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makes your heart race.
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Give each ride a new name ride works. sketches to show the look
own to describe how the
a few sentences of your and feel of the story. They
before you begin.

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of of the
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same ride? ride
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3. Background sets Special effects are finalised
world rides did you like ♦
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park a name, and 1 PRE-PRODUCTION
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are created in a and any additional effects
Which of the children’s you are writing
for your park. Imagine rough, blocked-out form. required are added.
design a thrilling new ride and 2 PRODUCTION
the most?
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(skin,
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use short, sharp descrip
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the ride and label the created
ride. Draw a diagram of hundreds of storyboard that dictate the movement
of
4
drawings to map out story each character.

scene by scene. 6. Special effects like flowing
5. Character voices recorde water, lighting, shadows,
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Blake’s Learning Centres

Response Centres
Upper primary
By Victoria Hazell and Fiona Jackson
What? Why?
Everything you need for 40 centres Self-contained units of work
Comprehension and writing skills Requires no special centre area
Step-by-step directions Can be prepared ahead of time
40 full-colour Text Cards and Activity Cards Easily stored
Selected answers Builds skills and provides practice
Disc allows all cards to be displayed on an Individual, whole class or partnered
IWB or screen activities
Print extra or large version copies
Comprehension and Writing Response Centres – Upper primary COPYING OF THIS BOOK FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
Written by Victoria Hazell and Fiona Jackson A purchasing educational institution may only photocopy pages
within this book in accordance with The Australian Copyright Act
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Designer: Patricia Tsiatsias the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangement
Printed by Green Giant Press at the first opportunity.
Contents
Making the Centres ii
Using the Centres iii
Centre Checklists vi
Level Text card Text card title Text type
Beginning 1 Dreamworld Rides Advertisement 3
Beginning 2 Extreme Adventure Description 5
Beginning 3 Volcanoes Explanation 7
Beginning 4 Auto Mechanics Explanation 9
Beginning 5 Extreme Speed Explanation 11
Beginning 6 Cool Autos Explanation 13
Beginning 7 How I Became an Animator Explanation 15
Beginning 8 Monsters Explanation 17
Beginning 9 Brain Power Information report 19
Beginning 10 No More Plastic Bags Information report 21
Beginning 11 Ghost Dog Mystery Narrative 23
Beginning 12 Steel Eyes Narrative 25
Beginning 13 Something Evil Narrative 27
Beginning 14 Four-line Poems Poetry 29
Beginning 15 Double Headed Dog Poetry 31
Consolidating 16 Morse Code Explanation 35
Consolidating 17 Making Cartoons Explanation 37
Consolidating 18 Earthquakes Explanation 39
Consolidating 19 Nightmares of Nature Information report 41
Consolidating 20 Living in a Greenhouse Information report 43
Consolidating 21 The Alien Files Information report 45
Consolidating 22 Living in Space Information report 47
Consolidating 23 The Rarest Kind of Water Information report 49
Consolidating 24 5010 Calling Narrative 51
Consolidating 25 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Narrative 53
Consolidating 26 Max My Mate Narrative 55
Consolidating 27 Decoding the Mayan Marvels Narrative 59
Consolidating 28 Teagan’s Television Poetry 61
Consolidating 29 Movie Tickets On Line Procedure 63
Consolidating 30 Stumped by Turf Thieves Newspaper article 65
Extending 31 Breaking Down Barriers Biography 69
Extending 32 Listen Up! Sports Trainer Explanation 73
Extending 33 Finding Fresh Water Explanation 77
Extending 34 Fighting the Good Fight Exposition 81
Extending 35 Survival Against the Odds Information report 85
Extending 36 Murder on Ice Information report 89
Extending 37 Sailing into the Unknown Information report 93
Extending 38 Teachers’ Pranks Narrative 97
Extending 39 Cupid Idiot Narrative 101
Extending 40 Break that Code Procedure 105
Selected Answers 109
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Using the Centres
The aim of this resource is to provide text cards for literacy learning centres that enable students to work
independently or in pairs to develop their comprehension skills and writing. The activities have been designed
to encourage students to: share opinions; think creatively and discuss their understanding of the text; and
interact with the text and respond in written formats.
Text cards
There are three levels of difficulty for these learning centres. The levels are indicated throughout this book
by the use of colour across the top of each card, which are:
Orange – Beginning level: 15 cards at the easiest level
Lilac – Consolidating level: 15 cards at a higher level than the Beginning level
Green – Extending level: 10 double-sided cards written to challenge confident readers
Level of difficulty
Text title Genre (or text type)
7 Text
Card
Upper primary – Beginning level
Text type: Explanation
Word count: 275
Material sourced from: On the Job, Toon Talent – Animator’s Journal, Blake Education.
How I Became an Animator
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Using the Centres
Activity cards
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
Designed as a pre-reading task, it This writing task is related to the text and
scaffolds activities to assist students students may complete it in the classroom
with fluency and comprehension. or under teacher supervision or at home.
7 Activity
Card
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
Before reading the text … After reading the text, write …
Do you have a favourite cartoon character that you can draw? Make a ♦ Postcard advertisement
quick sketch of your cartoon character. Why do you like this character? Select your favourite scene from an animated movie.
Share your character with a partner. Did your partner choose a similar Design a postcard advertisement for the movie using this scene as
character? the picture. Write a special offer on the back and a brief summary
of why the movie is so fantastic.
♦ Creating a cartoon
READ IT! Work Sheet 6
Write your own cartoon column! You could base it on a cartoon
that you watch.
After reading the text …
Use the computer to create five or six cells to set out a really
♦ Flow chart
simple story.
Summarise using only key words the chain of events that led the
You could choose computer pictures for the background and add
author to becoming an animator. Use Work Sheet 6 for this or
your own drawings of the characters. Remember to keep the
you may design your own flow chart and use the computer to
wording really short.
complete it.
♦ Creating characters
Look at the thumb print drawings
THINK IT! TALK IT! that the animator created. Can you
make some thumb print characters
After reading … Think and share with a partner. of your own?
Would you like to be an animator creating cartoons and animated Give your characters
movies? What would be some fun parts of this job? What do you think names and write a brief
wouldn’t be so good? description of each one.
Look with a partner at the website www.animationschoolreview.com

and see what you can find. Have fun!
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THINK IT! TALK IT! READ IT!

Students complete this thinking, Students complete this reading
speaking/listening and reading task with comprehension task after reading the text.
a partner or as directed by the teacher. It can be self-directed or teacher-directed.
Students record their responses in their
student book.
PHOTOCOPIABLE WORK SHEETS

Some of the activity cards require the student to complete a work sheet which can
be photocopied from the blackline masters provided. The work sheet number is
listed on the activity card next to the section where it is used by the student.
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Making the Centres
Materials
• photocopier • storage items for the cards such as:
• laminator – plastic tub
• text and activity cards – magazine holder
– transparent wallets
– clear plastic sleeves
Steps to follow
• Tear out each text card with its accompanying activity card along the perforations.
• Laminate each double-sided card.
• Place the laminated cards in a box, or sort by level and place them into three boxes,
for use in a literacy centre.
• Alternatively, you can place the laminated text card and accompanying activity card
in individual plastic sleeves or pocket files for distribution to individual students
as required.
• Store the photocopiable work sheets in numerical order in a display book or file
to photocopy as required.
• Ensure that photocopies of the related work sheets are also stored with or near the
laminated cards for students to complete when using their cards.
• Record students’ results as they complete the cards.
• Keep a separate file of the answer pages and the students’ records for easy reference.
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action scenes so the plot 2. Script is read, discussed with a partner the ride you would has really stayed in your mind.
can most like to go on. What ride did Use lots of adjectives, a catchy caption
come to life visually. and finetuned. 2. Each computer model your partner choose? Were they the and short, sharp sentences
has a set same ride? to re-tell about your ride. You may
3. Illustrators draw sketches of controls which determines like to include a cartoon sketch
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of 2. Editors cut a final edit
of the Which of the children’s comments
computer-generated image character files for movement about Dreamworld rides did you like
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film, making sure colour levels the most? ♦ Advertisement for a ride
animation are: and features are created. are correct for all scenes.
You have purchased a theme park.
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3. Background sets Special effects are finalised Give your park a name, and
1 PRE-PRODUCTION are created in a and any additional effects design a thrilling new ride for your
park. Imagine you are writing
rough, blocked-out form. required are added. an on-line advertisement for this ride.
2 PRODUCTION 4. Animators add texture Write a catchy heading and
(skin, use short, sharp descriptions to tell
fur, hair …) for each character. others what will happen on the
3 POST-PRODUCTION
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Pages 2, 34 and 70 have been provided so that students can keep a progressive record
of their work. Photocopy the relevant page for each student. Ask the students to colour
the empty shapes to show the activities they have completed. The number of shapes
indicates how many parts there are in the activity.
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Centre Checklists
Student name
Date Date
Level Card Title Text Type completed Level Card Title Text Type completed
B 1 Dreamworld Rides Advertisement C 22 Living in Space Information report
B 2 Extreme Adventure Description C 23 The Rarest Kind of Water Information report
B 3 Volcanoes Explanation C 24 5010 Calling Narrative
B 4 Auto Mechanics Explanation C 25 Sadako and the Thousand Narrative
Paper Cranes
B 5 Extreme Speed Explanation
C 26 Max My Mate Narrative
B 6 Cool Autos Explanation
C 27 Decoding the Mayan Marvels Narrative
B 7 How I Became an Animator Explanation
C 28 Teagan’s Television Poetry
B 8 Monsters Explanation
C 29 Movie Tickets On Line Procedure
B 9 Brain Power Information report
C 30 Stumped by Turf Thieves Newspaper article
B 10 No More Plastic Bags Information report
E 31 Breaking Down Barriers Biography
B 11 Ghost Dog Mystery Narrative
E 32 Listen Up! Sports Trainer Explanation
B 12 Steel Eyes Narrative
E 33 Finding Fresh Water Explanation
B 13 Something Evil Narrative
E 34 Fighting the Good Fight Exposition
B 14 Four-line Poems Poetry
E 35 Survival Against the Odds Information report
B 15 Double Headed Dog Poetry
E 36 Murder on Ice Information report
C 16 Morse Code Explanation
E 37 Sailing into the Unknown Information report
C 17 Making Cartoons Explanation
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E 38 Teachers’ Pranks Narrative
C 18 Earthquakes Explanation
E 39 Cupid Idiot Narrative
C 19 Nightmares of Nature Information report
E 40 Break that Code Procedure
C 20 Living in a Greenhouse Information report
Levels: B = Beginning, C = Consolidating, E = Extending
C 21 The Alien Files Information report
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Card Work sheet names Work sheet
Card name Text type Word count
no. (not all cards have worksheets) number
1 Dreamworld Rides Advertisement 339 Dreamworld Rides 1
2 Extreme Adventure Description 295
3 Volcanoes Explanation 235
4 Auto Mechanics Explanation 253
5 Extreme Speed Explanation 254 Extreme Speed; Mind Map 2&3
6 Cool Autos Explanation 260 Cool Autos; Improving Road Safety 4&5
7 How I Became an Animator Explanation 275 How I Became an Animator 6
8 Monsters Explanation 282 A Scary Beginning 7
9 Brain Power Information report 210
10 No More Plastic Bags Information report 267
11 Ghost Dog Mystery Narrative 282 Ghost Dog Mystery 8
12 Steel Eyes Narrative 282 Steel Eyes 9
13 Something Evil Narrative 286
14 Four-line Poems Poetry 33
15 Double Headed Dog Poetry 258
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Student
Card Think It! Work sheet
Card name Text type Zone In! Read It! Write It!
no. Talk It! number
1 Dreamworld Rides Advertisement 1
2 Extreme Adventure Description
3 Volcanoes Explanation
4 Auto Mechanics Explanation
5 Extreme Speed Explanation 2&3
6 Cool Autos Explanation 4&5
7 How I Became an Animator Explanation 6
8 Monsters Explanation 7
9 Brain Power Information report
10 No More Plastic Bags Information report
11 Ghost Dog Mystery Narrative 8
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12 Steel Eyes Narrative 9
13 Something Evil Narrative
14 Four-line Poems Poetry
15 Double Headed Dog Poetry
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Text Text type: Advertisement
1 Card Word count: 339
Material sourced from: Dreamworld website pages: www.dreamworld.com.au

Dreamworld Rides
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Giant Drop Wipeout
There’s no nice way to say it … you’ll Step off the edge and take the Wipeout
need a spare pair of undies for this one. challenge!
The Giant Drop is the tallest No hula girl or board wax
free-fall ride in the world here, just five nail-biting
according to the Guiness minutes of being spun,
Book of World Records. twisted and tumbled
But don’t be lulled into a through a body-wrenching
false sense of security by range of dumping breakers.
the relaxing journey to the
top … the view is amazing The Wipeout is framed
if you can keep your eyes by a giant crashing wave,
open long enough. shipwreck, palms, sand,
shark and ocean which sets
Within seconds you’re the scene for a turbulent
plummeting 120 metres ride ahead. It is the mother
at terminal speed. It’s the of all tidal waves and you’re
closest thing to sky diving strapped in the middle
– well almost. without a lifeline.
Here’s what a few fans had to say! Here’s what a few crazy kids had to say!
Wipeout was my favourite. I loved how I went

The Giant Drop is one of the best rides I have
upside down, and when I faced the water it felt
ever been on! It was a great way to see a view
like I was flying and I just kept screaming! Thanks
of Dreamworld and the Coast, and with a very
Dreamworld, it was the best day of my life!
thrilling ending. I LOVED IT!
(Alice, age 12 – Queensland)
(Rebecca, age 13 – Queensland)
It was awesome. Like being in an open-air tumble
The best ride ever. When you’re waiting at the
dryer only I was soaked with sweat. It twists,
top, it feels like you’re up there for ever and the
turns, spins and drops within seconds! The
feeling as you are falling is the best.
scariest seat I’ve ever been strapped into.
(Dominic – Nottingham, England)
(Kellie Walters – New South Wales)
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1 Activity
Card
Dreamworld Rides
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
Before reading the text … After reading the text …
Can you think of a time when you were absolutely “buzzing” from ♦ Your description of the Giant Drop or Wipeout
fear or excitement? This feeling is called an adrenaline rush and it Read the first two lines from the Giant Drop and Wipeout.
makes your heart race. You’ll read about two heart stopping rides Does the writer make you want to read on in each of these?
at Dreamworld. Maybe you have been on them already!
Write a new “catchy caption” (a sentence or two which grabs
people’s attention) for either the Giant Drop or Wipeout.
For example:
READ IT! Work Sheet 1 Giant Drop
The Ultimate Drop – will you ever get over this free-fall feeling?
♦ Cloze activity Wipeout
Write suitable answers in the spaces on Work Sheet 1. Your head is in a whirl – water, waves, palms and incredible
mind blowing terror!
Give each ride a new name and a new caption, and then write
THINK IT! TALK IT! a few sentences of your own to describe how the ride works.
Re-read the children’s comments before you begin.
After reading … Think and share with a partner.
♦ Telling about a ride you have been on
Have you been to a theme park? Did you go on some rides? What is the Think of a ride you have been on that has really stayed in your mind.
scariest ride you have been on? Share with a partner the ride you would Use lots of adjectives, a catchy caption and short, sharp sentences
most like to go on. What ride did your partner choose? Were they the to re-tell about your ride. You may like to include a cartoon sketch
same ride? of yourself on the ride.
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Which of the children’s comments about Dreamworld rides did you like ♦ Advertisement for a ride
the most? You have purchased a theme park. Give your park a name, and
design a thrilling new ride for your park. Imagine you are writing
an on-line advertisement for this ride. Write a catchy heading and
use short, sharp descriptions to tell others what will happen on the
ride. Draw a diagram of the ride and label the parts on it.
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Text Text type: Description
Material sourced from: Brainwaves, To the Limit, Blake Education.

Extreme Adventure
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The thrill of falling Hanging by a thread prank when four friends leapt from year. Now many people pay money
a bridge in England. to free-fall about 50 metres for a
Would you jump from a skyscraper Imagine diving from a four-storey
thrill they won’t forget quickly.
with a rope around your ankle? high platform. Vines around your A. J. Hackett, a man from New
Would you crawl deep inside the ankles are all you have to stop you Zealand, bungeed 324 metres from
planet or surf in the sky? slamming into the ground. You the Eiffel Tower in 1987. He opened What a dope,
would need to choose your vines the world’s first commercial jump I forgot the
rope!
carefully. You want to come close site in New Zealand the following
to the dirt, not hit it!
The vine jumpers of Vanuatu were
the original bungee jumpers.
With vin
Today’s bungee jumpers tie A bung
es tied ee jump
from a er leaps
boys in
Vanuatu
to their
ankles, elasticised ropes, not vines, around hot-air
in New balloon
a 25 m jump fr
tower om their ankles. The first bungee Jersey
jump was an April Fool’s Day
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All bases covered
If you jumped off your front step, Like a sky diver, you fall with a
a low bridge, or a big boulder, parachute to stop you, but things
you wouldn’t be a BASE jumper. move quickly in a BASE jump. You
If you jumped from the Leaning have to balance the thrill of the
Tower of Pisa (55 metres) with a fall with how late you can open
parachute, you would be on the the parachute and still land in
way to becoming one. You might one unbroken piece.
be arrested though, because BASE
jumping is usually illegal.
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2 Activity
Card
Extreme Adventure
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
Think of a sport that you really love. Extreme sports require absolute ♦ Explanation about base jumping
passion and test courage because they involve danger. What is an Write an explanation in your own words to describe base jumping.
extreme sport or dangerous activity you would like to try? Read the text Draw your own diagrams to show the four different types of base
card and see if you might be interested in some of these thrills. jumps.
♦ Newspaper report
READ IT! Write a short article for a sports magazine about your first
ever base jump.
After reading the text … Your article needs:
♦ Cloze activity • an attention grabbing headline
1. The _____ jumpers of Vanuatu were the first bungee jumpers. • information about the location and site,
others who were with you and the weather
2. They jumped off _____ storey high platforms using only _____
• details about how you got up to the site
to stop themselves.
• details about what sort of safety precautions
3. We use special elastic ropes now. The first bungee jump was you took
off a _____ in England.
• a reference to a website for people to contact
4. A. J. Hackett, a man from _____ _____ , opened the world’s you so you can assist them with further information.
first commercial site and now many people pay to _____ .
♦ Parachute design
Design and label the ultimate parachute for base jumping.
Consider the safety features, the colours you would like to use
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and an appropriate logo.
After reading … Think and share with a partner. ♦ Design for an invitation
You are on a holiday with a friend. It is time … you’re standing in the You are having a bungee birthday party. Design the invitation.
line waiting to bungee off the highest bridge you can imagine. How Remember to include the time, location and height of the jump,
are you feeling? What would it be like waiting to jump? Can you jump? and details about transport to and from the site. Jump on the
What would it feel like to free-fall? internet and see what you can find out!
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Text Text type: Explanation
Material sourced from: Go Facts, Volcano, Blake Education.

