Write a sentence using each of these conjunctions. Could you use any of them at the start of your sentence?

Week 1 English 1IAL: to extend the range of conjunctions in my sentences

1. ______________ the cat had dinner, he slept on the bed.

2. Oliver ate his Easter egg in the living room ______________ Dad was washing the

dishes.

3. ______________ the mouse pulled the thorn out, the lion roared fiercely.

4. Ginny threw the ball as hard as she could ______________ she scored a winning

goal.

Add a conjunction to complete these sentences.

Watch these videos to learn about coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.Coordinating conjunctions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z9wvqhvSubordinating conjunctions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zqk37p3

Identify the conjunction in these sentences and state whether the conjunction is coordinating or subordinating.

Type?

When they finished PE, everyone was exhausted.

The sun was shining and it was very hot outside.

Ben washed his hands before he had dinner.

Violet was having fun as she learnt how to swim.

Harry has to wash up or he can’t watch telly.

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after so when if but

Choose from A, B or C. If you want to complete more than one, you can!

Explain the problem with these sentences.C

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1. So the cake was baked in the oven, it was delicious.

2. When the rain came along.

Week 1 English 2IAL: how to use expanded noun phrases for description

Expanded noun phrases are phrases that give more information about the noun.

the creepy, haunted house at the edge of the forest

determinere.g. a, the, many,

some, a few of, five…

adjectivee.g. crooked, rickety, yellow, small, huge…

noun prepositional phraseUses a preposition

with further description e.g. with,

in, on, under

Underline the expanded noun phrase in these sentences. Don’t miss out the prepositional phrase!

1. The deep river beside the theme park was full of fish.

2. The hair-raising rollercoaster at the centre of Disneyland is worth visiting!

3. I was amazed by the stone tower in the corner of the castle wall.

4. The dazzling fish under the coral darted to and fro.

Add expanded noun phrases to these sentences.

1. The boy ran around the park.

2. Last week, the car needed to go to be fixed.

3. Many ducks ate the seeds.

Write your own sentences using these adjectives and prepositions, or your own!

slimy delicious

sharp enormous

grumpy

with by

under near

over

adjectives prepositions

Watch this video to learn about prepositions.Prepositions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zw38srd

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Read this newspaper report about Tim Peake’s return from space.

Tick the features that are in a newspaper report. There are 5.

Answer these retrieval questions about the newspaper report.

Week 1 English 3IAL: to answer questions about a text

1. How long had Peake been living on the ISS?

2. Write down two jobs Tim had to do on the mission?

3. How far did Tim run on the treadmill while he was on the ISS?

4. Why were the astronauts carried out of the capsule?

5. What did Peake notice once he’d left the capsule?

6. Where did Tim fly to after landing in Kazakhstan?

7. What was hard about being on the ISS for so long?

8. What honour did Peake receive from the Queen?

A

B

captions chronological order

stage directions pictures

attention-grabbing headline chapters

quotes future tense

Answer these questions about the text.C

1. Why do you think Tim dedicated his special honour to the entire team?

2. Give a reason why space travel is important.

3. Why has a picture and caption been added to the news report?

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Complete this table for words from the newspaper report.

Re-read the newspaper report about Tim Peake.

Week 1 English 5IAL: ask questions to find out

Think about what questions you would like to ask Tim Peake about his experiences going to space. Some examples…

What did you do before you became

an astronaut?

Would you like to go to space again?

What did you eat in space?

Imagine you are the person in this picture. Write a short story about what has happened to you. Where are you going? What do you see? Where did the lights come from? Be as imaginative as you want!

Week 1 English 6IAL: to apply my writing skills.

miserably ordinary lottery poisonous frightening

marvellous separate easily generally definitely

This week’s spelling words have unstressed vowels in.

Which letters in these words are hard to hear?