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Unit 6: When the alien landed

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Good evening, I’m Voula Theopolous, and this is the evening news.

This afternoon, an alien spaceship landed on a soccer field at a local school. The soccer game was cancelled immediately. Startled children and teachers approached the alien craft as it lay in the field, but quickly ran away when it began to hum and vibrate.

A small door on the ship then opened, and a creature with purple skin and large, green eyes appeared. The alien appeared to be angry and pointed at a soccer ball lying on the field.

On the spot is our reporter Sam Eager. Sam, are you there? Can you tell us the latest news?

In the texts1 Take a quick look at pages 54–55.

a What do you think the main topic is?

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b Where do you think the events will take place? __________________________________

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2 a How many of the texts have a title? __________________

b Which text is part of a narrative (story) about aliens?

My New School They’re Out of this World!

c Which text is part of an information report about aliens?

My New School They’re Out of this World!

d Which text type do you think the text on page 55 is? ____________________________

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3 Read the text called My New School.

a How do you know this is part of a narrative?

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b Who is telling the story?

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c Is the story in the present, past or future tense? __________________________________

d How does the girl feel?

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4 Write adjectives that describe:

a the Razakians ____________________________________________________________

b their eyes _________________________________________________________________

c their ears _________________________________________________________________

5 Write the words describing their hair that mean:

a bunch _________________________________________________________________

b grows _________________________________________________________________

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6 Tick the box for each text type you can find in My New School.

procedure personal recount narrative

description factual recount TV bulletin

7 The author is telling the story in My New School. Circle the words I and my below.

I stood at the front of the classroom with my knees shaking.

My new classmates were strange, and I felt scared.

8 Now, let another person tell the story. Change I to she. Change my to her.

a She stood at the front of the classroom with _____________ knees shaking.

b _____________ new classmates were strange, and _____________ felt scared.

9 Read They’re Out of this World!

Who is the author speaking to in the first three sentences?

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10 Read page 55.

a Who is the news reader talking to in the first sentence?

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b Who is the TV news reader talking to in the last sentence?

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11 Pretend you are Sam Eager answering Voula.

a Who are you talking to?

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b What will you say?

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Your turn1 Make up a story about why the girl is at

school on another planet.

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2 What do you think it would be like to go to school on another planet?

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3 What would your family say if you said, ‘Aliens took me to their spaceship

after school! They studied me. Then they flew me home.’?

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A response is a personal reaction to a text. You write what you think or feel about it. It uses:

and saying verbs

making a judgement.

3 What wo

aftter sch

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ersonal You write

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4 Complete the following table using the word bank. Don’t fill the coloured boxes.

Word bank appeared approached cancelled creature immediately

field ran away game teachers when

who or what? did what? when? where?

An alien spaceship landed on a soccer this afternoon at a local school.

field

a The soccer was _________________ ___________________ .

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b Students and ______________________ _________________ it

_________________ the craft, but began to hum and

______________ vibrate.

c An alien ______________________ on the

_________________ and pointed angrily ____________ .

at the ball lying

5 You are the alien pointing at the soccer ball. Write what happened next.

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6 Do you believe that aliens have really landed on Earth? Why or why not?

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Adverbs

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where when when

how

1 Adverbs and adverbial phrases tell how, when, where or how much

something is done.

Write each adverb or adverbial phrase in the correct column.

yesterday at school very friendly there angrily so always

a how much b how c when d where

too quickly every year in the field

2 Use the adverbs and adverbial phrases to fill in the gaps.

always at the front friendly On my first day strangely

__________________________ at school, I stand __________________________ of the class,

my knees shaking. My classmates behave very __________________________ . They

_____________________ smile, so I don’t know if they are ____________________ or not.

3 Read the text below.

The spacecraft landed here, this afternoon. At first no-one noticed, because the

children were playing so noisily. Some teachers walked slowly towards the craft,

but ran away fast when it began to hum and vibrate. Suddenly, a purple alien

appeared at the door and began pointing at the soccer ball angrily.

a Draw a coloured box around each adverb.

b If the adverb tells about when, write when above it.

c If it tells about where, write where above it.

d If it tells about how, write how above it. Done

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4 Many adverbs end in ly or ily.

a Find some adverbs on this page that end in ly or ily and write them here.

