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Dear Year Six Well done on completing Key Stage 2! We know that you have worked hard and need to enjoy your summer holiday before starting secondary school in September, but we want to make sure that you are fresh for Key Stage 3. This booklet has a few simple activities to work through each week and keep your brain active. All the answers are included in the back of the booklet for your parent/carer to check your work. There is also a reading list in the booklet to help you choose some books to read over the break. Additionally, it would be fantastic if you complete the reading log so we can see what you’ve read over the holiday. We look forward to meeting you!

Enjoy English Team at Delta

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WEEK 1

INTRODUCTION Take a selfie of yourself, print it out and stick it onto the mobile phone template.

WORDS OF THE WEEK

Alternatively, you could draw a picture of yourself and label it. Then, complete

Practise these words every day and then ask your parent/carer to test you at

the fact file to introduce yourself. Finally, write about your plans for the holiday.

the end of the week. Can you score 5/5?

Name?

Age?

Pets?

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Strategy / strategies to help remember

rhythm

Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving

accommodation

2x C, 2x M – two cots, two mattresses

beautiful

B-E-A-Utiful

because

Big Elephants Cannot Always Use Small Exits

beginning

1x G, 2x N

Siblings?

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Favourite food?

accommodation beautiful

Favourite colour?

Favourite hobby?

Favourite book?

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PUNCTUATION Add full stops, capital letters, commas, speech marks, exclamation marks and semi colons.

POETRY

Read the poem and underline all the words the writer uses to make summer sound appealing.

Bed In Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

Favourite music?

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leave the room immediately

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roses are red

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we have a lot of trees in our garden they provide plenty of shade

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they wanted to know when we would visit them again

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john who was injured was taken to the hospital

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.

In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people’s feet Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?

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WRITING Describe the picture. Ensure you use a mixture of simple, compound and

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complex sentences.

Practise these words every day and then ask your parent/carer to test you at

SIMPLE: The car swerved.

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COMPOUND: The car swerved and crashed into a tree.

COMPLEX: The car, which had engine trouble, swerved and crashed into a tree.

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Strategy / strategies to help remember

believe

I before E (except after C) where the sound is “EE”

business

Split – BUS – I – NESS

ceiling

I before E (except after C) where the sound is “EE”

decided

Break it up: de-ci-ded.

definitely

Split – DE – FIN – ITE – LY; it has got INIT in it; -LY because only names end in –LEY; prefix and suffix e.g. DE – FINITE - LY

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believe business ceiling decided definitely

SPELLING MISTAKES Correct the spelling mistakes.

POETRY

Write an acrostic poem using the word SUMMER.

Try and use some of the words Robert Louis Stephenson used in his poem, ‘Bed and Summer,’ which you read last week.

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Simon Cowell has had an very succesfull career in televician.

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Tuff trainig had finaly paid of. The athlte acheived his goles.

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It was imediatly aparant that this was going to be a tuff job.

S U M M E

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Sarah knoked over the food in the baked been isle and then complaned.

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1. What is the name of the inn Anderson is staying in?

Complete the ‘Vocabulary task’ and then read the extract from Number 13 by M.R. James. Finally, answer the comprehension questions.

Try to GUESS what the word means first and then LOOK THEM UP in a dictionary. Then, write down the definitions.

2. What is a game of patience? (Use the internet to research)

Omission: Evidently: 3. Why is Anderson interested in room Number 13?

Ceased: Portmanteau: Trestle:

4. Why was he “a little startled” as he approached the door?

NUMBER 13 EXTRACT 5. Why may the footsteps cease, and why may the person sound in ‘strong excitement’?

6. What is Anderson disappointed about when he returns to his room?

7. How is the ending of the extract surprising?

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READING

WORDS OF THE WEEK

This is a poem about summer. Complete the ‘vocabulary task’ and then read

Do you know what these words mean?

the poem. Finally, answer the comprehension questions which follow.

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Follow the look-cover-write-check method to practise these spellings.

