Neighbours, Asia/Pacific: English and Geography, Year 7

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Some other characters in Flood

Student name ____________________________ Date __________________

Below is a selection of clauses from Flood which focus on the actions of characters that are not the flood. Do these different characters have anything in common? What kinds of characters are they? In what kinds of processes are they involved (look at the verbs in the green-shaded cells)? Where there is a ‘done-to’ participant (orange cells), what are these characters acting upon and what does this tell you about them?

Characters verbs choices and hints

Volunteer What?

heroes What?

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bobbed Where?

kept going

the mighty boardwalk

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Characters verbs choices and hints

__________ and

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(from above left above)

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__________ and_______________ Hint: 2 action verbs

then let (from left)

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sweep

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êoffered

_______________ __________and _______________

_______________ bloomed Like what?

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Characters verbs choices and hints

Tens of thousands __________________ and _______________________

roaming with

_______________ from

_______________ from

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