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b Circle the ly ending on the adverbs in the word bank.

c Fill in the gaps below with adverbs from the word bank.

Word Bank just wildly here still angrily last week hardly immediately

Good evening! It’s Sam Eager, reporting from the school oval where a spaceship

has ___________________________ landed. It’s madness ___________________________ !

The children are shrieking and running around ________________________________.

The teachers can ____________________________ control them. The alien is

__________________________ pointing ____________________ at the soccer ball. I’m sure

he’s saying, “Stop kicking that thing at my spaceship____________________________ !

I only bought it _________________________________.”

5 Match the adverbs with their opposites. Colour the ly endings.

a badly unfriendly

b friendly politely

c

d

e rudely loudly

6 Add ly or ily to turn these adjectives into adverbs.

adjective adverb

mad madly

excited

loud

rude

wild

Books readcool games

great websites

My stuff

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Unit 5: A party for Nonno and Nonna

Diarydrawings

poetrylplays

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Unit 6: When the alien landed

Print your name here:

Start of test

Read the texts on pages 46 and 47, and answer questions 1 to 7. 1 The three texts are connected

because they are all O about Italy. O about a party for Nonno and

Nonna. O about making things.

2 The text starting with Today is an important could be a

O recipe. O diary entry. O procedure.

3 Nonna and Nonno O have always lived here. O came here one year ago. O came here many years ago.

4 What can you do with a utensil? O work in the garden O cook things O wash your hands

5 Nonna is the boy’s O grandmother. O grandfather. O mother.

6 The text about making jam is a O list. O description. O procedure.

Use a pencil. DO NOT use a pen. If you make a mistake, rub it out and try again.

Assessment: Units 5 and 6

This is a test to see how well you understand what you have read, and to see what you know about using language, spelling and punctuation. It is also a writing test.

Instructions

another page in this book before answering.

There are three different ways to show your answer:

answer. O

(First name) (Family name)

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7 In what order must you do these things? Write a number from 1 to 4 in each box.

seal the jars let the jam simmer pour the jam into jars cut the fruit

Read the texts on pages 54 and 55, and answer questions 8 to 15.8 The text with the title My New

School is a O diary entry. O report. O recount.

9 The storyteller in My New School feels

O frightened. O excited. O happy.

10 A Razakian’s hair looks like a O pointy pink ear. O bunch of pink grass. O pink feather.

11 In these texts, alien means O from another country. O different. O from another planet.

12 A Razakian O is a UFO. O has large black eyes and a big head. O has green eyes and pointy ears.

13 They’re Out of this World is a O very formal report. O personal recount. O report that grabs attention.

14 Voula Theopolous is O a radio announcer. O a TV news reader. O an actor.

15 Sam Eager is O in the spacecraft. O at the TV station. O on the soccer field.

The spelling mistakes in these sentences have been circled. Write the correct spelling for each circled word in the box.

16 Stir the sause until it gets thick.

17 The creature was not at all freindly .

18 The words dropped, fell and was are all

O past tense verbs. O present tense verbs. O future tense verbs.

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Assessment: Units 5 and 6 19 Which of the following correctly completes the sentence? Nonna ______________ sure the jam didn’t boil over. O make O mades O made O are making

20 The words angrily, yesterday, here, so noisily are all O verbs. O nouns. O adjectives. O adverbs.

21 The sentence Put the jam on the stove is O an exclamation. O O a statement. O a command.

Read the following text, and answer questions 22 and 23. The Razakian told a dog to bring him the soccer ball. He then ordered

Sam to put his camera away. Sam quickly put it in his pocket.

22 The word he refers to O the Razakian. O Sam. O the dog.

23 The word it refers to O the dog. O Sam’s camera. O the soccer ball.

24 Shade two bubbles to show which underlined words should start with a capital letter.

O O O O

I hope grandma and grandpa can come to my party.

Shade two bubblesO O

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Before you begin

you have read or heard about, or seen on TV.

happened right in front of you!

what happened.

Plan your story

these headings: who? what happened? when and where?

the story in the first person (I or we) or the third (he/she/it/they)?

in the present or past tense?

characters — what happened, where and when.

Remember

punctuation.

carefully when you finish.

doesn’t make sense, or add words to link the ideas together.

25 Write a narrative about the day you saw something unbelievable happen.

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