Try to GUESS what the word means first and then LOOK THEM UP in a dictionary. Then, Spelling

write down the definitions.

Strategy / strategies to help remember

disappear

1x S, 2x P

disappointed

1x S, 2x P

embarrass

A-double-R, A-double-S

extremely

E-M-E-LY because only names end in -LEY

friend

“Friend until the –END”

Coppice: Heath: Anemones: Broods:

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disappear disappointed embarrass

The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling

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They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago.

Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees.

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VOCABULARY BUILDER

USING NEW VOCABULARY

Use a thesaurus (available online) and add some summer adjectives!

Write a paragraph describing your experience on a beach using your new summer adjectives.

HOT

Searing,

STROLL

Amble,

PEACEFUL

Tranquil,

EXCITED

Ecstatic,

BEAUTIFUL

Breath-taking,

It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones.

Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods, And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late, When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools Where the otter whistles his mate, (They fear not men in the woods, Because they see so few.)

You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet, And the swish of a skirt in the dew, Steadily cantering through The misty solitudes, As though they perfectly knew The old lost road through the woods…

But there is no road through the woods.

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1. In the first verse, what happened to the road through the woods?

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WORDS OF THE WEEK Do you know what these words mean?

Follow the look-cover-write-check method to practise these spellings.

2. In the second verse, why can you no longer see the road through the woods?

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3. What do you learn about the animals and their activities in this poem?

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immediately

-LY because only names end in -LEY

minute

Split MIN - UTE

necessary

1x C, 2x S: one coffee, two sugars or one collar two sleeves (Never Eat Crisps Eat Salad Sandwiches And Remain Young).

neighbour

NEIGH- says the horse that lives next door

nervous

“Like gorgeous not house”

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immediately minute necessary neighbour

4. How did people used to travel on this road?

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VOCABULARY BUILDER

USING NEW VOCABULARY

Draw lines to create compound adjectives.

Use some of the compound adjectives to write sentences.

5. Are people still travelling on this road? Why/why not?

6. How is the ending quite spooky?

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Accident

Eating

Wide

Mouthed

Sugar

Tempered

Man

Looking

Bad

Prone

Good

Eyed

Open

Thinking

Quick

Free

I stared open-mouthed at Buckingham Palace.

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1. Where does she think ‘all the real work is done’?

This is a non-fiction text about a young lady’s holiday experiences in Australia.

Read the blog and then answer the comprehension questions which follow.

What a wonderful trip! I was covering the whole of Australia, and I wasn’t opting for the usual boring bar jobs.

It was the famous outback for me, where all the real work was done.

Sheep farms in Australia are ridiculous. They are massive.

No wonder a farmer has to use a helicopter to keep an eye on the animals. Farms are not much to look at, but they sure do cover a lot of space. Four-wheel drives, affectionately known as ‘utes’ are a must.

When working, you have to be vigilant for snakes. Despite the heat making it very uncomfortable, it is essential to wear protective footwear. Also, you had to keep your eyes on the utes in case these belly crawlers decide to seek out some shade.

I’d grown quite a social group in the short time that I was there. We decided to have a fancy dress party in which we all dressed up as surfers. In order to complete the look, we all wore flip flops. It was a great party. We had a ‘barbie’ and danced to classic pop music. I had promised a phone call to my parents though, so I skipped away to the ute I’d left my mobile in. The time difference between Australia and the UK is so different that you literally have to call in the middle of the night! I scrambled into the ute, retrieved my phone and jumped back out of the truck.

2. In the second paragraph, how do farmers cope with vast amounts of land?

3. Can you work out what the word ‘vigilant’ means in paragraph 3?

4. What is she wearing that offers little protection?

5. What word in paragraph 5 shows that the snake was intending to do harm?

Suddenly, there was an agonising pain in my leg. I spun, and beheld the malevolent eyes of a muddy-coloured snake. It was everyone’s worst fear. It reared its head and bared its fangs. I’d trodden on the creature’s tail…

Shocked, and full of venom, I fell over. It seemed like I was screaming for ages before Lawrence, another member of our fruit-picking gang, threw me in the ute and drove me to hospital. Everyone knows that there is no time to waste when snakebites are involved.

