Kwaggasrand School Year 2 English: First Additional Language Week 4 Term 2 Dear Year 2 learner, This document contains the work for Week 4 Term 2.
The work consists of 4 sections namely: 1. Listening and Speaking 2. Reading and Viewing 3. Writing and Presenting 4. Language Structure and Conventions
Remember the following:
Complete all the activities/answers in a separate book or on a sheet of paper. Write the heading, week and date for every activity you do e.g.
Listening and Speaking Week 4 4 May 2020
Your parents/guardians are allowed to help and guide you should you struggle, but you need to complete the work yourself. Please bring along all completed work when the school reopens again. Good luck and just try your best! Stay safe!
Regards Ms. Z. Esterhuyse
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Listening and Speaking Discuss the invention of sewing machines with a parent/guardian. Understand and use new vocabulary (page 4) Answer questions orally (page 4)
Sewing machine, any of various machines for stitching material (such as cloth or leather), usually having a needle and shuttle to carry thread and powered by treadle, waterpower, or electricity. It was the first widely distributed mechanical home appliance and has been an important industrial machine.
Detail of contemporary sewing machine parts: needle, needle bar, presser foot, feed dog, bobbin case, shuttle (loop taker), machine bed, and plate.
An early sewing machine was designed and manufactured by BarthélemyThimonnier of France, who received a patent for it by the French government in 1830, to mass-produce uniforms for the French army, but some 200 rioting tailors, who feared that the invention would ruin their businesses, destroyed the machines in 1831. Thimonnier’s design, in any event, merely mechanized the hand-sewing operation. A decisive improvement was embodied in a sewing machine built by Walter Hunt of New York City about 1832–34, which was never patented, and independently by Elias Howe of Spencer, Massachusetts, patented in 1846. In both machines a curved eye-pointed needle moved in an arc as it carried the thread through the fabric, on the other side of which it interlocked with a second thread carried by a shuttle running back and forth on a track. Howe’s highly successful machine was widely copied, leading to extensive patent litigation and ultimately to a patent pool that included the design of Isaac Merritt Singer, the largest manufacturer. In 1860 more than 110,000 sewing machines were produced in the United States alone.
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BarthélemyThimonnier, portrait from Sewing machine, invented by Elias Howe, Le Petit Journal Supplement Illustre, 1907. illustrated on a cigarette card, 1915.
Although modern sewing machine designs have proliferated in an enormous variety, mostly for special industrial purposes, the basic operation remains unchanged. Modern machines are commonly powered by an electric motor, but the foot-treadle machine is still in wide use in much of the world. The world’s largest producer is China. Japan’s industry pioneered the versatile zigzag machine.
Vintage Singer foot-treadle sewing machine.
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New vocabulary
Word Explanation
Entire with no part left out; whole. (heel) Flickering (of a flame or light) burning or shining unsteadily; wavering (flikkerende) Instruments a tool or implement, especially one for precision work. (instrument) Quit leave (a place), usually permanently. (laat vaar) make (something) completely free from faults or defects; make as good as Perfected (volmaak) possible. Imitating take or follow as a model. (navolg)
Questions (orally)
1. Have you ever operated a sewing machine?
2. If yes, what did you make?
3. Do your parents or grandparents own a sewing machine?
4. Do you know somebody that makes clothes?
5. Do you think sewing machines are useful?
6. Give a reason for you answer.
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Reading, Viewing and Phonics Read the invention info text about sewing machines to a parent/guardian twice. Let them help you with the pronunciation of difficult words.
Activity 1: Find five difficult words and find the meaning in the dictionary. Write down the word and meaning in your separate book or on a sheet of paper.
Word Dictionary meaning
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5 Kwaggasrand School Year 2 English: First Additional Language Week 4 Term 2 Writing and Presenting Activity 1: Read the information text about sewing machines on page 2 - 3 and answer the following multiple choice questions. Write the question and answer in your separate book or on a sheet of paper.
1. An early sewing machine was designed and manufactured by:
a. Merritt Singer b. Barthelemy Thimonnier c. Elias Howe
2. They made uniforms for the
a. School b. Doctors c. Army
3. In which year was the machines destroyed?
a. 1830 b. 1846 c. 1860
4. Where did Walter Hunt live?
a. Spencer b. New York c. France
5. How many sewing machines were produced in the United States?
a. 110 000 b. 120 000 c. 90 000
6. Who is the world’s largest producer of sewing machines?
a. Japan b. South Africa c. China
7. Fill in the missing words
______industry pioneered the versatile ______machine.
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Language Structure and Conventions STUDY these abbreviations
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Language Structure and Conventions Abbreviations
Activity 1: Match the words in column A with their abbreviation in column B. Write the word and abbreviation next to one another in your separate book or on a sheet of paper. Example: January Jan.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
1 January A Fri.
2 Monday B Mar.
3 April C Thurs.
4 Saturday D Sun.
5 Tuesday E Jan.
6 December F Sept.
7 October G Wed.
8 Thursday H Nov.
9 February I Apr.
10 Wednesday J Mon.
11 March K Sat.
12 August L Tues.
13 Sunday M Feb.
14 Friday N Aug.
15 September O Dec.
16 November P Oct.
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