Reading Skill

Unit: CultureTopic: Local

StorySubtopic:Folkta

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Questions

Vocabulary

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playground

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STRUCTURE

Structure :Prepositional phrases

In a sentence prepositions show the relation of one word to another word. Prepositions require an object to complete them, typically a noun or a pronoun. A preposition and its object are called a prepositional phrase.

The words below can be used as a preposition in a prepositional phrase.

In on at under above behind beside fromonto toward within inside around through until between

The words above can be used as prepositions. In order for one of these words to be considered a preposition, it must be part of a prepositional phrase. Here are some examples of a prepositional phrase:

-in a beautiful garden-on their branches-round the garden

1. Everyday after school some children played in a beautiful garden.

2. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones.

prepositional phrase

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Examples

Everyday after school some children played in a beautiful garden. It belonged to a giant but he was not in his castle. He was visiting his friend a long way away. Flowers like stars grew in the grass. In spring the trees had pink flowers on their branches. In the autumn the trees held round golden fruit.“We are very happy here!” the children told each other.

The Selfish Giant

The giant stayed away for seven years, but one day he came back. He saw the children in his garden. “What are you doing here?” he asked in a gruff voice. “This garden is mine!” The children ran away. The giant built a wall all round the garden. He put up a big notice: KEEP OUT!

He was a very selfish giant. The children had nowhere to play. They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones. They passed the high wall after school. “We were happy there,” they said to each other.

Spring came. Everywhere there were flowers and birds. But in the selfish giant’s garden it was still winter. The birds did not want to sing in it because there were no children. There were no flowers anywhere. Snow covered the grass. The north wind came. It rattled the windows. It roared all round the garden like an angry beast. The giant could not understand it. “Where is spring?” he said.

But spring never came, nor the summer. In the autumn the other gardens had golden fruit but the giant’s garden had nothing. It was always winter in his garden. There was ice and snow. The cold north wind blew more fiercely every day.

One morning the giant woke up early. He heard beautiful music. It was a bird singing cheerfully outside his window. The giant looked out. He saw a small hole in his tall, thick wall. But then he saw the most wonderful sight. In every tree sat a little child. Pink flowers were on the branches. The birds were flying about and twittering. The flowers nodded their heads most joyfully. The giant’s heart melted.

“I was very selfish!” he said. “Now I understand why spring never came! My garden can be the children’s playground for ever and ever!” He took a big axe and knocked down the wall and the children played there everyday.

1.Where did the children usually play after school?

Question

They usually played in the giant’s garden.

2.Why did the giant finally allow the children to play at his garden?

Question

Because he needed the wonderful sight to his garden.

3.How was the end of this story?

Question

The giant allowed the children to play in his garden; therefore, the spring, the flowers, and the birds came to his garden again.

Context Clues

There are 4 main types of Context Clues:

-Rewording the word.

-Giving its Synonym.

-Giving its Antonym.

-Giving Details about the word.

Rewording

Rewording is when the author says the word in another way, that is typically easier to understand.

In REWORDING, the context clues are often hidden between commas.

Example

Resentment, a feeling of bitterness and anger, is often felt by people who are passed over for promotions.

Meaning

Synonyms

A writer sometimes uses synonym context clues to help with hard words. A synonym context clue is one or two words that mean almost the same as the one that the author does not expect us to know.

SYNONYM context clues are often hidden in surrounding sentences.

Example

The young girl was very aloof. She always seemed unsociable, unapproachable, and uninterested.

Meaning

Antonyms

A writer is using antonym context clues when they use a word with opposite meaning to give us hints about the word that they don’t think we will know.

ANTONYM context clues always have hint words to tell us that there are opposites present

Example

Dianna appeared to be a very moral and upstanding young lady, but those who knew her knew that she was iniquitous.

The word BUT tells us that the two parts of the sentence represent opposite points of view about Dianna

Iniquitous must mean evil and immoral

Details

A writer is using details as context clues when they give us explanations or examples as hints about the word that they don’t think we will know.

Example

Father was ecstatic because Joshua decided to go to the college that he wanted him to.

BECAUSE tells us that the writer is about to say why Father was ecstatic.

Ecstatic must mean the same as happy

-Take 5 minutes to read text 3 “The Selfish Giant”. -Try to guess the meaning of the underlined word from the given context clue in each item. -Then, choose the best answer and give reasons why and how you choose that choice.

Activity 2Guessing

Intelligently

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1. He was a very selfish giant. He didn’t allow the children to play in his garden because he loved his garden very much.

a. The giant didn’t like the children because the children were very naughty.

b. The giant cared only about himself and his garden not about the children.

c. The giant annoyed the children and didn’t want to face the children.

2. In the autumn the trees held round golden fruit. The leaves were brown.

a. the time during the sunny day

b. the time when the leaves in the trees is fresh

c. the time when the leaves are falling down

3. My garden can be the children’s playground because they like to play there very much.

a. a place that are provided for children to play

b. a place that are used for playing the children

c. a place that are fixed for children to walk along.

4. The bird was singing cheerfully. The children liked to listen to its sound.

a. The bird’s singing sounded very bad.

b. The bird’s singing sounded very happy.

c. The bird was singing awfully.

5. Every day after school some children played in a beautiful garden where the giant liked to plant beautiful trees.

a. a place where is full of beautiful plants

b. a place where the plants are cut

c. the place where people like to go jogging

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-Make a group of 5 people. -Take 5 minutes to read text 3 “The Selfish Giant” -Then, take 10 minutes to prepare the musical movie regarding the story “The Selfish Giant” that you have read. -In the musical movie, there are 3 characters: story teller, giant, and children. Each student in a group has to act as follows:

Task 1Selfish Giant the

Musical

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-The first student acts as a story teller.

-The second student acts as a giant. -The last three students act as children.  Note: Everyone must have a chance to speak in the performance.