YEAR 8 ENGLISH REVISION BOOKLET TERM 2 Jan 2018

1 YEAR 8 ENGLISH REVISION BOOKLET TERM 2 Jan 2018

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YEAR 8 ENGLISH

REVISION BOOKLET TERM 2

Jan 2018


Writing a newspaper report

Headline: Make your headline short and snappy. Use exciting words, alliteration or rhymes

to catch the reader's attention. Your headline needs to tell the reader what kind of story it's

going to be. Usually only four or five words. It tries to attract the interest of the reader by

telling them what the story is about, in a short and interesting way.

First sentence: The first sentence underneath the headline should give the reader more

information on the story, and sum up what it is going to be about.

Introduction: It will set the scene and summarise the main points of the article: who, what,

when, where.

Paragraphs: Next, split your newspaper report up into paragraphs to help the reader clearly

understand the information on the story. Each new paragraph should be given a 'subheading'.

This is a very short title that tells the reader a little about what the paragraph is will about.

Past tense: Your newspaper story needs to be written in the past tense because you are

reporting on something that has already happened.

Third person: Write your newspaper reports in the 'third person' because you are writing

about somebody else. This means using the names of the people involved in the story or

using 'he' or 'she', not 'I' or 'me'. This makes you similar to a narrator, retelling events without

being involved in the story.

Quotations: Adding quotations will make your report more interesting for the reader because

it tells the story from the point of view of the people involved. Don't forget to use speech

marks! Sometimes articles will include what a person (like an eye-witness or an expert) has

said. These will be in speech marks.

Photos and captions: Use a photo/picture with a caption to give the reader more information

about the story you are writing. Sometimes articles have a photograph, and a sentence

explaining the photograph.

Facts and opinions: Fill your newspaper report with both facts and opinions. Facts give the

reader all of the information they need by using the 5 W's. Opinions give the point of view of

the writer or of people involved in the story. With all this information, the reader can then

make up their own point of view.

Summing up: Your final paragraph should sum up the story. This is usually a good place to

put in your opinion.




Purpose:

To give an account of your own life

Structure:

An introduction or opening statement that introduces the person and set the scene.

Significant events are ordered chronologically

Closing statements where the writer reflects on some events.

Language Features:

Refers to named individuals

Contains dates linked to specific events

Written in the past tense

Should include feelings

Written in 1st person

Includes time connectives to link ideas Events are anecdotal in style (rather than lists of facts), and engage the reader


DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

Descriptive writing creates a pictures of a person, place, thing or

event. Description tells us what something looks, sounds, smells,

tastes or feels like.

Good descriptive writing is made up of four elements:-



SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS

Knowing a variety of different words that all have the same meaning

comes in handy when writing simply because it allows your work to

sound much more interesting whilst at the same time shows off your

vocabulary skills!

SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS

Match up the synonyms from each column and the final opposite (just like the example)

synonym synonym synonym antonym

calm change prodigious scrutinise self sufficient

legal colossal modify view conserve

effervescent vista conceal bubbly obscure

amend quiet licit adapt few

addiction courageous adapt obsession minute

panorama appraise lob audacious reveal

immense fizzy assess gargantuan criminal

throw obscure outlook chuck cowardly

review lawful muted copious constant

change lots ebullient convert noisy

brave dependence numerous legitimate drop

mask hurl habit shroud flat

many amend chivalrous inaudible accept

circle


Circle the odd one out – five are synonyms, one isn’t

boat craft vessel ship vehicle barge

water irrigate liquid spray drench soak

comprehend apprehend understand gather fathom perceive

career chore job task errand position

copious ample large abundant infinite countless

ask quiz puzzle plead request claim

postpone defer implement delay stall put off

fetch acquire attain get redundant obtain

swift rapid robin quick hasty speedy

famous celebrity noteworthy eminent wag renowned

think ponder contemplate ignore consider conceive

fib lie fabrication bluff accuracy falsehood

green inexperienced callow immature unskilled ecological

1) Match up the boxes to complete the examples of personification.

The willow tree

The chest

The moon

hid shyly behind the clouds. The wind

wailed noisily.

waved it’s boughs frantically.

waited patiently to be opened.