Volcanoes
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What is a volcano? Active, dormant or extinct
The solid ground that we walk on Volcanoes that have erupted recently, erupted for a long time but still
is part of the Earth’s crust. Below or are likely to soon, are described could. Extinct volcanoes are no
this crust lies an intensely hot layer as active. Dormant volcanoes haven’t longer volcanic.
of molten rock, known as magma.
When the pressure builds up, the
magma explodes through a break
in the Earth’s crust and a volcano
is formed.
Volcanoes can be cone-shaped
mountains or wide, sloping hills.
They can also appear under the
sea. When molten rock appears Active Dormant Extinct
at the surface, it is called lava.
3 4
Ash cloud
Lava flow
Successive lava
Crater Main flows build up
vent on mountain
Side vent
Eruption! Why do Crater pipe
Rock layers
volcanoes erupt?
As magma rises, gases expand
and water becomes steam. This
creates huge pressure. When
Here we go! Magma chamber
the pressure becomes too great, Eruptions can be a trickle of lava

a volcano erupts. Eruptions can or an enormous explosion. This its gas content. When magma This is because it is more
range from gentle oozing to depends on the viscosity of the is highly sticky, with lots of gas, difficult for the gases to escape
violent explosions. magma – how sticky it is – and the eruption will be violent. from sticky magma.
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3 Activity
Card
Volcanoes
ZONE IN! THINK IT! TALK IT!
Before reading the text … After reading … Think and share with a partner.
In 1981 the most violent eruption of the 20th century occurred in How do you think people who live near volcanoes feel?
the Philippines. After remaining dormant for 400 years, the volcanic If you were invited to see a volcano, would you go?
eruption blotted out daylight in the region for days, and blew 200 Why do people find volcanoes fascinating?
metres of the mountain top away! Turn over and read on.
WRITE IT!
READ IT!
After reading the text, write …
After reading the text … ♦ Possible sentences
♦ 3 level guide Write true or false for each statement. All of these words are to do with volcanoes:
Answer using the text magma, crust, gases, pressure, lava, eruptions
1. Magma is hot, molten rock. Write a short piece using all of the words to explain
2. The earth’s crust has breaks in it which the magma can explode why volcanoes erupt.
through. ♦ Diary entry
3. Extinct volcanoes could still erupt. Vulcanologists are scientists who study volcanoes. They try
to find out how volcanoes form and when they might erupt.
Answer using the text and your own thinking
4. Volcanic eruptions always make big changes in the landscape. Suppose you have just been on a field trip to a volcano. Write a diary
entry of what you saw and how you felt. You might want to refer
5. Dormant volcanoes can be just as dangerous as active volcanoes.
to the internet or some books from the library to assist you with
Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge of the your writing.
world
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♦ Poem about a volcano
6. Erupting volcanoes are spectacular to watch. Write a short poem using “volcano” as the word for your first line.
7. Towns shouldn’t be built near volcanoes. Refer to the example below about a mountain.
8. Volcanoes are part of nature and we need to observe and learn Volcano (noun) Mountain
about them. 3 adjectives (describing words) Tall, Silent, Powerful
3 verbs (doing words) Standing, Watching, Waiting
1 adjective (describing word) Majestic
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Material sourced from: On the Job, Pit Stop, Blake Education.

Auto Mechanics
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How a car works The piston then moves back up, Once the piston is at the bottom
compressing the mixture. This again, the exhaust valve opens.
Every car is made up of hundreds of air and fuel. The cylinder
compression makes the explosion The piston returns to the top,
of parts, large and small, that all is then sealed, trapping the
more powerful. When the piston pushing the burned exhaust gas
contribute to the car’s performance, mixture inside.
reaches the top of its stroke, the from the explosion out of the
safety and handling. cylinder fuel injector
spark plug emits a spark to ignite cylinder into the exhaust pipe.
the fuel.
The engine piston And then the process repeats itself.
Inside the engine are chambers The petrol and air mixture
called cylinders. Inside each explodes, driving the piston down
cylinder is a piston that moves up side view with great force. This turns the
of four- crankshaft. As the crankshaft
and down. The piston starts at cylinder
the top of the cylinder and moves car engine turns, it makes the wheels go
crankshaft
down drawing in a combination round and the car moves.
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The gears
Gears, or toothed wheels,
are used to create forward or
backward motion by interlocking
two or more gears together. They
are fixed to rods called shafts.
These shafts turn when the
interlocking gears rotate. The
turning shafts then cause the
wheels of a car to turn around.
The bigger the gear wheel, the
faster the shaft turns and the
greater the speed of the car.
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4 Activity
Card
Auto Mechanics
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
Can you imagine life without cars? Do you know who invented the first ♦ Drawing your new go-kart
car? How could you find out? Modern cars are very different to olden- Many professional racing-car drivers started their careers through
day cars. Can you explain to your partner how a car works? go-kart racing as teenagers. Karts are classified according to the
size of the engine. The main parts of a go-kart are fibreglass body,
seat, steering wheel, frame, engine and wheels.
READ IT! You have just purchased a go-kart.
Draw and label what it looks like.
♦ How a car works
These are all parts of a car:
cylinders, pistons, gearbox, crankshaft, engine
Draw a flow chart which shows how a car works. Refer to the
pictures on the text card to help you draw your own simple
diagrams. ♦ Designing your own go-kart track
A go-kart track is like a mini car racing track! Imagine you have
some land to develop as a go-kart track. Draw a plan of your
THINK IT! TALK IT! track and label special features that make it fun and challenging.
Remember to include safety features such as tyres around the sides.
After reading … Think and share with a partner. ♦ Promotional postcard
Find a website that has interesting information about cars. Design a postcard to advertise your new track. Encourage people
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Would you recommend this website to others? Why? to come to the track. Why would people want to come and use
Find other interesting information about cars to share with a partner. your track? Do you have any special deals on offer? Make a sketch
of your draft postcard and use the computer to complete your
final version.
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Material sourced from: Brainwaves, To the Limit, Blake Education.

Extreme Speed
1
Speed thrills
eed. Circus
um an s ha ve a need for sp
H tion movies
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oards and ac
rides, skateb feeling called
us a “buzzy” 2
give many of hen our Racing in the streets head rest
rush. This is w
an adrenaline minds race. handlebar s
ster and our You’re speeding down a road,
hear ts beat fa ”. front truck s nerf bars
e “on the edge flat on your back on a special
We feel we ar
at gets the skateboard. You’ve got no brakes foot pegs
a hormone th
Adrenaline is eme spor ts and you’re only a few centimetres rear truck s
re ad y fo r action. In ex tr
body above the ground. That’s street
portant.
this is very im luge.
Street luge is one of the fastest A street luger’s sled
A form sports that doesn’t involve an is built to fit their
ula one body size and shape.
along a c a r zo o
t 320 k ms engine. Lugers steer their speeding
m /h.
sleds by moving slightly to the left
or right. They lift their heads just
a
little to see where they are goin
g.
Lugers have to wear full-face
helmets and clothing that is
3 Rocks, boulders and trees can be
It’s all downhill streamlined but very strong.
deadly so helmets are essential.
Would you plunge down the side Avalanches can also be a danger
t.
of a mountain on a pair of skis? so you need to carr y a special ligh Lugers stop by dragging
their feet along the road.
Speed skiers do at speeds of 240 In 1999, skier Harry Egger of
l
kilometres per hour. It takes coo Austria set a new world record of
nerves and top -notch prot ecti on he
248 kilometres per hour. When
to be a speed skier. mountai n,
got to the bot tom of the
he vomited.
Speed skiing is dangerous.
Where did
the slope go? Crevasses can open up
without warning, and bad
weather can close
in quickly.
u go as
Q: When do yo
car?
fast as a racing
Steep slopes like these are
found in only a few places
e in it.
A: When you’r
in the world.
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Card
Extreme Speed
ZONE IN! WRITE IT! Work Sheet 3
Extreme sport… Do you know what it means? How about adrenaline? ♦ Techniques and equipment chart
What gets your adrenaline pumping? Make a list of sports that would Look at the sports you have listed for your Zone In activity. Choose
give you a thrill and get the adrenaline pumping. Put your sports in the the one you are most interested in and design your own techniques
order that you would like to try them. and equipment chart. You might need to research further using
the internet or a book from the library. A basic example has been
provided below:
READ IT! Work Sheets Sport: Snow skiing
2 and 3
Technique (How to do it –
After reading the text … Equipment (List and draw)
step-by-step explanation)
Work with a partner to fill in one of the charts on Work Sheet 2. The
1. Skiis and poles 1. Slide boot into ski
charts are set out to help you make brief notes about the key ideas in
the article. Write key words only and add pictures. Use the Mind Map 2. Boots and sunglasses 2. Find a very gentle slope
example on Work Sheet 3 for ideas.
3. Slide along and push your
3. Ski jacket, pants and hat
skiis out to stop
THINK IT! TALK IT! ♦ Mind mapping
Interview a friend about a sport they play which you don’t know
After reading … Think and share with a partner. much about. Before interviewing them, prepare at least six
Can you think of a time when you were really scared or excited? questions. Present the information you found using a mind map.
Extreme sports have an element of danger. What do you think – should An example is provided on Work Sheet 3.
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they be banned? ♦ Helmet for an extreme sport
Design an all-round cool helmet for extreme sports. Think about
the design such as straps, protection at the back of the head, shape
of the helmet and safety features. You also need to think about
the choice of colours and any logos or designs you might put on it.
Write a brief summary of the features.
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Material sourced from: On the Job, Pit Stop, Blake Education.

Cool Autos
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Racing Cars Stock car racing
Cars are not just used for travel. Stock car racing is popular in the
They are also used for sport United States of America. Stock
and fun. Racing cars are built cars are purpose-built racing cars
for maximum speed and the that have the basic steel frame
best possible road handling. of a passenger car. Car speeds
Some types of car racing are can reach up to 275 km/h.
formula one, V8 supercars, stock
car racing, rally car racing and Rally car racing
drag racing. Rally car driving is tough on cars.
Rally racing is different from
Formula one other forms of car racing because
Formula one, also known as it takes place not on a circuit but
Grand Prix racing, is the fastest on sand, mud and snow, all of
and most powerful kind of track which provide many obstacles.
racing. It is the highest class of All the cars follow the same route
car racing in the world. Cars can but start at different times. The
travel up to 320 km/h on straight course is divided into separate
sections of the track. sections known as special stages.
There is a time limit for each
V8 supercars stage. The winner is the car with
V8 supercar racing is popular the fastest overall time.
mainly in Australia and New
Zealand. Normal cars are adapted Drag racing
for racing conditions. Drag racing involves starting
from a dead stop and racing on a
straight and level course of either
201 or 402 metres. Drag racing
started in the USA and is now
popular around the world.
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Card
Cool Autos
ZONE IN! WRITE IT! Work Sheet 5
Do you have a favourite type of racing car? In formula one, cars can ♦ Poster for the Grand Prix
reach speeds of up to 320 km/h. What sort of skills would these Design a poster for a Grand Prix race. What sort of information
drivers need? Working with a partner, make a word wheel and fill it in. needs to be on your poster? Discuss with a partner. Make
For example: a rough sketch and then use the computer for your finished
poster. Download pictures from the internet or photocopy some
Q uic Skills of a Excellent concentration
k refl from a book, cut them out and then paste them on your poster.
exes racing car
driver Ask your teacher to enlarge your poster to A3 size.
♦ Fact file
Do you have a favourite racing car driver? Write a fact file about
this driver. You might need to borrow some books from the library
READ IT! Work Sheet 4 to find information. You could also look on the internet for some
information about this driver.
♦ Logo design for a cap
♦ Complete the four response chart and two response chart on
You will design a promotional cap for a formula one race. What sort
Work Sheet 4. Paste the completed charts in your student book.
of logo will you put on the cap? Have you got any catchy words to
♦ Read about rally car racing again. Draw a diagram and explain add? Draw your cap including the logo and words. Add colour.
in your own words what rally car racing is.
♦ Road safety report
Many of the victims of road accidents are young men speeding in
hotted up cars. How can we help improve driver safety and thereby
THINK IT! TALK IT! reduce speeding and accidents on our roads? Discuss with a partner
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and write four ideas using the think board on Work Sheet 5. Then
After reading … Think and share with a partner. follow the directions on the sheet for displaying your ideas.
If you could buy a car, what would you select? Why do you like this car?
What colour would you choose? What extra features would you order?
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– by Lisa Thompson
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As I got old
gan er I became
interested in
How it all be g and began computers
e loved drawin r, I’v
creating sho
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funny, little wn of ugh creatin colour and
as fi ve , I crea ted a whole to g these little
w animations, 2–5 minute
them. When I comic strip I learnt the
int ch ar ac te rs and pages of and how to basics of co
mputer anim
thumb pr use the soft
ware I need ation
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time to watch hool, I went
re ve r tr ying to squeeze in to university
I was fo each art and anim where I stud
ent to school ation. My co ied
e m or e ca rt oon before I w so I worked urse include
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ence
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a great story
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Card
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
Do you have a favourite cartoon character that you can draw? Make a ♦ Postcard advertisement
quick sketch of your cartoon character. Why do you like this character? Select your favourite scene from an animated movie.
Share your character with a partner. Did your partner choose a similar Design a postcard advertisement for the movie using this scene as
character? the picture. Write a special offer on the back and a brief summary
of why the movie is so fantastic.
♦ Creating a cartoon
Write your own cartoon column! You could base it on a cartoon
that you watch.
Use the computer to create five or six cells to set out a really
♦ Flow chart
simple story.
Summarise using only key words the chain of events that led the
You could choose computer pictures for the background and add
author to becoming an animator. Use Work Sheet 6 for this or
your own drawings of the characters. Remember to keep the
you may design your own flow chart and use the computer to
wording really short.
complete it.
♦ Creating characters
Look at the thumb print drawings
THINK IT! TALK IT! that the animator created. Can you
make some thumb print characters
After reading … Think and share with a partner. of your own?
Would you like to be an animator creating cartoons and animated Give your characters
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movies? What would be some fun parts of this job? What do you think names and write a brief
wouldn’t be so good? description of each one.
Look with a partner at the website www.animationschoolreview.com
and see what you can find. Have fun!
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Material sourced from: Brainwaves, Monsters, Blake Education.

Monsters
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Would you visit a Vampire tales
cemetery at midnight? Many creatures born of our fears to bite your neck and suck your
Imagine the moon covered call cemeteries home. And blood blood. And they are supposed
by cloud. A misty fog swirls thirsty vampires are among them. to be able to live forever if they
between the gravestones. You drink fresh blood.
People have told stories about
sense someone, or something, vampires for hundreds of years.
watching you … Some vampire features are
Your mind fills the gaps. It’s easy based on what can happen
to create monsters out of your after a person dies. For
own fear and the dark unknown! example, dead gums
shrink back making teeth
look longer. Vampires are
said to need long teeth
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Written in blood A few extra facts!
Count Dracula is the most famous Vampire bats are real. They feed
vampire of them all. He was by biting a small hole in another
created by a writer called Bram animal and sucking the blood.
Stoker in 1897. Stoker based his Sometimes they drink so much
story on real people in history. blood, they are
One of these was a warlord who too full to fly!
liked to impale his enemies. His
name was Vlad the Impaler.
To check if your friend is a

vampire, hold up a mirror to their
face. Vampires have no reflection!
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Card
Monsters
In the 19th century, there was a big demand for dead bodies. Scientists Have you ever had a really scary experience? What happened?
wanted to cut up the bodies to see how all the muscles and organs in
What are you afraid of? How do you control your fear?
the body work. Grave-robbers would creep through the night and dig
up freshly buried bodies of poor people to sell to scientists. Turn over What is the scariest movie you have seen? What did the movie-makers
the card and read on … do to make it scary?
READ IT! WRITE IT! Work Sheet 7
After reading the text … After reading the text, write …
♦ Quick quiz ♦ Narrative: Your own story beginning
Read the first three lines from the text. How does the author set the
(Answers are in the text.)
scene? Has the author done a good job? Have a go at writing your
1. Why do vampires need long teeth?
own scary story beginning on Work Sheet 7. Read the example on
2. Who is the most famous vampire of all? the sheet first.
3. How do you check if someone is a vampire?
♦ Promotional movie poster
♦ What do you think? Finally that horror movie you have always wanted to make is going
4. Why are people afraid of dark, ahead. What is the title of your movie? Most importantly, you need
cemeteries? a main character or creature. Design your own promotional poster
for the movie. It needs to appeal to children in your age group
5. What is the scariest monster
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so they will want to see the movie. Think about the features your
character you know of?
poster needs.
♦ Creating a monster
You have heard of the famous vampire, Count Dracula. Create
a new vampire. Give your vampire a name. Draw a picture of your
vampire and label the key parts.
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Text Text type: Information report
Material sourced from: Brainwaves, Brain Power, Blake Education.

