Ang Mo Kio Primary School

Unit 5 STELLAR PRIMARY 3 TERM 2

The Gruffalo

______Ang Mo Kio Primary School UNIT 5 - THE GRUFFALO

Suggested Theme: Bravery

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VOCABULARY New Words Gruffalo, logpile, prickles, treetop, tusks, underground, wart

Simile quick as the wind

Expressions Oh crumbs! Oh dear! Oh help!

GRAMMAR Nouns crumble as adjectives: owl ice cream, gruffalo crumble Adjectives fearless/scared, hungry/full, menacing/harmless, tired/rested, from verbs: turned-out comparative: scary,scarier,scariest Verbs speed/sped, flee/fled, fly/flew contractions don’t, didn’t, I’m Time/Tense/Aspect If (conditional) Preposition Position – in/out, up/down, over/under Pronouns he for animals in an animal story, everyone/ no one

SENTENCE MANIPULATION Sentence Structure Use of connector 'but' to combine two sentences

Parent's signature: ______Date: ______

Ang Mo Kio Primary School UNIT 5 - THE GRUFFALO

Theme: Bravery

Song for Tuning-in (Tune: If you’re happy and you know it)

I’m going to have tea with Gruffalo! (Gruffalo!)

He has such terrible tusks.

He has such terrible claws.

He has such terrible teeth,

In his jaws!

I’m going to have tea with Gruffalo! (Gruffalo!)

He has eyes that are orange,

And a tongue that is black.

He has many purple prickles

On his back!

Date: ______LEARNING SHEET LS5.1

Read the letter the mouse wrote to his grandmother. Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the box. Use each word only once. wart gruffalo prickles treetop logpile underground Dear Granny,

I’m writing to say sorry for not listening to you the other day. This is what happened to me that day. Sometime after I left your house, I felt very hungry. So, I decided to look for something to eat in the forest.

First, I met a fox coming from its 1) ______house.

He invited me to tea! I knew that he wanted to eat me. A snake even came from its 2) ______house to lure me to its home.

Then, I met an owl perched on its 3) ______house. I tricked them by saying that I was having a feast with a terrible

4) ______that would eat them. They believed me!

Oh crumbs! Little did I realise that there was a real gruffalo in the forest!! It was huge and ugly! It had sharp 5) ______on its body and a lumpy 6) ______on his nose. I knew I would never see you again. I thought that would be the end of me. Then, I had a great idea! I tricked him into thinking that I was the scariest animal in the forest and I escaped.

Oh dear! I need to go. I’ll write again some other time. Don’t worry about me. I’m going to be just fine.

Part 1: Underline the correct similes in the sentences below.

1. Fast as ( light, lighting), Owl flew away.

2. Slippery as (an eel, a banana) , Snake slithered into his house.

3. Fierce as (a mouse, a lion), Sally confronted the class bully.

4. Sly as (a dog, a fox). Mouse outwitted the Gruffalo.

Part 2: Choose a suitable word below to complete each simile that describes the mouse or the gruffalo, e.g., Quick as the wind, the gruffalo turned and fled.

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5. Hungry as a ______, the mouse ate the nut.

6. Lonely as a ______, the gruffalo sat crying for a friend.

7. Big as a ______, the gruffalo squeezed itself through the door.

8. Smart as a ______, the mouse got the animals to believe that he was the scariest animal in the forest.

Fill in the blanks with the past tense of the irregular verbs in the brackets.

Our group created a monster and named him Quackerdino.

We 1) ______(draw) our monster and 2) ______

(write) a story about him.

Quackerdino was a very playful creature. His master

4) ______(has) to make a huge cage and put him there.

Quackerdino 5) ______(break) loose and escaped.

A group of boys 6) ______(see) him sleeping under a big shady tree. The police arrived and 7) ______(take) him away. They 8) ______(think) he was a dangerous creature.

The boys 9) ______(feel) sorry for him. Quackerdino

10) ______(cry) and waved sadly at them.

That is the end of our story.

