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Hello Grade 9’s Below you will see all the work you ned to do over the next two weeks, I have added dates to each activity, so you do not get lost. Please look back at the email I sent earlier this week where I attached all the necessary memos so you can mark all your work from the first work pack. This pack offers you an activity for each day, but please keep studying for your spelling and vocab test at this time.
Using the memos I sent last week, make sure you have marked the following: Active and Passive Voice The summary The comprehension Radio advertising
As always, email me if you are confused about anything at [email protected]
Grade 9 Work Pack Week 4 and 5 Monday 20 th April 2020
TENSE
Tense is concerned with two parts: (a) TIME (b) ASPECT
(a) The first part is about TIME: Past, Present and FutureThe tense tells when the action took place.
Past (already happened) verb + ed I painted a picture.Present (now) verb I paint a picture.Future (later) will/shall + verb I shall paint a picture.
Complete the following table by first filling in the Past and Present columns and then the Future column. [The answers are beneath so cover them until you have filled in the table; then check your answers.]
PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE FUTURE TENSE1 I forget.2 You drove.3 Tomorrow they will begin.4 It flew.
ANSWERS:PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE FUTURE TENSE
1 I forgot. I forget. I shall forget.2 You drove. You drive. You will drive.3 Yesterday they began/had
begunToday they (will) begin.
Tomorrow they will begin.
4 It flew. It flies. It will fly.
(b) The second part is called ASPECT: Simple, Continuous and Perfect
SIMPLE CONTINUOUS PERFECTSomething you
generally doHappening at the
momentAlready
completedPAST I drove I was driving. I had driven.PRESENT
I drive I am driving. I have driven.
FUTURE
I shall drive I shall be driving. I shall have driven.
If you are going to describe the TENSE of a verb you must include bothTIME and ASPECT e.g. Sibu was walking home. TENSE = past continuous
Work out the tense of each of the following:1. I am running on a dirt track.2. You will see me again.3. He is crazy.4. By supper time tomorrow night I will have finished my homework.
ANSWERS:Sentence Answer
1. I am running on a dirt track. Present Continuous2. You will see me again. Future Simple3. He is crazy. Present Simple4. By supper time tomorrow night I will have finished my homework. Future Perfect
Now do the following exercises to check that you have understood.
Exercise 1: Complete the following table ☺
Simple Continuous (gets –ing) Perfect
Present Lara talks a lot.
Past Lara had talked a lot.
Future Lara will be talking a lot.
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Exercise 2: State which tense the following sentences have been written in.1. Mihle swims well.
2. Emma was getting tired when Mr Wright blew the whistle.3. Sachuma had not been speaking when Ms Mbambo got angry.4. Ms Zamani will love her Gr 10 class next year.
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Exercise 3: Rewrite the following sentences in the tense given in brackets.
1. Lisakhanya does not like the song. (past simple)2. In 2021 Soso will have been a vegetarian for two years. (past perfect)3. Lianke will be wearing her hair down tomorrow. (future simple)4. Chulu was drawing a sun on her spring poem. (past perfect) 5. Choneez is skipping. (future continuous)
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Now you can mark your work.ANSWERS
Exercise 1Simple Continuous (gets –
ing)Perfect
Present
Lara talks a lot. Lara is talking a lot. Lara has talked a lot.
Past Lara talked a lot.
Lara was talking a lot.
Lara had talked a lot.
Future Lara will talk a lot.
Lara will be talking a lot.
Lara will have talked a lot.
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1. Present Simple2. Past Continuous3. Past Perfect4. Future Simple
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Exercise 31. Lisakhanya did not like the song.2. In 2021 Soso had been a vegetarian for two years. 3. Lianke will wear her hair down tomorrow. 4. Chulu had drawn a sun on her spring poem. 5. Choneez will be skipping. /5/
Tuesday 21 st April 2020
Literature: Lockdown analysisDo the following in your Literature book in the form of a reflection:
Is your family under lockdown or are do you have essential service employees living with you?
Have you noticed anything different to your (and your family’s) behaviour with regards to: What you wear every day? What you eat? The way you plan your meals? Anything physical in your house? (For example, in my house the table we normally
eat at has had to become my desk.) The way you interact with those around you? Your moods and emotions?
When you are done writing:Compare your experiences to Sarah and her family’s experiences in Children of the Dust. What are the similarities and what are the differences?
Wednesday 22 nd April 2020
POETRY: “Leviathan” by Douglas Livingstone
Read the following poem and then work through the notes and questions below.
A puff-adder, khaki,fatter than a stocking of pusexcept for its short thin tail,obese and quickas certain light footed dancers 5took a dozing lizard.
Scaly little monsterwith delicate hands and feetstupidly sluggish in the sun.Panting, true, 10but lizards breathe mostlyas if their lives depended.
Gone.Enveloped by a slack
wormy yellow bowel. 15
O Jonah, to tumble tothose sickly deadly depths,slick walled, implacably black.