2) Read these lines and figure out which techniques are being used e.g- metaphors, simile,

hyperbole etc

Like burnt out torches by a sick man’s bed

Which technique is being used? __________________________

Drip----hiss----drip fall the raindrops

Which technique is being used? ___________________________

When the stars threw down their spears

Which technique is being used? __________________________

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor

Which technique is being used? _________________________

1) Write down the main features of an autobiography

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2) From the ‘healing the horses’ text, the writer used some unfamiliar words that aren’t usually

used in everyday life. Define the words below.

Gelding - ______________________________________

Roans - _______________________________________

3) Write two differences between an autobiography and a biography

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What are the key features of explanation texts?

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What are the uses of the features you have mentioned in question one?

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Using your ‘why is the sky blue...’ sheet why is section 1 written mostly in the past tense?

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Why does section 4 start in the past tense then end in the present tense?

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What is a clause and how does it differ from a phrase?

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1) Write down 5 words that rhyme with the word broad.

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2) You have been placed in a school competition to write a free verse poem about modesty.

Write down your first four lines.

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3) Add phrases, main clauses and subordinate clauses to these short sentences to extend it.

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The circus came to town. Tickets were cheap. I decided to go with my friend. The clowns drove up

in a little car. There were a bunch of them. I didn’t think they would all fit. A guy stuck his head in

the lion’s mouth. Bears were dancing in tutus. An elephant rode a bike. A man with a whip was

beating the animals. The animals were sad. The man fed them a snack. I always have fun at the

circus. A lady was selling snacks. I bought popcorn and cotton candy. A family did tricks on the flying

trapeze. I took pictures. I thought one of them was going to fall. My belly hurt from eating junk. I

had a good time. The circus is always fun.


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Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night;

What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears

And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

TYGER

I remember the night my mother

was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours

of steady rain had driven him

to crawl beneath a sack of rice.

Parting with his poison - flash

of diabolic tail in the dark room -

he risked the rain again.

The peasants came like swarms of flies

and buzzed the name of God a hundred times

to paralyse the Evil One.

With candles and with lanterns

throwing giant scorpion shadows

on the mud-baked walls

they searched for him: he was not found.

They clicked their tongues.

With every movement that the scorpion made his poison

moved in Mother's blood, they said.

May he sit still, they said

May the sins of your previous birth

be burned away tonight, they said.

May your suffering decrease

the misfortunes of your next birth, they said.

May the sum of all evil

balanced in this unreal world

against the sum of good

become diminished by your pain.

May the poison purify your flesh

of desire, and your spirit of ambition,

they said, and they sat around

on the floor with my mother in the centre,

the peace of understanding on each face.

More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours,

more insects, and the endless rain.

My mother twisted through and through,

groaning on a mat.

My father, sceptic, rationalist,

trying every curse and blessing,

powder, mixture, herb and hybrid.

He even poured a little paraffin

upon the bitten toe and put a match to it.

I watched the flame feeding on my mother.

I watched the holy man perform his rites to tame the poison

with an incantation.

After twenty hours

it lost its sting.

My mother only said

Thank God the scorpion picked on me

And spared my children

The night of the scorpion


1) Read both of these poems. Highlight/underline all key words or phrases that you can talk

about in regards to their:

Structure

Imagery

Language

Meaning

Effect

Use the bullet points to help you write down your answer.

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2) Now write down two comparisons in regards to the bullet points above. Include comparing

phrases e.g. – whereas. Think: Are the poems similar or different? If so, how? Do they use

the same effect? If so, do they portray it the same way?

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1) Features of a news article.

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2) Choose a word you can use which would be a lot more formal for the words below.

Come in - __________________________

Left - ___________________________

Disaster - _________________________

Condone - _______________________

3) Audience and purpose of recounts (history books, newspaper articles, autobiographies etc.)

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4) Put these phrases in chronological order. Number them in order of events or time.

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When I woke up after breakfast before bedtime during lunch whilst my dad was

cooking at about 10 o’clock in the morning as the sun was rising in the middle of the

afternoon

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