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Starter Worksheets
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CONTRACTIONS Turn the words in italics into a contraction (shortened form). Remember that the apostrophe is located where letters have been removed. The first one has been done for you. 1. Trudy does not understand her homework. doesn’t 2. Sam rarely laughs while he is sleeping. 3. Bill likes chocolate but he has stopped eating it. 4. We have tried to be fair to everyone. 5. Karen and Sarah think they are cuter than you. 6. Maria refused to admit that she had put butter in her pocket. 7. Ashley promised that she would send us an e-mail. 8. The report will be handed in but it will be late. 9. I wonder if it is proper to eat soup with a knife and fork. 10. That is the silliest song they have ever sung. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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ADJECTIVES, ALLITERATION AND SYLLABLES Pirates, pirates, pirates __________, __________, __________ pirates, __________, __________, __________ pirates, Pirates, pirates, pirates. 1. Choose a letter. For example, ‘c’. Choose three adjectives beginning with ‘c’ to describe the pirates. For example, cold, cunning, cannibal. • The adjectives you choose must have one, two then three syllables in them. 2. Repeat with a different letter. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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PATTERNS IN WORDS Some words can be classed as several different ‘types’ of words, for example, a noun in one sentence and a verb in another! Take the word ‘park’. It has two different meanings and can be used in two different ways. Look at the following sentences. What type of word is ‘park’ in each one? 1. You can’t park the car in the city centre. ____________ 2. Children like playing in the park. _____________ Can you think of any more words like this? Here are a few more to start you off. - part - hand - shop - table - party Write pairs of sentences for five words showing the two different ways they can be used. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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OHT / WBS EXTENSION TASK Some words start off as verbs and then become nouns as well. For example: • to take away > a take-away • to eat > eats • to put on > a put-on Some nouns become verbs too. For example: • an audition > to audition • service > to service • rubbish > to rubbish Can you think of any more? OHT / WBS Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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THE CATEGORY GAME You will need either a mini-whiteboard or a piece of lined paper and a pencil. Draw six columns with headings as shown below: ADJECTIVE NOUN ADVERB VERB ADJECTIVE NOUN b big boys brutally bash bald bullies Choose four letters and write them in the table. Taking each letter in turn, see if you can make a sentence, each word beginning with the letter given. The sentence must make sense. The first to do so wins. An example is given to start you off. CONSEQUENCES 1. Work in groups of no more than six. 2. On the top of your piece of paper, write down an adjective. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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3. Fold the piece of paper over and pass it to the person on your left. 4. Jot down a noun, fold the paper and pass it along. 5. Repeat the process with an adverb, a verb, another adjective and another noun. 6. When you have finished, fold out the piece of paper and read out the sentences. ADJECTIVE NOUN ADVERB VERB ADJECTIVE NOUN PRONOUNS Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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the place of nouns and are therefore called ‘PRONOUNS’. Here are the most important ones in the singular. Can you work out the plurals? Singular Plural I, me ____________ You ____________ He, him, she, her, it _____________________ My, mine ____________ Your, yours ____________ His, her, hers, its _____________________ Now fill in the blanks in the following passage: I have a dog called Sam. ________ love ________ but he can be very mischievous. One day my friends and ________ were coming home from school when ________ dog, Sam, ran out into the road and chased ________ friend Mick up the hill. ________ got scared and jumped over a fence into someone’s garden. ________ shouted at Sam to come to ________ but ________ refused. An old man came out of the house brandishing a stick. ________ was scowling and looked furious. ________ all legged it down the hill and Sam followed ________. When ________ got home my mum said, “Why are ________ so hot and bothered?” “That old man up the road flipped ________ lid because Sam ran into ________ garden,” I replied. