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Bio Poem media type="file" key="Bio poem.mov" width="300" height="300" An excellent Bio Poem Ella. Great consistency with your colour choice for your text. This is very effective. Your builds are all consistent with coming in from the left which helps your poem to flow nicely. Great expression with your voice overs, but you needed to slow down your build ins as your voice can't keep up with them!! Fantastic effort!! Miss Crone :)

WARRIORS READING WORK WEEK 10

**School Journal 2000 Part Four Number One**

**THE GAME**

Here is a list of descriptive words and phrases. Choose the three that your think //best// describes the Space World game players. Choose the three that you think //best// describe the arcade ifself. //Base your choices on what you’re told on page 2.//

**young polite aggressive badly-behaved modest keen to play dark noisy well-lit**

**virtually adult-free menacing cheerful lowlife scum**


 * **Words or phrases describing the players** || **Words or phrases describing the arcade** ||
 * //young// || //adult-free// ||
 * //keen to play// || //lowlife// ||
 * //modest// || //menacing// ||

<span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">**Answer these:**
 * 1) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">Matt’s ‘feet rested on pedals, and the fingers of his left hand danced over four keys set on a lever’. Which one word in this sentence tells you that Matt was a skillful player?**//danced//**
 * 2) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">Write down three details that show that Matt was badly affected by his experiences in playing the new machine **//He was shaking/His face was pale/He didn’t talk!//**
 * 3) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">Why were adult fighter pilots no use against the alien fighters?**//Because they had lost there confidence in fighting when they were teens//**

<span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">**Complete the following sentences. Delete any words that don’t apply:** <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">I don’t like arcade games because i’ve never played one before. <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">The best arcade game I’ve ever played is because/ i’ve never played one before.

<span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">**Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself:** <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">This story suggest two things that many people will find **//these//** disturbing. One is that we are already under **//attack//** from alien invaders. While for years much has been made of sightings of strange craft in our **//ideas//**, the idea that aliens are fighting a secret war against us is **//warfare//**. The second disturbing thing is the **//new//** __children are the key to defeating__ the aliens. And what if harmless fun in arcades is really against a **//dangerous//** enemy. Does that mean other **//new//** arcade games aren’t what they seem? Perhaps when you a character in an arcade game **//idea//**, a real person somewhere in the world!

<span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">**attack dangerous dies find idea new shoot skies these warfare**

<span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">The writer uses some interesting verbs in this story. Match six of the words below with the meanings listed on the left.
 * 1) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">slid out of control **//skidded//**
 * 2) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">moved and stopped abruptly **//jerked//**
 * 3) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">grabbed tightly **//gripped//**
 * 4) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">tearing **//clawing//**
 * 5) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">sprang **//hurtled//**
 * 6) <span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px;">rushed at great speed **//bounded//**

<span style="color: #250404; font-size: 21px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px;">**shoved skidded flicked gripped jerked bounded hurtled clawing**

**Monday 11 April 2011**

School Journal 2000 Part Four Number One

**THERE STOOD A MAN**

**Here are ten events from the story, but they’re in the wrong order. Put them in the right order.**
 * 1)  George woke up about mid-day **[8]**
 * 2)  Night began to fall **[3]**
 * 3)  George smelled food **[6]**
 * 4)  Shorty told George there was no-one with him when he came into camp **[9]**
 * 5)  George rubbed the bump on his head and wondered where he was **[1]**
 * 6)  Shorty told George he would lead him down the old greenstone trail **[10]**
 * 7)  George followed the Maori along a faint track **[5]**
 * 8)  The men in the camp stared at George as he swayed unsteadily **[7]**
 * 9)  George thought about Robbie Burn’s lines about ghosts and ghoulies **[2]**
 * 10)  A Maori suddenly appeared ahead of him**[4]**

**Complete these sentences using information from the story**
 * 1)  George didn’t know where he was because __**He had got knocked out**__
 * 2)  George started thinking of ‘ghoulies and ghosties’ because __**He thought that the ghosts would help him**__
 * 3)  The Maori guide suggested that George keep quiet __**by Moving is hands**__
 * 4)  The first sign that there was a camp nearby was __**He smelt food**__

**When the Maori guide pointed at George’s feet and beckoned, George took this as a signal to walk. See if you can come up with a hand signal for each of the following commands. Write your description beside each command:**
 * 1)  Keep quiet __**Put your finger over your mouth**__
 * 2)  Speed up __**Move your hands back and forth**__
 * 3)  Stop __**Hold your hand out in front of the person**__
 * 4)  Come here __**Wave your hand to wards yourself**__

**Complete the following sentences. Delete the words which don’t apply** If I had found myself lost like George I would have _ I think the best word to describe George is because I enjoyed not enjoy this story because __**it was interesting and you didn’t know what was going to happen next**__

**If you were alert when reading the story the idea that the Maori guide was a ghost would not have surprised you. List below 4 clues given by the writer to suggest that the Maori was a ghost** 1. __He turned to thank his rescuer and he was no longer there!__
 * 1)  __He came in the camp n his wn but he saw a Maori.__
 * 2)  __The Maori just appared in front of him.__
 * 3)  __There has been no Maori on the track for years.__