Stay-At-Home RESOURCE PACK for YEAR 7
Stay-at-home RESOURCE PACK for YEAR 7
ADVENTURE
Illustration by Quentin Blake Material prepared by Ms Heather May Richard (Head of Department) Ms Miriam Theuma Xerri (Head of Department) P a g e 1 | 12
How to use this pack:
1. This pack is intended for Year 7 students and focuses on the theme of ADVENTURE.
2. Perhaps students could start by covering the Listening and Speaking Tasks first to prepare them for the Reading and Writing Tasks.
3. We encourage students to read for at least half an hour a day. You may wish to visit the following sites to have a look at titles of adventure books you may wish to read: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/booklists/1/100-best-12-14/ https://www.readbrightly.com/ages-stages/tween/action-adventure http://www.shortstoryguide.com/action-adventure-short-stories/
4. We hope you find this resource pack useful. Any suggestions or feedback would be appreciated. Kindly contact [email protected]; [email protected]; or [email protected]
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LISTENING Listen to a news broadcast about the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, non-stop and unassisted. If possible, get someone else to read the text to you aloud. The text can be found on pages 11-12. 1. Read the questions. 2. Listen to the text. You may answer any questions while listening. 3. Spend three minutes answering the questions. 4. Listen to the text again. 5. Spend three minutes answering the questions.
A. Underline the correct answer 1) Jessica Watson is a. a news reporter b. a town mayor c. a middle-aged sailor d. a teenage girl
2) The voyage lasted a. seven days b. seven weeks c. seven months d. seventeen months
3) Ella's Pink Lady is Jessica Watson’s a. mother b. yacht c. nickname d. supporter
4) On the day this news was broadcast Jessica arrived in a. Brisbane b. Cape Horn c. Sydney d. Queensland
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5) When she arrived Jessica was feeling a. slightly confused b. extremely tired c. really excited d. very shy
6) Jessica lives in a. Sydney b. North Brisbane c. New South Wales d. Southern Australia
7) The main problems Jessica had to face during her voyage were the a. blue whales b. glassy seas c. vast oceans d. huge storms
B. Match the number in the first column to the correct statement. The first one (a) has been done for you. a. 8 the length in metres of Jessica Watson’s yacht b. 18 Jessica Watson’s age c. 6 the date Jessica sailed out on her journey d. 16 a. Jessica’s age when she started sailing e. 9 the number of times her boat was knocked down in a storm
C. Fill in each blank with a word you hear in the passage. Jessica wrote a (1)______where she describes the best moments of her (2) ______, which included watching wonderful (3)______, spotting a blue (4) ______or a shooting (5)______across the (6)______sky.
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SPEAKING Imagine you were a news reporter and you were given the opportunity to ask Jessica Watson THREE questions. What would they be? If possible, get someone else to take on the role of Jessica Watson and ask them these questions. READING TEXT 1 Now read about Danny’s adventure in the wood in this extract from DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD by Roald Dahl and answer the questions below. I cannot possibly describe to you what it felt like to be standing alone in the pitchy blackness of that silent wood in the small hours of the night. The sense of loneliness was overwhelming, the silence was as deep as death, and the only sounds were the ones I made myself. I tried to keep absolutely still for as long as possible to see if I could hear 5 anything at all. I listened and listened. I held my breath and listened again. I had a queer feeling that the whole wood was listening with me, the trees and the bushes, the little animals hiding in the undergrowth and the birds roosting in the branches. All were listening. Even the silence was listening. Silence was listening to silence. I switched on the torch. A brilliant beam of light reached out ahead of me like a 10 long white arm. That was better. Now at any rate I could see where I was going. “Dad!” I shouted. “Dad! It’s Danny! Are you there?” I didn’t know which direction I was going in. I just went on walking and calling out, walking and calling; and each time I called, I would stop and listen. But no answer came. After a time, my voice began to go all trembly. I started to say silly things like, “Oh Dad, please tell me where you are! 15 Please answer me! Please, oh please . . .” And I knew that if I wasn’t careful, the sheer hopelessness of it all would get the better of me and I would simply give up and lie down under the trees. “Are you there, Dad? Are you there?” I shouted. “It’s Danny!” I stood still, listening, listening, listening, and in the silence that followed, I heard or thought I heard the 20 faint, but oh so faint, sound of a human voice. I froze and kept listening. Yes, there it was again. I ran towards the sound. “Dad!” I shouted. “It’s Danny! Where are you?” This time the answer came just loud enough for me to hear the words. “I’m here!” the voice called out. It was him! I was so excited my legs began to get all shaky. “Where are you, Danny?” my father called out. “I’m here, Dad! I’m coming.” With the beam of the 25 torch shining ahead of me, I ran towards the voice. The trees were bigger here and spaced farther apart. The ground was a carpet of brown leaves from last year and was good to run on. I didn’t call out any more after that. I simply dashed ahead. And all at once, his voice was right in front of me. “Stop, Danny, stop!” he shouted.