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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PREPOSITIONS Prepositions are the little words that join up the more important nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. These are words like the following: from, in on, by, at, of, to Preposition Poem Take each preposition in turn and make it the first word in a line of a poem. Then fill in the line. Try to make the poem make sense! The first line is written for you below as an example. You may choose a different line if you prefer. From Monday to Friday I go to school In…….. On…….. By…….. At…….. Of…….. To…….. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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STANDARD ENGLISH The grammar used in some dialects is different from the grammar of Standard English. It isn’t wrong, just different. When you talk, especially when you talk to your friends, you use lots of expressions which are not Standard English. This is fine, but when you write, it’s important to know what the Standard English grammar is. All the expressions below use non- Standard English. Look at these dialect expressions and see if you can give the Standard English equivalent. • Where be he to? • We was blue with cold. • He’ll be home while four o’clock. • I were mad with him, I were. • When I gets in I likes a nice cup of tea. • I never done it. • Me and my mate we sees him everyday. • I likes them chocolate cakes. • That’s the man what I saw. • He gets hiself mad. Normally we would not use dialect expressions in writing. We would use Standard English, but some writers like to use dialect expressions in dialogue, when characters are talking to each other. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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ANALOGIES Complete each analogy by writing the best word in the blank. 1. Wind is to breeze as storm is to ___________________. rain snow tornado shower 2. Haircut is to service as hat is to ___________________. head wear bonnet product 3. Audio is to hearing as video is to ___________________. television camera tape vision 4. Intentional is to accidental as high is to ______________. low above lofty location 5. Microscope is to small as telescope is to ______________. large space instrument distant 6. Century is to hundred as millennium is to _____________. thousand twenty years celebrate 7. Cancel is to never as postpone is to _________________. repeat delay later rain Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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ANALOGIES 1. Hinder is to impede as excuse is to __________________. blame pardon delay block 2. Noun is to adjective as verb is to ___________________. action being plural adverb 3. Exit is to out as ________________ is to in. door house enter extra 4. Drink is to _________________ as eat is to solid. gas liquid milk food 5. Mercury is to first as Mars is to __________________. second third fourth fifth 6. Labyrinth is to maze as medicine is to ______________. drug doctor pharmacy sickness 7. Hurricane is to meteorologist as star is to ___________. geologist entomologist biologist astronomer Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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COOL ANALOGIES 1. December is to winter as September is to _____________. spring cooler school autumn 2. Good is to better as cool is to _____________________. cold good cooler warm 3. Water is to liquid as ice is to _____________________. snow freezing solid slippery 4. Trade is to maid as cool is to _____________________. lower chill neat rule 5. Milk is to refrigerator as ice-cream is to ____________. flavours scoop frozen freezer 6. Fahrenheit is to thirty-two as Celsius is to ___________. zero degrees freezing thermometer 7. Rain is to drop as snow is to ______________________. flake shovel storm white Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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GRAMMATICAL ANALOGIES 1. They is to go as he is to ______________. leave come his goes 2. See is to seen as run is to _______________. run ran runs running 3. I is to my as who is to _________________. whose who’s question why 4. I is to I’m as who is to ________________. whose who’s whom who’d 5. Pane is to pain as he’ll is to ______________. they’ll he’d heel paying 6. Potato is to a as orange is to ______________. fruit an the singular 7. Do is to did as is is to ___________________. was been isn’t are Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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GRAMMATICAL ANALOGIES 1. Ride is to rode as row is to ____________________. Road rode rowed route 2. Bill is to Bill’s as it is to _________________. Its it’s Bills it 3. They are is to they’re as it is is to _______________. its it’s iti’ i’is 4. Close is to __________________ as good is to well. Water closedopen closely 5. Create is to creation as arrange is to ______________. Arrangement arranged arranger arranges 6. Baby is to babies as woman is to ___________________. Girls adult plural women 7. Man is to his as men is to ____________________. Her boys boy their Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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FINDING THE VIOLATERS There is a word or punctuation mark in each sentence that is incorrect. Underline it and write the correct word or punctuation mark after the sentence. 