Brain Power
1 2
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What is a brain? Your body’s control system Tipping the scales their bigger muscles and take in
information from all that extra
Inside your skull between your ears Usually, bigger animals have
skin surface.
is a wrinkly, soft, pinkish lump. If bigger brains. But this doesn’t
you could unzip your skull and take mean they are smarter. They just Elephants and whales have the
out this lump, it would fit neatly into need a bigger brain to control biggest brains. But if you compare
the palms of your hands. But don’t brain size to body weight, humans
do that! This strange-looking lump come out tops. A whale’s brain
is a human brain. And you wouldn’t makes up about 0.02 per cent
survive without it. of its body weight, while a human
brain makes up about 2 per cent
of a person’s body weight.
3
It’s the grey matter
that matters
The human brain is special
in another way, too. The thin,
outer layer of the brain is much
bigger in humans than in other
animals. This part of the brain
is called the cerebral cortex.
That’s why the human brain
is so wrinkly. Those wrinkles
are the cortex folding in on
itself. It is this large cortex
that makes us so clever.
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Card
Brain Power
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You can’t always believe what you see! You can’t always belie
Even if you have
ve what you see! ♦ Boost your brain power
perf ect vision, you can be
The brain takes short cuts – it makes tricked into seeing thing
there. The brain take
s that aren’t really You can train your brain to remember better! Look at the following
s short cuts—it makes
sense of an image by
sense of an image by comparing what sees with what it alrea
comparing what it
dy knows. This makes list for 20 seconds. The items are: lemonade, elephants, flour,
the process of seeing
much faster. But
it sees with what it already knows. sometimes the picture
doesn’t quite match toothbrush, tonsils, onions, radishes, giraffes, hiccup, toaster.
reality. Try these opti
cal illusions on your
This makes the process of seeing much own brain.
Cover it and write down all the things you can remember.
quicker but sometimes the picture Can you figure out how
your brain is
making sense of these
images? How many items did you remember?
doesn’t quite match reality …
6 How does it feel
when you look
at this spiral?
WRITE IT!
Whoaa!
♦ Making a fact book
Make a five fact book about the brain. Talk with your partner about
READ IT! the sort of book you can make. Design your book in the shape
of a brain or in a regular shape. Write one fact per page and select
After reading the text … a simple picture to photocopy or draw, cut out and paste in.
♦ Cloze activity (Record answers in your student book.) ♦ Design for a rat maze
1. The three main parts of the brain are the _____ , the _____ Can you design a maze or a toy with challenges for a rat? Rats have
and the b _____ s _____ . a small brain but they are smart. How can you trick the rat? Label
your design and write instructions for making it. Write some brief
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2. Coordination and balance are controlled by the _____ .
directions to go with your toy or maze.
3. This part of the brain controls thinking and learning. _____
♦ Timeline about you
4. Functions vital to life such as breathing and digestion are
Make a timeline about you from when you were a baby to now.
controlled by the _____ .
Record the special things that you learnt to do at different ages.
5. The thin, outer layer of the human brain is called the _____ .
Select at least two skills for each year of your life. Check with a
friend and see if you accomplished special skills at similar ages.
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Material sourced from: Go Facts, Conservation, Blake Education.

No More Plastic Bags
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Supermarket plastic bags are convenient but they are made
from natural resources and they damage the environment DID YOU KNOW?
when they are thrown away. Discarded plastic bags kill
about 100 000 birds, whales,
seals and turtles every year.
Death in the ocean Plastic bags were banned in
Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh,
“Check-out” plastic bags
after millions of littered plastic
are made from high density
bags blocked the city’s drainage
polythene, a type of plastic.
It takes 1.75 kilograms of oil, system and stopped flood water
a non-renewable natural draining away.
resource, to make one kilogram

Bin the bags
of plastic bags.
The solution to plastic bag
Discarded plastic bags become
pollution is fairly simple. Stop
general litter and block drains.
using them!
Bags that end up in the ocean
are mistaken for jellyfish by marine Conservationists want retailers to
creatures and eaten. The bag offer alternatives, such as reusable
blocks the animal’s digestive tract, shopping bags. These are often
so it slowly starves to death. made out of recycled plastic
bottles – more than 10 million have
In Australia, 5 billion plastic
been sold in Australia. They also
“check-out” bags are used each
want shoppers to refuse plastic
year, which is 250 bags for each
bags and use the alternatives.
person in the country. Most bags
end up in landfills, where they Australia’s first plastic bag free
take up to one thousand years town was Coles Bay in Tasmania.
to break down, or in waterways Since April 2003, shops there have
and oceans. banned plastic check-out bags.
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10 Activity
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No More Plastic Bags
Do you use cloth bags to carry your shopping? Supermarkets have tried Scan through the article and find how many bags are used each year
to reduce the number of plastic bags we use by offering cloth bags that by Australians. Why don’t supermarkets ban plastic bags? What are the
can be reused. Why do you think we need to reduce the number of disadvantages of not having plastic bags?
plastic shopping bags?
WRITE IT!
READ IT!
After reading the text … ♦ Letter writing
♦ Multiple choice Write a letter to a supermarket in your area giving reasons why
Read these multiple choice questions and record each correct they should not provide plastic shopping bags. Can you suggest
answer. any alternatives for shoppers to use? Most supermarkets have cloth
1. Plastic bags are made from: bags already. What else could supermarkets do to encourage people
a. polystyrene c. tissue paper to stop using plastic shopping bags?
b. polythene d. fiberglass ♦ Shopping bag design and logo
2. Discarded bags become litter and: Design a bag with a logo that will appeal to shoppers so they will
a. get torn c. block drains want to reuse it. Write a slogan (catchy sentence) that makes people
b. are untidy d. blow around aware of why it is better not to use plastic bags. For example:
3. Bags that end up in the ocean are mistaken by marine Buying without bags – better for our planet
creatures for:
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a. starfish c. rocks ♦ Newspaper report
b. jellyfish d. seaweed Write a newspaper report for your class about the problems
of using plastic bags. Use the information on the text card to help
4. Bags eaten by marine creatures kill them because they:
you. Check the internet or books from the library for pictures to
a. block the digestive tract c. strangle them
photocopy and paste in your article. Create your good copy on the
b. poision them d. swell up
computer and photocopy an extra copy to show the class.
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Text Text type: Narrative
Material sourced from: First Flight, Ghost Dog Mystery, Blake Education (permission to reproduce
this material has kindly been granted by Badger Publishing Ltd., UK) Ghost Dog Mystery
1 3
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The first night The white dog
It was the first night in our new First there was a howl. We were both at the window
house. My room was full of boxes. Next, it was a chain clanking. when we saw it: a big white dog
“You will have to sleep in Jack’s When it stopped, I held my breath. chained to a rusty post.
room,” said Dad. But then it all started again: It was trying to get free.
Jack is my brother. “Clank”, “Howl”, “Rattle”. “Poor dog,” I cried.

I was glad to be in his room K!
CL A N “Come on,” said Jack.
when the noises began. R AT TLE! HOWL!
We ran down to
the back door.
The dog was
still howling.
Jack and I went
into the garden.
2 4
“Did you hear anything?” said Jack. One second it was there. The next it was
“A CLUNK, CLANK noise,” I said. gone. Jack and I ran after it.
“And a howl,” said Jack. The dog kept running. Sometimes, it

stopped and looked at us. Then it gave
We got out of bed and went to the another howl and ran on.
window. Another howl made us jump.
It sounded like an animal in pain. At last it stopped at the back of the
last house.
There was a sudden silence.
It made me shiver. The dog looked at us. We could see
CLU N K! through its thick white coat
CLAN K! to the fence behind.
And then the dog vanished.
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Card
Ghost Dog Mystery
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
Have you heard strange noises in the night? Did you investigate ♦ Drawing of the story setting
the noises? Where were you when you heard these strange noises? Where does the story take place? Draw the house that the boys
Read on to find out about the strange noises in this story. have moved to. What do you think it looks like? Label the house
including some parts where the story took place.
♦ New jacket and blurb
Design a jacket for this book. Write a blurb on the back of the jacket
which briefly tells what the story is about. Give the story a new
name. For example:
♦ Story map
Book title Blurb
Complete the story map on Work Sheet 8. Include key words and
simple cartoon-style drawings to summarise what happened. You A new house … and a strange
may also add speech bubbles. The Strange White Dog howling white dog? A mystery
observed by two boys!
THINK IT! TALK IT! ♦ Narrative: Your own story ending
Write an ending for the story. Where did the dog vanish to? What
After reading … Think and share with a partner. did the boys discover? Was there anything left at the rusty post?
Do you sleep with a light on? Was there a message the dog was trying to give to the boys?
Why do we often feel afraid in the dark? ♦ Collage creation
Do you believe there are such things Make a collage for the story. Use a white crayon on black paper
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as ghosts? Talk about a scary place you to draw the dog. Add background scenery using torn tissue paper,
have visited or heard about. crepe paper and coloured paper cut-outs. You might like to mix
some water with white paint and “wash” it over your collage
to create a “misty, spooky” effect. Give your picture a title.
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Material sourced from: Dark Flight, Steel Eyes, Blake Education (permission to reproduce
this material has kindly been granted by Badger Publishing Ltd., UK) Steel Eyes
1 2
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The showdown
The boating lake came into view. with her art stuff. Then he like secrets. All we want to know “You shouldn’t have done that!”
Gary spotted Emma on the other saw Tanya and Gail walking is why you don’t ever take the Emma shouted, quickly reaching
side of the lake, sitting on a bench towards her. sunglasses off. Tell us and we’ll down to grab the glasses and
leave you alone.” turning away from them.
“Emma!” he shouted. But
she was too far away to hear Emma stood up. “Don’t even
him. He sprinted round the think about it,” she replied firmly.
path. As he approached, he
saw Tanya and Gail leaning But in a split second, Tanya
over her. reached over and pulled the
sunglasses from Emma’s face.
“We’re not asking for much,” They fell to the ground.
Tanya was saying. “We just don’t
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Steel eyes
“DON’T LOOK INTO HER “I TOLD YOU TO LOOK AWAY!” Tanya and Gail both suddenly
EYES!” yelled Gary. Gary screamed. felt shooting pains in their hands
and feet. The pain quickly spread.
But Tanya and Gail ignored him. But it was too late. They looked down and watched
Tanya grabbed Emma’s hair and
with horror as every part of their
pulled her head round to face
bodies began to change.
her and Gail. They both looked
straight into Emma’s eyes and Later that afternoon several kids
found themselves staring at two from their school noticed the two
circles of smooth steel, each with new, life-sized stone statues at the
a tiny hole in the middle. bottom of the boating lake. They
all agreed that the statues looked
amazingly like Tanya Swan and
Gail Jones.
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Steel Eyes
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
Emma Stone is the new girl in school. Why does she always wear ♦ Poster of Emma’s planet
sunglasses while the others are not allowed to? Gail and Tanya are Think of a planet Emma might be from. What supernatural powers
determined to find out, but Emma’s cold stare is more than they do the inhabitants have there? Design a poster of her planet. Give
bargained for. Read the story and find out. her planet a name. You might include labels for features of the
planet including style of housing, transport, landscape and so on.
Think of things you’ve seen in science-fiction movies or read in
READ IT! Work Sheet 9 books to give you more ideas!
Is the planet dark or light? Is it like a desert or does it have
After reading the text … mountains and lakes … seas and oceans?
♦ Story map What do the people look like? Why do they all have eyes of steel?
Complete the story map on Work Sheet 9. Include key words and
What are the houses like? How do they stay warm?
simple cartoon-style drawings to summarise what happened. You
What are the forms of transport?
may also add speech bubbles.
Are there schools and how are the students taught?
♦ Narrative: A new story ending
THINK IT! TALK IT! The story ends with Tanya and Gail turning into statues. Can you
write a different ending? Make it no longer than four sentences.
♦ Advertisement for sunglasses
How do you think Emma’s eyes became smooth circles of steel? Where Design a pair of “spaced out sunglasses”. Label their features. Write
did her power come from? Did she want the others to look at her eyes? an ad for the sunglasses and include key reasons why people should
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Did you feel sorry for Tanya and Gail? purchase them.
Did the story have a good ending?
♦ Text message
Imagine that Gary had time to send a text to Emma before the other
girls arrived to argue with her. Design the phone with the message
on it, warning her about the intentions of the other girls.
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Material sourced from: Dark Flight, Something Evil, Blake Education (permission to reproduce
this material has kindly been granted by Badger Publishing Ltd., UK) Something Evil
1 2
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The new city A murder hunt
Dark Lake was old and deep. Then a big new city was built The first one to disappear was
It was a long way from any city. right next to the lake. a man called Jim Small. He
People who lived near the lake had gone for a walk around
“It’s a bad idea,” local people
stayed away from it. They said the lake with his dog. He didn’t
said. “There is something evil
that sometimes, people who come home. The police searched
in Dark Lake.”
walked near the lake were never everywhere. At last they found
seen again. No-one knew why. But they built the city anyway. Jim’s cap. It had blood stains on
Thousands of people came to it. Now it was a murder hunt but
live there. there were no clues.
And then they started to

disappear.
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A party by the lake
Next a teenager called Lisa A year passed. They didn’t find Something was in the water. It was
disappeared. The next day Lisa or Jim. A sailing club built too big to be human. It pulled at a
police found marks on the a clubhouse next to the lake. screaming girl, trying to drag her
ground. It looked like something into the lake …
One night the club had a party
had been dragged through the
at the clubhouse. Suddenly they
bushes … towards the lake …
heard a scream. It was even louder
than the music. Someone was in
trouble down by the lake. People
ran to the lake. In the moonlight
they saw two struggling shapes.
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Card
Something Evil
Have you seen a movie or read a book that really scared you? Talk about What do you think happened to the two missing people?
it with a partner. Write some scary adjectives to describe these things. Read the last line. What might be pulling at the screaming girl?
Scary objects or things (nouns) Describing words (adjectives)
An old house
WRITE IT!
A cemetery
A forest After reading the text, write …
A cave ♦ Narrative: Your own ending
An old factory Pretend you are the person running towards the screams.
Finish the story with you as the hero. What is pulling the girl?
How will you win, or maybe you won’t? Keep your writing short
READ IT! and sharp.
♦ Description of the creature in the lake
What was in Dark Lake?
♦ Quick quiz
Let your imagination run wild and draw what you think has been
(Answers are in the text.)
hiding in the lake.
1. Who was the first person to go missing from Dark Lark?
Underneath your picture, write a brief summary about this creature
2. What was he doing when he went missing? and also describe its evil powers.
3. What did the police find?
♦ Design for a machine/trap
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♦ What do you believe? Design and label a machine or trap for catching the evil creature.
4. Why did the local people think something evil was in the lake? Create a flow chart about your machine which describes the steps
5. What could be the other two shapes described in the last for capturing the creature.
paragraph?
6. Read the first line of the story. Did the author make you want
to read on? How did the author set the scene?
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Text Text type: Poetry
Material sourced from: Fiona Jackson.

Four-line Poems
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1 3
Puppy Snake
Soft, gentle, loving, mischievous Deadly, elegant, cool, dangerous
Bouncing, playful, running, jumping Gliding, sliding, striking, cunning
Precious Puppy Tiger Reptile
Proud, beautiful, powerful, majestic
Searching, stalking, waiting, scheming
King of Siberia
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Card
Four-line Poems
ZONE IN! WRITE IT!
The text card has “four-line” poems on it. These poems are short. ♦ Your own poem
They still have a message written to grab the reader’s attention quickly. Select one of the pictures but write a different poem for it. You
Read the poems and see what you think. may use the four-line poem idea or one of your own. Four-line
poems are written like this:
First Line: Noun
READ IT! Second Line: Four adjectives
Third Line: Four verbs
Fourth Line: Your choice
♦ Quick quiz
Read the text and think of your own answer. ♦ Picture this beautiful place …
1. The first line of each poem is a noun. What is a noun? Think of a beautiful place where you have been. Use paints,
crayons, marker pens and coloured paper to create a picture
2. The words in the second line are _____ . These are called _____
of this place. Write a very short description of your beautiful place
words.
as a poem or just a few words that come into your mind.
3. The words in the third line are _____ . These are called _____
words. ♦ Praise for an animal
4. What do you think poetry is? Write your answer. What is your favourite animal? Why do you like this animal? Do you
5. Which poem best describes the animal pictured? Why do you think this animal is popular with other people? Write a short, catchy
think this poem has the best words? piece promoting your animal to other people.
Give your writing a title such as “Sharks: Fantastic Creatures of
the Deep”. Include the great points about your animal and say
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THINK IT! TALK IT! nothing about what might not be so good. You could use a book
from the library or the internet to find out some useful facts about
After reading … Think and share with a partner. your animal.
There is a common saying which goes, “A picture tells a thousand Use A3 paper and bold, colourful marker pens to complete your
words.” Look at the pictures on the text card. Which one caught your good copy.
attention first? Why? What do you think of when you see this picture?
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Material sourced from: Victoria Hazell and illustrated by Janice Bowles.