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1. Are these statements TRUE or FALSE? Tick () the correct box below. TRUE FALSE 1. The story is narrated in the first person. 2. Danny is lost in the wood. 3. Danny could hear birds singing. 4. At the end of the passage, Danny finally sees his father.
2. List THREE things Danny thinks are listening to him in the wood.
i. ______
ii. ______
iii. ______
3. Underline the correct answer in brackets. The word ‘trembly’ in line 13 means (terrible / scary / shaky). The word ‘faint’ in line 20 means (very weak, moderately weak, strong). The phrase ‘dashed ahead’ in line 27, it means that Danny ( walked towards / rushed onwards / jumped high).
LITERATURE QUESTION
Roald Dahl uses language in an artistic way to narrate Danny’s story. Look at the phrases/sentences from the text in the table below and match them to the correct figure of speech. b. simile Silence was listening to silence. (l.8) c. personification A brilliant beam of light reached out ahead of me like a long white arm. (l. 9-10) d. metaphor walking and calling out, walking and calling (l.12) e. repetition The ground was a carpet of brown leaves (l.26)
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READING TEXT 2 Now read the following extract from the novel THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien. Look at how Tolkien describes Bilbo’s experience in a dark tunnel. Pay close attention because you’ll soon be writing about being in a dark tunnel!
When Bilbo opened his eyes, he wondered if he had; for it was just as dark as with them shut. No one was anywhere near him. Just imagine his fright! He could hear nothing, see nothing, and he could feel nothing except the stone of the floor.
Very slowly, he got up and groped about on all fours, till he touched the wall of the tunnel; 5 but neither up nor down it could he find anything: nothing at all, no sign of goblins, no sign of dwarves. His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did 10 not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment. He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home – for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal of other; but that only made him more miserable.
15 He could not think what to do; nor could he think what had happened; or why he had been left behind; or why, if he had been left behind, the goblins had not caught him; or why even his head was so sore. The truth was he had been lying quiet, out of sight and out of mind, in a very dark corner for a long while.
1) How does the writer show that it was really dark in lines 1-4? ______
______
2) Look at lines 4-5. Find a word that means the same as ‘fumbled’.
______
3) Write down two examples of how we know that Bilbo is totally alone.
a. ______
b. ______
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4) Look at lines 7-9. Write down two words Tolkien uses to describe the ring Bilbo finds in the dark; a. ______
b. ______
5) Look at lines 11-12. Write down one word that shows Bilbo’s emotions. ______
6) Look at lines 12-14. What made Bilbo feel even more upset? ______
7) Look at lines 15-18. Write down an expression that shows that Bilbo was so quiet and unmoving that no one would be able to see him or even remember he existed. ______
WRITING Now it’s your turn to write a story. Imagine that you have fallen, accidentally, into a dark tunnel, like the one above. You fall quite a long way down and land – on what? What can you smell? What can you hear? Complete the following table to help you plan. Try to think of as many ideas as possible. What What do you What do you What do you What can you emotions do see? smell? hear? touch? you feel? crumbling silhouettes stagnant water drips of water earth of the fear tunnel
nothingness sweat
darkness like a
blanket
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Once you have completed the table of senses, you are ready to begin your story. You can use the following paragraph, to help you start …
My friends and I had been playing hide and seek for many hours in the fields behind our house. It was Emma’s turn to seek us out. Tim and I ran our separate ways and I decided to wade through the deep grass at the back of the field: exactly where my mother has told us many times, not to go…
In this paragraph: describe falling down into the tunnel describe how you walked through the tunnel. describe what you saw/heard/smelled/touched/tasted. finish with a sentence about how you might get out of the tunnel. You could use the following sentence to help you finish the paragraph:
As I was about to give up hope of ever getting out, I spotted a light burning through tree roots, which were hanging down into the tunnel.
For the next part of your story, imagine that you have come out of the tunnel only to realise that you are in a world you have never seen before. To help you describe this new world, think about what it will be like and what sort of animals/buildings/landscape you will find there. Next, draw a map of this new world you’ve discovered. Include: the tunnel you came out of four ‘obstacle areas’ (e.g. a burning well, a swamp marsh etc.) and a place for a ‘monster’ to hide, e.g. a cave, a skull island, a mountain.