Written and illustrated by: Shaun, Liana and Priya Red Group

Underline the adjective in each sentence that is often used as a noun. The first one is done for you.

1. Please do not eat that. It’s cat food!

2. Be careful with the fruit knife. It is very sharp.

3. The little girl wipes her runny nose with paper towels.

4. My father gave me a mountain bike for my birthday.

5. I need a glue stick for my Art and Craft lesson.

6. Apple juice is a healthy drink. I drink it everyday.

7. The boys enjoy going for a football game on Sunday.

8. We will prepare fruit salad for the guests.

9. The sea animals are dying because of the pollution.

10. We need garbage bags to dispose of the rubbish.

11. They put the picture frames on the cupboard.

12. The pupils are playing in the computer room.

Snake, Owl and Fox met and had a conversation. Choose the correct adjectives in the brackets to complete the story. Snake: What do you think of Mr Gruffalo? Isn’t he ______? (scary, scarier, scariest)

Owl: Oh yes! He is the ______creature I’ve ever seen! (ugly, uglier, ugliest)

Fox: Come to think of it, the little mouse is a ______animal. (smart, smarter, smartest)

Owl: He is the ______animal but we believed him! (small, smaller, smallest)

Snake: I’m sure he is the ______mouse now. I saw him walking past with a nut in his hands. (happy, happier, happiest)

Fox: I think we are the ______animals of all! (silly, sillier, silliest)

Snake: I’m feeling ______now. What shall we do? (hungry, hungrier, hungriest)

Owl: Looks like we have to go hunting now.

Date: ______LEARNING SHEET LS 5.7

Visual Text Comprehension

Ang Mo Kio Primary School UNIT 5 - THE GRUFFALO Study the programme highlights of four television channels and answer the questions. Channel 70 - Discovery Health 6.00 a.m. A baby's Story 6.30 a.m. Important Muscles 7.30 a.m. Living Pulse: Heart 9.30 a.m. Fitness Fantasy 10.30 a.m. All About Blood 12.00 p.m. No transmission

Channel 22 - Super Sports 12.00 p.m. Golf Magazine 1.30 p.m. Sports Magazine 3.00 p.m. Table Tennis 5.00 p.m. Formula One Racing 8.00 p.m. Cycling 9.30 p.m. Sports Magazine 11.00 p.m. No transmission

Channel 35 - Central Kids 10.30 a.m. Spiderman 11.30 a.m. Oswald 12.00 p.m. Cramp Twins 12.30 p.m. Lizzie Meguire 1.00 p.m. Sesame Street 1.30 p.m. Dan Dare 2.30 p.m. Railway Stories 3.30 p.m. Powerpuff Girls Choose the correct answer and write its number 4.00 p.m. Bayblade (1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided. 4.30 p.m. Urakay's Farm 5.00 p.m. Fimbles 1. Raji is in kindergarten. The programmes on 5.30 p.m. Modern Life Channel ______are the most suitable 6.00 p.m. No transmission for her.

(1) 22 (2) 35 (3) 43 (4) 70 ( )

Ang Mo Kio Primary School UNIT 5 - THE GRUFFALO 2. Ahmad's favourite sports programme starts at 5.00 p.m. He is interested in ______.

(1) golf (2) cycling (3) table tennis (4) Formula One Racing ( )

3. Mrs Wong always makes sure she watches ______which starts at 7.00 p.m. before leaving for work at 7.30 p.m.

(1) Cycling (2) Living Pulse (3) Hidden Truths (4) Variety Tonight ( )

4. Jason missed watching Sports Magazine at 1.30 p.m. He can catch it again at ______.

(1) 2.00 p.m. (2) 5.00 p.m. (3) 9.30 p.m. (4) 10.00 p.m. ( )

5. The programme ______is about working women in Asia.

(1) Hidden Truths (2) Star Charades (3) Asia has It All (4) Second Chances ( )

LEARNING SHEET LS 5.8 Date: ______

Vocabulary MCQ Choose the correct answer and write its number (1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided.