Double Headed Dog
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Why do people stop and stare? He said that as far as he was concerned,
This really is too much to bear. Double the love was what was deserved.
Just because I walk my dog, Jim was happy as could be,
They stare and whisper, eyes agog! And his two faces were kissing me.
Don’t they know that it is rude? When he was born, something went wrong,
To stare and point is really crude. But I will love him from this day on.
My dog is really my best friend, I don’t care if his looks are strange,
It’s just he does not have an end! I don’t care if he gets the mange.
His head is where his tail should be, I don’t care if he looks different,
But that does not bother me. If he looks strange, I’m indifferent.
I love him heaps, he is my pet, But what I hate is when people stare,
I even took him to the vet. It makes me angry, and I glare.
The vet was puzzled and examined him – I want to scream, I want to shout,
He asked his name. I told him, Jim! “Different is okay, so don’t freak out.”
He checked him over inside and out, It’s easy to love someone that’s different,
And then declared there was no doubt. Jim’s my dog and he is BRILLIANT!
– written by Victoria Hazell
That Jim was the most amazing pet he’d seen,
His picture should be in a magazine!
He said that Jim was special alright,
That he was really outta sight!
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Card
Double Headed Dog
Discuss with a partner what you think a double headed dog would look Is this a funny poem? Explain your opinion. What parts of the poem
like? You may like to draw a picture of your double headed dog. did you find funny?
What two different animals could you put end to end to make a funny
combination? Try drawing it and see!
READ IT!
After reading the text … WRITE IT!
♦ Rhyme time
Identify and record the rhyming pairs in the poem. Share them with After reading the text, write …
a partner and check back with the poem to make sure you have ♦ How did that happen?
recorded them all. Draw an animal that is double headed. Then write a paragraph
♦ Quick quiz to explain how your animal came to be that way. Share your
Re-read the poem to help you answer these questions. illustrated story with a partner.
1. Why does the dog’s owner become angry with people in the ♦ eBay advertisement
street? An eBay advertisement consists of a paragraph of text with a
2. What was the vet’s advice for the double headed dog? picture that describes the item for sale. These ads are posted on
3. Is there a message the author wants us to consider? the internet. Imagine you are trying to sell a double headed dog
What would it be? on eBay. Write down the great things about your dog, such as,
“Would make an excellent watchdog – two sets of eyes!”
4. Do you think it would cost more to feed a double headed dog?
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Write a good copy of your paragraph using the computer and insert
a drawing or picture of your dog. When you have completed this
task, share your advertisement with your class and find out how
much they would be willing to pay for your double headed dog.
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Response Centres Upper primary – consolidating level
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16 Morse Code Explanation 177
17 Making Cartoons Explanation 275
18 Earthquakes Explanation 300
19 Nightmares of Nature Information report 254
20 Living in a Greenhouse Information report 295
21 The Alien Files Information report 300
22 Living in Space Information report 300
23 The Rarest Kind of Water Information report 300 Glossary Glance 10
24 5010 Calling Narrative 350 A Visitor From the Future 11
25 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Whale; Sadako and the 1000
12 & 13
Paper Cranes Narrative 350 Paper Cranes
26 Max My Mate Narrative 717 Max My Mate 14
27 Decoding the Mayan Marvels Narrative 738 The Mayan Library 15
28 Teagan’s Television Poetry 245 Teagan’s Television 16
29 Movie Tickets On Line Procedure 225
30 Stumped by Turf Thieves Newspaper article 255
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Student
no. Talk It! number
16 Morse Code Explanation
17 Making Cartoons Explanation
18 Earthquakes Explanation
19 Nightmares of Nature Information report
20 Living in a Greenhouse Information report
21 The Alien Files Information report
22 Living in Space Information report
23 The Rarest Kind of Water Information report 10
24 5010 Calling Narrative 11
25 Sadako and the Thousand Narrative
12 & 13
Paper Cranes
26 Max My Mate Narrative 14
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27 Decoding the Mayan Marvels Narrative 15
28 Teagan’s Television Poetry 16
29 Movie Tickets On Line Procedure
30 Stumped by Turf Thieves Newspaper article
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Upper primary – Consolidating level
Material sourced from: Brainwaves, Break that Code, Blake Education.

Morse Code
1 2
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Sending a message by teleg
de, do raph
When you think of a co • Pressing quickly on
the
ing
you imagine a spy send telegraph key sends a
short
t all electrical signal, written
a secret message? No
as a dot.
codes are meant to be
• Pressing the telegrap
secret. Morse code was h key
one three times longer send
sa
developed in 1840. At
ay long electrical signal, wr
itten
time, it was the only w as a dash.
nd
to send messages arou • The pause between
the world. let ters
lasts as long as one da
t and sh.
Morse code used shor • The pause between
words
sent
long electrical signals lasts as long as two da
shes.
ds were received
by telegraph. The soun
at represent letters.
as dots and dashes th
mputer messages have
Telephone, fax and co
But SOS still means
replaced morse code.
“Send help!”.
How to crack the panel
ing
ove panel is written us
The message on the ab
y shown on the right
morse code. Use the ke
!
to work out the message
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Morse Code
Pair and share your ideas with a partner. What are all the different types ♦ We seem to live in a world of codes. Think about the codes your
of codes that you know about? How are they used? If you had a secret family use. What are they? How are they used?
code, what would you use it for? ♦ Think about the codes you and your friends use. What are they?
How are they used?
♦ One of the most common forms of codes people use daily is that of
READ IT!
texting on mobile phones. What codes do you know? Do you know
what cu means? Do you know what pls means? Do you know what
lol means? Discuss text codes used by your family and friends.
♦ Comprehension questions
On the Lines! Between the Lines! Beyond the Lines!
On the Lines! (Use the text) WRITE IT!
1. In 1840 what was the only way to send messages around
the world? After reading the text, write …
2. In what year did Samuel Morse die? ♦ Text me!
3. What was Samuel Morse famous for? Have a conversation with a partner in text talk or maybe take both
Between the Lines! (Use the text and think) sides of the conversation! One person begins the conversation with
a greeting and perhaps a question. For example:
4. Has the system of using morse code been an outstanding
success? Why? Hi how r u? Ru gr8? Ru go 2 bch?
5. Do you think the system of International Morse Code has I am gr8 & mabe go @ 3pm? Come wth?
Hve to fin math hw u done yet?
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disadvantages? If so, what are they and explain your answer?
Beyond the Lines! (Use the text, think and your knowledge Your conversation must have at least 10 text
of the world) messages from each person. Allow others to
6. Do codes play a vital role in our modern-day society? Explain. read them to see if they can crack your code!
7. Is modern-day text messaging writing a code?
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Making Cartoons
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Pre-production Production Post-production
THE 3 STAGES OF 1. Writers draft story into 1. Modellers create computer 1. Many individual animated
script form. models of characters, props layers that make up each shot
ANIMATION and scenes. are flattened into a final scene.
This is called compositing.
To begin turning a story into
animation, illustrators draw
sketches to show the look
and feel of the story. They
develop key characters and
2. Script is read, discussed
action scenes so the plot can 2. Each computer model has a set
and finetuned.
of controls which determines
come to life visually. 3. Illustrators draw sketches 2. Editors cut a final edit of the
how it will move – dozens of
of scenes and characters. film, making sure colour levels
The three stages of character files for movement
are correct for all scenes.
and features are created.
computer-generated image Special effects are finalised
3. Background sets and any additional effects
animation are: are created in a required are added.
rough, blocked-out form.
1 PRE-PRODUCTION 4. Animators add texture (skin,
2 PRODUCTION fur, hair …) for each character.
5. Specific key poses are created
3 POST-PRODUCTION 4. Storyboard artists create that dictate the movement of
hundreds of storyboard each character.
drawings to map out story 6. Special effects like flowing
scene by scene. water, lighting, shadows, 3. Volume levels for music,
5. Character voices recorded. weather elements and fire are sound effects and dialogue
6. Character and background added to both backgrounds are balanced for best
styles and looks chosen. and characters. dramatic effect.
7. Storyboards put into final 7. Rough animation is finalised
order and timed with and signed off by the director.
characters’ voices and other The final 2-D “render” is
sounds to create animatics. produced and given to the
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Making Cartoons
What is your favourite animated movie? Why do you like this movie? Why is it people of all ages enjoy animated movies? Have you ever seen
Can you name some stories which have been made into animated an animated movie that you haven’t enjoyed? Why didn’t you like it?
movies? Now read about making an animated movie. What do you think would be the top five animated movies?
READ IT! WRITE IT!
After reading the text … After reading the text, write …
♦ Quick quiz ♦ Creating a story in pictures
1. What do the writers draft the story into? Choose a fairytale and create a story map that re-tells the story
2. What does CGI stand for? in brief. Change one or two of the events in the fairytale so it is a
story with some of your own ideas. Select the main characters and
3. List the three stages of production.
events from “your” fairytale. Sketch out these scenes and add one
4. What mainly happens at each production stage? Use two or or two key words that tell what is happening.
three key words for each stage, and present this information
using a diagram of your choice. ♦ Creating a character
Choose one of the characters from the fairytale and create your
5. Below is a list of the different people required to make
own animated version of this character on A4 paper. Write a brief
an animated movie.
blurb explaining who the character is and what this character is like.
List their roles in your JOB CH ART
student book. Job Title Job Description ♦ Cartoon of a robotic dog
Create a new animated robotic dog cartoon for children. Sketch
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Writers out a cartoon of something the dog might do and maybe include
Illustrators the dog’s owner. Perhaps the dog gets out and goes for a wander.
What is your robotic dog’s name? What sort of commands does it
Modellers
respond to? Is there something that sends the dog crazy? Let your
Animators imagination run wild! Make a detailed sketch of your dog and use
materials to create a 3-D dog!
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Earthquakes
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What is an Earthquake?
Most earthquakes occur along fault lines in the Aftershocks
The violent shaking of an earthquake
Earth’s crust. When sections of rock slip or move is over in less than a minute. But
suddenly, this causes shock waves to travel long danger still lurks in the form of
distances. These vibrating shock waves are what destructive aftershocks.
Aftershocks are smaller quakes that
we know as an earthquake. happen after the earthquake in the
Fault lines series of shock waves. There same area. Major earthquakes always Earthquakes can vary from a mild
are three main types of shock have aftershocks which can continue tremor to the violent shaking and
The Earth’s crust is divided into
waves – primary, secondary and at a low level for years. buckling of the Earth’s surface.
large sections called tectonic
plates. Fault lines occur where surface waves.
these massive plates move against Primary (P) waves
each other or where they pull These are the fastest travelling GO FACT!
apart. The constant movement shock waves, moving at 8
Did you know?
of tectonic plates has its greatest kilometres per second. They
impact along fault lines.
The Earth’s surface is made up of large
cause little damage.
plates, called tectonic plates. These plates
What happens during Secondary (S) waves fit together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. They
an earthquake? These waves move more slowly,
are unstable and are constantly moving.
at 4.5 kilometres per second
The place underground where This movement causes most of the world’s
– but result in more damage.
the rock broke or slipped is called earthquakes and volcanoes, and changes
They cause rock layers to move
the focus, or hypocentre, of the the face of our planet.
up and down or from side to side
earthquake. The spot directly
in a ripple-like motion.
above the focus on the surface
of the earth is called the epicentre Surface waves
of the earthquake. These occur only on the Earth’s
surface and travel at about 1.5 km The 1964 Anchorage, Alaska
The vibrations travel away
per second. These waves cause earthquake dropped buildings and
from the focus of the quake in
the earth’s surface to buckle roads 9 metres in some places, while
all directions through ground
and weave. in others it raised them 10 metres.
rock and ocean water in a
It measured 9.2 on the Richter scale.
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Earthquakes
Would you live in a city that was known to be in an earthquake zone? What would it be like to experience an earthquake? What is a really
Why do some people live in such cities even when they know that scary experience you have had? Would that experience scare you again
dangerous quakes may occur there? What happens to cities when or do you know more now?
a big earthquake hits?
WRITE IT!
READ IT!
♦ Flow chart
♦ 3 level guide Write true or false for each statement.
Design a flow chart which explains what causes an earthquake,
Answer using the text the three types of shock waves and the result of earthquakes.
1. Sections of rock suddenly slipping or moving cause shock waves. Plan your draft on paper using only key words. Use the computer
2. Vibrating shock waves are what we know as an earthquake. to publish a good copy. You could download pictures from the
Answer using the text and your own thinking internet or copy pictures out of library books to add to your
3. An earthquake that mainly has primary waves would be less flow chart.
frightening than one with surface waves. ♦ Diary entry
4. Secondary waves can make buildings fall down. Record an entry in your diary that describes an earthquake. What
Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge is happening around you? How do you feel and what noises can
of the world you hear? Where are you hiding? Do you think you will survive?
5. Natural forces such as volcanoes, floods and earthquakes ♦ Newspaper report
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challenge us to survive. You are a journalist for a newspaper. You are writing a news
6. Cities shouldn’t be built in earthquake zones. report about a big earthquake that has hit your city. How big
♦ Compare epicentre and focus was the earthquake? Where did it hit? How many buildings were
damaged? What sounds can you hear? Are any people trapped?
Draw up a table in your student book and list the difference
Remember newspaper articles have a catchy headline, are brief
between the focus of an earthquake and the epicentre.
and cover only the important parts of an event.
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Nightmares of Nature
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FANCY FANdeGadSliest snakes have long
1 Some of the They use
th e fr on t of their mouths.
fangs at their prey.
TAKING A BsnITakEes far outweighs any real
Our horror of ith two sharp fa ng s to in je ct venom into
se to us. But w the uid is released
threat they po nner whole, he n th e sn ak e bites, the liq
d a m ou th to swallow di n. W travels down
fangs an bad reputatio m glands and
w on de r snakes have a from the veno . It is these
it is no llo w fa ng s into the victim
the ho s to humans.
es th at ar e most dangerou ct
snak r skin and inje
s can pierce ou m . Th e
The long fang tr ea
into our bloods
venom directly tr op ic al A frica has the
from
Gaboon viper ison up to
es t fa ng s an d can inject po
long .
under the skin
50 millimetres
2
I NJECTING HERE COMES DINNER – GULP
VENOM Snakes with
!
Fangs venom use it to stop the
WHY DON’T SNAKES CHOKE?
Ve nom gland have ir prey
Rattlesnakes from struggling so the If you ate a large piece
inside cheek y can gulp it down of food and didn’t
red long fangs on
Ve nom is sto lie in one piece. One type chew it properly, it cou
s hinge s. They of venom works to ld get caught in your
he re and pa sse e
flat again st th paralyse the vic tim by throat. Then you migh
into the fangs ut h, attacking its nervous t choke. Snakes don’t
. roof of the mo
when needed wa rd system. Another type have this problem. As
then spring for works by destroying their mouths stretch,
e is
when the snak
the vic tim’s muscles. so does the opening to
. their windpipe. The
ready to str ike Snakes have flexible mo elastic connections be
uths and jaws that tween a snake’s upper
can stretch to swallow and lower jaws enable
animals much larger the snake
Deadly snakes, like this to breathe even when
taipan, are milked to help
than themselves. A sna
ke’s diet may include its
produce antivenom. insects, rats, frogs, oth mouth seems filled
er reptiles and even
pigs or goats. with a whole
animal.
ELASTIC JAWS
Elas tic
conn ection
Win dpipe
But a surprise attack from
behind works best when
frogs are on the menu. Lower jaw
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Would you take a bath in a tub full of Have you ever seen a snake out in the wild? What should you do if you
rattle snakes? The world record is ten come across a snake? Why are snakes milked of their venom?
seconds! Turn over and read some more
Many people are afraid of snakes because _________ .
amazing facts about snakes. The tiger snake is very aggressive
and kills more people in Australia
than any other.
WRITE IT!
READ IT!
After reading the text … ♦ Design for a snake trap
♦ Quick quiz Create a design for a snake trap. Draw a diagram of the trap and
(Answers are in the text.) label the parts. What could you use to make the snake go into the
trap? Write a brief explanation of how the trap will work.
1. What do snakes have in their mouths for attacking prey?
2. Can you explain what happens when a snake bites? ♦ Design for a bookmark
Draw a diagram and label it to assist with your explanation. Snakes have amazing marks and patterns on their skin. Select a
3. What is the world’s deadliest snake? snake to draw from a book or on the internet. Do a rough sketch
4. Which snake has the longest fangs? first. Use your design to make a snake bookmark on heavy card.
Cut it out, mount onto coloured paper and laminate it.
5. Snakes have venom to _______ .
♦ Snakes as pets: Arguments for and against
♦ T chart about snakes
Do you think it is a good idea to keep snakes as pets? What should
Complete the T chart:
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people feed their snakes? What sort of equipment would you need
3 Good Things About Snakes 3 Bad Things About Snakes to keep a snake? You could research information on the internet
or in library books. Write an exposition text (one that looks at
both sides of an argument) for and against keeping snakes as pets.
Try to write at least three reasons for each point of view. Use the
computer to publish your writing. Display your work.
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Material sourced from: Go Facts, Conservation, Blake Education.

Living in a Greenhouse
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Thirty percent of carbon dioxide
released into the atmosphere is from
the burning of tropical rainforests.
The Earth is wrapped in an insulating blanket
of gases that acts like a greenhouse in a garden.
High levels of some gases are making the
greenhouse overheat.
A natural greenhouse Most scientists agree that global
The Earth’s insulating warming is already taking place. Scientists measure sea temperatures
greenhouse gases include Between 1996 and 2005, the to help detect changes in the Earth’s
carbon dioxide and methane. world experienced nine of the
temperature.
They trap heat from the sun, ten warmest years on record.
making the planet about 30 Thirty per cent of carbon dioxide
degrees Celsius warmer than released into the atmosphere
it would otherwise be. Without is from the burning of tropical Australia produces more greenhouse
the greenhouse effect, it would rainforests. gas emissions per person than any
be too cold for life as we know To stop global warming will other country because about 80
it to exist on Earth. require reductions in greenhouse percent of its electricity comes from
pollution. People will need to burning coal.
A changing greenhouse
drastically change the way
Human activities have increased
they use and produce energy.
the amount of greenhouse
Burning fossil fuels such as
gases. Burning fossil fuels
coal for electricity is the biggest
releases carbon dioxide into
cause of greenhouse gases and
the atmosphere, and clearing
alternative energy sources need
vegetation also increases levels
to be developed.
of greenhouse gases because
plants absorb carbon dioxide Australia produces more Global warming could extend the
– fewer plants means more greenhouse gas emissions per
range of mosquitoes, and assist
carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide person that any other country
the spread of malaria, Ross River
levels have risen dramatically because about 80 per cent
of its electricity comes from fever, Dengue fever and Yellow fever
in the last 30 years, warming to areas previously too cold for
the Earth’s atmosphere and burning coal.
mosquitoes.
changing weather patterns.
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What do you already know about global warming? Try writing three In Australia we presently use an enormous amount of coal to make
facts about global warming in your student book. Discuss with a partner. electricity.
What can we do to reduce our own electricity usage? What sorts
of things does your family do to reduce electricity usage? Discuss with
READ IT! a partner.
♦ 3 level guide Write true or false for each statement. WRITE IT!
Answer using the text
1. The Earth is wrapped in an insulating blanket of gases. After reading the text, write …
2. The natural greenhouse effect is to warm the Earth allowing ♦ Brochure about global warming
life to exist. Design your own brochure/booklet which explains the greenhouse
effect and the resulting global warming. Your brochure can be
handed out to others to inform them of this dangerous effect
3. Scientists aren’t all that worried about global warming.
on our Earth.
4. Changing weather patterns are showing that global warming
will continue to increase. ♦ Magnet with a message
Why is it important to reduce the amount of electricity that we
Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge
use? Design some eye-catching magnets for home and school that
of the world
remind people of how they can reduce their electricity usage.
5. We must act quickly to develop alternative energy sources
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in order to save our world. ♦ An environmentally friendly home
You are building your brand new environmentally friendly home.
6. We need to stop using wood and paper products in order
What are some of the features you will include to reduce water
to reduce the clearing of forests.
and electricity usage? Draw your house and label those features.
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Material sourced from: Brainwaves, The Alien Files, Blake Education.

