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Year 5 (2017-18) becoming Y6 (Sept. 2018)

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Beloved Year 5, soon to become Year 6!

You will be familiar with the idea for this booklet after our induction sessions and mock interview sessions at the close of the summer term. You have a copy of last year’s booklet.

It is very important that you have a restful summer, but it is also a valuable time to do some good reading and thinking. In this booklet, you will find things we would like you to look at and be ready to discuss when you return in Year 6! Don’t forget to check your maths too!

With each article, or review, you should look up the highlighted words and define them as instructed in the tables. In some cases, you are also asked to find suitable visual images to help fix and explore the meaning in your mind. Make sure you know how to copy-paste and size images into the tables. It only takes a few minutes and you can learn easily. Do talk to your family and discuss the readings with them. There is plenty to chew on. Make sure that you try to complete the definition and image tables. You must complete this document as an electronic Word document and send it to me and Paul Cheetham at the beginning of term . Please remember to SAVE as you go along when you working. When you e-mail it, please make sure you label it as follows:

SURNAME FormEinstein 6A/6T (your new form)

This makes it easier for us to save and look at. These booklets can then printed off at school and we use them in enrichment lessons and mock interviews.

Please e mail your completed booklets to: Paul C at: [email protected] to me via my PA at [email protected]

Paul’s Learning Enrichment Pack Year 5 Summer 2018

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Please read the extracts carefully. You will be asked to discuss them on your return in your Enrichment Comprehension classes with PK, PC and others. Make sure that you have looked up the words you do not know!

It is very easy to copy-paste definitions from an on-line dictionary and I provide you with help within the booklet.

The following is a concise list of online English dictionaries whose definitions are based upon well-established content.

American Heritage Dictionary American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Ed. Collins Online Dictionary Collins Unabridged English Dictionary; Collins Unabridged Thesaurus; Collins Webster's American English

Dictionary Dictionary.com Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Merriam-Webster OnLine Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Oxford Dictionaries Online Oxford Dictionary of English; New Oxford American Dictionary; Oxford Thesaurus of English; Oxford

American Writer's

There is no excuse for saying you cannot do this over the period of the summer!

Ask your friends; prod your family and ask the cat. But, do not leave this till the last minute and hand in a blank saying, in September, with tears in your eyes: ‘We didn’t have a dictionary or Wi-Fi at any point in the summer and my dad’s office blew up and mum dropped her Mac in the sea when we were in Capri!’ Just do it! You will actually enjoy learning new things!


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Please read this review of AVENGERS INFINITY WARS TWO TIMES; then fill in the grid.

Read the first version and then the second which highlights words in red

Not infinity perhaps, but a really, really big finity war. Colossal, cataclysmic, delirious, preposterous – and always surreally entertaining in the now well-established Marvel movie tradition. It’s a gigantic showdown between a force of cosmic wickedness and a chaotically assembled super-team of Marvel superheroes made more complicated by Doctor Strange’s tendency to multiclone himself in moments of battle stress.

There are some very unexpected family relationships that we had no idea about – potentially compromising unity in the face of encroaching evil. There are also some very surprising deaths – of which, of course, the less said the better. There are, moreover, some surprising omissions in the cast list. Or are there?

Avengers: Infinity War is a giant battle for which directors Anthony and Joe Russo have given us touches of JRR Tolkien’s Return of the King and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The film delivers the sugar-rush of spectacle and some very amusing one-liners.

Whatever else it does, this Marvel movie shows its brand identity in the adroit management of tone. One moment it’s tragic, the next, it’s cracking wise. It’s absurd and yet persuades you of its overwhelming seriousness. And there are some amazing Saturday-morning-kids-show moments when you feel like cheering.Earth is being threatened by a massive malign hunk with a huge ridgey chin called Thanos, played by Josh Brolin. If he can gain ownership of all the talismanic infinity stones and place them in the holes in his custom-built gauntlet then he will have the ultimate power to destroy anything he wishes in the universe. And he has a chilling wish for mass slaughter of half the sentient beings in existence, ostensibly so that the other half will have enough food to eat – but really so they will bow down to him as the tyrant lord. Ranged against him, of course,


