Are people still travelling on this road? Why/why not?

WEEK 5

WORDS OF THE WEEK

Do you know what these words mean? Follow the look-cover-write-check method to practise these spellings.

Spelling

opportunity persuade queue

queueing

quiet Strategy / strategies to help remember

Double-P, pronounce as spelt Break it up: Per-su-ade (little Su likes lemonADE). Sound out letters Q-UE-UE Sound out letters Q-UE-UE-I-N-G; note that the alternative (US?) spelling QUEUING is not acceptable Pronounce as two syllables – QUI- ET

Spelling opportunity persuade queue queueing quiet Look

APOSTROPHES

Add the correct apostrophes to the sentences below. (There are ten missing apostrophes).

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DESCRIBING

Write a short paragraph about the last school trip that you went on.

The class didnt go on the schools trip to the zoo because the school hadnt ordered the company buses. However, the next days activities proceeded as planned. At the bus stop, before entering the zoos gates, the teacher said that students shouldnt fool around, but that they must write down the animals habits. He would mark the pupils notebooks. The students attitude was positive. At the days end, the teacher felt that the childrens behaviour and discipline had been excellent.

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ARTICLE: THE HERO OF THE DAY...IS A STRAY!

A farmer trapped under her quad bike was rescued by a stray dog. Read the article and then answer the comprehension questions which follow.

Louisa North of Salisbury was touring her farm yard on a quad bike at around 2pm on Thursday. Having lived here most of her life, Louisa knew the grounds like the back of her hand, so she often threw caution to the wind. Unfortunately, overconfident Louisa took a sharp corner too quickly and the quad bike rolled, pinning her to the ground by her leg.

‘It was ridiculous,’ she reports, ‘I thought I’d be there until dusk. It was then I’d be missed. I was suffering, I really was. My leg felt as if it had been crushed and I was worried about losing consciousness.’

Then a very peculiar thing happened. A stray dog approached the quad bike to find out what was going on. She sniffed around, and nuzzled Louisa.

‘I didn’t really know how to respond. She could have attacked me if she’d wanted to. What could I have done about it? I was completely immobilised.’ Fortunately for Louisa, the dog was not aggressive. The Cocker Spaniel was affectionate, and started to lick Louisa. After detecting she was in trouble, the stray began to bark. She ran around the quad bike, continuing to bark. She did this for twenty minutes.

The ferocious barking drew in some ramblers. One of the ramblers, Christine Morris, describes the experience. ‘The dog had been making quite a racket as we drew nearer to the field. Obviously, from a distance, we had no idea what it was doing. It was running around a quad bike, but we could not see the young lady pinned underneath it. I suggested we investigated, but it wasn’t an appealing idea. We didn’t know how safe it was. This dog could be dangerous for all we knew. Being a dog owner myself, I advised my companions not to look at the dog in case it interpreted as a threat. We slowly approached the quad while the dog continued to circle it, clearly trying to communicate with us. As we got nearer to the quad, we realised what it was trying to tell us. Someone was trapped there.

After contacting air ambulance, Louisa was airlifted, taken to hospital, and the surgeons worked for on her leg long into the night. After these events, Louisa decided to adopt the dog. ‘No question the dog saved my life. If she hadn’t have called over the ramblers, I could have bled to death. Miraculously, the surgeons saved my legs too. That dog is a true hero. Without her assistance, I’d have lost everything.’