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Vocabulary Test! Complete the gaps to test last week’s vocabulary. [10 marks]

melodious

conspicuous

mesmerised

wistfully

incision

overwhelming

intermittent

ominous

placard

frantically

1. He walked up to the door and on the front was a handwritten note saying ‘visitors are not welcome’.

This was an ____________________ sign.

2. A ____________________ sound made me look around, and that was when I noticed a girl playing a piano in the corner.

3. “If only that was mine,” said the girl ____________________.

4. An ____________________ alarm kept going off somewhere in the building, which made it difficult to concentrate on my work.

5. The magic show was so good; I was ____________________ the whole time.

6. A ____________________ hanging outside listed the shop’s opening hours.

7. “The suspect should be easy to catch because he has a ____________________ birthmark on his face.” said the inspector.

8. The surgeon made an ____________________ during the operation.

9. When I lost my keys yesterday, I ____________________ looked for them for two hours!

10. When you start at a new school or job, the amount of information they give you can be ____________________.

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Rule! When you answer long reading questions you need to ‘PQD’ them.

Point :

Quotation :

Development :

Write a simple answer to the question.

Prove your answer with a quotation.

‘I know this because it says…’

‘It says…’

‘For example, it says…’

Explain what the quotation means and explain how the words used have an effect on the reader.

This shows that…

This suggests that…

This quotation means…

This word makes the reader think of…

Read the extract and then answer the questions using PQD format when you’re asked to use evidence to support your answer. [Each 5 marks] They said Leo Rake was always in a world of his own, but he didn’t care. After all, what did the real world know about him?

Leo had a trick he played on the real world. HE just shut it out. It was like he had his own private mute button, like the one on the TV remote. And sometimes, when he put the world on mute, he’d have a running commentary in his head.

A lot went on in Leo’s head. It was like having his own telly channel. Sometimes he’d be playing for England at Wembley, lobbing a goal over the German keeper. Other times he’d be talking to Mum, remembering how they chatted, wishing things were different.

When the other kids complained about their mums not letting them stay up late or stupid stuff like that, Leo would hear his mum and wish she hadn’t had to die.

There was another good thing about the world inside his head. He didn’t have to lie. It was the only place he didn’t have to lie. Especially about the things that had been going on.

He never let anybody in, though. Not Dad. Not Nan. Not even Flora, his friend. His only friend, if truth be known.

And certainly not the teachers, especially Manders. No way Manders!

Like now. Here he was in class again with Manders banging on. There he stood at the front, his mouth opening and closing like a stupid fish.

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Then he was back inside his head. He was back at Wemberlee. He could hear the crowd’s roar.

And they were chanting his name: ‘There’s only one Leo Rake, one Leo Rake… There’s only one L-E-O-R-A-A-A-K-E…!’

Leo was making his debut against Germany. He was in the tunnel, marching out. …

In Leo’s head, he heard the television commentator. ‘And they are singing this young man’s name. What a dream this is for the young Leo Rake…who today becomes the youngest Englishman to ever play for his country…a dream come true’.

From The Truth About Leo, by David Yelland

1. Using evidence from the text, explain how Leo shuts the world out.

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2. How do we know that Leo isn’t completely happy? Give evidence from the text to support your answer.

3. Does Leo like his teacher, Manders? Support your answer with quotations from the text.

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4. Why do you think Leo day-dreams about playing at Wembley? Use evidence to support your answer.

Just like a piece of writing, good reading answers need to have accurate punctuation, spelling and be written in a formal style. Correct the mistakes in the answer below: [11 marks]

Does Leo talk to anyone about his private thoughts?

Leo doesn’t comunicate with anyone about the stuff in his head. I know this because it says, “Not Dad. Not Nan. Not even Flora, his friend. This shows that he doesn’t talk to anybody about it but instead has seperate thoughts. It also suggests that he doesnt even talk to those people that are really close to him because it says “Dad” The author emphasises that leo doesn’t talk to anyone by repeating the word “not” three time’s.

Read the extract then complete the tasks below.

Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon 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.