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are the good guys who come together not in a single phalanx but a constellation of improvised groupings, in which the alpha males have a tendency to bicker. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) is nettled by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his supercilious air of intellectual superiority – and vice versa. Spider-Man (Tom Holland) shows up and annoys the hell out of them both with his millennial’s flair for pop culture references. Thor (Chris Hemsworth) finds himself having to do a ride-along with the Guardians of the Galaxy and Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) is intimidated by Thor’s godlike machismo and finds himself trying to do the basso profundo voice. Vision (Paul Bettany) and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) are tormented by the glowing stone in Vision’s blue head, and they’re agonised by the thought that self-destruction is the only way to keep it out of Thanos’s huge mitts. Their own situation brings them into contact with Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) – who prefers his non-super name now, not Captain America, and also the always frowning Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), together with the frankly traumatised Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo).

Scenes and situations whoosh by like a bizarre and bizarrely exciting dream. A sudden trip to Wakanda, with its secret world of remedial hi-tech surgery, seems entirely plausible. T’Challa, or Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) greets the visitors with his habitual Shakespearean bearing and princely calm. Inevitably, there is a little confusion. Groups of superheroes clash and each thinks the other is on Thanos’s side. “What master do you serve?” shouts one, awkwardly. “You mean – like Jesus?” comes the exasperated reply. No. Thor is the only god around here and even he isn’t guaranteed a result. It’s all in the cosmic balance. In theory, all these superheroes crammed into one movie should trigger the law of diminishing returns and the Traveling Wilbury effect. And yet somehow in its pure uproariousness, it works. It’s just a supremely watchable film, utterly confident in its self-created malleable mythology. And confident also in the note of apocalyptic darkness.

I know it’s silly. And yet I can’t help looking forward to the next supersized episode of mayhem.


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NOW READ A SECOND TIME!

Not infinity perhaps, but a really, really big finity war. Colossal, cataclysmic, delirious, preposterous – and always surreally entertaining in the now well-established Marvel movie tradition. It’s a gigantic showdown between a force of cosmic wickedness and a chaotically assembled super-team of Marvel superheroes made more complicated by Doctor Strange’s tendency to multiclone himself in moments of battle stress.

There are some very unexpected family relationships that we had no idea about – potentially compromising unity in the face of encroaching evil. There are also some very surprising deaths – of which, of course, the less said the better. There are, moreover, some surprising omissions in the cast list. Or are there?

Avengers: Infinity War is a giant battle for which directors Anthony and Joe Russo have given us touches of JRR Tolkien’s Return of the King and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The film delivers the sugar-rush of spectacle and some very amusing one-liners.

Whatever else it does, this Marvel movie shows its brand identity in the adroit management of tone. One moment it’s tragic, the next, it’s cracking wise. It’s absurd and yet persuades you of its overwhelming seriousness. And there are some amazing Saturday-morning-kids-show moments when you feel like cheering.Earth is being threatened by a massive malign hunk with a huge ridgey chin called Thanos, played by Josh Brolin. If he can gain ownership of all the talismanic infinity stones and place them in the holes in his custom-built gauntlet then he will have the ultimate power to destroy anything he wishes in the universe. And he has a chilling wish for mass slaughter of half the sentient beings in existence, ostensibly so that the other half will have enough food to eat – but really so they will bow down to him as the tyrant lord. Ranged against him, of course, are the good guys who come together not in a single phalanx but a constellation of improvised groupings, in which the alpha males have a tendency to bicker. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) is nettled by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his supercilious air of intellectual superiority – and vice versa. Spider-Man (Tom Holland) shows up and annoys the hell out of them both with his millennial’s flair for pop culture references. Thor