The Alien Files
1 2
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Calling All Aliens! It’s not called space Life beyond Earth
Will we find evidence that aliens for nothing! The fastest way to travel across space
exist in space? is at the speed of light. We may not
There are more stars in the universe
Work has already begun on the be able to travel at the speed of light
than there are grains of sand on the
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence yet but radio waves can. Sending radio
Earth. The sun is a star that is about
(SETI). Right now, unmanned space signals may be the best way to contact
150 million kilometres away from us.
probes are leaving our solar system possible alien civilisations.
The next closest star to Earth is 40
on a long journey to see if there are trillion kilometres away. If aliens are
worlds beyond the Earth. Huge radio out there, they are a long way away
telescopes are searching for radio from us. A trip to the nearest star
signals from the stars. If there is life would take about 70 000 years.
out there in the infinite universe,
telescope in
we want to find it! The largest radio
is the Ar ecibo Dish.
the world
os s an d is built
It is 305 m acr
ter in the
into a natural cra
Rep ort erto Rico.
mountains of Pu
bac k to Ea rth .
No sig n of
life in sec tor 3 Is anyone out there?
347891B.
NASA has already sent unmanned them. It shows our position in the
space probes out into the universe. Milky Way Galaxy and has drawings
These probes carry a gold plate with of a man and a woman.
a message to any aliens who find The Voyager 1 and 2 probes were
both launched in 1977. They each
have a gold disc with greetings
in 50 languages, and photos of
people from around the world.
Our message to any alien life
forms is very clear:
We’re still waiting for
your answer!
I’m an alien
disguised as a
planet.
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The Alien Files
In 1984, scientists found a piece of rock in Antarctica. But it was not With around 80 billion galaxies in the universe, many scientists believe
just any old piece of rock. This rock was from Mars. How do you think that alien life forms must exist somewhere out there. Do you think
it arrived on Earth from Mars? there are other forms of life in our universe? Do you think it is possible
we will live on a planet other than Earth in the future?
READ IT!
WRITE IT!
♦ 3 level guide Write true or false for each statement. After reading the text, write …
Answer using the text ♦ A short message for an alien
1. Huge radio telescopes are searching for radio signals from NASA is launching a new probe with messages for any “aliens”.
the stars. You are invited to write a message. What will you say? Are you
2. The sun is a planet which is a very long way from Earth. going to ask questions or tell the aliens things about yourself?
Keep your message simple and add some simple drawings.
3. A trip to the nearest star would take about 70 000 years.
♦ Items for a time capsule
You and a friend have been asked to send a time capsule into
4. Scientists believe there must be other forms of life in the
space with four special items that will encourage aliens to visit
universe.
Earth. Draw and cut out your time capsule and the four items you
5. It will be difficult to find other forms of life because the universe will include. Paste the four items onto the capsule. On the back of
is so large. the capsule, write down what each item is and a short reason why
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Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge you have included it. Compare your time capsule and items with
of the world those of a partner.
6. If we contact life from another planet, we will have a greater
understanding about the universe.
7. “Aliens” and other life forms are the work of our imagination
and do not exist.
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Material sourced from: Brainwaves, Living in Space, Blake Education.

Living in Space
2 Animal astronauts
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Once we knew rockets could reach space, the race was
on to get humans out there. Before scientists dared
send a human into space, they needed information
about whether a living thing could survive there. In Laika was launched on
1 It takes more than one THE SATURN V
1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 to see if board Sputnik 2 in 1957.
After World War II , rocket After the war, von Braun went
they could get an artificial satellite into orbit. When Instruments sent data to
to America where he helped
research really took off. But Earth about her pulse and
design the biggest rocket ever that succeeded, they sent the first living creature into heartbeat. She died about a
the first rockets didn’t have built—the Saturn V. space – a dog named Laika. But there was no way to week after launch when her
the power to completely Escape rocket if return the satellite to Earth and Laika died in space. oxygen supply ran out.
escape Earth’s gravity and something goes
could only reach low orbit. wrong during Then in 1959, two monkeys, Monkey Able before
launch
The solution was to build Able and Baker, on board an being launched into
rockets that work in stages. Spacecraft American rocket became the space in the nose cone
of a Jupiter missile.
As each section uses up first creatures to be sent into Able later died while
Third Stage
its fuel, it drops away. This with one rocket space and get home again. the electrodes used to
makes the rocket lighter, so engine to give monitor her in space
extra power were being removed.
it can travel faster and faster
until it escapes into space.
Second stage People pioneers
with five rocket
3
ion succeeded
engines to lift In 1961, the Soviet Un
n being into
the spacecraft in getting the first huma
into space de
space. Yuri Gagarin ma
a single orbit of the
Ear th inside a
First stage tiny spacecraf t,
with two large Vostok 1.
fuel tanks The following
month, Alan
Five main Shepard became
engines for
the first stage the first American in
space when he went
n
on a 15-minute missio
an d str aig ht
up into space
. Sin ce the n,
down again
ns have
hundreds more missio
ce, and
carried people into spa
back.
even to the moon and
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Living in Space
You can’t float away into space because the Earth’s gravity pulls you to Why do you think people want to travel into space? How do you think
the ground. To travel in space, you need to travel at an incredible speed the scientists felt when they successfully launched the first rocket into
of 11 kilometres per second to overcome gravity. Research was needed space? Would you be willing to travel into space?
before rockets carrying people were sent into space. How do you think
this research was conducted?
WRITE IT!
READ IT! After reading the text, write …
♦ Newspaper article
After reading the text … It is now possible for people to pay to travel into space. Suppose
♦ 3 level guide Write true or false for each statement. you have booked a place on your first trip into space. You have also
Answer using the text completed your training for this. Write an article for a newspaper
1. The first rockets weren’t able to completely escape Earth’s about your trip. You need a catchy headline and short, catchy,
gravity. pieces of information for people to read.
2. The first living creature to be launched into space was a cat. ♦ For and against chart
Answer using the text and your own thinking Space travel became possible because of tests which involved
3. It took lots of experiments and trials to launch the first rocket. launching animals into space. Is it fair to use animals for research?
4. An artificial satellite was used to see if it was possible to orbit Draw a “For and Against” chart and list three reasons in each
the earth. column. Title your chart “Using Animals for Research”. Share your
5. Animals were sent into space first to ensure there was oxygen ideas with a partner.
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up there. ♦ Stages of a rocket launch
Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge Look at the labelled diagram of a rocket on the text card. Write
of the world a short explanation of how a rocket is able to launch into space.
6. Yuri Gagarin must have been very brave. Why were the stages so important?
7. It was cruel to send animals into space knowing that they would
probably die.
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The Rarest Kind of Water
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Ground water includes water flowing
between rocks and soil, moisture in
the soil, frozen soil (permafrost) and
The Rarest Kind of Water underground rivers.
GO FACT!
Driest
Australia is the driest
About three-quarters of our planet is covered inhabited continent
by water, but almost all of it is salt water. Fresh on Earth.
water doesn’t contain salt and is only about three
percent of the water on Earth.
Essential fresh water On the surface, under
Fresh water is essential for life. the ground
People and animals drink fresh The rest of the world’s fresh
water, and plants need it to water is in lakes and rivers
grow. We use fresh water for our (surface water) and under the
homes, industry and agriculture. ground (ground water). Most
Most of the world’s fresh water of the water we use is surface
is frozen in glaciers, icesheets water. Ground water is the
result of rain seeping into the
GO FACT!
and icecaps. Glaciers are slow-
moving bodies of ice made by ground, and is the source Did you know?
the build-up of snow. Icecaps of wells and springs. The Antarctic icesheet holds
are masses of about 90 percent of the
Water on the move Earth’s ice.
ice that cover
The amount of water on our
areas of land,
planet never changes, although
and icesheets
it continually changes form
are very large
through the water cycle.
icecaps. There are
massive icesheets However, fresh water can
in Antarctica and become polluted and unusable
Greenland. by humans. Due to the limited
amount of this resource, we
need to conserve water and
stop it from being polluted.
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The Rarest Kind of Water
ZONE IN! Work Sheet 10 THINK IT! TALK IT!
♦ Read the Glossary Glance words on Work Sheet 10 until you ♦ Limited fresh water resources
understand them. Explain them to a partner. Act locally, think globally! Brainstorm three ways you do not act
♦ The topic for the reading today is about the rarest kind of water, locally to conserve water or stop it from being polluted. Brainstorm
fresh water. Create three questions that you hope will be answered three ways we do not globally conserve water or stop it from being
as you read the text. Write them on Work Sheet 10. See if you can polluted. Share your ideas with a partner or the class.
answer them in your student book before you finish reading the text.
WRITE IT! Work Sheet 10
After reading the text … ♦ Rewrite it!
♦ Word activity – Who am I? Students are often good teachers! Rewrite the glossary on Work
Make a word game using the Glossary Glance words. Record it Sheet 10 into student friendly language so that other students will
in your student book, or work with a partner to complete this task understand easily what each word means.
orally. Create a sentence as a clue for each glossary word so a ♦ Research it!
partner can guess the word. For example: “I live under the ground. Use a resource to find out what the biggest body of surface water
You can drink me. I am …” is in your State. Remember that a resource can be a person you
♦ Re-read and re-tell might ask, a book, a magazine or the internet. See if you can find
Re-read the text card. Select five facts to re-tell to a partner without out how much water it holds. Present your research as a fact page
looking back at the text. Yes, you must memorise them! in your student book.
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this material has kindly been granted by Badger Publishing Ltd., UK) 5010 Calling
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A history lesson
2 “Yes, but that long ago!” Beta “We are setting up a thought-link
“Good morning Beta.”
A face appeared on the wall. said. “I mean there isn’t much for you,” teacher said. “You will have
It was Beta’s teacher. stuff to go on, is there?” a thought-link with a boy called
“Today you will begin your history project. Teacher’s face vanished. A film Zac. He is the same age as you, at
It is on life in the year 2000.” came on. It showed people a school in the year 2000. He can
“But that’s three thousand years ago!” cheering. They were watching tell you what life was like in his time.
Beta said. men kicking a football about. Are you ready?”
“It is a history project,” “This is a game that was played
teacher said. in the year 2000. The players
used their feet, so it was called
football.”
3
rprise
A breakfast su
te for 4
c. You’ll be la “Well go then!” Mum said. “And “I can hear you!” Zac said. “I have “We have a link so you can hear me
“Hur ry up, Za
said. don’t forget your football things.” to go.” in your thoughts. I can hear what
school,” Mum
ing,” he said. “Football! You play football!” “That’s okay.” Beta said in Zac’s you say back, too. I am doing this
“Okay, just go
ice said Beta said in Zac’s head. head. “I’m coming with you!” project, you see. It’s about life in the
u going?” a vo
“W here are yo year 2000. I need you to tell me all
. It was Beta. “What was that?” Zac asked. Beta comes too
in Zac’s head about it …”
id aloud.
school,” Zac sa “I said don’t forget your football “Look, who did you say you were?”
“I’m going to
lf asleep. things,” Mum said. Zac asked. It seemed a bit odd
He was still ha
“No, not that …” talking to someone he couldn’t see.
“It’s me, Beta.” Beta said. “I’m “My name is Beta. I am a boy the
calling you from year 5010. same age as you. That’s why they
Can you hear me?” chose you, for my thought-link.”
“What’s a thought-link? Zac asked.
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5010 Calling
The year is 5010. Beta is set up with a thought to link Zac from the If you could travel anywhere in time, what place and time would you
year 2000 to get help for his History project. Beta can have silent go to? Why have you chosen this time? If you had a thought-link with
conversations with Zac and is very keen to find out more about life someone else, what would you ask?
in the year 2000. Turn over and read on!
WRITE IT! Work Sheet 11
READ IT!
After reading the text … ♦ An interview with Beta
♦ 3 level guide Write true or false for each statement. In the story, Beta found out about the past by talking to Zac.
Answer using the text What sorts of questions could Zac ask Beta about life in 5010?
1. Zac and Beta are the two main characters in this piece of text. Write a maximum of five questions. Write some interesting
2. The story is mainly set in the year 5010. answers that Beta could give.
♦ Making a futuristic vehicle
Design a transport vehicle for the year 5010. What are the key
3. Beta listens to and obeys his teacher.
features? How does it move? What speed does it travel at?
4. It would have driven Zac crazy listening to Beta’s thoughts.
Make a model of it with Lego or materials such as boxes, paper
5. Beta didn’t have any interest in finding out about Zac’s life. and cartons. Label the key features and write a short description
Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge of the of your spaceage mover!
world ♦ Short story: A Visitor From the Future
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6. It is more interesting to read about the past in a book than One day you arrive home from school to find some unusual
to travel back in time. footprints leading to your front door. Suddenly you notice a
7. Being able to read someone else’s thoughts is an invasion movement in a window. You are not afraid, but you feel like this
of privacy. is a visitor you have met before.
8. Being curious and asking lots of questions is the best way Who is it and where are they from? What might happen? Write
to broaden your knowledge. a story about two pages in length. Refer to Work Sheet 11 to help
you plan your story.
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Reproduced with permission from Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr,
Hachette Livre Australia 1995. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES
by Eleanor Coerr
That afternoon Chizuko was Sadako’s first visitor. She smiled “Thank you, Chizuko chan,” she whispered. “I’ll never never
mysteriously as she held something behind her back. “Shut part with it.”
your eyes,” she said. While Sadako squinted her eyes tightly When she began to work with the paper, Sadako discovered
shut, Chizuko put some pieces of paper and scissors on the bed. that folding a crane wasn’t as easy as it looked. With Chizuko’s
“Now you can look,” she said. help she learned how to do the difficult parts. After making
“What is it?” Sadako asked, staring at the paper. ten birds, Sadako lined them up on the table beside the golden
Chizuko was pleased with herself. “I’ve figured out a way crane. Some were a bit lopsided, but it was a beginning.
for you to get well,” she said proudly. “Watch!” She cut a piece “Now I have only nine hundred and ninety to make,” Sadako
of gold paper into a large square. In a short time she had folded said. With the golden crane nearby she felt safe and lucky. Why,
it over and over into a beautiful crane. in a few weeks she would be able to finish the thousand. Then
Sadako was puzzled. “But how can that paper bird make she would be strong enough to go home.
me well?”
“Don’t you remember that old story about the crane?”
Chizuko asked. “It’s supposed to live for a thousand years.
If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, the gods will
grant her wish and make her healthy again.” She handed the
crane to Sadako. “Here’s your first one.”
Sadako’s eyes filled with tears. How kind of Chizuko to
bring a good luck charm! Especially when her friend didn’t
really believe in such things. Sadako took the golden crane and
made a wish. The funniest little feeling came over her when she
touched the bird. It must be a good omen.
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♦ Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper. Why would it be ♦ Old story about the crane
classified as art? What qualities do you need to be able to create this Chizuko believed the paper cranes would help Sadako get better.
kind of art? Have you ever made something by folding paper? How Is this because of the old story about the crane or could there
did you learn to do this? be another reason? How could folding 1 000 paper cranes help
♦ Many people believe that the mind has great powers that we do not Sadako get better? Share your ideas with a partner, the class or
fully understand. Many athletes believe that positive thinking and your teacher.
visualising your success are important strategies. Many health-care
workers believe that positive thinking and visualising well-being can
play an important role in recovery. What do you think? Do you ever WRITE IT!
use the power of positive thinking to help you? How? Share your
ideas with a partner.
♦ An old saying
“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” This is an old saying. In
READ IT! Work Sheets
your student book, explain how this saying relates to the story
12 & 13
“Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes”.
♦ Comic strip
♦ Paper whale
There are four main parts to this story.
The instructions for making a paper whale are given on Work Sheet
Draw four cartoon cells in your student book.
12. Follow the steps of this procedural text to make your origami
In each cell, draw Sadako and Chizuko and
whale. How long did it take you? How long might it take you to
use speech bubbles to convey the story.
create 1000 paper whales?
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Remember cartoon strips are generally black
♦ Multiple choice activity and white and the story is told very briefly
Read each multiple choice question on Work Sheet 13 and write through the characters speaking to one another.
the letter for the answer. Remember to check the text to confirm
your literal answers. You may need to think about what the author
may have intended, or use your own knowledge of the world to
answer the questions.
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Material sourced from: Trend, Max My Mate, Longman. Written by Victoria Hazell
and illustrated by Matt Golding. Max My Mate
1 2
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It was a warm sunny Saturday morning and I felt very excited. I was
going to the Lost Dogs’ Home to choose my best friend. It is a place
where dumped dogs end up, kind of death row. Three weeks to live
unless someone wants you. If not, well… it’s all over red rover.
As I looked at the dogs, one caught my eye. His coat was kind of red
and his eyes seemed to say, Me! Me! I called the manager, she told me
he was part red heeler – just like the cattle dogs you see in the country
rounding up sheep for farmers. He seemed desperate for me to take
him home. So I did.
I decided to call him MAX. It seemed like a cool name for a dog. As
we drove along the bay towards my house, Max walked up and down
the back seat. He put his head out the window. He nuzzled his cold wet
nose into my neck. Maybe it was his way of saying, thanks. Thanks for
noticing him. Thanks for saving him from death row. We were both
lucky guys, now we had each other.
I am a builder by trade, so I usually take Max to work with me.