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Question : This is the start of a story. What kind of a story does the author hint that it will be (e.g. romance, thriller, comedy)? Use quotations to explain your answer. [5 marks] Point

Quotation

thriller

“moon”

Development (think of the associations of the words)

“deadly”

“blade”

Use the notes in this table to write a PQD paragraph to answer the question.

This is the start of a story. What kind of a story does the author hint that it will be? [5 marks]

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Vocabulary TYTTA 1

3

NELLUS 5

13

9

11

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LSTAE

IRNUALQT 6

14

10

2

EIDOU ST 8

1

2

3

12

4

4

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6

7

8

9

6

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3

4

10

6

4

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Unscramble each of the clue words. If you find it too difficult, use the clues below!

Then copy the letters in the numbered cells to other cells with the same number to uncover the secret message.

Clues : 1. old, messy (T)

4. calm, peaceful (T)

2. moody, miserable (S)

5. boring (T)

3. bread that has gone off is like this (S)

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HOMEWORK TASK Your homework tasks are to learn ten new words and answer some reading questions using PQD. [10 marks] Word

Meaning

lucid

adjective: clear, clear understanding of something

vivid

adjective: strikingly bright or intense; full of life; life-like

intoxicate

verb: to have less control either physically or mentally, usually because of taking some kind of substance, such as alcohol or drugs

entice

insinuate

flail

Example

verb: to encourage or lead on by exciting someone’s hope or desire

verb: to suggest or hint

verb: to thrash about

plague

noun: a very bad disease that causes lots of people to die

chastise

verb: to discipline or criticize severely

boggy

adjective: wet and spongy

rasping

adjective: harsh, grating

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Read the extract and then answer the questions using PQD structure.

Dreams Everyone dreams, they say, even babies and dogs. Often you can just catch hold of a wisp of a dream – a lucid, shining fragment that stays with you when you surface from sleep: a leaf turning in a breeze, the cry of a strange bird; a car passing silently, its wheels a foot above the ground. Sometimes dreams can become so vivid, so intoxicatingly real, that you can remember them long after waking up. And some dreams can seem more real – and far more enticing – than your own life. These are the dangerous ones. They insinuate themselves like false friends. Like a will-o-the-wisp, a flickering flame hovering over boggy ground, they will lead you away into strange dark places and then abandon you to your fate.

Cawstocke was in the grip of a plague of dreams.

One day Jamie Wave arrived at school to find everyone chattering excitedly.

“What’s going on?”

“We’re comparing dreams,” said Jinny Briggs, a twinkle-eyed girl with hair the colour of the orange heart of a flame.

“We all had really good dreams last night. Johnny was in a band, singing to hundreds of people in a club –” Everyone laughed again, since Johnny’s voice was rasping and awful. The music teacher, Mr Doherty, chastised them for laughing at him. “Leave him alone, his voice is breaking,” he would say, and someone was bound to chorus back, “I think it’s already broken, sir!”

“And Linda dreamed she was swimming in the sea at night.”

“Yeah, that’s proper skinny-dipping!” someone sniggered. Linda was painfully thin.

Linda pretended not to hear this. “It was gorgeous,” she sighed. “The water was all silver and sparkly, and there were dolphins leaping in and out of the waves.”

“I was a pirate, all dressed in black,” said Jack Cole. “I had sword fights and climbed the ship’s rigging with a cutlass between my teeth.” This was hard to imagine, because Jack looked as unlike a pirate as you could imagine: he was, if you were being honest, a bit fat, and he was hopeless at sport. No one could imagine him climbing the rigging: he could barely get off the ground on the ropes in the school gym but would hang there, flailing and wailing like a fly trapped in a spider’s web.

Answer the following questions by supporting your answer with evidence from the extract.

1. How does the author describe dreams in the first main paragraph? [4 marks]

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2. Look again at the first part of the extract. Does the author make dreams sound like they are good or bad things? [4 marks]

3. When Jamie Wave arrives at school, what mood are the other students in? [4 marks]

4. How is Jinny Briggs described? What might this suggest about her character? [4 marks]

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5. Was Linda’s dream pleasant or not? Explain how you know. [4 marks]

6. Is Jack any good at sport? How do we know? [4 marks]

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