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] P a g e 2 | 12 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 P a g e 3 | 12 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. P a g e 4 | 12 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. P a g e 5 | 12 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) P a g e 6 | 12 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.