1. You drive good enough to win any race. Well 2. This group of kids are carving pumpkins. 3. Did you see my new coat. 4. I wonder whose eating the dog’s favourite food. 5. It’s not too early for you to lay down and go to sleep. 6. Elton seen the monster hiding in the bushes. 7. This is an once in a lifetime opportunity. 8. My sister’s names are Mary and Scary. 9. I’m innocent; I didn’t do nothing wrong. 10.The soldiers moved careful across the bridge. 11.There were many deers in the field. 12.Frank is to hungry to settle for one piece of pizza. 13.I’d like to know where you put my Halloween costume. 14.The wolf’s howl was loud enough to attract three more wolfs. 15.The cars are approaching the finish line and there coming fast! Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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PROOF READING PRACTICE There are two mistakes in each sentence. Write the corrected version of each sentence. The first one has been done for you. 1. Their were ten broken egg’s in the carton. There were ten broken eggs in the carton. 2. Each of the boys’ are writing a different story. 3. Did Taylor and me borrow the wrong car. 4. how many people seen the strange object? 5. Randall said, “Its too late to go out”! 6. The title of the book is a piece of Toast. 7. I’d like to invite joan to visit us in florida. 8. We will meet every Friday during the Summer. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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MAKING SENSE OF SENTANCES Look at this nonsense sentence: Seepy bong drombles fellet mony tazzers. This sentence does not make sense because you don’t know what the words mean but you could probably answer the following questions about it. • What do the drombles do to the tazzers. • What are the drombles like? • How could you describe the tazzers? Make up a nonsense sentence of your own and ask your partner some questions about it. EXTENSION TASK Look again at the nonsense sentence above. It has the same pattern as a real sentence like: The lazy big dogs worry some sheep. The position of the words gives you an idea as to the parts they play in the sentence. ‘Drombles’ obviously do something to ‘tazzers’. ‘Seepy’ and ‘bong’ describe the ‘drombles’ and ‘mony’ goes with ‘tazzers’. Can you work out any rules about grammar from these examples? Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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MAKING YOUR WRITING CLEAR As one word can sometimes have several meanings, it’s quite easy to write sentences which have more than one meaning. Sometimes this can be on purpose to make you laugh. Look at these jokes: • What sort of jacket catches light easily? A blazer. • Why did the hedgehog cross the road? To see his flat mate. • Why do bees have sticky hair? Because they have honey combs. • How do Martians drink tea? Out of flying saucers. Try to think of some more jokes which depend on a double meaning. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS There are two underlined words in each selection. They are either synonyms or antonyms. Put an ‘S’ for synonym or an ‘A’ for antonym in the blank after each number to indicate how the words are related. 1. _____ I couldn’t recall her name and I don’t even remember where we met. 2. _____ Chris wasn’t in his seat when the teacher handed out the morning assignment. He was tardy as usual. Then he missed the bus and was late for supper. 3. _____ I thought I had a rare old bicycle that was worth a fortune. It turned out to be a common model that nobody wanted to buy. 4. _____ “What is that awful smell?” Troy asked as Melinda entered the room. “That wonderful fragrance is my perfume!” she replied. 5. _____ Yes, taking your shoes off as we entered Patrick’s house was polite thing to do. However, placing them on his coffee table was rather rude. 6. _____ Mr Smith never liked any of his daughter’s boyfriends. He claimed that most of them were weird. He was even less comfortable about any that he considered to be normal. 7. _____ Miss Snowflake was convinced that George had turned the heat up all the way. She demanded that he confess his guilt. The other kids knew that George would never admit that he had done wrong. 8. _____ Drinking the water in that lake is strictly prohibited. It could make you sick. But for some reason, swimming is allowed. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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ACTIVE AND PASSIVE Each of the following sentences uses a passive. • The site of the castle was carefully chosen. (History textbook) • Phone numbers plan attacked. (Newspaper headline) • Head suspended. (Newspaper headline) • This notice has been written to help you. (Examination notice) • Now and then you’ll have to be reminded it’s a diesel. (Advertisement) Rewrite each sentence in an active form. Copyright © 2004 www.englishteaching.co.uk + www.english-teaching.co.uk
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