Text for Scotland S1 Teacher Guide

Text for Scotland S1 Teacher Guide Unit 4 Our world 4 Our world Answers 1 Cultures of Scotland Student Book pages 84–85 Activity 1 Scottish Standard English Standard English I need to get some messages. I have some shopping to do. I have a sore pinkie. My little finger hurts. The kettle needs filled. The kettle needs fillings. I stay in Edinburgh. I live in Edinburgh. Special uplifts. Special collections. I’ll get you home. I’ll take you home. They’ll not come. They won’t come. Activity 2 1 Three words which are not Scots words: xcited - excited slebrity - celebrity parlymint – parliament

2 Ken, boof, prade, marchtay, nextay, barandlounge, weepolitevoice

2 Scots language in the north east Student Book pages 86–87 Activity 1 1 Verse 1 = D Verse 2 = G Verse 3 = C Verse 4 = F Verse 5 = B Verse 6 = H Verse 7 = A Verse 8 = E Activity 2

Word from poem Definition toddy whisky greetin’ crying heelster gowdy head over heels

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ashet dish girnin’ groaning skirlin screeching rummelin’ rumbling tatties potatoes

3 Shetlandic Scots Student Book pages 88–89 Activity 1 2 Word from Ice Floe online Glossary definition scrit write eence once dirl zing uncans news vaege journey birl dance starns stars Mirry-dancers aurora borealis lift sky sheeksin blethering rummel topple bigg build

Activity 2 1 Across the sea by boat. 2 Email or msn messenger because she says ‘our words dance off satellites and stars’ which could refer to the internet. She is not thinking of the telephone because the poem says ‘We write our words’ rather than speak them. 3 dance, leap and twirl, crackle like aurora borealis / birl, dirlin’, loup an tirl, crackle like mirry- dancers

4 Identifying main ideas Student Book pages 90–91 Activity 1 a The boy had been kicking him in class. b An older boy shouted at them to stop fighting.

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c Ralph’s father was sad that he had been fighting; he asked him not to get into any more trouble.

Agree or diagree Evidence 1 Ralph won the fight disagree ‘I had lost the battle’ 2 Ralph was right to agree ‘I was never attacked again…I fight the bully had done something to weaken the myth’ 3 Some of those agree ‘Someone had picked up my watching the fight glasses and now gave them to supported Ralph me’ 4 Ralph’s father was disagree ‘father spoke more in sadness angry that his son had than to chide me’ been fighting

Knowledge about language: Parts of a sentence 1  A boy (subject) at the school bullied (verb) Ralph (object) for being (verb) Jewish.  Ralph (subject) fought (verb) the boy (object) who had picked (verb) on him.

5 Narrative techniques Student Book page 92-93 Activity 1 1 He uses first person – ‘I thought I could not stand up much longer’. 2 It makes it clear that it is a true story and shows how he was feeling at the time. 3 He is talking to Ralph and it is not in the first person, He also uses more standard English. He uses the word ‘Goy’ whereas Ralph says ‘none of them Jews’. 4 The difference in the language chosen is because Ralph was brought up in Glasgow but his father was from Lithuania.

Activity 3 1 Building sites had signs saying ‘No Irish Need Apply’ and adverts for maids in London said ‘No Catholics.’ 2 She gets angry when her customers assume that she supports Celtic football team just because she is Irish. 3 No because he says ‘Those days are gone, Mother’. 4 She stills thinks there is discrimination today because when Joe’s father says ‘It’s the past now’, she replies ‘Is it?’

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Activity 4 1 The author can show the story from different viewpoints and what the characters are thinking by writing in the third person. 2 ‘It really gets to me the way some people feel free to make remarks about the size of your family and actually believe you might sympathize with child-murdering terrorists,’ I had heard my Aunt Kathleen ranting on to my father one day. 3 He’d know straight away that I wasn’t a Catholic.’

6 Organising ideas Student Book page 94 Activity 1 2 A, E, C, B, D 3

Assessment task: Reading Activity: Close reading From Greenland to Scotland Student Book pages 95–97 1 ‘bore long furrows as if a giant tiger had raked it with its claws’ – this helps the reader to picture the shape and appearance of the rock.

