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English first additional language

Grade 5

Module 12

Language games and punctuation

ACTIVITY 1

TO PLAY GAMES INVOLVING LANGUAGES [LO 2.4.3]

TO USE LANGUAGE FOR THINKING – TO IDENTIFY SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THINGS [LO 5.2.5]

TO DEVELOP OWN VOCABULARY [LO 6.4.3]

1. Orally, give words that name (ask your educator about playing the “game”)

  1. six occupations
  2. six wild animals
  3. six foods starting with “f”

(d) six items from your pencil bag

2. In the sentences below:

  1. Pick out the common nouns that name people. Encircle them in RED/ in brackets .
  2. Pick out the common nouns that name objects. Underline them / in BLUE .
  3. Pick out the proper nouns. Outline them / in GREEN .
    1. Elize Grobbelaar, a neighbour, found the little squirrels.
    2. Berena’s cat, Kit-Kat, became the orphans’ mother.
    3. The kittens are fascinated with Snap, Crackle and Pop.

(iv) Pama, the father and farmer, says they eat his pumpkins and butternuts.

3. Rewrite the following sentences using capital letters where necessary:

  1. He is a game ranger in the kruger national park.
  2. My aunt anne works as a secretary for the nature conservation society.
  3. The only lioness left in captivity in natal can be viewed at durban zoo.
  4. port elizabeth is a holiday resort in the eastern cape.
  5. We have an “I love cape town” sticker on the back of our opel astra.

4. Complete the sentences by filling in the missing nouns of your choice:

  1. ___ is a very clever ___.
  2. He produced a ____ of kittens and they played with a ____ of wool.
  3. The cat sleeps in a ____in his home in ___ Street.
  4. ____ the cat, feels a lot of ____when he catches

his tail in the closing door.

(e) He sits in the ____nursing his injured ____ .

ACTIVITY 2

TO USE PUNCTUATION [LO 4.5.7]

TO DEVELOP OWN VOCABULARY [LO 6.4.3]

Collective nouns

1. Which one fits? Use a ruler to connect the incomplete statement to the answer:

a litter of … players
a pride of … cattle
a swarm of … singers
a herd of … puppies / kittens
a flock of … fish / whales
a school of … bees or locusts
a bouquet of … stairs or aircraft
a flight of … soldiers
a canteen of … wolves or cards
a horde of … savages
a fleet of … flowers
a pack of … motor cars
a troop of … cutlery
a team of … lions
a choir of … sheep

Learn these

a host of angels

a series of events

a circle of friends

a mob of hooligans

a pocket of oranges

a shower of rain

a colony of seals

a column of smoke

a cluster of stars

a bundle of washing

Make up your own collective nouns

A ____ of giraffes

A ____ of meerkats

2. Rewrite the following sentences, putting in the capital letters where necessary:

  1. mordred, the wily wolf, eyed lard lying in the sun.

_____

  1. The pork times, a local newspaper, ran an article about bacon, rasher and lard.

_____

  1. mordred planned to have the piggies on christmas eve for dinner.

_____

  1. The fry river flowed past bacon’s house, nr 3 forest drive, bushville.

____

  1. “I am starving! bacon and eggs will do!” moaned mordred.

____

  1. the forest is situated on top of porkchop ridge, just below roast ridge.

____

Remember Gemma? We met her in the first unit. Quickly explain to Gemma why the words you corrected above, have to be written with capital letters.

Questions & Answers

the diagram of the digestive system
Assiatu Reply
How does twins formed
William Reply
They formed in two ways first when one sperm and one egg are splited by mitosis or two sperm and two eggs join together
Oluwatobi
what is genetics
Josephine Reply
Genetics is the study of heredity
Misack
how does twins formed?
Misack
What is manual
Hassan Reply
discuss biological phenomenon and provide pieces of evidence to show that it was responsible for the formation of eukaryotic organelles
Joseph Reply
what is biology
Yousuf Reply
the study of living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environments
AI-Robot
the study of living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environment.
Wine
discuss the biological phenomenon and provide pieces of evidence to show that it was responsible for the formation of eukaryotic organelles in an essay form
Joseph Reply
what is the blood cells
Shaker Reply
list any five characteristics of the blood cells
Shaker
lack electricity and its more savely than electronic microscope because its naturally by using of light
Abdullahi Reply
advantage of electronic microscope is easily and clearly while disadvantage is dangerous because its electronic. advantage of light microscope is savely and naturally by sun while disadvantage is not easily,means its not sharp and not clear
Abdullahi
cell theory state that every organisms composed of one or more cell,cell is the basic unit of life
Abdullahi
is like gone fail us
DENG
cells is the basic structure and functions of all living things
Ramadan
What is classification
ISCONT Reply
is organisms that are similar into groups called tara
Yamosa
in what situation (s) would be the use of a scanning electron microscope be ideal and why?
Kenna Reply
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is ideal for situations requiring high-resolution imaging of surfaces. It is commonly used in materials science, biology, and geology to examine the topography and composition of samples at a nanoscale level. SEM is particularly useful for studying fine details,
Hilary
cell is the building block of life.
Condoleezza Reply
what is cell divisoin?
Aron Reply
Diversity of living thing
ISCONT
what is cell division
Aron Reply
Cell division is the process by which a single cell divides into two or more daughter cells. It is a fundamental process in all living organisms and is essential for growth, development, and reproduction. Cell division can occur through either mitosis or meiosis.
AI-Robot
What is life?
Allison Reply
life is defined as any system capable of performing functions such as eating, metabolizing,excreting,breathing,moving,Growing,reproducing,and responding to external stimuli.
Mohamed
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Source:  OpenStax, English first additional language grade 5. OpenStax CNX. Sep 22, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10992/1.2
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