Max loved coming along, he followed me everywhere like a shadow.
Sometimes he would get in the way so I would make him sit under
a tree and chill out. It was all working out really well until I had to do a
job renovating a coffee shop and I couldn’t take Max with me.
My house has a big garden with a fence and a gate, so I knew Max
would be safe. There was no way he would get out and he would have
plenty of space to play while I was gone. I drove home at the end of the
day and saw Max sitting outside the gate. As soon as he saw me he
started leaping about, yelping and wagging his tail. I wondered how he
managed to get out. There was a loose paling on the fence. I fixed this
and just as I finished the phone was ringing.
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Text type: Narrative
Word count: 717
Max My Mate
3 4
I was glad when 5 o’clock came and I could go home and check on
Max. But as I got out of the car I could hear Max whining. I rushed
inside and there was Max, whimpering and all tangled up in the rope
and unable to move poor thing! I quickly unwound him and set him
free. He went crazy running around in circles, yelping his head off.
I put my arms around him to say sorry. He covered me with wet sloppy
kisses and forgave me.
I made a decision then and there – not to take another job where
I couldn’t take him. After all, Max was my mate and wherever I went
he went too.
It was Mr Edwards, the owner of the house I had renovated last week.
He said that he had seen Max there that day and he had tried to catch
him but couldn’t. Wow! I couldn’t believe it! That place was about 10
kilometres away! How had he managed that? What was I going to do?
Now that I had fixed the fence it should be alright …
But when I got home the next day and called Max, he was nowhere!
I searched up and down the streets but couldn’t find him. I rang Mr
Edwards. Max had been there, but when he had called him, he run
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away. I found him about ten minutes from home. I opened the car
door and he jumped in and covered me with wet sloppy kisses. Boy,
do dogs have bad breath! I decided I would have to tie him up while
I was at work. I tied him up with a long run with water and food under
a shady tree – what more could he want, maybe a TV so that he could
watch the cricket?
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ZONE IN! READ IT!

Read and consider the following text. ♦ Summary statement
There are nine paragraphs to this story. Summarise each in your
student book. Write one sentence for each paragraph, making sure
Mate the sentence reflects the main event. Compare your work with
to jump on the back of a
It would take an awful lot of courage that of a partner who has also completed this activity, or show
would do for a mate.
crocodile, but I suppose that’s what you your teacher.
s it simply mean “friend”
What does the term “mate” mean? Doe ♦ Man’s best friend
e can be said in a friendly
or does it mean something more? Mat It is said that there are many benefits to owning a dog. Although
n is it used?
tone or even an aggressive one. Whe Max caused some stress to his owner, did the benefits outweigh
you said, for example, after the negatives? What are the positives? Read the statements below
“Thanks mate” is the standard thank
used as part of a greeting. and decide how each of them applies to Max. You will need to read
a gift has been given. Mate can also be
mate” when they meet. back through the story to find an example of each.
Friends or strangers often say “G’day
introduction (although G’day
However, is not used during a formal Dogs can improve your mood.
may be used on its own ).
form of this greeting. “Good Dogs encourage you to get out and exercise.
“G’day mate, how are ya? ” is another
al reply. “Maaaate!” really
thanks mate. How are you?” is the usu
d friends who are very Dogs help you meet other people.
says it all! It is a greeting used by goo
happy to see each other. Dogs stave off loneliness.
“mate”: “This is my mate”,
The word “friend” is often replaced by
y are best mates”. If you Dogs provide unconditional love.
“We’re old mates from school” or “The
s translate to: “This is my
use the word “friend”, these expression Dogs can reduce stress.
or “They are best friends”.
friend”, “We’re old friends from school”
does not communicate the
However, using the word “friend” just
same feeling as mate.
the English language.
There is no other word for “mate” in
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THINK IT! TALK IT! WRITE IT! Work Sheet 14
After reading … Think and share with a partner. After reading the text, write …
♦ Man’s best friend is … ♦ Writing an argument
Now that you have decided upon an example for each of the dot The correct format for writing an argument is listed below. Use
points in the previous activity, share your ideas about dogs with this format to write an argument outlining your position in relation
a partner or other class members. to the subject of abolishing lost dogs’ homes.
Do you think a cat would provide 1. State your agreement or disagreement with the statement
the same benefits? Why? Do you think (begin a new paragraph).
a goldfish would provide the same
2. Outline your reasons (at least three, and begin a new paragraph
benefits? Why?
for each).
3. Re-state your agreement or disagreement with the statement
(begin a new paragraph).
♦ Debate it!
♦ Letter writing
Read the statement below and decide if you agree or disagree.
Imagine you are Max’s new owner. You have decided to write
Once you have made a decision, think of three reasons why you feel
a letter to the Lost Dogs’ Home to thank them for your mate. In
the way you do. State your agreement or disagreement to a partner,
this letter you will share with them some of the stories that have
and then outline your three supporting reasons. Finally re-state your
happened since you took Max home. Don’t forget to include your
agreement or disagreement with the statement. Congratulations!
thank you. Use the correct letter format given on Work Sheet 14.
You have just submitted an oral argument. Well done!
abolished.
Lost dogs’ homes and animal shelters should be
If there was nowhere to dump dogs,
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selves.
people would keep them and look after them them
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Material sourced from: Treasure Trackers, Decoding the Mayan Marvels, Blake Education
Decoding the Mayan Marvels
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“This is it Flynn. Look on the stone wall! That is the glyph They explained that they had found the key and that they did not know where
that is in Uncle Earl’s diary. It must be the ‘key’ I saw in to go to find the Library. But Uncle Earl knew; he led them to a pool that
my dream,” said Mia. “In Mayan temples there is usually shimmered fluorescent green and indicated that the Library was down there.
a passageway which leads down below the pyramid. They plunged in one by one and searched the tunnels below the surface.
Help me find it! Maybe if we push the Mayan glyph They finally found a Mayan glyph – the glyph of King Can Ek – and below the
something will happen!” They both pushed hard and glyph was a key hole. The key fitted perfectly. Mia turned the key, and the
felt the glyph move slightly. There was the sound heavy stone moved making an opening just large enough for them to swim
of stone grinding against stone behind them. Mia and Flynn turned through …
to see that a trap door had opened in the middle of the floor. A narrow They were in a cave lit by hanging gold lanterns. On each wall were shelves
stairway led down to the heart of the Mayan pyramid. of books that reached the ceiling. In the middle of the cave was a throne,
They made their way down the steep stone steps. At the bottom of the stairs, covered with what appeared to be a magnificent headdress.
one thing grabbed Mia and Flynn’s attention. It was a large golden key on Just then Ramirez arrived and thanked them for finding the cave for him.
a stone slab in the middle of the room. They grabbed the key and scrambled Ramirez spoke of the ancient Mayan myth, which says the secret of eternal life
back up the stairs and started to run. They could hear voices. They trekked for is stored in a book in the Library. His eyes gleamed. “I may get eternal life.”
about an hour without stopping, and then stopped for a break. “Mia? Flynn?
You down here?” It was Professor Drake. Mia showed Professor Drake the “No!” came a thundering voice. With a loud swoosh, the headdress of feathers
key. “It must be the key to the Library – the one Uncle Earl wrote about. Look turned to face them. It was no longer just a headdress. There was now a man
in the diary, Flynn.” Flynn opened his Uncle’s purple notebook. Uncle Earl had wearing it. His chest was bare except for the Mayan glyph that hung from his
made a drawing of the key and written: neck. “No-one will take the contents of this Library. No book shall leave this
cave.” His voice boomed. Ramirez disappeared.
“To enter the Library, a key is needed. The key is thought to be hidden in the
“He was a bad man,” the King said. “He could never be trusted with
ancient city of Tayasal. Tayasal was ruled by King Can Ek, the last of the great
Mayan Kings. He moved all the treasure of the city to the hidden caves in the knowledge from this Library. Now Earl, you have been a good
Snake Valley. The treasure included the largest library of the ancient Mayans. man. I would like to give you a gift from the Library. However, you
Legend says that the only one with a love of knowledge will be shown where must promise never to return.” “As you wish, King,” he stammered
to find the key in the Lost City.” a little shaken. The King rose from his throne, gathered a scroll from
the shelf and gave it to Uncle Earl. “It is yours to decipher. Take it
They continued their journey and Flynn could hear the sound of rushing with you but tell no-one how, or from where, you found it.
water. They followed as it sloped downward. When they emerged they found I can’t tell you what it means. I can only say that I think
themselves at the top of a thundering waterfall. Carefully they climbed down your people have been searching for it for a long time.
beside the rushing water and followed the river to where it broadened into They will be pleased that you found it.” He gave a
a calm lake. “Thank goodness you are here. I have been waiting for you.” hearty laugh that filled the Library.
The three of them stood staring, mouths opened. It was Uncle Earl, sitting
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ZONE IN! Work Sheet 15 THINK IT! TALK IT!
Read this historical background Here is an epilogue to the story. Discuss with a partner what you think
information about the Mayan library the pun means.
on Work Sheet 15 before you read Six months later …
the story. Uncle Earl and Professor Drake looked down from the top level of the
shopping centre to the frenzied crown below. People were lining up
in queues in every direction. Behind the counter, Flynn and Mia were
READ IT! hurriedly serving customers…
“Mayan Gold – Royal Chocolate with Eternal Flavour!”
WRITE IT!
1. King Can Ek wanted to protect the treasure.
2. Mayans were master architects and builders.
♦ Creating a Mayan poster
3. A hieroglyph is a character of the Mayan writing system.
Use the following information to create an attractive mini-poster
Answer using the text and your own thinking of information about the Mayan civilisation.
4. Uncle Earl kept secrets from Mia and Flynn.
Who were the Mayans?
5. Ramirez only wanted the gold.
The Mayans occupied the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The
6. The last King of Maya was wise.
civilisation was formed as early as 1500 BC. The Mayan religion
Answer using the text, your own thinking and knowledge
centred around the worship of many nature gods. Their amazing
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of the world
architecture remains as great ruins at centres they used for religious
7. Greed is the root of all evil. ceremonies, including Palenque, Uxmal, Copán, Tikal and Chichén
8. Good will always overcome. Itzá.
9. Past civilizations were superior to our own. They developed astronomy, calendar systems, writing and, some
believe, chocolate! They built observatories to watch the stars. Mayans
were highly skilled as potters and weavers. An amazing civilization!
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Material sourced from: Victoria Hazell and illustrated by Janice Bowles.

Teagan’s Television
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Teagan’s mother was full of woe, The solution was simple, as simple as could be.
Because to school she would not go. They removed the power plug with glee …
She would not leave the television, They carried the television from the room,
Even though it damaged her vision. And sent it away, we can only assume.
Teagan watched it day and night, Gradually, over the passing of time,
Her favourite shows were infinite. Teagan changed and was just fine.
Drama, comedy, cartoons and all, She developed hobbies and other pursuits,
She drove the family up the wall. She no longer had those family disputes.
When they ended, she would cry … Her addled brain and poor eyesight
A tear would fall down from each eye. Are mended now and are quite alright.
Her mother pleaded and begged her to So let this be a lesson to you,
Turn off that nasty TV voodoo! About what too much TV can do!

The family were frightened she was under a spell,
That she would end up quite unwell.
And so they called the people, who knew
How to make the spell, undo!
They came at once, they came with haste,

There wasn’t another moment to waste.
TV Busters they called themselves,
Small and green, they looked like elves.
They set to work right away,

For Teagan had been led astray.
They claimed the television
Had addled her brain and destroyed her vision.
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♦ Many adults believe that children today watch too much TV. What ♦ Expressing your argument
do you think? How much do you watch each day? … in a week? Do Can television viewing be good for children? Explain your opinion.
you think this is acceptable? Do your parents think this is too much? Talk about the positive aspects of children’s television viewing.
What rules do you have at home that relate to the TV? Do your
parents make funny comments like, “You will get square eyes!”, and
“Your brain will go mushy!” Share your thoughts with a partner. WRITE IT! Work Sheet 16
♦ What is the name of your favourite morning TV program? Why are
there programs called The Early Show? What sort of programs are After reading the text, write …
they, and who are they for? What is the name of your favourite ♦ Positives and negatives
FOR AGAINST
evening TV program? Why are there programs called The Late Late
Show? What sort of programs are they, and who are they for?
Think about what you believe are
+ TV – TV
the good aspects of television viewing
for children and also the negative aspects.
Record the positive and negative aspects
READ IT! in your student book in a grid format.
♦ Teagan’s TV plot line
The story emerges as you read the poem. Write in a step-by-step
manner what the main plot points of the story are? Read them ♦ Your own poetry
to a partner.
Write a poem about a television with you
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♦ Rhyming words as the central character. Complete your
Lines 1 and 2, and Lines 3 and 4, of each stanza (paragraph) poem on Work Sheet 16. Add an illustration,
rhyme. Find each pair and create another matching pair for each, and then share your poem with a partner or the class.
for example, time/fine = line/mine. You may like to use an online
rhyming dictionary. There are many helpful ones to try; you can
search for one on the internet.
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Text Text type: Procedure
Movie Tickets On Line
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Internet bookings • Enter payment details, that is, credit card type, credit card
number and expiry date.
Book on line – it’s simple, fast and hassle free! Grab your parent
and go through the following steps together. When you go on line, • Print out a receipt or just take your credit card to the cinema
you can check out session times and buy tickets with a credit card. and they will hand you the tickets.
It is simple – follow these easy steps and you will be eating popcorn You’re done!
and choc tops in no time. Go on, give it a go today!
Easy as this … Things to remind

• Use a search engine to find the website of your local movie your parent …
theatre. Sometimes a small booking fee applies
• Using your web browser, go to that site. for each ticket.
• Click on Buy Tickets. Once you have bought your tickets, there
• You will now need to select which movie you would like to attend. is no refund, exchange or cancellation.
• Mouse click to select.
• You will now need to select which session you would like
to attend.
• Mouse click to select.
• Select your tickets, that is, how many adults, children and
concession tickets.
• Choose your seats (for cinemas with allocated seating). These will
usually be pre-selected for you. Simply unclick those selected and
choose where you would like to sit by clicking on the seat number.
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Movie Tickets On Line
Have you ever bought movie tickets? How did you buy them? Did the ♦ What’s your opinion?
system work well? How could it have been improved? How do you Will movie tickets become a thing of the past? In future times, how
think movie tickets will be purchased in 20 years’ time? will we get into a movie we want to see? Share your futuristic ideas
with a partner.
READ IT! ♦ Your buying preferences
Would you prefer to buy your tickets on line or from the cinema?
After reading the text … What are the advantages of your preferred method? What are the
disadvantages? Explain your preference to a partner.
1. There is no booking fee when your order movie tickets on line. WRITE IT!
2. The are eight steps to follow when buying movie tickets on line.
3. You will need an adult with you when purchasing tickets on line. After reading the text, write …
Answer using the text and your own thinking ♦ Procedure: Advertisement flyer
4. Tickets are cheaper when purchasing on line. You have been commissioned by a leading
cinema complex to create a flyer that will let
5. You must be over 18 to purchase tickets on line.
customers know how to purchase tickets on line.
6. Purchasing tickets on line assures you will get a seat.
You may use only half an A4 page to do this.
Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge The flyer must be bright and creative so that
of the world customers will want to take it home and refer to it.
7. A better system to purchase tickets will be created. Make sure you give clear instructions that are easy to follow.
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8. In future we won’t require tickets to attend the movies.
♦ Survey for and against
Divide your page in half vertically. Think about the advantages
and disadvantages of purchasing on line. You may like to talk to
others in your class to gain their opinions. Record your ideas in dot
point style. When completed, think about whether the advantages
outweigh the disadvantages. Discuss with others.
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Text Text type: Newspaper article
Article reproduced courtesy of Leader Community Papers and Newspix.

Stumped by Turf Thieves
17 October 2007
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Stumped by Turf
Thieves! by Lyndal Cairns
THE GRASS is greener on a thief’s lawn
this week after 50 rolls of turf were stolen
under cover of darkness from a Clifton Hill
GREEN TARGET: Paul Connors and Yarra Mayor Jenny Farrar
cricket pitch. at the damaged ground. Picture: Kylie Else
The Clifton Hill Cricket Club’s oval is in Richmond Sen-Sgt Colin McKinney said particular turf was drought resistant and
pieces after thieves tore up and fled with turf theft was unusual for the inner-city. part of the regeneration of the oval following
expensive drought-proof turf on the night “I’m sure it happens in suburbia but in the effects of limited rainfall and water
of Sunday, October 7. restrictions,” she said. “It is disheartening
Richmond, it’s not the same environment,”
that these people have no regard for public
Club president Paul Connors said he was he said. “It’s expensive stuff and it doesn’t
open space and no consideration for other
shocked and disappointed. “Someone surprise me that someone would steal it.”
people who use the ground.”
decided to rip a bit of our grass up and The club, which has five senior and ten
do a ‘Backyard Blitz’ at their own place,” junior teams, is still able to play on the It will take six weeks for the new grass to
he said. unaffected parts of the oval. knit. Anyone with information can provide
it to Richmond Police on 8420 3600.
“It was laid about a month ago and it Yarra Mayor Jenny Farrar said grass had
would have knitted (to the ground). We to be re-laid last week at the Ramsden
can’t believe that someone would do this. St Reserve oval and cost $500. “This
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♦ Share your knowledge about turf. What is turf? Are there different ♦ Debate about water use
kinds? What is it used for? Read this premise:
♦ The use of turf in Australia is becoming more popular because All community sporting facilities should be closed as they use
of droughts. What do you know about droughts and how they precious water that could be used for more important purposes.
affect various countries. Share your thoughts with a partner. Debate this notion with a partner. Is there a simple answer? Is your
opinion similar to your partner’s? How would a farmer or club
member view that premise? Discuss your ideas with a partner.
READ IT!
After reading the text … WRITE IT!
1. Turf was stolen from the Clifton Hill Football club. ♦ WANTED! poster
2. Three teenagers are responsible for the theft. Create a WANTED! poster to help find the stolen turf so it can be
returned to the club. Include details about how the turf was stolen
3. It will take 6 months for the grass to knit.
as this will assist the general public
WANTED
to identify any recently laid turf and
4. Suburbia is more likely to suffer from this kind of threat. who might be responsible for the theft.
5. The club’s players have not been disrupted much. Ensure you offer a reward for its return
6. Police are still hunting for the offenders. or a no-questions asked policy!
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Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge
of the world
7. Home renovation shows contribute to people stealing items,
because they cannot afford to renovate their homes.
8. In times of drought people are more likely to break the law.
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Response Centres Upper primary – extending level
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31 Breaking Down Barriers Biography 600 Biography on a Box;
17 & 18
Web Page Layout
32 Listen Up! Sports Trainer Explanation 740 Listen Up! Sports Trainer 19
33 Finding Fresh Water Explanation 910 Top 10 Water Facts;

20 & 21
Water Tally
34 Fighting the Good Fight Exposition 450 Fighting the Good Fight 22
35 Survival Against the Odds Information report 570 Survival Against the Odds;
23 & 24
Shark Attack
36 Murder on Ice Information report 670 Newspaper Article 25
37 Sailing into the Unknown Information report 760
38 Teachers’ Pranks Narrative 870
39 Cupid Idiot Narrative 930 Book Cover Design 26
40 Break that Code Procedure 520 Break that Code;

27 & 28
Battle!
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Student
no. Talk It! number
31 Breaking Down Barriers Biography 17 & 18
32 Listen Up! Sports Trainer Explanation 19
33 Finding Fresh Water Explanation 20 & 21
34 Fighting the Good Fight Exposition 22
35 Survival Against the Odds Information report 23 & 24
36 Murder on Ice Information report 25
37 Sailing into the Unknown Information report
38 Teachers’ Pranks Narrative
39 Cupid Idiot Narrative 26
40 Break that Code Procedure 27 & 28
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Text Text type: Biography
Material sourced from: Brainwaves, Trailblazers, Blake Education.

