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english at Key Stage 2

english for 13+ Common Entrance

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Our English textbooks for Key Stage 2 are written specifically for schools preparing pupils for Common Entrance and other independent entrance exams at 11+. Each comprehensive textbook provides approximately three weeks’ worth of teaching material in every single chapter. ■ A coherent skills-based approach to teaching English from Years 3 to 6 ■ Chapters clearly introduce each comprehension skill and provide immediate opportunities for practice ■ Prepare pupils for exam-style questions with regular, stretching exercises that require a combination of several learned skills

Our revised English for Common Entrance textbooks map to the new ISEB syllabus and are perfect for pupils preparing for Common Entrance, Common Academic Scholarship Exams and schools’ own exams. ■ Three themed extracts per chapter: literary prose, non-fiction and poetry, with questions to encourage close reading and detailed thinking ■ ‘Did you know’ sections to enable pupils to practise crucial research skills ■ Stretch your more able pupils with challenging extension tasks

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Including facts inopinionwriting

Functionsoflanguage

Writing practice Exercise 5.4

1 Write adescriptionof the atmosphere inyour schoolon StValentine’sDay. 2 Write a story aboutpeople falling in lovewithotherpeople,with things, placesorwith anythingyouwish. 3 Write a conversationbetween amother and son about the girlhe loves and their future.This couldbeMrsWinthrop andAaron from SilasMarner , if you wish.You could set thisout as afictionaldialogueor aplay scene. 4 Write in anyway you like, taking either ‘TheDarlingBudsofMay’or ‘Eternal Lines toTime’as your title. 5 Write an article called ‘Dos anddon’ts for StValentine’sDay’as if for a teenagemagazine. 6 Write apoem addressed to somethingor someone you love.Exercise9.5on page126mighthelpyouwith this 7 Write a story about,or a factual accountof, someone in thepresentday suffering (ordying) forhisorherbeliefs. ●● Including facts in opinion writing The purpose of the passage in this chapter about St Valentine is to give accurate information while combining it with a light-hearted opinion piece that:

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●● Functions of language

The language of selling The goblins in ‘GoblinMarket’ use very specific language techniques. They: ●● use a lot of imperative verb forms as if they were giving orders (‘Come buy’) ●● make the product sound more attractive than it actually is (‘Bloom- down-cheeked peaches’) ●● sound sincere and passionate (‘Sweet to the tongue and sound to the eye’) ●● use language so fast and fluently that it confuses the customer. (‘Taste them a try: Currants and gooseberries…’ Some advertisers will try to: ●● trick customers into buying something that is more expensive than what they intended to buy ●● mislead customers ●● make their product sound better than it is. There are currently laws which prevent advertisers deliberately misleading customers about a product within the UK and Europe, at least. Sellers are not allowed to browbeat people into buying things, or sign agreements without allowing them time to think, for example. Nonetheless, many TV advertisements, roadside hoardings, notices in newspapers and magazines and all other forms of advertising use imperative verb forms. And they twist language to make their products sound more appealing than those of their rivals. Advertising slogans such as ‘Beanz Meanz Heinz’, ‘Every little helps’ and ‘Think different’ are interesting too. They use as few words as possible to say something catchy about the product which everyone will remember. People in the advertising industry are paid large sums to think up these slogans. Exercise 2.10

● If thequotation is a fragmentof a sentence, you canuse an ellipsis (…) to showwhere the sentencehasbeen cutoff. ● Use linkingwords andphrases so that yourquotationfits into your sentence: • suggests • demonstrates • shows • such as

Comprehension

➜ Comprehension

• for example • as shownby Here is an example:

Skill focus: Inference In this chapter you will learn how to select relevant and succinct evidence to back up your answers to inference questions. You will also learn how to embed your evidence into your answer so that your sentences flow well. Drawing inferences requires you touse your skillsof reasoning and logic toworkout the answerbasedon clues from thepassage.You have tofind these clues,put them together and comeupwith a sensible answerbasedon them.Tobackup your answers,many questionswill ask you to include thequotations from the text that youused toput togetheryour answer. Lookout for thesephrases,which indicate that youneed to include quotations:

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Max inched into theheadmaster’soffice, taking tiny steps,hoping topostpone the inevitable.His eyeswereglued to thefloor asMrKeller’sboomingvoice assaulted his eardrums.With every angryword, anotherbeadof sweatmaterialisedonMax’s forehead.He stuttered, ‘I - I - I - I’m sorry, sir.’Hisvoicebarely audible,his apology ill- received.Whenhewasfinallydismissed from theofficewith further furiousutterings and theorderof aSaturdaydetention,his feet felt as if theywerenailed to thefloor,his legs like lead.Hemanaged todraghimself from theoffice,up the stairs and into the reliefof the cold crispwinter air.He exhaled.Thebeadsof sweatwere replacedwith salty tears.

●● includes names and dates or statistics

●● is expressed logically in short paragraphs, moving from one point to the next

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●● has been carefully researched from several sources.

When you write a factual account:

●● make notes in your own words from your sources

●● decide how you are going to order your material, making a plan with numbered points ●● keep your language neutral when expressing facts ●● make your sentences, in general, short and clear and your paragraphs concise ●● similarly, in factual writing, short words are usually better than long ones so, for example, use ‘start’ (not ‘commence’) or ‘buy’ (not ‘purchase) ●● edit your own work very thoroughly, removing unnecessary words and making any long sentences clearer.

1 How isMax feeling in thispassage? (6marks) For6marksyouwillneed to identify two emotions,give evidence for each and explainhow the evidence supports your answer. Possible evidence ishighlighted in thepassage.The answer shouldonly include thehighlightedwords,not thewhole sentence they are found in,and the evidence shouldbe embedded into theflowof the sentence as shownbelow: Max is clearlynervous (1mark) ashe ‘inched’ into the room taking ‘tiny steps’ (1mark).His slow speed suggests thathe is reluctant to go in (1mark).

● Refer to the text (closely) ● Give reasons from the text ● Includequotations ● Support your answerwith evidence

Write an advertisement foroneormoreof the followingnewproducts:

● luminous shoelaces ● cakewhichmakesyou slim ● electric toenail clippers ● aholiday in a spacecraft

● Support your answerwithwords andphrases from the text When you includequotations, there are a few things to remember: ● Only include the relevantpartof thequotation.Youdonotneed toquote full sentences. ● Alwaysput speechmarks (‘ ’or “ ”) around yourquotations.

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Answer books now available as PDF downloads from galorepark.co.uk ■ Clear layout saves time marking work ■ Enables efficient assessment of pupils’ strengths and weaknesses ■ Advice and guidance develops pupils’ skills in using English accurately

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Answer books now available as PDF downloads from galorepark.co.uk ■ Includes answers to comprehension questions to model good practice and save you time ■ Maps the contents of the exercises to the ISEB Common Entrance 11+ syllabus and the Key Stage 2 national curriculum for English

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13+ English Workbooks - see page 32 for more details

Now available as Whiteboard and

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Student eTextbooks. See page 4 for details.

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