Information for exam on Crit A: Understanding Spoken and Visual text

Criteria A: Techniques 

                   Understanding of advert

                   Target Audience

Criteria C: Use of effective cohesive devices

                   Fluency

                   Opinion

                   Stucture and register

Criteria D: Grammatical accuracy

                    Range of vocabulary

                   Structure and register

Advert analysis table

	Advert 1	Advert 2	Advert 3
What product is the advert advertising?
What information does the advert give you?
What techniques does the advert use to persuade you to buy the product?
Who is the target audience? How do you know this?

Adverts - Useful phrases

How to say where things are:

On the right / left
At the front / back / the top / the bottom
In the top right hand corner. In the bottom right hand corner.
In the middle / centre
Next to / besides / between /


How to say what the different elements could represent:

In my opinion the boy represents /shows / illustrates / portrays / symbolises / depicts / signifies/ highlights family life and chilhood.

How to express your idea about who the target audience could be:

I think the target audience might be...
Perhaps the target audience could be...
In my opinion the target audience are...
The target audience could possibly be...
One could argue that the target audience are...
The target audience are most likely ...

Holes Comprehension questions - FINISH FOR FRIDAY 27TH JANUARY

Read over chapter 19 individually and answer these reading comprehension questions.
1/ How did Squid react to Stanley´s friendly comments at the beginning of the chapter?
2/ Did Stanley want the sack of sunflower seeds?
3/ On page 86 on the 6th line why is the word into in italics?
4/ Give a definition on the verb to mutter on page 86.
5/ Does Stanley take the blame for stealing the sunflower seeds? Why or why not?
6/ Write a short summary of no more than 5 lines of chapter 19.

Work for Wednesday 18th January

Hello lovely year 8,

1. Look at the following website.

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

It has lots of the information we were discussing yesterday. Read through it and then attempt some of the exercises at teh bottom of the page.

COPY and PASTE at least five of these exercises into a word document to show me on Friday.

2. Start designing a poster on the uses of the passive voice and on its formation (like the tables we looked at on Tuesday)

Have fun!

NOTE: YOUR FIRST ASSESSMENT OF THE TERM WILL BE ON TUESDAY 24TH JANUARY.
This will be criteria B (Reading comprehension) and Critera D (Grammar). Passive voice and being able to use it in various tenses will be tested!

Chapter 16 Holes - Copy the definitions and find the correct words or phrases

1/ an odd description of the human body (page 72)

2/ another way of saying sofa (page 72)

3/ a sound expressing pain (page 73)

4/ another way of saying broken (page 73)

5/ another way of saying to take away (page 73)

6/ what you put on a pen or jar to close it (page 73)

7/ another way of saying to stop (page 74)

8/ a stealthy act or movement  (page 74)

9/ one supposes that (page 74)

10/  a revelation/discovery (page 75)