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(Chris Hemsworth) finds himself having to do a ride-along with the Guardians of the Galaxy and Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) is intimidated by Thor’s godlike machismo and finds himself trying to do the basso profundo voice. Vision (Paul Bettany) and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) are tormented by the glowing stone in Vision’s blue head, and they’re agonised by the thought that self-destruction is the only way to keep it out of Thanos’s huge mitts. Their own situation brings them into contact with Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) – who prefers his non-super name now, not Captain America, and also the always frowning Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), together with the frankly traumatised Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo).Scenes and situations whoosh by like a bizarre and bizarrely exciting dream. A sudden trip to Wakanda, with its secret world of remedial hi-tech surgery, seems entirely plausible. T’Challa, or Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) greets the visitors with his habitual Shakespearean bearing and princely calm. Inevitably, there is a little confusion. Groups of superheroes clash and each thinks the other is on Thanos’s side. “What master do you serve?” shouts one, awkwardly. “You mean – like Jesus?” comes the exasperated reply. No. Thor is the only god around here and even he isn’t guaranteed a result. It’s all in the cosmic balance. In theory, all these superheroes crammed into one movie should trigger the law of diminishing returns and the Traveling Wilbury effect. And yet somehow in its pure uproariousness, it works. It’s just a supremely watchable film, utterly confident in its self-created malleable mythology. And confident also in the note of apocalyptic darkness.I know it’s silly. And yet I can’t help looking forward to the next supersized episode of mayhem.


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Tricky word of phrase

Definition Can you write another sentence showing you know it?

Colossal,

cataclysmic, adjective: cataclysmic

(of a natural event) large-scale and violent.

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:

disastrous, catastrophic, calamitous, tragic, devastating, ruinous, terrible,

violent, awful

Informal

used to emphasize the extent of something bad or unwelcome.

There was a cataclysmic earthquake in San Francisco.

The defeat against Chelsea was cataclysmic

delirious, preposterous


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surreally adjective

1.of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.

2.having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic:

When he had the fever caused by sunstroke, he acted surreally.

There were moments in that cartoon which were surreal.

cosmic

chaotically

multiclone

encroaching evil.

omissions

sugar-rush of spectacle

brand identity

adroit adjective

adjective: adroit; comparative adjective: adroiter; superlative adjective: adroitest


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1. clever or skilful. Donald Trump is an adroit politician and campaigner; he won!

Ronaldo is adroit in the penalty area.

malign

talismanic

gauntlet

sentient

ostensibly

tyrant

phalanx

nettled

supercilious air

intimidated


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machismo

basso profundo

traumatised

remedial

habitual

law of diminishing returns

Traveling Wilbury

uproariousness,

malleable mythology.

apocalyptic darkness.

mayhem.


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Please read this article by A Times Journalist who loves sport and loves birds; read it two times.

Simon Barnes: While you were sleeping … the dawn chorus that’s too good to miss

Sedge warbler Cuckoo Cetti’s warbler

Set the alarm early: the dawn chorus reaches its peak this month.

I travelled through time to write these words, a dispatch from that far-off country they call Dawn. Fully dressed for winter, I stepped into the May morning at 3.50am, the darkness made darker by a porridge-thick silver mist. This was not the place I knew yesterday: my journey through time had changed everything. It was another world.

This undiscovered country lies just outside my house on the edge of the Norfolk Broads. I crossed a soggy floodplain and sat on a bench. I could see perhaps five yards ahead, but no matter. In this country, sight is redundant. Your ears tell you all you need to know.


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They’d already started: but that’s mainly because they’d never really stopped. A cuckoo called across the darkness, a Cetti’s warbler gave his sudden shout of song from a bush I couldn’t see, and two sedge warblers engaged in a song duel.

Let the music begin.

Birds sing. Especially, birds sing in May and sing at dawn. They do so in the spirit of those who place towels on the sun loungers at first light: this little bit of the planet is mine. One sedge warbler is nice: but now there were two — no, three — and that’s nine times better than one, because they set each other off. They sang like guitarists duelling in a metal band: each musician straining for greater range, power and virtuosity.

The most inventive singers claim the best territories, and this bit of marsh is near perfection. They intimidate other males with song and attract females with song. Sedge warblers are said never to sing the same song twice: they live musical lives of constant invention, and they sing as if singing were a matter of life and death, and for the best possible reason.

I think there are two Cetti’s warblers on our bit of marsh, but I can’t swear to it. They’re masters of the Beau Geste stratagem: you never see them; you hear one bird shouting from this bush, then another from that bush. Or is it the same bird? As the fictional French Foreign Legionnaire Geste convinced attackers that his desert fort was fully manned, so Cettis convince their rivals that this marsh is fully Cettied. Don’t bother moving in, you’re outnumbered.

