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ACTIVITY 1
TO SOLVE A WORD PUZZLE [LO 3.6.4]
TO EXPRESS AN OPINION IN WRITING AND GIVE REASONS [LO 4.1.6]
It is important to learn to anticipate so that you start to read more quickly.
Challenge! Read this extract from the newspaper a couple of times.
Can you fill in the missing words?
(Tip: More than one answer could be correct). Do not use the same word twice.
It is not often one hears a story like this one -
A Miracle Mother: I love him as if he were my own!
Baby Thulani was abandoned at birth at Langa railway station outside Cape Town. His first home was a place of safety.
At three (1) ______ old he was so ill it was believed that he was dying of Aids,
and he was (2) ________ to the Red Cross
Children’s Hospital. He was so (3) __________ that it had been decided that no attempts should be made to resuscitate him if he grew any sicker.
Wendy Tuffin, a 22-year-old psychology (4) _______ and hospital volunteer, fell in (5) _______ with the baby in the mere minute that he (6) ______ at her. Her resistance
crumbled and she soon moved him to her family (7) ______ in Pinelands. Wendy took time off from her studies to be a full-time (8) ______ to him and now, two years later, with Thulani a healthy (9) ______attending playschool, she has returned to her (10) _____ and studies.
Wendy has plans to adopt Thulani, but will have to wait until she turns 24 before she can legally adopt her son.
(Adapted/rewritten from an article in the Readers Digest/The Argus – D. Caelers)
Wendy Tuffin seems to be a young woman with plenty of passion. She was so convinced about baby Thulani that nothing could stop her – and as soon as she turns 24, baby Thulani will be her very own child.
Write a letter to your parents and tell them briefly about this story and give them your response.
Space for some of your thoughts:
ACTIVITY 2
TO READ NON-FICTION AT AN APPROPRIATE LEVEL [LO 3.6.1]
TO DEMONSTRATE AN EXPANDING READING VOCABULARY [LO 3.7.2]
You should be able to read quite well now! Now read the following carefully, as you have been taught: Sonia Bata is a remarkable woman who has an incredible passion for shoes.
“Show me your shoe s and I’ll tell you who you are”
If you had to ask Sonia Bata how she came to acquire nearly 10 000 shoes and artefacts that span 4 500 years, she will simply tell you, “ I married a shoe man ”.
The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto resembles a shoebox with its lid slightly open. It houses an incredible collection of shoes from all over the world. Many visitors, who are welcomed at the shoe-shaped reception desk, think that the museum is “wacky” – but when they leave they are convinced that shoes are more interesting than they ever dreamt possible.
The first primitive foot wrappings were probably improvised (made) from bark (from trees) and other plant materials. The museum displays actual evidence of a shoe belonging to the Iceman. This shoe is made of animal skins and fur, and has an upper flap sewn onto the bottom sole, with a liner shaped like a sock, to hold grass for insulation.
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