Afterwards, I was told that it was an Eastern Brown that snagged me, one of the most toxic land snakes in the world. It might have looked as harmless as one of my mum’s worldfamous brownies, but you should never judge a book by its cover.

6. How does the writer use humour at the end of paragraph 6?

It only took a few minutes for me to lose feeling in my legs. Lawrence tried to reassure me, but panic is a vicious beast. Despite being in the middle of nowhere, the local hospital held anti-venoms for all known venomous snakes in that location. They weren’t surprised it was an Eastern Brown. The quick onset of symptoms was a giveaway. I was very lucky. It took several doses of anti-venom, and I did almost die. These muddy devils are responsible for more snake bite deaths in Australia than any other snakes. I’ll never forget that experience, and I’m in no rush to get back to the outback!

7. What fact in paragraph 7 shows the reader how lucky she was to survive?

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ARTICLE: THE HERO OF THE DAY...IS A STRAY!

WORDS OF THE WEEK Do you know what these words mean?

A farmer trapped under her quad bike was rescued by a stray dog.

Follow the look-cover-write-check method to practise these spellings.

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Read the article and then answer the comprehension questions which follow.

Strategy / strategies to help remember

opportunity

Double-P, pronounce as spelt

persuade

Break it up: Per-su-ade (little Su likes lemonADE).

queue

Sound out letters Q-UE-UE

queueing

Sound out letters Q-UE-UE-I-N-G; note that the alternative (US?) spelling QUEUING is not acceptable

quiet

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Louisa North of Salisbury was touring her farm yard on a quad bike at around 2pm on Thursday. Having lived here most of her life, Louisa knew the grounds like the back of her hand, so she often threw caution to the wind. Unfortunately, overconfident Louisa took a sharp corner too quickly and the quad bike rolled, pinning her to the ground by her leg.

‘It was ridiculous,’ she reports, ‘I thought I’d be there until dusk. It was then I’d be missed.

I was suffering, I really was. My leg felt as if it had been crushed and I was worried about losing consciousness.’

Then a very peculiar thing happened. A stray dog approached the quad bike to find out what was going on. She sniffed around, and nuzzled Louisa.

persuade queue queueing quiet

APOSTROPHES

DESCRIBING

Add the correct apostrophes to the sentences below.

(There are ten missing apostrophes).

Write a short paragraph about the last school trip that you went on.

The class didnt go on the schools trip to the zoo because the school hadnt ordered the company buses. However, the next days activities proceeded as planned. At the bus stop, before entering the zoos gates, the teacher said that students shouldnt fool around, but that they must write down the animals habits. He would mark the pupils notebooks. The students attitude was positive. At the days end, the teacher felt that the childrens behaviour and discipline had been excellent.

‘I didn’t really know how to respond. She could have attacked me if she’d wanted to.

What could I have done about it? I was completely immobilised.’ Fortunately for Louisa, the dog was not aggressive. The Cocker Spaniel was affectionate, and started to lick Louisa. After detecting she was in trouble, the stray began to bark. She ran around the quad bike, continuing to bark. She did this for twenty minutes.

The ferocious barking drew in some ramblers. One of the ramblers, Christine Morris, describes the experience. ‘The dog had been making quite a racket as we drew nearer to the field. Obviously, from a distance, we had no idea what it was doing. It was running around a quad bike, but we could not see the young lady pinned underneath it. I suggested we investigated, but it wasn’t an appealing idea. We didn’t know how safe it was. This dog could be dangerous for all we knew. Being a dog owner myself, I advised my companions not to look at the dog in case it interpreted as a threat. We slowly approached the quad while the dog continued to circle it, clearly trying to communicate with us. As we got nearer to the quad, we realised what it was trying to tell us. Someone was trapped there.