There’s no song as simple as a cuckoo’s, and few that carry such a distance. That’s the cunning plan, of course. Cuckoos don’t need to be inventive. They don’t hold territory in any conventional sense because they don’t build nests. The big challenge of their lives is to find another cuckoo, an essential first step to making a new cuckoo. So they call and call and call: in the darkness, in the mist, across the long bright day and into the dusk.


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I sat still and, one by one, the chorus swelled as the light bled gently into the landscape. I counted 29 species while the mist kept everything hidden. A deer gave his ferocious howling bark. A sudden roaring clatter from the heronry.

Sweet notes of blackbird.

I felt I was going to spend all eternity in this featureless silver world, in which the only realities were sounds. But then at last the spell was broken by a vision: on silent wings, flying more or less over my right shoulder and almost brushing my right ear, a silver owl, gone almost as soon as seen.

Here, in the country called Dawn, the life is hidden from us not just by darkness and mist but by human choice. We are creatures of the light, we are creatures of eternal busyness and our schedules don’t often allow for an exploration of this elusive place. So it remains secret, unvisited, hidden from us by time rather than space. Dawn is a matter of the utmost urgency for the birds, but we humans just sleep through it. A lot of the wild world is like this: hidden in plain sight, because it just doesn’t operate by human logic. And that, of course, is precisely why such things matter so deeply for us humans.


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dispatch

floodplain flood plain an area of low-lying ground adjacent to a river, formed mainly of river sediments and subject to flooding.

Law asked us to think of studying floodplains for our coursework

redundant.

Straining

virtuosity.

inventive


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intimidate

Beau Geste stratagem:

conventional sense

light bled

ferocious

featureless of eternal busynesselusive adjective: elusive

difficult to find, catch, or achieve.

•difficult to remember.

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The Grand Slam proved elusive for Murray

The secret agent was elusive; he disappeared again.


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Please read these 2 articles, by Ron Liddle and David Baddiel, reacting to and reflecting upon the England defeat of Sweden in the World Cup


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Rod Liddle: We’ve buried ghosts and learnt to love our team again, so bring on the next lot!

Rod LiddleJuly 8 2018, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

In the otherwise utterly deserted streets I saw a bloke, a fairly hefty bloke, in a Saint George’s cross T-shirt running home as fast as his tortured legs would allow.

It was five to three and the players were warming up on the pitch in Samara. There were no cars on the road, no people. Oddly, not even the usual stray dogs. Just total silence apart from the wheezing, the terrible exertion, of this man as he ran.

You could have mistaken this vista for something altogether more sinister — something post-apocalyptic or maybe pre-apocalyptic, the famous four-minute warning. Thirty million English people confined to their homes, or to the pubs with their big screens — a nation, for once, coming together, their guts united in that usual wrenching agony of watching England play football. Leavers and remainers. Black and white. Northerners and soft southerners.

I hope the chap made it home without suffering an embolism. Made it back to the TV and the opportunity to do what the rest of us did on that rather marvellous Saturday afternoon — fall back in love with our national football team. After so long. After so, so long.

We have had decades of unfulfilled expectation, of course. Beginning in 1970 with a second-half capitulation to the dreaded Germans in a quarter-final which still makes me shudder when I think of it.


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I thought of that defeat, at the time, as a weird anomaly and that all would be put right very soon. It wasn’t, of course. We have had teams since then which should have done much better than they did — the 2006 side should have won the World Cup, and the 1990 team wasn’t very far behind in terms of quality. And yet each time we watched them we kind of expected failure, to be not quite up to the mark. And failure was indeed delivered, with reliable regularity.The players thought too highly of themselves, were overpaid and insouciant. The managers were useless. There was too much hubris on display. Good though these previous teams were — and in some cases unlucky — they were difficult to actually love. And so a certain cynicism and despondency registered itself among football fans. Until, maybe, now.

Football’s coming home. At least, that’s how it felt given a three o’clock kickoff on a Saturday, which is how things were always meant to be before the TV companies and the money got in the way. And England did that most unexpected thing — they won, and won comfortably, with a clever and often exhilarating performance which probably merited more than a two-goal margin. The nerves we all had at the beginning surely evaporated long before half-time, when it became clear that the Swedes had decided upon a quiescent neutrality as their game plan, as ever. They offered no more threat than had England’s previous opponents, Colombia, although to their credit they were also far less inclined to thuggery and cheating.

