Presented By: Miss.N.Naidoo

Pitlochry Primary School Educator

LESSON 12

ENGLISH

GRADE 5

Instructions

-Answer all questions in the space provided or on an exam pad page.

-Write neatly and legibly.

-Use the headings provided.

Listening and SpeakingGet someone to read the following to you and pay careful attention!

1. Explain the difference between myths and tall tales.

2. Discuss who are the characters in Legends?

3. What do Fables teach you?

Listening and speakingYou are going to listen to a story called Pecos Bill rides a tornado.

Text 1

QUESTIONS- TEXT 1Talk about these questions.

1. Which country is the setting of the story?

2. Who is telling the story? Pecos Bill or someone who claims to know Pecos Bill.

3. Which of these statements are real and which are real and which are unreal(exaggerated)?

3.1. Bill grabbed the tornado and jumped on its back.

3.2. The tornado whipped and whirled all the way to Texas.

3.3. The tornado picked up rivers and flattened the forests.

3.4. The tornado rained so much water that it washed out the Grand Canyon.

4. Choose three words that describes Pecos Bill.

5. Complete the sentence. This story is about ...

5.1. The story is told to teach us about tornados.

5.2. The story is told for fun.

5.3. The story teaches us not to exaggerate.

Reading and ViewingRead the following text carefully and answer the questions.

Text 2

Text 2 – Questions

1. Is there such a thing as a piebald bee in real life?

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2. Which is the first sentence in the story that tells you that this is going to be a

tall tale?

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3. How many silly things happen in this part of the story? Count them.

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4. Who is telling the story?

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5. Which words tell you that the story has a South African setting ?

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Reading and viewingRead the following text carefully and answer the questions.

Text 3

Text 3 – Questions

1. How many days did it take him to find the piebald bee?

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2. What did the farmer do to the bee?

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3. How far was the island from the bank?

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4. What fell and sank into the water?

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5. Are bees really good at swimming?

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6. Where did they choose to rest for the night?

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Writing Follow these steps to write a tall tale of your own about an incident from

your own life.

Remember to exaggerate!

Step 1 : Choose a proverb or idiom as your title.

Step 2 : Make the characters and the setting of your story believable but

remember to exaggerate the plot as much as possible.

Have fun: You do not have to stick with what is possible in real life.

Step 3: Write a rough copy of your story.

- Make sure that you use “I” when you write

(this is your story).

- Write about 140 -160 words

Step 4: Edit your story. Use this checklist

Writing

Use metaphors and similes when you write the description of a person. Follow these steps below.

Step 1: Plan who you will write about.

Step 2: think of adjectives to describe what the person looks like, sounds like and

how they move.

Step 3: Think of comparisons to describe the person: is he/she like a bouncy ball

etc.

Step 4: Write a rough draft and correct any mistakes before you write neatly

Nouns – countable/uncountable

Nouns can be either countable or uncountable.Countable Nouns are those that refer to something that can be counted. Countable nouns are individual people, animals, places, things, or ideas which can be counted. They have both singular and plural forms (e.g. cat/cats; woman/women;country/countries)

A smaller number of nouns do not typically refer to things that can be counted and so they do not regularly have a plural form. Uncountable nouns are not individual objects, so they cannot be counted.Examples include: rain, flour, earth, wine, or wood. Many abstract nouns are typically uncountable, e.g. happiness, truth, darkness, humour.

Examples of countable nouns:

1. There are at least twenty Italian restaurants in Little Italy.

2. Megan took a lot of photographs when she went to the Grand

Canyon.

3. Your book is on the kitchen table.

Examples of uncountable nouns:

1. You seem to have a high level of intelligence.

2. Please take good care of your equipment.

3. Let’s get rid of the garbage.

Activity 1- State whether the following are countable or uncountable nouns.

1. The children fell asleep quickly after a busy day of fun.

2. Be careful! The water is deep.

3. The parade included fire trucks and police cars.

4. We like the large bottles of mineral water.

5.My mother uses real butter in the cakes she bakes.

6.How many politicians does it take to pass a simple law?

7.Most kids like milk, but Joey hates it.

Verbs (Regular/Irregular)

A verb can be regular or irregular. Regular verbs form their past and past participle forms by adding –ed.

Examples are given below:(past) – (past participle)

Walk – walked – walkedDance – danced – dancedPaint – painted – painted

Irregular verbs form their past and past participle forms in different ways.There are mainly three types of irregular verbs.

Examples are given below: Verbs in which all the three forms are the same (e.g. put – put – put)

Verbs in which two of the three forms are the same (e.g. sit – sat – sat)Verbs in which all three forms are different (e.g. drink – drank – drunk)

Activity 2- Complete the following sentences using the past or past participle

form of the verb given in the brackets.

1. It has been ages since I last _________________________ him. (see)

2. The old man has ______________________ better days. (see)

3. The cat _________________________ all the milk. (drink)

4. The child has ____________________ all the milk. (drink)

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