Kwaggasrand School Year 2

English: Home Language Week 3 & 4 Term 3

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Dear Year 2 learner,

This document contains the work for Week 3 and 4 Term 3.

The work consists of 4 sections namely:

1. Listening and Speaking

2. Reading and Viewing

3. Writing and Presenting

4. Language Structure and Conventions

Remember the following:

Complete all the activities/answers in a separate book or on a sheet of paper.

Write the heading, week and date for every activity you do e.g.

Listening and Speaking Term 3 Week 3 & 4 22 June 2020

Your parents/guardians are allowed to help and guide you should you struggle, but you

need to complete the work yourself.

Please bring along all completed work when the school reopens again.

Good luck and just try your best!

Stay safe!

Regards

Ms. Z. Esterhuyse

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English: Home Language Week 3 & 4 Term 3

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Listening and Speaking

Listen to and discuss the short story with a parent or guardian.

Introduce the pictures in the story and discuss certain aspects e.g. prediction, setting and

characterization.

Discuss own emotions and feelings about the story

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Reading, Viewing and Phonics

Read the short story “Struggles of our life”.

Identify new words in new sentences.

Read sentences aloud.

Learners read text with the teacher.

Reads text independently focusing on fluency, tone and pace.

Retell the story in own words.

Struggles of our life

Once upon a time, a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she

didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It

seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed. Her father, a chef, took her to

the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.

Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground

coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter.

The daughter moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes

he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled

the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup.

Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?” “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily

replied.

“Look closer”, he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were soft.

He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-

boiled egg.

Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.

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“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.

He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-

the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard and

unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was fragile, with the thin outer

shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water.

Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they

were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.

“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you

respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”

Moral: In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the

only thing that truly matters is how you choose to react to it and

what you make out of it. Life is all about leaning, adopting and

converting all the struggles that we experience into something

positive.

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Writing and Presenting

Galimoto

by Karen Lynn Williams

A young boy in Malawi opens his treasure box, takes out some wire and

decides to build a galimoto (Malawi word for a vehicle). But he doesn’t have enough wire. So he

sets about finding some throughout the village. Will he find enough to make his special toy and, if

so, what form will his imagination take with a few twists of the wire?

Readers will appreciate the sense of joy, freedom and imagination the young boy experiences in

the story but they could be disappointed in the way many grown-ups seem suspicious of his

motives for looking around shops and junkyards. I thought that, in a village as small as this, he

would be well known and that the villagers would not think he was up to no good. However, this is

a charming story, beautifully written. The illustrations are colourful and show the reader what

Malawi really looks like.

Most of all, I was struck by how happy the boy is with so little – how his small box of treasures

combines with his imagination to fill his days in a way that is just as good as a shopping spree to

Toys 4 Us – even better, some would say! It seems that the fewer possessions one has, the

dearer they become. Yet I think it’s also true of children that they will choose a favourite toy or two

no matter how many they have; it seems to be in a child’s nature to have something special and I

think this universal feeling is portrayed very accurately in this book.

This is definitely a book that 9 to 11-year-olds would find worth reading. It gives a picture of the

people and their lives. Some of the language is a little difficult, but the reader will be able to work

out the meanings of the words.

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Activity 1: Read the review about the book “Galimoto” on page 5 and answer the following

comprehension questions. Write the answers in your separate book.

1. What is the title of the book?

_________________________________________________________________________

2. Who is the author of the book?

_________________________________________________________________________

3. What is the book about?

_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

4. In which country does the young boy live?

_________________________________________________________________________

5. What did the young boy decide to make?

_________________________________________________________________________

6. For which age is this book suitable?

________________________________________________________________________

7. Would you like to read the book?

_________________________________________________________________________

8. Write a paragraph explaining your answer from Question 7.

_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

A book review tells people what a book is about. The reviewer (the person who writes the

review) often tells you the age group for whom the book is written. You might also say whether

or not you found the book well written, whether it is interesting and whether the language is easy

or difficult.

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Activity 2: Read any book or short story. Then write a review about the book or short story. Use

the given writing frame below.

Title

Author

Characters: Who are they? Did you like them? How did they make you feel?

Plot: What happens? Was it fun, scary, exciting to read?

Your opinions: What was your favourite part of the story and why?

Do you think the story has a moral? Is there anything you learnt from the story?

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why? Why not?

Sum up your opinion of the extract in one sentence and give the extract a star rating. ____

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Language Structure and Conventions

STUDY

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Language Structure and Conventions

Degrees of comparison

Activity 1: Complete the worksheet using the correct comparative or superlative word. Re-write

the whole sentence with the correct word in your separate book.

1) Canada is _______________ than China but Russia is the _______________ country.

a) big b) bigger c) biggest

2) Monkeys are _______________ but ants are _______________.

a) small b) smaller c) smallest

3) Giraffes are the _______________ land animal.

a) tall b) taller c) tallest

4) Boys usually have _______________ hair than girls.

a) short b) shorter c) shortest

5) Lamps are _______________ but the sun is _______________.

a) bright b) brighter c) brightest

6) Mars is _______________ from Earth but Neptune is _______________.

a) far b) farther c) farthest

7) Emma is _______________ but Stephen is _______________.

a) happy b) happier c) happiest

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Language Structure and Conventions

Degrees of comparison

Activity 2: Re-write the sentences in your separate book and fill in the correct form of the adjective

in brackets.

1. Your bag's zip is ____________________ (easy) to close than mine.

2. It is the ____________________ (difficult) rule of all.

3. This pen writes ____________________ (good) than my previous one.

4. Health is ____________________ (important) than money.

5. Saturn is __________ 2nd ____________________ (large) planet in our solar system.

6. We have ____________________ (much) homework today than we had yesterday.

7. If you need any ____________________ (far) information, please contact our assistant.

8. South Africans are the ____________________ (good) cricket players.

9. this highway is ____________________ (wide) than that highway.

10. Winter is ____________________ (cold) than Autumn.

Activity 3: Complete the table below. Draw the table in your separate book and complete.

Adjective Comparative Superlative

good

faster

most beautiful

easy

more comfortable

biggest

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Language Structure and Conventions

STUDY

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Language Structure and Conventions

Abbreviations

Activity 4: Match the words in column A with their abbreviation in column B. Write the correct

letter next to the words in column A. Only write the number and letter in your separate book.

Example: 1. E

COLUMN B

A Fri.

B Mar.

C Thurs.

D Sun.

E Jan.

F Sept.

G Wed.

H Nov.

I Apr.

J Mon.

K Sat.

L Tues.

M Feb.

N Aug.

O Dec.

P Oct.

COLUMN A

1 January

2 Monday

3 April

4 Saturday

5 Tuesday

6 December

7 October

8 Thursday

9 February

10 Wednesday

11 March

12 August

13 Sunday

14 Friday

15 September

16 November

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Language Structure and Conventions

Abbreviations

Activity 5: Write the abbreviation for the following words in your separate book. Write the word

and the abbreviation next to it.

1. page _______________

2. South Africa _______________

3. turn over _______________

4. as soon as possible _______________

5. estimate time of _______________

6. kilogram _______________

7. adjective _______________

8. street _______________

9. hour _______________

10. Pretoria _______________