1. The pen has run out of ______. I can't write with it anymore. (1) ink (2) fuel (3) lead (4) paper ( )

2. Tim and Samy were very ______. Only the two of them noticed the mistake in the passage. (1) obvious (2) obliging (3) oblivious (4) observant ( )

3. Rachel has rosy cheeks. She looks very ______. (1) pale (2) sick (3) weak (4) healthy ( )

4. We laughed in ______at the sight of the adorable puppy. (1) anger (2) delight (3) despair (4) irritation ( )

5. Roger carried the drinks out for the guests on a huge ______. (1) tray (2) dish (3) mug (4) plate ( )

Date: ______LEARNING SHEET LS 5.9

Grammar Cloze Read the passage carefully. Choose the correct word from the words given in the box and write its letter (A to H) in each blank. Use each word once only.

(A) after (B) in (C) into (D) of (E) on (F) to (G) under (H) up

Ang Mo Kio Primary School UNIT 5 - THE GRUFFALO Glen and Kunal are best friends. They always go to school and return home together. Last

Tuesday, (21) ______school, they were walking home together as usual. They saw a green wallet (22) ______the road. Kumal picked it up and checked its contents.

There were at least ninety dollars and a few credit cards (23) ______the wallet. The boys did not know what to do. At first, they thought (24) ______keeping the money for themselves. However, after some serious thinking, they decided to hand over the wallet

(25) ______the police immediately.

(A) breath (B) breathe (C) breathing (D) can breathe (E) is breathing (F) to breathe

AnimalsMandy have was very only different about two ways years of (26) old ______.when she developed Most fish a(27) very ______high fever. through theirMandy gills. became the gills seriously are usually ill. Her covered illness by finally a gill made cover. Mandy A whale deaf usesand itsblind. blowhole Upon (28)

______.realising this,Humans, her parents on the were other heartbroken. hand, (29) ______with our nose and mouth. However, taking in airMandy's through parents our mouth found is itnot very healthy. difficult If oneto communicate is always short with of her.(30) Over ______the years, it would be advisablethey consulted to consult many a doctorsdoctor. to try and find a way to help her. Finally, they managed to contact a Special Needs school. The school arranged for a young teacher called Miss

Kelly to go to Mandy's house to be her teacher.

Patiently, Miss Kelly taught Mandy to read. Mandy began to learn to read books

that were written in Braille - a special system used by the blind all around the world. LEARNING SHEET LS 5.10 Date: ______By the time Mandy was seventeen years old, she decided to go to a teaching Comprehension Open-ended Readschool the passageso that she carefully could learnand answerhow to thehelp questions others who that could follow. not see and hear like her. She wanted to show people that the blind and deaf could also learn and work, as well as

make a difference in other people's lives. Miss Kelly and her parents were very proud of

1) What was the illness that Mandy had that made her deaf and blind?

______

2) Who was Miss Kelly?

Ang Mo Kio Primary School UNIT 5 - THE GRUFFALO ______

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3) Which word in the first paragraph means “feeling sad”?

4) Write down the phrase in the second paragraph which tells you that it took a long time for Mandy’s parents to find a solution to help her.

5) What system do the blind use to read?

______

For Question 6 – 8, read each statement and tick √ “True” or “False”. The first example has been done for you.

Statement True False Example  It was difficult to communicate with Mandy.

6. Mandy became blind and deaf when she was

seventeen years old.

7. Mandy learnt to read at a Special Needs school.

8. Mandy’s parents wanted her to become a teacher. LEARNING SHEET LS 5.11

For each of the questions, rewrite the given sentence(s) using the word(s) provided. Your answer must be in one sentence. The meaning of your sentence must be the same as the given one(s).

1. I went home late. My mother did not scold me.

Ang Mo Kio Primary School UNIT 5 - THE GRUFFALO ______but

______.

2. Tom sang very well. Tom did not win the competition.

______but

______.

3. Jill was injured. Jill managed to finish the race.

______but

______.

4. The blouse is cheap. No one wants to buy the blouse.

______but

______.

5. Nicky fell down the stairs. Nicky was not injured.

______but

______.

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