After contacting air ambulance, Louisa was airlifted, taken to hospital, and the surgeons worked for on her leg long into the night. After these events, Louisa decided to adopt the dog. ‘No question the dog saved my life. If she hadn’t have called over the ramblers, I could have bled to death. Miraculously, the surgeons saved my legs too. That dog is a true hero. Without her assistance, I’d have lost everything.’

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1. In the first paragraph, what impression are we given of Louisa?

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WORDS OF THE WEEK Do you know what these words mean?

Follow the look-cover-write-check method to practise these spellings.

2. In the second paragraph, when does Louisa think she will be rescued?

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3. In paragraph 3, what unexpected thing happens?

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quite

Pronounce as one syllable to differentiate it from quiet.

receive

I before E (except after C) where the sound is “EE”.

separate

There is “A RAT” in “SEPARATE” or the R separates the two ‘A’s.

sincerely

-LY because only names end in -LEY.

surprised

Pronounce as spelt (making first R clear)

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quite receive

4. In paragraph 4, how does the dog show great intelligence?

separate sincerely surprised

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5. In Paragraph 5, can you work out what ‘ramblers’ are?

Complete the following ten sentences with the spellings you have learned this summer.

6. In Paragraph 6, what crucial advice does Christine give to the other ramblers?

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It is better to start at the _____________ of a book rather than at the end!

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Over the holidays, I stayed in some wonderful ______________________.

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I don’t _____________ her. She is not telling the truth.

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He started a very successful _____________ when he was younger and made a lot of

7. At the end of the article, what does Louisa decide to do with the dog?

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money.

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I am _____________ with my exam results. I think I could have done so much better.

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My new school looks great. I am not _____________ about starting there.

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I am going to _____________ Mum to cook my favourite food tonight!

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I hate _____________ for the rides at Alton Towers.

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When helping my mum with the washing, I _____________ the white clothes from the

coloured clothes.

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I was _____________ by my birthday presents this year. I hadn’t expected everyone to

be so generous.

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DIARY ENTRY Choose an event from your summer holiday. This could be a visit to a theme park, an historical sight, a beach or a memorable, fun day at home. As you write your entry, it can be very easy to focus only on events, but you should really try to get across your thoughts and feelings during the experience. Use the planning sheet before writing about your chosen event.

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What happened? Describe sights and sounds.

How did you feel? Prepare a range of words to express this. Use a thesaurus to help.

What were you thinking about as it happened? Did you learn anything? Did anything worry you? What did you think at the end?

Now, the experienced is finished, how do you think and feel looking back on it?

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READING LIST

READING LOG

These books are age appropriate and offer varying levels of challenge. They are available to purchase, and will also be available from your local library. Before reading, it is worth reading the blurb online to ensure that it is to your taste.

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Please use the following reading log to record the books you enjoy over the Summer break. The final column, ‘Your thoughts’, allows you to record what you thought of the plot and the characters. You could even rate the book out of ten in this column, but please provide a reason why you feel this way.

Watership Down, Richard Adams

Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

The Goldfish Boy, Lisa Thompson

The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff

The Island at the End of Everything, Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Cay, Theodore Taylor

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken Peter Pan, JM Barrie The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper Wolf, Gillian Cross Some Places More Than Others, Renée Watson

The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White Raptor, Paul Zindel The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Framed – The Perfect Crime, Frank CottrellBoyce

Across the Barricades, Joan Lingard

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman The Garbage King, Elizabeth Laird The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Tug of War, Catherine Forde

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

War Horse, Michael Morpurgo

The Box of Delights, John Masefield

Stone Cold, Robert Swindells

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

The Northern Lights, Philip Pullman

Holes, Louis Sachar

The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman

Twelve Minutes to Midnight, Christopher Edge

The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman The Indian in the Cupboard trilogy, Lynne Reid Banks

YOUR THOUGHTS?