Breaking Down Barriers
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was
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Nelson Mandela Changing Ways other people who kne
w that
w that it was time
He spent 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela kne Africa
. But it wo uld be a long road the conditions in South
for change joined a group
in order to be free in his were wrong. He
to freedom. the Afr ican Nat ion al
called
own country. C used
Congress (ANC). The AN
Born to Be Free que of non -vio lent
Nelson Mandela was a quiet man. born on 18 July 1918. the tec hni
Nelson Mandela was by Ma hat ma
But the barriers put up in South lea der in the Thembu tribe resistance taught
His father was a pai gne d against
Africa to keep him, and others like son went to meetings Gan dhi . It cam Black South Africans
and as a young boy Nel t denied had to carry a pass at
him, in their place forced him to Wh en he was twelve, his father the apartheid laws tha
of tribal elders. o, ny of the rights all times. Here, Nelson
g, Chief David Dalindyeb bla ck peo ple ma
speak out. died. The Thembu kin Mandela is about to
nity Ma nde la showed . burn his pass in protest.
. The dig that white people had
adopted Nelson
In South Africa, black people made e come from this
later in his life may hav
up the majority of the population. win g up in the traditional,
experience gro
But they were not allowed to vote estors.
tribal culture of his anc
or to have any say in how the
country should be run. Every day
they lived under a system that was
designed to keep them separate,
and not at all equal.
Black people
could not live in
the same areas as
Nelson Mandela white people. This
as a young man. is a house shop in
His African name Orlando Township
is Rolihlahla, which in 1946.
means ‘pulling the
branch of a tree’.
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The Terrible Years
From Prisoner to President Prisoners called this mine shaft ‘Robben
The 1950s and 1960s were Being in prison did not stop
violent years in South Africa. Nelson Mandela’s fight for freed
om. Island University’. While inside and out
There were riots and strikes of sight of the guards, they taught each
Prison Rules
by black people, and armed other and gave secret lectures.
There were very strict rules at
reprisals by the government.
the maximum security prison on
Many men, women, and
Robben Island. Only two letters
children died. Nelson organised
and two visits were allowed each
protests and boycotts, and
year, and the prisoners were not
the government ‘banned’
allowed to read newspapers or to
him. This meant he could only d
study. Scraps of information passe
talk to one person at a time,
secretly from mouth to ear, and
and could not attend public
cell to cell, as the men tried to get
meetings or speak to other
news of the outside world.
banned people. But Mandela
continued to protest and was
Nelson Mandela’s tiny cell. When arrested many times. In 1964,
he lay down he could feel one he was sentenced to life in
wall with his feet, and his head 4
prison and was sent to Robben The Slow Walk Home
grazed the opposite wall.
Island with other political To the prisoners it seem
prisoners. ed that time
had stopped. But in Sou In February 1990, Nels
th Africa on Mandela
and across the world thei was finally released with
r families out
and frien ds wer conditions. Crowds of
e keep ing their cause people
alive. Pressure was blocked the gates and
grow ing for them, roads, and
and all black people of millions watched on tele
South Africa, visions
to be set free. In 1985, arou nd the wor ld as this
the South now
Prisoners had to African government offe elderly man walked pro
get up at 5.30 am red Nelson udly free.
every day to work his freedom. But there
were strings
in a limestone attached. He wou In 1994, South Africa held
ld have to give up its first
quarry. Here, they all stru one-person, one-vote
are crushing stone
ggle and viole nce against the elections.
in the yard. government. He chose When the votes were cou
to remain nted
a prisoner. Sou th Africa had its first black
president—Nelson Man
dela.
The world watched
as Nelson Mandela,
surrounded by
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left prison.
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♦ Discuss with your teacher or class members, or use a dictionary, the ♦ Biography box
internet or any other available resource, to ensure you understand the Ensure you have a copy of Work Sheet 17 which shows the grid of a box.
following vocabulary: Re-read the text about Nelson Mandela to find the following information
• dignity • ancestors and record it on the box.
• resistance • campaigned • Name/Date of birth/Place of birth
• apartheid • denied
• Personal background (where he grew up, who his parents were …)
• protest • riots
• Why he should be remembered (how history will remember him)
• strikes • reprisals
• Problems or issues he overcame during his life
• boycotts • banned
• arrested • political prisoner • Inscription on a statue (what could be written on the plaque in praise
of Nelson Mandela)
• vision • courage
• determination • Illustration (head and shoulder drawing/sketch of what he looks like)
Once you have completed your writing,
cut, fold and glue the shape to create a box.
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After reading … Think and share with a partner. After reading the text …
♦ Information from a photo ♦ Designing a web page
Look at all the detail you can see in the black-and-white photographs on Imagine you want to create a web page to honour Nelson Mandela.
Text Card 31. What information does the picture of African people in their The central theme for the web page is:
township convey without the use of words? Does it tell you much about
Vision, courage and determination can achieve great things.
this time in history and the way they lived their lives? Look carefully, find
as much information as you can and discuss and compare your thoughts How could you use elements of Nelson Mandela’s life to explain this
with a partner. slogan? What graphics could you include? What other information could
you include that would help people to live by these guiding principles?
♦ Information from
Use Work Sheet 18 to help you draft and then produce what your web
a cartoon
page could look like.
Look at all the detail you
can see in the cartoon. ♦ Designing a poster
What information does Suppose it is pre-election time in 1994 and it is the first election in South
it convey without the Africa where one person has one vote. This means that black and white
use of words. people alike may vote. Using art materials, design a poster calling on all
people to vote for Nelson Mandela to be president of South Africa.
VOTE 1
Nelson
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Listen Up! Sports Trainer
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o I am courtside wa tc
s t ep s t hin g Shaun
g the best
llow the se Option 2 ary schooling, gettin pla yin g for his bask
Fo 1. Fin ish you r second Sub ject s suc h as etball tea m.
subjects.
er grades possible in all an movement
hum
a s po r t s tr ain biolog y, phy sica l edu cat ion ,
iner
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ents. It’s a ver y
p you as a sports tra
beco me and chemistry wil l hel
ers tan din g how the body
clo se game an d Shau
und
n’s tea m is only
— biolog y helps with ver y
education is obv iously
works and physica l
a few po ints behin d.
Suddenly, Shaun
important for the job.
. uing you r
intercepts the ball.
You have two options not essential, contin
I quickly gla nce
2. Even though it is leg e is adv isable.
ver sity or col
education at uni
up at the clo ck — th
nce, ere are literally
education, sports scie
Option 1 A deg ree in physica l giv e you all the
can ach ieve sin g wil l only seconds remain
y qua lifications you applied science or nur
ing in the game.
Even without tertiar tra ine r. l als o give you options
a spo rts ski lls you nee d. It wil
you r goa l of becom ing d
If Shaun keeps his
ea the future that you nee cool, his tea m
ited cou rse to becom should you decide in forced to
1. Complete an accred req uire a are inju red and
cou rse s usu ally a cha nge, or if you
has a chan ce of wi
nn ing.
sports tra iner. These ior Fir st Aid
iva len t Sen cha nge careers.
Sports First Aid or equ l involve
ion . Subject s stu die d include inju ry you do get a job, it wil Shaun races down
qua lificat cool 3. Remember when rse lf, fi ndi ng the side, pla yin g
ups, stretching and k for you
ma nagement, wa rm long hou rs. If you wor
riti on, int rod uct ion to drugs hol ida ys can be a cha llenge as you the ball just like we
dow ns, taping, nut the time for pra ctised in our
conditions. r needs with those of
in sports and medical wil l need to juggle you trainin g session s. He
possible r, hav ing a love of sport looks relaxed
the initial stage, it is you r clients. Howeve in
2. Once you complete a field tha t sui ts phy sica l hea lth wil l help spu r you on
ther in and
an d fo cused — I ca
to specia lise even fur but ver y reward ing job.
n tell he’s in the
lud e negligence and duty es diffi cul t
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you r needs. log y,
zone. He lea ps up an
ement, sports psycho
d takes the shot.
of care, wou nd ma nag gs in spo rt, dental orts trainers
tion , dru Opportunities for sp
pri nciples of rehabi lita
It’s his only chan ce
different
fi nd work at ma ny
. He scores!
management. Sports tra iners can
injuries and concussion It’s a three po inter!
venues : The crow d go es
association
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• sports tra iner bas
wild! I go wild! Th
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or federation rting
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Shaun’s tea m has wo
• run ning you r ow n! They are
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What do you do when can work as a physica
• with a deg ree you
you see an elephant tea che r.
a chan ce of winn ing
edu cat ion the Regional
with a ball? Run! School Basketball Ch
ampionships.
As Shaun’s sports
trainer, my mind
is alread y go ing over
the game an d
the recovery an d tra
inin g that’s ahead
of us.
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COACH
taking notes sports
O ther career options
Coaches train athletes or
e the
teams in order to maximis
can work
chance of victory. They
long-term
with athletes or teams for
or short-term periods.
There are other careers
that relate to sports MANAGER Ho w I be ca me
training that you may Sports managers oversee a Sp or ts Tr ain er
SPORTS JOURNALIST
y
find interesting. the careers of athletes. The
anise
negotiate contracts and org I’ve been interested in sport
iness since
SPORTS PHYSICIAN
k for the
Sports jou rna lists wor playing, training and bus
media coveri ng storie
s and results
timetables. Managers also
scout primary school where I was
A sports physician is a doc
tor who ath letes. for involved
of games, events and organisations and clubs
specialises in sports medici
ne. They to ma ny in swimming, basketball and foo
injuries and Sports jou rna lists go talented athletes. tball.
diagnose sport-specific events to cover storie
s and often
recovery I competed competitively for
develop rehabilitation and work to tight deadlin
es.
UMPIRES, REFEREE
S, my
letes.
training programs for ath
JUDGES AND OTHE
R SPORT school, but mostly I was into
OFFICIALS sport for fun.
They observe the
play and enforce umpire
the rules of the As a teen ager, I took up tria thlo
sport. They also ns
impose penalties – a combina tion of swimming,
cycling
EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGIST dietician
if the rules are
and running. While I was neve
Exercise physiologists stud
y the broken. These r
way the human body mo
ves. officials are often an Olympic cha mpion I alw ays
required to make
They design and manage treating head injury wen t out, no matter wha t the
recover decisions in a split
programs to help people
from injury or manage pain
. second. sport, and gave it my best.
Dietician Why was
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Cinderella such
Dieticians understand and
food a bad player?
research the science of
groups Her coach was
(vitamins, minerals, food
ct the a pumpkin !
etc.) to help people sele
to gain,
right food combinations
lth.
maintain and promote hea
understanding the
human body in motion
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ZONE IN! ♦ Making sentences
Below is a list of words and phrases that relate to the topic, Sports
Before reading the text … Training. Create a sentence for each that relates to this topic. You may
use a dictionary or talk with a partner to check out the meaning of a word
Work with a partner. Do you know a sports trainer? Describe the sports trainer
or phrase before you create a sentence.
at your school if you have one (this would be your PE teacher). What kind
of qualifications do you think they might have? Do you know anyone who has 1 tertiary qualifications 12 rehabilitation
a sports trainer who helps them? What do they do? Would this job appeal
2 goal 13 concussion
to you or anyone that you know? Why?
3 accredited 14 dental
4 equivalent 15 biology
READ IT! 5 inquiry 16 physical education
6 medical conditions 17 chemistry
After reading the text … 7 initial stage 18 advisable
♦ Checking your heart rates 8 negligence 19 a degree
Read the step-by-step guide below to record your heart resting rate and
9 duty of care 20 spur
your maximum heart rate. Record both rates and compare with a partner!
10 wound management 21 rewarding
HOW TO RECORD YOUR RESTING HEART RATE 11 sports psychology 22 league association
The two most common places for recording heart rate are the wrist and the neck.
1. Using two fingers, find a pulse and count the number of beats for 10 seconds.
Multiply the number of beats by six.
2. This gives your heart beats per minute.
3. You need to record your heart beat before exercise (resting heart rate)
and then right after your workout (maximum heart rate).
MEASURING MAXIMUM HEART RATE
1. Find a stable seat or bench.
2. Begin stepping up on the seat one leg at a time — using the opposite leg
to come down on.
3. Continue doing this for five minutes.
4. After five minutes, record your heart rate.
Your maximum heart rate after exercise should be 220 beats per minute minus
your age. This gives an indication of how hard you’ve been working and how fit you
are. The lower your heart rate, the fitter you are. If your heart rate is noticeably
high, or higher than the maximum, consider seeking medical advice from a doctor.
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♦ Debate and discuss ♦ Create a training diary
What sort of people do you think have a sports trainer work with them Read the section on Work Sheet 19 titled “Start A Training Diary”. Create
and why? Sports trainers are paid money by their clients for their services. your own training diary in your student book. Use the same dates; however
Do you think this money is well spent? Why? you may choose your own exercises and duration times. Record what
you think you could eat or drink that is appropriate for that activity. Then
♦ Your own sports trainer
describe briefly how you felt after your exercise. What was your heart rate
Imagine you were given the gift of a sports trainer free for 6 months. The
like? How was your breathing? Did you enjoy the exercise?
first thing they would ask you is, “What are your goals?”, “What would
you like to achieve by me working with you?” ♦ Poster for children in your school
So, what would be your goals; what would you like to achieve? Remember, Read the section on Work Sheet 19 titled “Winning Mental Qualities
although you may not like sports, you should be interested in your of Champions”. Create a poster that conveys this information and helps
health, so it would be good to engage in some type of healthy activity. children to focus on these qualities. Remember these qualities apply not
So what would you like to do? If there are no sports you like, perhaps only to sport but to things we would like to achieve in many areas of our
it is a challenge for your trainer to find something you will like doing! lives. Make sure your poster is reflective of this and does not just focus
Remember, your goals are just on sport.
as important as anyone else’s ♦ Sports journalist
goals. Share your ideas with
a partner or others in your class. M y G o a ls You have been given the task of writing a sports report to cover 5 minutes
of a game of your choice. Describe the setting, the sport and what has
1. occurred, briefly in 200 words. It must be entertaining to the reader.
Remember, edit and proofread your own work so when you submit it
to the Editor, it will be ready for publishing! You may call on a partner
to help you.
2.
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Finding Fresh Water
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Finding Fresh Water Water for Everyone?
People access the fresh water stored in rivers, All humans need water to survive. In modern,
lakes, ice and underground in a variety of ways. industrialised countries, clean water is easy to find
Stored water water is the most accessible — we simply turn on a tap. In some countries,
Most of the water we use comes source of fresh water — about water is a luxury. More than one billion people in
from rivers, lakes or dams. 1.5 billion people use it for their
drinking water.
the world do not have access to clean, safe water.
A river starts from melting ice,
rainfall or from a lake, and grows Most of the frozen fresh water is Not enough water get sick and die from drinking
as streams in its catchment area located at the North and South In the Developing World, many polluted water.
join it. Poles, but this is a long way from people cannot get enough water The United Nation’s Millennium
where most people live. However, for drinking and cooking. If they
Lakes can occur naturally or be Development Goals call for the
some glaciers partly melt in can find water, they may have to
built. Artificial lakes are known number of people who don’t
summer, and the water forms carry it long distances from rivers
as dams (or reservoirs). A barrier have sustainable access to
rivers. Many people in China, and wells. Women and children
is built across a river so water will safe drinking water and basic
India, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia spend a large part of every day
collect on one side and form a sanitation to be halved by the
get their fresh water this way. fetching water. This prevents
dam. Water is then pumped from year 2015. This big goal can be
them from doing important work achieved if governments make
the dam or lake through pipes
and going to school. water and sanitation a funding
to cities and towns. Sometimes
farmers pump water directly from If there is a drought, there is no priority for the world’s poorest
rivers to use on their crops. water to collect. people.
Digging for water Dirty water kills A capped spring provides
An important source of fresh Where there is no running water, constant fresh water.
water is ground water. The water people don’t have flushing toilets
collects above a layer of rock and sewerage systems. Human
that is too dense to allow it to and animal waste ends up in
flow through. People dig wells to rivers and can cause diseases.
bring this water to the surface Every day about 6 000 people
again. Around the world, ground in the Developing World, mostly
children under the age of five,
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Finding Fresh Water
Water and Your Home Water and Agriculture
Many people in the world enjoy access to lots of About 70 percent of the fresh water we use is for
clean, fresh water. How does it get to their homes? irrigating food crops and pasture.
Fresh water is pumped from a We cannot drink less water, but Sprinklers, furrows and drips Flooding the soil
lake or dam to a water filtration we can find ways to use less of it There are different ways of Some crops, such as rice, grow
plant, where it is filtered to for other things. Some ideas are: irrigating land, some of which best when flooded. The soil is
remove weeds, fish and minerals. • Repair dripping taps. use less water than others. prepared for planting, then water
It is then pumped into storage • Take a quick shower instead The type of irrigation chosen is allowed to flood onto it.
tanks. of a bath. depends on cost, availability of The rice seedlings
From the storage tanks it moves • Wash dishes in a sink, not equipment, the type of soil and are planted and left
into underground water mains, under a running tap. the crop being grown. to mature. The water
which carry water to taps in our • Wash the car with a bucket is then drained from
Furrow irrigation allows water
houses. When we open the tap, of water instead of a hose. the field and the
to run down pre-dug channels.
the pressure in the pipes pushes rice dries before
• Water the garden at cool Sprinkler systems spray water
the water out. Water pipes can it is harvested.
times of the day. onto a crop. Sprinklers wet the
also be connected directly to whole plant, not just the roots.
wells or boreholes to provide Can you think of other ways
This can cause diseases on
water to houses that are not to conserve water?
leaves of the crop.
connected to the water mains.
In very hot climates, or when
Using less there is a shortage of water, GO FACT!
In industrialised countries, each drip irrigation is used. Water
pipes with very small openings Did you know?
person uses up to 1 000 litres
of water every day to drink, cook, are laid along the ground near Water can generate hydro-electric
wash, flush toilets and water the plants. Water drips slowly power. Water is released from dams onto
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gardens. However, in countries out of the openings to water turbines, which spin to
where water is not piped into the roots. Although this is an generate electricity. The
houses, people use as little effective way to use less water, water is then directed to
as five litres per day. it can only be used in small a river or reservoir and
areas and for certain crops. can be reused. Unlike the
burning of coal to generate
electricity, hydro-electric
power doesn’t produce
greenhouse gases.
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ZONE IN! Sprinklers, furrows and drips
There are different ways of irrigating ________ 3, some of which use less water
Before reading the text … than others. The type of irrigation chosen depends on cost, availability of
The table on the right shows the water cycle. This is the journey water ________ 4, the type of soil and the crop being grown.
takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again. See if you can
understand what is happening in the diagram. Work alone or with a partner. Furrow irrigation allows water to run down pre-dug channels. Sprinkler
You may need to use systems ________ 5 water onto a crop. Sprinklers wet the whole plant, not just
a dictionary or other the ________ 6. This can cause disease on leaves of the crop.
resources such as
encyclopedias, the In very hot ________ 7, or when there is a shortage of water, drip
internet, or ask class ________ 8 is used. Water pipes with very small openings are laid along the
members or your teacher ground near the ________ 9. Water drips slowly out of the openings to water
to find out what the words
the roots. Although this is an ________ 10 way to use less water, it can only be
on the diagram mean.
used in small areas and for certain crops.
Flooding the soil