And so Gareth Southgate’s unlikely squad, written off before the tournament began, find themselves 90 minutes from a World Cup final. And this latest performance, against the Swedes, was unquestionably our most impressive in the knockout stage of a competition since 1966.

So many ghosts of England past were banished in that easeful hour and a half. The first ghost — Sweden, who looked like the England of yore (ie about 2012), with an antiquated formation and reliance on height and weight and resilience, devoid of wit and nuance and the ability to pass the ball. And then the ghosts of perennial and predictable failure, the corroded chains clanking behind them: pinch yourself — this time, we got through. And


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the ghosts of more gilded England teams in tournaments, sides way too reliant upon the undoubted but fragile talents of single individuals who, when push came to shove, failed to step up to the plate, or limped off, or became petulant and were sent off.The thing which I think the nation likes in this England team is its unity and apparent humility, personified by the soft and often self-deprecatory lisp of its lantern-jawed captain, Harry Kane. These have been exemplary team performances so far in this World Cup, canny, disciplined and occasionally enlivened with verve. We may not have the panache and speed of the French and the Belgians — surely the two most exciting teams in this tournament — but, hell, who needs panache and speed when you have Jordan Henderson and Ashley Young to clear the lines?

I liked watching my wife, not an habitual football aficionado, maddened with joy when Dele Alli headed that second goal. And up and down the country people whose connection to football is perhaps fleeting and tenuous, feeling exactly the same way, screaming to the rafters, beside themselves.

It reminds me that we are a country, even if we only come together like this very occasionally — and even then, to live our lives vicariously for 90 minutes, dependent upon a bunch of kids we really know nothing about.Bring on the next lot, Croatia. They can’t be more thuggish than Colombia or more boring than Sweden. And feel the love for this England side. Somehow Gareth Southgate has rehabilitated England — and even football — to people who had long since given up the ghost.


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utterly deserted

hefty

tortured

exertion

this vista

sinister —

post-apocalyptic 1.


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denoting or relating to the time following a nuclear war or other catastrophic event.

"a post-apocalyptic action picture of the ‘Mad Max’ type: tough loner fights for survival against hordes of barbaric scavengers"

2.

denoting or relating to the time following the biblical Apocalypse."the post-apocalyptic kingdom of God"

The film opened with a post-apocalyptic landscape.

pre-apocalyptic,

confined

wrenching agony

embolism.


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unfulfilled expectation, capitulation

shudder

weird anomaly

reliable regularity.

insouciant. adjective: insouciant1. showing a

casual lack of concern.

He was given a sanction for his insouciant reaction to the request to see his homework diary!

hubris

cynicism

despondency registered exhilarating

evaporated

quiescent neutrality thuggery The drunken sailors were prosecuted for their


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noun: thuggery1. violent behaviour,

especially of a criminal nature.

"a cowardly act of mindless thuggery"

thuggary

banished

easeful

yore

antiquated formation

reliance

perennial predictable corroded

fragile

petulant


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humility,

self-deprecatory lisp lantern-jawed

canny,

disciplined

enlivened

verve.

Panache

habitual

aficionado,

fleeting

tenuous

rafters,

vicariously


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rehabilitated

given up the ghost.


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Tricky word of phrase Find a good picture, image or cartoon to illustrate these words!

utterly deserted

sinister —

confined

wrenching agony

capitulation

shudder

hubris

exhilarating

banished

corroded

fragile

petulant


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humility,

disciplined

Panache

aficionado,

fleeting


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David Baddiel: I dare to believe football’s coming home

July 8 2018, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

At 2.15pm yesterday, my guinea pig died. I took this as a bad omen. And yet, as I sat in Frank Skinner’s living room watching England play Sweden — the team confidence and spirit so clearly there, Harry Maguire’s and Dele Alli’s headers sealing the day, Jordan Pickford a god among men — I started to experience a strange new feeling.It’s been, though, a strange week. Since we beat Colombia, a song that Frank, Ian Broudie and I wrote 22 years ago has become — well — what it was 22 years ago, but this time, because of social media and nostalgia and maybe a country in need of a song to sing together, multiplied by 10.