Puff adders are fat snakes that look like they can’t move fast, but it is not true. They are very poisonous.
Leviathans are sea monsters. Jonah refers to the story of “Jonah and the Whale” from the Bible. Jonah was
swallowed whole by the whale but then God intervened and the whale spat him out and he was fine!
Think of the disgusting image that is described in line 2. Line 5: this is a simile comparing the snake to a dancer. (Being a very good
dancer has nothing to do with one’s size. Someone can be quite fat but move very well and quickly.)
Line 6: “Took” here means that he ate it.
Questions1. What does the title of the poem “Leviathan” refer to? Considering what
the poem is about, why is the title effective? (2)
2. What kind of feeling does the mention of “pus” (line 2) give the reader? (1)
3. Explain the contradiction in line 4. (2)
4. What animal does the phrase “scaly little monster” (line 7) refer to? (1)
5. Identify the sound device in line 9 and explain why it is effective. (2)
6. According to the poem, how do lizards normally breathe? (1)
7. Line 12 is an incomplete sentence. Re-write it so that it is complete. (1)
8. (a) Why is the word “Gone” written in its own line? (1)
9. (b) What has gone where and how? (3)
10.Explain why the word “enveloped” (line 14) is effective. (2)
11.What is clever about the vowel and consonant that the poet has chosen to repeat in line 15? (2)
12.Why is the lizard compared to Jonah? (1)
13.Give a synonym for the word “implacably” and explain the meaning of the word in your own words. (1)
Total: 20Thursday 23 rd April 2020 Start reading Part 3 of Children of the Dust, try and read for an hour. While you are reading remember to make some notes and jot down any questions you might have. Friday 24 th April 2020
Work on your script for your radio advert that you started last week, get a relative or friend to edit your script. Think about what kind of jingle this product might have. Write down some ideas for the jingle, including some lyrics. Remember radio adverts are very short, between 20 – 45 seconds.
Monday 27 th April 2020 – Freedom Day Today is a Public Holiday Tuesday 28 th April 2020
PARTICIPLES (These are types of verbs and are parts of finite verbs.)
This is quite a difficult concept, so go through the notes slowly and don’t give up! The answers are given at the end. Don’t look at the
answers until you have tried to answer the questions.
There are two types of participles:1. Verbal Participles :
- Some participles are non-finite verbs i.e. they are incomplete verbs. - They need auxiliary (helping) verbs added to them to make them into finite
(complete) verbs. e.g. “I playing squash.” This is not a complete sentence because
“playing” is not a finite verb; it is a participle (part of a verb).
There are a variety of auxiliary verbs that you can add to the participle to make it a finite verb. One is “am” i.e. “I am playing squash.” What others could one add?
There are two types of Verbal Participles: Present Participles and Past Participles. Present participles always end in -ing e.g. walking, singing, jumping,
swimming. Past participles often end in –ed e.g. parted, scrambled, but they can also
end in other suffixes, like –en e.g. eaten
Participles with their auxiliary verbs are often used to form the tense of a verb. e.g. I was swimming. (Past tense)
I am swimming. (Present tense)I will be swimming. (Future tense)
2. Adjectival Participles : These look like verbs but act as adjectives.e.g. 1 “Parted friends soon forget.”e.g. 2 “A swimming gala was held on Friday.”
Participles exercise Put [ ] around all finite verbs. Underline the participles. Explain their functions (i.e. say if they are verbal or adjectival). Write down the tense of each finite verb.
The first one has been done for you.
1. He has kicked the ball.He [has kicked {verbal}] the ball. Present Perfect
2. The grinning boy kissed Sihle.
3. The boy, who was grinning, had kissed Sihle.
4. You will be picked for the team.
5. Injured and bruised, she hobbled off the field.
6. A crumbling wall is at the bottom of the road.
Participles exercise (MEMO)
1. He [has kicked {verbal}] the ball.Present Perfect
2. The grinning {adjectival} boy [kissed] Sihle.Past Simple
3. The boy, who [was grinning {verbal}], [had kissed {verbal}] Sihle.
Past continuous (grinning) and Past Perfect (kissed)
4. You [will be picked {verbal}] for the team.Future Simple
5. Injured {adjectival} and bruised {adjectival}, she [hobbled] off the field.
Past Simple
6. A crumbling {adjectival} wall [is] at the bottom of the road.Present Simple
Wednesday 29 th April 2020 Continue reading Part 3 of Children of the Dust for an hour. Remember to make notes and jot down questions. Thursday 30 th April 2020
ComprehensionRead the following text and answer the questions that follow
The Landlady by Roald Dahl1. Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon
train, with a change at Reading on the way, and by the time he got
to Bath*, it was about nine o’clock in the evening, and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance. But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.
2. “Excuse me,” he said, “but is there a fairly cheap hotel not too far away from here?” “Try The Bell and Dragon,” the porter answered, pointing down the road. “They might take you in. It’s about a quarter of a mile along on the other side.”
