English

TERM 1  English/Literacy. This term we made a know me document on I photo. We had to get photos of our self and things we like and put them in a digital book.Unfortunately I had difficulties with mine so I have nothing to show you.

__ Some writing we had to do was about a very special person of ourselves, and I chose to write my story about my granddad. __

We do a lot of spelling suffixes etcetera etcetera. Here are some. 03/05/09

Long Vowel Sounds. (Topic Approach To Spelling).

Circle one word from each line that is correctly spelt. The Long “a” sound. hate hait hayt seal sayl sale trai tray trea wate wait wayt ait ayt eight

2.The Long “e” sound. fre frea free he hy hea clean cleen clene

3.The long “l” sound. insighed insied inside brite bright breit fly fligh fli kiend kind kynd fright frite friet

4.The long “o” sound. broak broke broek coast cowst coste flo flough flow

5.The Long “u” sound. coot cuit cute balloon balluin ballune sute suit sewt flui flou flew

9/06/09

Exercise 77: Level B Answer the following questions with a word that contains a long ‘u’ sound. Think carefully about which spelling pattern you should use for each word. 1. After I hit my head on the swing, I felt very confused and could not think properly. I used up a whole box of tissues when I had a cold. My mother is always telling my brother and me not to argue all the time. Dad bought a new suit to wear to my sisters wedding. I had to quickly think of a good excuse for why I hadn’t done my homework. Mum bought a new bottle of perfume at the duty-free store. I didn’t want to do my friend’s paper run for him but I couldn’t refuse because he had done mine for me. I helped my brother deliver leaflets to everyone’s letterboxes to advertise hi new business. I couldn’t choose between an ice block or a chocolate bar for my after-school treat. The house had a magnificent view of the harbour. I picked some kiwifruit from the neighbour’s vine where it grew over the fence. On cold days we often eat hot soup and fresh bread for lunch.

Exercise 78: Level B Proofreading Underline all words in the following passage that contain a long ‘u’ sound. Write the words out in lists according to their spelling patterns. I couldn’t have had a worse start to my day if I’d tried. First of all, my car refused to go. I didn’t want to be late because I had an interview for a new job at 10 a.m. but I had to go in to my office to do a few things first. I finally got the engine to start and backed down the drive. Before I’d even reached Park Avenue, I knew something else was wrong. My back tyre was flat. I couldn’t believe it. I was in my best suit and didn’t want to ruin it so I rang the AA rescue van. They were busy and it took them half an hour to arrive. The mechanic was very polite and tried not to look amused as I described my morning to him. He put on my spare tyre, wished me luck for the job and went off to his next customer. Luckily, nothing else went wrong. I wasn’t late for my interview and it went really well. I start the new job next month.