Harry Maguire’s goal slips past the Swedish goalkeeper to give England a 1-0 lead half an hour into the matchThree Lions expresses a number of things, including vulnerability and uncertainty and the memory of disappointment, but it also channels, through all that: hope. This time round, more than ever. When we wrote the song, the refrain “Football’s coming home” referred both to the fact that the tournament was being held in England, and to the more mystical idea that we might win. But now the first meaning doesn’t apply, so the song seems to mean only we might win, and more and more, as the week went on, and the meme and street party jubilation rose, yes, we are going to win.Even as the co-writer of that lyric, that was beginning to worry me. Football — particularly any football involving the England team, as the song indeed warns you — is not a game in which you should count your chickens before they’re hatched. In fact, generally, I would advise not counting them until they are breaded, fried and lying in a KFC Bargain Bucket. Where I’ve noticed you normally get one less than you’ve asked for.

Perhaps I’ve overstretched that metaphor. Point is, I was nervous. Even when we won against Colombia, when


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others on Twitter were reaching straight for #Itscominghome, I went for “It’s still just about coming home”. I was quoted, I believe, in the second half against Sweden, by the commentator, as saying that even if football isn’t yet coming home, it is maybe packing its bags.I remained tentative, the result of feeling too often hurt by rising hopes in the past. But then, the game started, and we scored, twice, and, if Raheem Sterling had got his feet right, we could have had more. England were dispatching Sweden, a team that had put Italy out of the qualifiers, who had been talked about as one of the toughest teams to beat in this competition, easily.

Yes, there were one or two scares, but England were not just winning: for once, they weren’t even putting us through the wringer. This has never happened before in my living memory at this level. At significant quarter-finals we have either lost, or — v Cameroon in 1990, v Spain in 1996 — got through by the skin of our teeth. The psychology of England, so often riven, like the country can be, by doubt, by self-destruction, by a sense that we can be so much but maybe that sense itself, and the fear that comes with it, of not meeting our potential, is what undoes us . . . it wasn’t coming into play.We were the better side, and — ergo — we were winning. This was the new feeling: an ease, a comfort, a sense of expectations met, around winning. It was like being Germany, but without the sense of entitlement.

So now I am daring to hope. Even though some very good teams still lie ahead of us; even though we have got to semi-finals before and been disappointed, I am daring to hope because I think this is a team marked by joy and newness and youth and Gareth Southgate’s deep emotional intelligence. We have shrugged off, for the moment, both in Russia and here at home, the suffocating burdens of our history. Let’s go further than hope, to belief.

We still believe, says Three Lions ’98, so yes, all right, I believe: it’s coming home. So much so that by the time I was walking back from Frank’s house after beating Sweden, I had become convinced that my guinea pig’s death was, clearly, a good omen, because his name was Bjorn.


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omen.

sealing

nostalgia

vulnerability noun

1The quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

He is confined in isolation because of his vulnerability to infection’

England were vulnerable to a counter attack.

uncertainty

mystical


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meme

1.

an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.

2.

an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.

jubilation

tentative,

dispatching

putting us through the wringer.

be put through the wringer

To be subjected to some ordeal, difficulty, trial, or punishment; to undergo an unpleasant experience.

psychology


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riven, verbpast participle: riven

1. literarysplit or tear apart violently.

"the party was riven by disagreements over Europe"

archaicsplit or crack (wood or stone

"the wood was riven with deep cracks

The Beatles was riven with competing egos.

ergo —

sense of

entitlement.

emotional intelligence.

suffocating burdens


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wing Tricky word of phrase

Find a good picture, image or cartoon to illustrate these words!

nostalgia

vulnerability

uncertainty

mystical

jubilation

putting us through the wringer.


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sense of entitlement.

emotional intelligence.


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Please also read these poems: we will be using them in several exercises. Think about what incident, memory or event seems to have caused them. (What accent/dialect do you hear them in when you read them?)


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The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy

I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.

Please watch these two versions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwpSZ6n0k-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BQDH2W4aq0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BQDH2W4aq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwpSZ6n0k-k

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Timothy Winters'

Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football-pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters.

His belly is white, his neck is dark, And his hair is an exclamation-mark. His clothes are enough to scare a crow And through his britches the blue winds blow.

When teacher talks he won't hear a word And he shoots down dead the arithmetic-bird, He licks the pattern off his plate And he's not even heard of the Welfare State.