3. Billy thanked him and picked up his suitcase and set out to walk the quartermile to The Bell and Dragon. He had never been to Bath before. He didn’t know anyone who lived there. But Mr. Greenslade at the head office in London had told him it was a splendid town. “Find your own lodgings,” he had said, “and then go along and report to the branch manager as soon as you’ve got yourself settled.”
4. Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine. He walked briskly down the street. He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The big shots up at the head office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. They were amazing.
5. There were no shops on this wide street that he was walking along, only a line of tall houses on each side, all of them identical. Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was brilliantly illuminated by a street lamp not six yards away, Billy caught sight of a printed notice propped up against the glass in one of the upper panes. It said BED AND BREAKFAST. There was a vase of yellow chrysanthemums, tall and beautiful, standing just underneath the notice.
6. He stopped walking. He moved a bit closer. Green curtains (some sort of velvety material) were hanging down on either side of the window. The chrysanthemums looked wonderful beside them. He went right up and peered through the glass into the room, and the first thing he saw was a bright fire burning in the hearth. On the carpet in front of the fire, a pretty little dachshund was curled up asleep with its nose tucked into its belly. The room itself, so far as he could see in the half darkness, was filled with pleasant furniture. There was a baby grand piano and a big sofa and several plump armchairs, and in one corner he spotted a large parrot in a cage. Animals were usually a good sign in a place like this, Billy told himself; and all in all, it looked to him as though it would be a pretty decent house to stay in. Certainly it would be more comfortable than The Bell and Dragon.
7. After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, Billy decided that he would walk on and take a look at The Bell and Dragon before making up his mind. He turned to go.
8. And now a queer thing happened to him. He was in the act of stepping back and turning away from the window when all at once his eye was caught and held in the most peculiar manner by the small notice that was there. BED AND BREAKFAST, it said. BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST, BED AND BREAKFAST. Each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away from that house, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reaching for the bell.
9. He pressed the bell. Far away in a back room he heard it ringing, and then at once – it must have been at once because he hadn’t even had time to take his finger from the bell button – the door swung open and a woman was standing there.
10. She was about forty-five or fifty years old, and the moment she saw him, she gave him a warm, welcoming smile. “Please come in,” she said pleasantly. She stepped aside, holding the door wide open, and Billy found himself automatically starting forward. The compulsion or, more accurately, the desire to follow after her into that house was extraordinarily strong. “I saw the notice in the window,” he said, holding himself back. “Yes, I know.” “I was wondering about a room.” “It’s all ready for you, my dear,” she said. She had a round pink face and very gentle blue eyes. “I was on my way to The Bell and Dragon,” Billy told her. “But the notice in your window just happened to catch my eye.” “My dear boy,” she said, “why don’t you come in out of the cold?”
11. She seemed terribly nice. She looked exactly like the mother of one’s best school friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holidays. He noticed that she had small, white, quickly moving hands and red finger nails. Billy took off his hat and stepped over the threshold.
Answer the following questions:1. Refer to the title of the short story (The Landlady):
1.1 Explain what a landlady is. (1) 1.2 What is the masculine form of landlady? (1) 1.3 Identify and explain the figure of speech found in the last sentence of paragraph 1.
2. Refer to paragraph 3. Write down only the correct letter next to the corresponding question number. 2.1 Billy was …
A) starting a new job. B) moving to a new post with the same company. C) running away from his old job. D) starting a new branch for his company. (1)
2.2 The Head Office had … A) expected him to find his own accommodation.
B) suggested some alternative accommodation. C) not been able to find accommodation. D) arranged a place for him to stay. (1)
3. Refer to paragraph 4. 3.1 What do you think Billy means by “big shots”? (1) 3.2 What does the word “brisk” mean in the context of this paragraph? (1)
3.3 Write down only the correct LETTER next to the corresponding question number. The important people at the Head Office …
A) intimidated Billy. B) admired Billy. C) inspired Billy. D) bored Billy. (1)
4. Refer to paragraph 5. What is the abbreviation for “Bed and Breakfast”? (1) 5. Refer to paragraph 6. Why do you think Billy thought the place “a pretty decent place to stay”? (2) 6. Refer to paragraph 8.
6.1 Provide a synonym for “queer”. (1) 6.2 Which words in this paragraph tell the reader that Billy is being made to do something? (3) 6.3 Which actions are carried out by Billy as if commanded by some invisible force? (3)6.4 Quote a phrase from this paragraph which is ominous
(threatening).7. Refer to paragraphs 10 and 11.
7.1 Write down TWO adjectives which give the reader a positive feeling for the landlady. (2) 7.2 Can you find any description that gives the reader a negative feeling about her? (2) 7.3 Make a list of THREE things that seemed to indicate that Billy was expected in the house. Refer to paragraphs 9 and 10. (3)
7.4 What reason can you think of for this?(2)
Friday 1 st May 2020 – Worker’s Day Today is a Public Holiday
