Just the Beginning – Chapter 4

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

1. Choose the correct spellings to complete the sentences below.

Ennio felt that obtaining the generator was essencial/essential for

saving his Gran’s life, but Miah also needed it for a special/spetial

reason. With no official/offitial help at the disaster scene, it was

becoming a dog-eat-dog world.

2. Tick the option which shows how the underlined words in the sentence

below are used.

Talking over each other, we both tried to explain our predicaments, but

Mr Romano looked frustrated and confused.

Tick one.

as a main clause

as a fronted adverbial

as a subordinate clause

as a noun phrase

3. Complete the sentence below by adding an adverbial of time.

_____________________________, Mr Romano stood up.

4. Add a pair of brackets in the most suitable place in the sentence below.

Mr Romano a local farmer had a generator and other useful equipment.

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6. Expand the following noun phrase.

our friendship

Just the Beginning – Chapter 5

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

1. Choose the correct homophones to complete the sentences below.

Ennio’s legs burned as he pedalled back up the hill; he was feeling

wary/weary. On his way home, he spotted a stationary/stationery

excavator. He didn’t have a driving licence/license but did know how to

operate a digger.

2. Complete the table below. The first row has been done for you.

Active Passive

Ennio picked up a bottle of whisky.

A bottle of whisky was picked up by Ennio.

Mr Romano drove the tractor.

The workmen’s hut had been damaged by a falling tree.

3. Choose a suitable adverbial to complete the sentence below.

Dad and Fred were busy striking the wall with their pickaxes;

_____________ Ennio was on his way home with an excavator.

4. Insert a semicolon in the sentence below to mark the boundary between

the two clauses.

Ennio had operated an excavator before he remembered what to do with

the two levers.

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5. Tick the option which shows how the underlined words in the sentence

below are used.

As I drove up the path, I heard the rhythmic clank of two pickaxes

striking rock.

Tick one.

as an adverbial of time

as an adverbial of manner

as a subordinate clause

as an adverbial of place

Just the Beginning – Chapter 6

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

1. Choose the correct spellings to complete the sentences below.

Everyone was desperate to stop Gran from suffering/sufferring any

longer. Miah offered/offerred to empty the cabinet. Afterwards, it

transfered/transferred itself across to the other side of the room and

was no longer blocking the door.

2. Draw lines to complete the table below. The first one has been done for

you.

Luca will have yapped for hours.

present perfect simple

Luca has yapped for hours.

present perfect progressive

Luca has been yapping for hours.

past perfect progressive

Luca had been yapping for hours.

future perfect simple

3. Underline the modal verb in the sentence below.

The vent through which we’d heard Gran’s voice came from the main

part of the cellar, not the storeroom, but her voice must have carried,

making it sound as if that were where she was.

4. Complete the sentence below by adding a relative clause.

The cabinet ___________________________________ was too heavy to

move.

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5. Look at the sentence below. Why has a colon been used?

Ruthless, but also kind: she’d come to help us save Gran, despite not

knowing whether her dad would live.

No Greater Treasure – Chapter 1

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

1. Choose the correct spellings to complete the sentences below. When he played football, Freddie felt conscious/constious of his dad shouting. Dad wanted Freddie to get stuck in; he wanted him to be less caucious/cautious. Shoving Ginny into the mud was a malicious/malitious thing for Freddie to do.

2. Rewrite the sentence below so that it is in the passive voice. Freddie shoved Ginny into the mud. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________

3. Underline the relative clause in the sentence below. She was quite small and I had expected her to just step aside when she saw me storming towards her, but she didn’t, and I crashed into her.

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4. Put one tick in each row to show the tense of each sentence.

simple past

present perfect

past perfect

She had set the goal up by making good use of her free kick.

I shoved her over into the mud, and her glasses came flying off.

After the match, the ref had a word with Dad.

Freddie has given Ginny an invitation to his party.

5. Explain how the comma changes the meaning of the second sentence. 1. Freddie Grant and Ginny played football together. 2. Freddie, Grant and Ginny played football together.

_________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

No Greater Treasure – Chapter 2

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

1. Choose the correct spellings to complete the sentences below. It was rare for Freddie to hear a complement/compliment from his dad. Ginny was a guessed/guest at Freddie’s party. After eating his desert/dessert, Dad suddenly stood up and frisbeed his empty plate at Uncle Greg.

2. Insert a colon in the correct place in the sentence below. There were lots of people at Freddie’s party friends from school, friends from football and members of his family.

3. Underline the modal verb in the sentence below. Your treat this year is a trip to the racetrack where you will have the chance to drive a go-kart at incredible speed in a race against your dad, your mum, your uncle Greg, your cousin Grant and one friend of your choice.

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4. Which sentence is punctuated correctly? Tick

one. Freddie was not excited; about his birthday treat he didn’t enjoy motor sports.

Freddie was not excited about his birthday treat he didn’t enjoy; motor sports.

Freddie was not excited about his birthday treat; he didn’t enjoy motor sports.

Freddie was not excited about; his birthday treat he didn’t enjoy motor sports.

5. Underline the sentence that is the most formal in the passage below. Come along to the racetrack to drive at high speed. Bring a friend! All participants must wear a safety helmet.

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Year 4 Week 4 Day 1 Summer 2 Focus: Consolidating

Look Say Cover Write Check

Spellings 1st Attempt 2nd Attempt 3rd Attempt 4th Attempt 5th Attempt girls’

boys’

business

complete

babies’

houses’

sisters’

trolleys’

potatoes’

arches’

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Year 4 Week 4 Day 2 Summer 2 Focus: Consolidating

Look Say Cover Write Check

Spellings 1st Attempt 2nd Attempt 3rd Attempt 4th Attempt 5th Attempt children’s

men’s

mice’s

increase

island

medicine

oxen’s

teeth’s

police’s

experience