Blitzcat, Robert Westall

The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle

FICTION / NON-FICTION?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Pig Heart Boy, Malorie Blackman

Minders, Diana Hendry

BOOK NAME & AUTHOR

Cue for Treason, Geoffrey Teaser

The Seeing Stone, Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner

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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair, Nicholas Fisk

The Indian in the Cupboard trilogy, Lynne Reid Banks

Access to online books: www.readon.myon.co.uk (Renaissance Learning Catalogue)

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ANSWERS WEEK 1 1 2 3 4 5

“Leave the room immediately!”

Roses are red.

We have a lot of trees in our garden; they provide plenty of shade.

They wanted to know when we would visit them again.

John, who was injured, was taken to the hospital.

WEEK 2 1 2 3 4 5

Simon Cowell has had a very successful career in television.

Tough training had finally paid off. The athlete achieved his goals.

It was immediately apparent that this was going to be a tough job.

Sarah knocked over the food in the baked bean aisle and then complained.

John, who was injured, was taken to the hospital.

Try to GUESS what the word means first and then LOOK IT UP in a dictionary.

OMISSION: Someone or something that has been left out or excluded.

EVIDENTLY: In a way that is clearly seen or understood.

CEASED: Come or bring to an end.

PORTMANTEAU: A large travelling bag.

TRESTLE: A framework to support a tabletop.

Number 13 Extract 1.

Golden Lion 2.

A card game that you can play alone. The aim is to make four piles of cards, one

for each suit, sorted into order by the numbers on the cards.

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Number 13 has been omitted from the hotel room board, but Anderson is aware

that it does exist.

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He could hear footsteps and voices, or a voice.

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This suggests that the person in the room knows that someone (in this case,

Anderson) is at the door.

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His room seems smaller now than when he had accepted it.

7.

The portmanteau has disappeared.

WEEK 3 Try to GUESS what the word means first and then LOOK IT UP in a dictionary.

COPPICE: An area of woodland in which the trees are periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth HEATH: An area of uncultivated open land.

ANEMONES: A plant of the buttercup family which typically has brightly coloured flowers and deeply divided leaves.

BROODS: A family of birds CANTERING: The pace of a horse.

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The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling 1.

The road was shut seventy years ago, and the weather has ‘undone’ it.

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All the trees and plants have grown where it used to be.

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The ring-dove family and badgers are ‘at ease.’/ Otters whistles for mates (and

do not fear men because they see so few)/ Trout swim around pools.

4. Horseback 5.

No, as there is no longer a road.

6.

It is spooky because you are hearing the sounds of a time long past. The

cantering horse, the swish of a skirt. These could be ghosts, or memories. The

‘misty solitude’ is also quite spooky.

WEEK 4 Vocabulary Builder Accident-prone Wide-eyed Sugar-free Man-eating Bad-tempered Good-looking Open-mouthed Quick-thinking

Slippery Devils 1.

The outback.

2.

Helicopters to keep their eyes on stock; four-wheel

drives, ‘Utes’.

3.

On the lookout/watchful 4.

Protective footwear/ she is wearing flip flops.

5. ‘Malevolent.’

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Compares to her mum’s brownies.

7.

Eastern Browns are responsible for more snake bite

deaths in Australia than any other species.

WEEK 5 The class didn’t go on the school’s trip to the zoo because the school hadn’t ordered the company buses. However, the next day’s activities proceeded as planned. At the bus stop, before entering the zoo’s gates, the teacher said that students shouldn’t fool around, but that they must write down the animals’ habits. He would mark the pupils’ notebooks. The students’ attitude was positive. At the end of the day, the teacher felt that the children’s behaviour and discipline had been excellent.

Stray saves the day!

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Overconfident/took unnecessary risks/experienced 2.

At dusk.

3.

A dog comes to investigate.

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The dog ran around the quad, barking.

5.

A person who walks in the countryside for pleasure.

6.

She advises them all not to look directly at the dog as that will come across as a threat.

7.

She says she will give the dog a home.

WEEK 6 Spelling Test 1. Beginning 2. Accommodation 3. Believe 4. Business

5. Disappointed 6. Nervous 7. Persuade 8. Queueing

9. Separate 10. Surprised

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