Now start a new section of your story, describing this new, fantasy world you have discovered. You could use the following to help you: I managed to haul myself out of my dark prison. Immediately I was almost blinded by the light. This was no ordinary light and this was no ordinary place. I was no longer in the
fields and my friends were nowhere to be seen. I looked up into the silver sky and realised that it was moving; it was rippling quickly like a million slimy, slithering snakes in the same barrel.
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Once you have finished describing the landscape, you must decide to explore this new and amazing world.
I decided that I was definitely not going back down that horrible tunnel so, instead, I resolved to take my feet on an adventure!
Now draw tiny footsteps on your map from the tunnel you came out of, through the fantasy world, past or through all of the obstacles, ending at the monster’s hiding place. Your footprints will help you to plan each paragraph you are about to write. Write one paragraph about each obstacle you come across and how you manage to
overcome it. Don’t write about your meeting with the monster yet … Now it’s time to create your monster. Think about what it will look like and what its distinguishing features are, e.g. spiky skin Give your monster a name. Now you have described your monster, you are ready to meet it!
PUNCTUATION NOTE Before you go on to fight your monster, it is worthwhile doing some revision on how to use inverted commas – you may want to talk to it! Using inverted commas for direct speech:
Start a new line when someone else speaks. Put other punctuation like ! . ? inside the inverted commas.
Defeating your monster Write about how you manage to defeat your monster. Include: how you discovered the monster • what it looked like when you first saw it • what it smelled like or sounded like when you first saw it • what it did to you to show you that it was dangerous • what you did to it in order to get out of the situation. When you have written this, it’s time to finish your story. You should end up back where you started - be imaginative about how you get there! https://www.teachitenglish.co.uk/resources/ks3/narrative-writing/writing/narrative-writing-build-your-own-adventure-story/24430 P a g e 10 | 12
Well done! You have come to the end of this pack! Before you go, read this poem by Zach Forden and answer the question below.
THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE
What is Life, but a tangle of adventure,
A whirlwind of ideas, A hurricane of emotions. What is this journey, this path called life? Life is abundant, full of giving and receiving. Life is a gift, full of joy and sorrow. It helps us to love, to live for tomorrow.
by Zach Forden
https://www.poemhunter.com/ What is this poem about? ______
______
______
Transcript for News Broadcast Flash news – 16-year-old Jessica Watson is the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, non-stop and unassisted A teenage girl, Jessica Watson, who sailed solo around the world, was greeted by thousands of cheering supporters on her return home to Sydney today after her seven-month voyage. In her 9 metre yacht, Ella's Pink Lady, Jessica Watson, 16, crossed the finish line of her round-the-world journey, which her supporters claim makes her the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, non-stop and unassisted. In an interview broadcast live on a screen outside the Sydney Opera House, the 16-year-old said that she was a bit confused and she didn’t know what to think and what to say at that moment. She added that it was all a bit too much but absolutely amazing. Watson, from north Brisbane, in Queensland, sailed out of Sydney on the 18th of October amid fierce criticism of her parents for allowing her to attempt such a feat. Throughout her journey they stuck to the view that she was well prepared, noting that she has been sailing since she was eight.
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The mayor of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally, who greeted her on her return home, said that she didn’t think anyone would ever doubt Jessica Watson again. Watson travelled north-east through the South Pacific and across the equator, south to Cape Horn at the tip of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean to South Africa, through the Indian Ocean and around southern Australia. The route took her through some of the world's most dangerous waters. She battled through huge storms and her boat was knocked down on its side six times. But her journey was characterized by moments of beauty. On her blog, she described wonderful sunrises over glassy seas, the excitement of spotting a blue whale and the unforgettable sight of a shooting star racing across the night sky above her boat. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/15/jessica-watson-sailed-world-home Answers Listening A 1)d 2)c 3)b 4)c 5)a 6)b 7)d B e d b a c 1. blog 2. journey/voyage 3. sunrises C 4. whale 5. star 6. night Reading text 1 1. T F F F 2. i trees / bushes ii little animals iii birds 3. i shaky ii very weak iii rushed onwards Literature Question C B E D Reading text 2 1. When Bilbo opened his eyes it was just as dark as when they were shut. 2. groped 3. a. nothing at all b. no sign of goblins / no signs of dwarves 4. a. tiny b. cold 5. miserableness 6. he was hungry 7. out of sight and out of mind Poem: Our life, with its joys and difficulties, is one big adventure! It is a gift. We should love others and hope for a better future.
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