2 This means the mountains and rocks which are bare and don’t have any plants or trees on them.

3  Reverend James Wallace says a fin-man was seen rowing by the Orkney Islands in 1682.  In 1760, Francis Gatrell saw a canoe in the River Don in Aberdeen with a man in it ‘who was all over hairy and spoke a language which no person could interpret’.  The kayak can be seen today in the Anthropological Museum of Aberdeen University.

The last point is the most convincing as it is evidence that can be compared to other kayaks from Greenland and it does not rely on word-of-mouth evidence.

4  ‘Speculated’ means they considered the options. You can tell this because they give different possibilities of how someone could get all the way from Greenland in a kayak.  ‘This’ refers to how someone could paddle all the way from Greenland.  The rest of the paragraph follows from the topic sentence by going on to show the different speculations they made about how Eskimo’s might have arrived (or not) in Scotland.

5 That the Inuits that reached Scotland made it back to Greenland. In the paragraph reasons are given as to why it is unlikely that they didn’t make it back.

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6 She finds it surprising because she says that she needs a break from paddling after two or three hours – therefore, how could anyone paddle all the way from Greenland?

7  They could have drifted off course and then rested on icebergs in mid ocean.  Dutch and Scandinavian whalers and traders may have kidnapped them – so the sightings may have been of Eskimo’s trying to escape their kidnappers.  It is most likely that they drifted off track because if they had been kidnapped we would probably have records from the whalers saying that they had seen the Eskimos.

8 ‘oral tradition’ means stories and records that have been passed on from generation to generation by word of mouth. You can tell this because the text says ‘there are no tales of this kind.’

9 They would be weak from the journey there, and they would be paddling back against the wind and current.

7 Giving your views Student Book pages 98-99 Activity 1 2 To show that she has a Scottish accent. 4 She is saying that she doesn’t care because she likes both teams so doesn’t mind who wins. Activity 3 Cricket Knowledge about language: Connectives Connectives for comparing Connectives for contrasting Equally Whereas Similarly Alternatively Likewise Unlike In the same way On the other hand As with Instead of Like However Although

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8 Considering others’ views Student Book pages 100–101 Activity 1 2 She did not stop being Scottish because she was born in Scotland. You can tell that she still feels Scottish because she misses her old accent.

Activity 2 A variety of answers are possible and must be backed up by clear explanation.

9 Describing places Student Book pages 102–103 Activity 1 1 wild, raging, surging, helter-skelter, breaking, awash with continuous rain 2 Pacific means peace or tranquillity. You can tell this because it is contrasted with the storm that is raging now. 3 a b Halcyon means calm. How I can tell: because the halcyon interlude is described as ‘a sequence of mild, sun-filled days’. 4 In the poem on page 88, ‘merry dancers’ are referring to the aurora borealis or northern lights so Brown could be talking about this too.

Knowledge about language: Simile, metaphor and personification 1 ‘the trees are surging, and but for their roots would be up and off, helter-skelter!’ 2 ‘yelling of winds’ and ‘a moan and a snarl in the wrecking harbour waves.’ 3 The sun is skipping on the pavement; the breeze fanned the bathers below.

10 Imagery Student Book pages 104–105 Activity 1 2 Quotation Refers to What this suggests ‘voice of a kindly god’ The sound of water dripping Suggests that the sound of water is like having your prayers answered ‘rush of fortune’ A water pipe bursting ‘fortune’ suggests both that it is worth a lot to them and they are lucky this has happened

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‘silver crashes from the Water pouring from the burst Suggests both the colour of ground’ pipe onto the ground the water and how valuable it is ‘congregation’ A procession of people going to Suggests that fetching water is get water a religious act ‘blessing’ The water they are collecting Suggests that the water is as precious to them as a holy blessing

11 Fact and opinion Student Book pages 106-107

Activity 1 2 the cinema is call La Scala, it has a nineteenth-century sandstone castle on a hill and there is a joke shop

3 ‘It is never going to win any beauty contests’, it ‘has an especially fine river’ and the entire town is ‘ruined by two inanimate structures’.

4 the cinema, the market arcade, the castle, the river and the joke shop

5 He doesn’t like the two big buildings that are by the central bridge because they are ugly and waste the space by the river which would have had a good view otherwise.

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