Working on Happy

Fanny is still sick. We will have to wait until after Easter for her seminar.

Today we are going to work on with our " Happy" texts.

For those of you who were absent last week- you need to get hold of your "Happy" text book.

Choose a text and quickly do the 15 word exercise on the worksheet. Here was mine:

Happy- Year 8 Word Study

Text of your choice

Name…Mike…  Text……Having your own car

Explain what the word means in English (5 words)

	Word	Explanation in English
1	Chrome	Shiny metal used a lot in cars
2	Luxury	An unnecessary thing which is very expensive
3	Brother	A male sibling
4	Second-hand	Not new
5	Foreign	From another country

Find  opposites of the word (5 words)

1. Expensive- cheap

2. Beautiful- ugly

3. Started- finished

4. luxury- necessity

5. earn- spend

Find  synonyms [with same meaning] of the word (5 words)

1. big-large

2. cost- price

3. smart- tidy

4. pocket money- allowance

5. qualified- certified

P.S. You have to choose another text than this one!!

When you are done.. do an exercise based on your text using a mixture of the following things:

It will consist of 15 questions (like today) and you can choose and mix between any of the following exercises:

1. True/false questions

2. Comprehension questions with a question word (who, where, when, how, what, why? )

3. Matching exercise

4. Synonyms.. Find a word in the text which means the same as........

5. A crossword with clues (ledtrådar) in English. 

6. Multiple choice questions.

Here is mine:

Having your own car                             Mike

Happy 8

Please answer the following questions

Choose the correct answer:

1) Kevin bought his car                  a) Himself

                                                      b) with a loan from a company

                                                      c) with a loan from a company and his parents

                                                      d) and paid with cash

2) The text makes it clear that Sharon  a) has older siblings and parents

                                                            b) has younger brothers

                                                            c) has family members who don’t drive

                                                            d) has older sisters

3) Without the car Sharon would   a) take the bus

                                                      b) get lifts from her parents

                                                      c) not get anywhere

                                                      d) depend on lifts from guys

Having your own car

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Across 2. you hold this when you drive 3. rely on something or someone 4. They give you jobs 6. to be able to pay

Down 1. famous kind of American car 5. American English word for petrol

1. In California you can drive a car from the age of 15   True/False

2. People are impressed when Nathalie turns up in her Thunderbird          True/False

3. Kevin has started his own business                              True/False

4. Sharon has been driving alone for two years             True/False

Questions with question words

1. Which of the three people is the oldest- Sharon, Nathalie or Kevin?

2. For how many of the three young people is the car really only a luxury?

You have to choose another text!!

Done?

Get going on the exercises your classmates have done.

Complete and give them back to them for marking! 

On Wednesday hopefully Conor will have his seminar. You will have a supply teacher and we English teachers will be marking the national test