English – Week commencing 8/6/20Monsters – An Owner’s Guide

This week our English is based on the book Monsters – An Owner’s Guide. There are documents on the class webpage that you can access to read the book (PowerPoint, Word and also the video of Miss Short reading the story- via the class page link).

Monday Tasks:

Watch the class video of Miss Short reading the story or ask your adult to read it aloud to you.

Read the book aloud yourself to your adult. Try to keep a steady, fluent pace and use emphasis and pitch (don’t read it like a robot!).

If there is any vocabulary that you don’t understand, try to find out what it means. You could ask your adult or use a dictionary to help you.

Answer the following questions (page numbers are included to help you).a) (Pg. 6) What clues are there to suggest that the contents of the box might cause trouble? (labels, drivers’ gesture)

b) (Pg. 8 – 9) Find each part of the monster in the picture from the contents list. What should the owner do with the boxes when they are empty?

c) (Pg. 12 – 13) Which monster does our ‘owner’s guide’ relate to? What does the abbreviation ‘no’ stand for?

d) (Pg. 14) Why shouldn’t you use your finger to push the button?

e) (Pg. 22 – 23) What four things can you do to keep your monster happy?

f) (Pg. 24) What is the monster afraid of?

g) (Pg. 29) What specialist equipment does the delivery person have? Why might the guarantee not please everyone?

TuesdayThe Monstermatic Toy Company has contacted the school and asked if Year 2 would like to work for them. The company are looking for more staff as they are receiving a large number of complaints about their products and they need more people to respond to them.

Think

Have you ever had to complain before? What do people complain about? What is the difference between a formal complaint and complaining at home if you are asked to do a job? What might happen if you complain impolitely to a company, what might the response be?The company have sent quizzes for you to complete to check if you know enough about their products. Have a look at the quiz below.

Thank you for choosing to work for the Monstermatic Toy Company.

Before we can give you a job, you must answer the questions below correctly.

These questions are about the information in the Playing with Pets section.

Good luck!

1. Give one of the monster’s special features.

___________________________________________________________________

2. Why did the monster eat the cat?

Tick one.

The monster was scared of the cat.

The monster was hungry.

The boy told the monster to eat the pet.

3. Your monster will respond to almost any family pet,

Which animal might the monster not enjoy playing with?

Tick one.

rabbit

tiger

dog

hamster

4. …will only ever eat them if it sees them as a threat.

Which word means the same as threat?

danger

friend

giant

gift

5. How many special features does the monster have?

one

two

more than two

Think

Look again at page 18 on the attached Word document (or PowerPoint). The page is titled ‘playing with pets’. We are going to answer question 1 – give one of the monster’s special features. How can we find out the answer to this? What are the important word in the question?

Look for the words ‘special feature’ and read the sentences around that phrase. Will that help you to answer the question?

Task: Using the PowerPoint, video reading or Word document, answer the quiz

questions above. Answer the second quiz (pages 12-13 ‘Identify your monster’) to make

sure that you know the company products.

Thank you for choosing to work for the Monstermatic Toy Company.

Before we can give you a job, you must answer the questions below correctly.

These questions are about the information in the Identifying Your Monster section.

Good luck!

6. Name three ways that the monsters might be different from each other.

1. _________________

2. _________________

3. _________________

7. What does it say you should use the diagram for?

___________________________________________________________________

8. Which monsters can you identify by using the diagram?

Tick one.

some of the monsters

all of the monsters

a few of the monsters

9. …colourings may vary

Which word means the same as vary?

fade

change

surprise

Wednesday

Congratulations!!You got the Job! You are now an employee of Monstermatic. One of your roles is to respond to emails from customers.Read the email from the unhappy customer. Read it aloud with tone and expression.

Dear Monstermatic Toy Company,

I am really cross! I took my new toy into school yesterday and it caused chaos!

I will tell you what happened. I decided to take my toy into school for show and tell but it didn’t go well! The naughty monster started slobbering and chased my classmates. Luckily, Kevin the caretaker managed to lock the monster in a cupboard until hometime. My teacher was furious when she looked inside the cupboard. Shambles had eaten all of her spare pencils!

My friends were really upset. Shambles scared Trisha so much that she cried all afternoon and her mum complained to the head teacher. My teacher was so annoyed with me that I have to miss morning break for a whole week. How annoying is that?

Please could you tell me what I did wrong and what I should do to stop my monster behaving like this again.

Yours sincerely,

Jake Johnson

Think

How was Jake feeling when he wrote the email? What words tell us how he was feeling?

Look at pages 22 and 23 (Dos and don’ts).What did the guide clearly say not to do?Why do you think Shambles tried to eat the children?Task:Complete the sentence to explain why Shambles tried to eat the children.

Your monster probably tried to eat your classmates because …

Think

Some ideas for your sentence might be:Your monster tried to eat your classmates because he was hungry. He probably thought that he was at a fancy restaurant and that the children were his lunch!

Your monster tried to eat your classmates because he felt threatened by all the children. Maybe they were sitting too close to him.

How are you going to respond to the email? Task:Complete the sentence to suggest what the customer could do next time.Next time you should make sure that …

(e.g. Shambles has eaten a big lunch beforehand, try giving him a triple decker sandwich. Don’t sit Shambles too close to any children, as he needs plenty of room for his enormous paws.)

Task:You are now going to write a full email response to the customer. Remember to address the email to the customer (Dear Jake Johnson), explain what he should do and what went wrong and finish the email (Yours sincerely). Remember capital letters, punctuation and check your work and spellings.

Thursday

Think

Look at the picture of the cat inside the monster’s tummy. Think of some names for the different parts inside the tummy (e.g. barrel, fan, rumble strips, tap, paddle cog).Task:Label the diagram with your part names.

We are going to read an explanation of the journey of the cat through the monster’s stomach. Task:Read the passage below and underline or highlight the ‘technical language’ (specific language for the process e.g. the names of your stomach parts) and the conjunctions.

The cat enters the monster’s mouth and tumbles towards the paddle cog. The paddle cog spins round and shunts the cat towards the rumble strips. The rumble strips squash the cat as is passes through. Then, the cat is drenched in water so it is spotlessly clean. When the cat is totally clean, it is spun round in the barrel. This helps to get rod of all of the water. Finally, the cat rolls through the last tube and lands in the stomach. The cat stays there until its owner rescues it. If the owner does not rescue it, the cat has to find another way out! Poor cat!

Task:Rewrite the passage in your best handwriting. Try to join your letters, make them a consistent size and make sure that you use capital letters and full stops.

FridayYou are going to create an introduction for a monster guide. Firstly, you need to choose a monster that you will be writing about.Choose a monster from below.

Think

How can you describe the monster? What type of fur does it have? How many eyes or teeth does it have? What colour is the fur? Does it have horns?Task:Write a short description for the monster that you have chosen. Use expanded noun phrases in your description. (e.g. Moosifer has dark blue, speckled fur.).

Task: You are going to write the introduction for the guide for the monster that you have chosen. Read the example introduction. Underline / highlight any mistakes that you can find.

Congratulations on purchasing your new Monstermatic toy You have chosen moosifer. Moosifer has blue, speckled fur with black tufts down his back. he has

two large point horns on top of his and two smaller horns in between. He is a bit of a grumpy monster but we are shure that he will bring you hours of enjoy. Owner a monster is a very tricky job. It is vital that you read this guide after you start playing with your monster. Please contact us straight away if you have any problems.

Task:Write a short introduction paragraph for the monster that you have chosen. Remember to use capital letters and correct punctuation.