifeless and bleeding from Heorot, how unlikely it was that some, or all of them, would ever see their hearth and home. In silent prayer, each of them placed his life in the hands of his Almighty Maker who had from the very beginning ruled supreme in all the affairs of men.

Week 2 Wednesday Grammar 3/ Transcription 2

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Beowulf: A Viking legend

Most legends contain all or most of the features listed below. Can you identify the characters, events and themes in Beowulf that make it a legend? Complete the table below!

Feature Y/N

In Beowulf - give details and description.

Story has a possible basis in truth

Includes brave or heroic characters

Story includes magical creatures or monsters.

Characters may have magical or superhuman powers

The story features battles, journeys or struggles

Good usually triumphs over evil

There is a traditional opening and ending

Week 2 Thursday Comprehension 4

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Remember to include as much detail as you can from the Beowulf story.

Write the opening passage of a legend of your own. Use the structure of the opening of ‘The Seal Children’ to write your own opening paragraph.

Remember to:

- Use the ‘rule of three’ in your descriptions- Use a combination of longer and shorter sentences for effect- Use old fashioned sounding vocabulary. It may be useful to use

a thesaurus for this!

Begin: There is a place.....where...........

Describe the landscape where your legend takes place, remembering to use commas to separate clauses.Describe what can be seen, heard, even smelled on the air! In your last sentence, hint at something relating to the mythical creature that you have created to star in your story!

When you have finished, ask a partner to read your passage and comment on whether you have used the tips above in your opening passage!

Week 3 Monday Composition 3/ Spoken Language 4

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