Reported Speech

Remember: You will have a writing and grammar exam (Crit C and D 33%) on FRIDAY 12TH MAY AFTER FERIA.

The grammar on the exam will be CONDITIONALS and REPORTED SPEECH. Use your notes from class, your textbook and the grammar websites on the blog to help you study.


COMPLETE THESE EXERCISES AND COPY AND PASTE THEM / SCREENSHOT THEM INTO A WORD DOCUMENT. Keep them in your grammar folder and call the document Reported Speech Practice.


Reported Speech practice:

Start with these to revise:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/backshift.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/time_phrases.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/reported_speech/pronouns.htm



These are more complicated:

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-1.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-10.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-9.html

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-11.html

Listening Practice for Tuesday´s exam

REMEMBER: YOUR LISTENING EXAM WILL BE ON TUESDAY 25TH APRIL

Holes vocabulary review

1. YOUR PRESENTATION MUST BE FINISHED FOR AFTER SEMANA SANTA

2. WE WILL HAVE A VOCAB TEST ON TUESDAY 18TH APRIL ON THIS VOCABULARY. 

3. IN THE TEST YOU WILL BE GIVEN A DEFINITION AND YOU YOU WILL NEED TO WRITE THE WORD CORRECTLY.

• A meadow 
• Roots 
• A nightgown 
• A very proper person 
• A leech 
• To snigger 
• To be flushed 
• A butcher 
• Contritely 
• A trail 
• Overhead 
• Pointless
• To shimmer 
• A mirage 
• Man-made
• Raspy 
• Sheepish
• A miracle 
• To take a sip 
• To peel 
• A layer 
• Murky 
• A cub scout 
• A prize 
• To be arrested 
• To sneak 
• To be evicted 
• To dunk 
• A throne
• To retrieve
• Sandpaper 
• To crawl 
• Dizzy 

You need to produce a PP presentation with definitions/ images and perhaps the Spanish version of the word... Do one slide for each word.

We will have a test on these words after Semana Santa so your presentation will help you prepare for the test...

Holes - Chapters 34 - 38

Read chapters 34-38 then answer the following questions:

1.Find an example of personification on page 152.

2.Define: Mirage.

3.Why do you think ‘Barf Bag’ stepped on a rattlesnake on purpose?

4.Why did Stanley keep taking a ‘mental snapshot’ of the Big Thumb?

5.Why was Stanley scared when he realised he was almost at the Big Thumb?

6.What was the first sign that Stanley and Zero were near water?

7.How was Stanley able to find water in the end?