Timothy Winters has bloody feet And he lives in a house on Suez Street, He sleeps in a sack on the kitchen floor And they say there aren't boys like him anymore.

Old Man Winters likes his beer And his missus ran off with a bombardier, Grandma sits in the grate with a gin And Timothy's dosed with an aspirin.

The welfare Worker lies awake But the law's as tricky as a ten-foot snake, So Timothy Winters drinks his cup And slowly goes on growing up.

At Morning Prayers the Master helves for children less fortunate than ourselves, And the loudest response in the room is when Timothy Winters roars "Amen!"

So come one angel, come on ten Timothy Winters says "Amen Amen amen amen amen." Timothy Winters, Lord. Amen

Charles Causley

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THE TYGER

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 sieze 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 watered 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?

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THE THOUGHT-FOX Ted Hughes

I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. Through the window I see no star: Something more near Though deeper within darkness Is entering the loneliness:

Cold, delicately as the dark snow, A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that nowAnd again now, and now, and now

Sets neat prints into the snow Between trees, and warily a lame Shadow lags by stump and in hollow Of a body that is bold to come

Across clearings, an eye, A widening deepening greenness, Brilliantly, concentratedly, Coming about its own business

Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

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What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

A Few Summer Puzzles


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Puzzle 1

Below are thirteen 5 lettered, everyday words, each of which has had two of its letters removed.

In total these 26 letters are A-Z. The remaining letters in each word are in the correct order.

There are no words which are spelled differently based upon location (favour/favor, etc) and there are no plurals.

Can you determine the original words?

APEBAEBODANCROEELLRAYBUCORAUMBSUALOLGES


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Puzzle 2

Complete these common words by using all of the letters A to Z, each exactly once.

*e*er**eue**oma**p*a*e**erso****k*am*on*ouse*a**ur****igent

Puzzle 3

What shape completes the bottom line?

triangle pentagon squaresquare hexagon hexagon squarepentagon hexagon hexagon hexagon square trianglehexagon octagon octagon octagon octagon ==?==


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Puzzle 4

At your future university, the science department has three disciplines.

In total, 280 students study chemistry, 254 students study physics and 280 students study biology.

97 students study both chemistry and physics, 138 students study both physics and biology, 152 students study both chemistry and biology.

73 students study all three disciplines.

Can you determine how many students there are in the science department? The answer is well below 814.


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Puzzle 5

Hidden in the grid below are eight, 7 letter words. Each word begins with the central P and you can move one letter in any direction to the next letter. All of the letters are used exactly once each. What are the words?

Puzzle 6

Which of the five black shapes is identical to the red one? There may be more than one which is exactly the same.


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Puzzle 7

Hidden in each of the sentences are the numbers 1 to 10 in words.

A number might appear in more than one sentence, but there is only one way to find all ten numbers.

For example 'My parents told me to never cross the road without looking.' contains the number 1: 'My parents told me to never cross the road without looking.'

The robins love hiding amongst the smooth reeds.

It's always worth looking after your friends, even if they've upset you.

Even heavyweight boxers like using soft tissues when they have a cold.

To avoid the calf, I veered sharply to the left.

The eggs were boxed thirteen instead of a dozen in each baker's delivery box.

Having salmon every day for lunch gets a little boring after a while.

The attendance at the local football match exceeded last weeks by many thousands.

We need to waterproof our boots to make sure we don't get wet.

Meeting friends after work allows executives to network effectively.

The orchestra sounded magnificent with the three virtuosi xylophonists.


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Puzzle 8

Each empty white square in the grid contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3,..., 8. Each of the horizontal and vertical equations must be true and each number must be used exactly once.

Puzzle 9

Two friends were driving from their home to Manchester, Paul drove the first 90 miles, and Daniel took over the remainder of the journey. On the way back, Paul drove to begin with, and Daniel took over for the last 100 miles.

Who drove the most?

Puzzle 10

During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try and identify who stole Mrs Archer's cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:

Arnold: it wasn't Edward it was Brian

Brian: it wasn't Charles it wasn't Edward

Charles: it was Edward it wasn't Arnold

Derek: it was Charles it was Brian

Edward: it was Derek it wasn't Arnold

It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?


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