Some crops, such as rice, grow best when ________ 11. The soil is prepared for
planting, then water is allowed to flood onto it. The rice seedlings are planted
READ IT! Work Sheet 20 and left to ________ 12. The water is then drained from the field and the
________ 13 dries before it is harvested.
After reading the text … ♦ Read and re-tell
♦ Cloze activity Read the Top 10 Water Facts on Work Sheet 20. Select
Re-read the section “Water and Agriculture” on the text card then put it five to commit to memory. Practise reading and then
away. Without checking back to the text, record what you think may go in repeating the information in your own words, and then
the blank spaces. You will need to use vocabulary that is suited to the topic re-tell them to others.
and genre of the text. This means vocabulary that relates to the topic of
♦ Searching the internet
water and suitable technical words.
Use a search engine and go to your local council web site to find out about
Water and _________ 1 the water restrictions for your area, if any. Also, look to see if there are any
tips that you can share with others about ways to conserve water or reduce
About 70 percent of the fresh water we use is for irrigating
water pollution.
_________ 2 and pasture.
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♦ Perform it! ♦ Here come the water police
Imagine you are the head of an advertising agency and the Water Board For this activity, use Work Sheet 21. In the blank spaces record the ways
has asked you to create a campaign to encourage kids to save water in the person earned water points. For example in the Water Pollution/Quality
their households. They would like at least 10 suggestions to be conveyed category, to achieve 1 point you could write that someone did not drop
to children and will not allow the use of the written medium. The only litter that could have ended up in a river or the sea. To earn 5 points in this
media permissible are the spoken and visual media. Their preference is for category, they may have gone with family/friends to a local area and picked
a catchy rapp, song or rhyming poem that will get inside the children’s up a bag of rubbish to prevent it entering the river or sea.
heads and make them think twice before wasting water! As a suggestion, In the Water Conservation category, someone may earn 1 point if they
you could start with a known nursery rhyme and change the words so they turned off a dripping tap, or took ½ minute less in the shower. They may
are about ways to save water! For example: earn 5 points because they washed an adult’s car with ½ a bucket of water.
Twinkle Twinkle little star When completed, interview class members and award them water points
Raindrops Raindrops collect them all for their water conscious efforts.
How I wonder what you are
♦ Rewrite it
Water your garden plants and lawn
Re-read “Water and Your Home” on the text card. Rewrite this information
Up above the world so high
in child-friendly language. To do this, write the heading at the top of your
Flush the toilet use half fill page. Re-read paragraph one, put the text away and write it in your
Like a diamond in the sky own words.
Two minute showers, yes you will
Re-read paragraph two, put the text away and write this in your own words.
Twinkle Twinkle little star Continue in this manner until you have rewritten the whole piece. Now
Water Water precious gift read through your work and the text to make sure you have not left out any
How I wonder what you are important information.
Save the planet that’s our wish. GO FACT!
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♦ Think globally, act locally! Did you know?
Work alone or with a partner. Think about ways you could save water at Waste water from washing
your school. Brainstorm to find ways the school does not use water wisely. machines, dishwashers, kitchen
Then try to think laterally to create ideas about how to change this. You sinks, baths and showers is
might be surprised to know that a dripping tap left unattended for one day called grey water. It can be used
wastes 17 litres of water! instead of fresh water to water
the garden.
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Fighting the Good Fight
Emmeline Pankhurst fought as bravely
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as any soldier to win her war! The FighTing SpiriT JÖn!sfbez/!
Once Emmeline Pankhurst show
ed her
fighting spirit, there was no turnin
Some trailblazers sail into the unknown g back.
All for One
in search of wealth and glory. Others, like Emmeline had seen her husband
exhaust himself with many cause
Emmeline Pankhurst, come from the most s. She
thought it would be best to throw
all
her energies in one direction. In 1903,
unlikely backgrounds. she formed the Women’s Social and
Political Union (WSPU) to campaign
for
women’s suffrage – their right to
vote.
She believed that having the vote
would
Emmeline Pankhurst (third from right)
give women the chance to bring
about and
Christabel Pankhurst (second from
other much-needed changes in societ left) with
y. friends. Emmeline’s daughters Christa
bel, Sylvia
and Adela all campaigned for the
Emmeline Pankhurst right to vote.
speaking at a meeting.
In the beginning, Emmeline’s
followers used peaceful
methods, marching, holding
meetings and appealing to
politicians. But none of the
political parties supported or
even cared about the issue.
Emmeline knew she needed
to bring attention to her
cause. She and her followers,
called suffragettes, began
a campaign of disobedience.
They knew that this would get The WSPU logo. The WSPU was the
first political party to use buttons,
them into trouble and into badges and medals to inspire
the newspapers. members and promote its messag
e.
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Emmeline was born in Manchester, England, in 1858. It was a
time when women were supposed to have only one role – looking
after the home. When she was twenty, Emmeline married Richard
Pankhurst. Richard was a lawyer. But rather than work on cases
that paid well, he chose to help the poor. When he died, in 1898,
Emmeline was left with four children to support.
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Soldiers in Skirts
The suffragettes shouted at politicians and threw flour bombs. Law-Breakers to Law-Makers
They chained themselves to railings
outside the Parliament, and Emm eline and the suffr
to benches inside. They threw rocks aget tes were laying the
through windows, and used foundations for change.
acid to burn ‘Votes for Thro ugh their courage and
Wom en’ into golf courses. willingness
They even began making homemade to suffe r for their belie fs, they blazed the
bombs to blow up letter trail for women in countries all
boxes and empty buildings. around the world.
A suffragette
Death of a Foot Soldier
chained to a grille One of the suffragettes said the
cause
inside Parliament. needed a martyr – someone who
would
die for it. Her name was Emily Davis
on.
At a horse race in 1913, she ran
out
from the crowd and threw herse
lf under
a horse. Emily died four days later.
Her funeral was one of the bigg
est The British Houses
suffragette demonstrations ever. of Parliament.
Emily Davison’s funeral. Emmeline
was not there. She was arrested
as soon as she stepped out of her
house to attend.
Prisoners of War
Many suffragettes were arrested.
They all chose to go to prison
rather than to pay a fine. Once in prison, the women would go
on a hung er strik e. After several days, they were usually force-
fed. This was very painful, and it
gained them much sympathy
from the public.
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1893 1894 1899 1902 1903 1905 1906 1908 1915 1917 1918 1919 1920 1928
South Australia Western New Tasmania Finland Victoria Denmark Austria United States England (for
Northern Territory Australia South Queensland Iceland Hungary Czechoslovakia women over 21)
New Zealand Wales Poland
Germany
England (for women over 30 years)
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♦ The heading of this piece of writing is: Fighting the Good Fight. And the ♦ Timeline of women’s suffrage
lead sentence is: Emmeline Pankhurst fought as bravely as any soldier Sequence the events that led to women gaining the right to vote as a story
to win her war! map on a poster. Work with a partner.
Work with a partner. Share your ideas about what Emmeline could have
fought about? Who with and why? Make a mental list of all the different 1918 – women over
kinds of fights a woman could be involved in? How long is your list – can 30 were granted the
you think of 20 ideas? right to vote
♦ Read the following information about the suffragettes in Australia. Share
your ideas with a partner. ♦ Cloze activity
Australian Suffragettes Read the information relating to the force-feeding of the suffragettes in the
right column on Work Sheet 22. Without checking back at this information,
The term suffrage refers to the activities of the suffrage movement in
complete the cloze activity below. Record in your student book each
America, England, Australia and New Zealand between the 1880s and 1920s.
identifying number and the words you would insert in the spaces.
The first wave of feminism created a new political identity for women with
legal and political advances and social freedom. Force-feeding
A number of women’s organisations were instrumental in the women’s The prison warders tried to tempt ______ 1 strikers with tasty food. This
struggle for the right to vote. The Australian Women’s Suffrage Society usually ______ 2 and then they reached for tubes and funnels. Three or
was formed in 1889. The aim was to obtain the same rights for women as four strong warders held the woman ______ 3, while a doctor pushed
were possessed by male voters. The society argued for equal justice, equal a rubber tube down her throat until it reached the ______ 4. A form of
privileges in marriage and divorce, rights to property and the custody of
liquid food was then poured into the tube. This made the woman vomit
children in divorce.
again and ______ 5. The ongoing cycle of hunger, force-feeding and
In 1891 a women’s suffrage petition with 30 000 signatures was presented ______ 6 ruined the health of many suffragettes.
to the Victorian Parliament by various groups. Women were uniting.
Australian women’s political activity centred around Australia and involved
vigorous campaigns for the right to vote.
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♦ Emmeline – prisoner of war? ♦ Speech bubbles
The definition of a prisoner of war is: A person taken by or surrendering Create five speech bubbles to go above the heads of the characters
to enemy forces in wartime. depicted in the cartoon of the protesters and the police. What do you think
Emmeline Pankhurst said that she looked upon herself as a prisoner of war. they would be saying? What kind of vocabulary would they use? Record
Do you agree? Share your reasons and explain your opinion. your scene with the completed speech bubbles in your student book.
♦ Treatment of hunger strikers ♦ Leaflet review
Hunger strikers in prison were force fed. Study the leaflet on Work Sheet 22 titled Women’s Suffrage. The women
Do you agree that this was were trying to illustrate that the argument was black and white – yes for
necessary? Share your opinions men, and no for women. Is the leaflet effective? What would you think of
with a partner. the argument if you were a male politician – is it persuasive? Explain how it
is persuasive and how it could have an effect on men and on women.
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Survival Against the Odds
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Hunter or Hunted?
Imagine being attacked by a grea How Many TeeTH
t white shark and
living to tell about it. Would you
then go back into Does a sHark Have?
shark-infested waters to teach
others to understand
the creature that nearly killed Sharks never run out of brand-
you?
new teeth, ready for action. Thei
r
teeth grow in rows, which move
Fishing for Danger slowly forward. When a front toot
h
Rodney Fox was a champion snaps off, a new one from the next
at his favourite sport, row swings in to fill the gap. This
happens about every two weeks.
spearfishing. But on this A
shark may get through as many
day, the hunter became the as
20 000 teeth in its lifetime!
hunted. As Rodney took aim
with his spear, a great white Tooth coming through gum
shark hit him from behind. Tooth in use

The force of the attack
knocked the spear gun from
his hand and the mask off
his face. The shark’s jaws
clamped around his back.
He clawed at the shark’s

eyes. It released its grip. He
wrapped his body around
the shark so it couldn’t get Tooth ready to break off
at him. But he needed air,
badly. He let go and floated A great white
shark’s jaws
Vital StatiSticS
Rodney Fox before the to the surface. Looking down
push right out Name:
attack. His wetsuit would through the bloody sea, he great white shark
of its mouth
later help to hold his Length: 4.3 to 4.6 m
saw open jaws and teeth so the shark
torn body together until
coming at him again. He hits its prey Weight: 520 to 770 kg
he reached hospital.
teeth first. Open jaws:
tried to kick them away. over 1 m wide
Teeth: 4 cm long, serrated like the blade
on a steak knife
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Killer to Keeper
Some of the stitches on hes
Rodney needed hundreds of stitc
Alive! Rodney’s upper body. He left
Suddenly, the shark turned and didn’t want to be pulled – 465 on his upper body alone. His
spleen
grabbed the fish on Rodney’s from the water by his lung had been punctured, and his
damaged arms. He was But he
belt rope. It pulled the fish – and and a major artery were exposed.
afraid that they would
Rodney – down. Then the rope come off. shocked everyone by surviving.
snapped. Rodney made it back to
back
the surface and was quickly pulled Zvdl"! Rodney was nervous about going
d many
into a boat. He was barely alive. Ivnbot! into the sea. When he did, he kille
bhbjo/ was not
sharks. Then he realised that fear
learn
As Rodney was lifted from the a good reason to kill. He set out to
ur.
boat to a waiting car, his side more about sharks and their behavio
animals
gaped open and coils of his Today, he campaigns to save the
intestines slid out. A friend that nearly took his life.
EpoÖu!tqju!pvu!
pushed them back in. Then zpvs!gppe"
the car sped off to the hospital, Rodney later made the
first film of great white
65 kilometres away. sharks with underwater
cameraman Ron Taylor.
Survival TipS: Shark aTTack
lly only attack if they think
Sharks are predators. They will usua attackk ifif
an attac
have mor
you have chance
moree chan of surv
ce of iving an
surviving
So, you
they can win. So
not defenseless. The parts of
you let the shark know that you are
are its eyes and gills. Hit the
a shark’s body most sensitive to pain have..
you have
anything
or anyt
era,or else you
hing else
gills or eyes with your fist, camera
Make quick,
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sharp jabs at
the eyes and The nose is NOT
gills. sensitive to pain.
Only hit here if
you cannot reach
the eyes and gills.
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♦ Read the newspaper article on Work Sheet 23. Do you think Barbara was ♦ 3 level guide Write true or false for each statement.
brave? What would you have done? Do you know of any stories where Answer using the text
humans survived shark or crocodile attacks, or snake or spider bites?
1. Rodney Fox was a champion spear fisherman.
Share your knowledge of what happenned.
2. Rodney’s first reaction was to kick the shark away.
♦ Read through this glossary. Make sure you can pronounce the words 3. A great white shark gets as many as 10 000 teeth in its lifetime.
and understand their meaning before you read the text.
Word Pronunciation Meaning 4. Rodney was experienced in procedures relating to attacks by sharks.
infested in-fes-ted in large numbers and become threatening 5. His injuries were potentially fatal. (potentially means “could be”)
serrated sir-ate-ed with notches like a saw 6. Without medical help Rodney Fox would have died.
to stare in open-mouthed surprise Answer using the text, your opinion and knowledge
gaped gay-p-d
or wonder of the world
digestive system between the stomach 7. Sharks are predators; they should be hunted and killed if they harm
intestine in-tes-tine humans.
and the anus that digests food
8. Education about sharks and their behaviour is best from someone
a carnivorous animal that hunts, kills and
predator pred-a-tor who has been attacked by one!
eats other animals to survive
9. Spear fishing is a dangerous sport.
defenseless de-fence-less weak, unprotected
♦ Story map
sensitive sen-si-tive easily damaged or irritated
Re-read the text about the shark attack on Rodney Fox. On a double page
a small hole or wound made by a sharp in your student book or on poster paper, create a story map that illustrates
punctured punk-tur-ed
object the action in the text. First identify the main characters and events. Then
organ in the stomach that helps destroy organise and sequence this information into a logical order. Now think
spleen sp-leen
old red blood cells and stores blood about how you can present this graphically in a map format so that others
can follow the action. For example:
a blood vessel that carries blood from the
artery art-er-ee
heart to any part of the body
Fox Escapes
exposed x-posed uncovered or without protection
Death!
a planned action to fight for or against
campaign camp-ane
something
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♦ Argument for or against ♦ Warning poster
An argument between two people is when each person has a different Create a warning poster to hang near areas where sharks are known to
point of view. Your task is to decide whether you agree or disagree with inhabit. This will assist swimmers, surfers, spear fishermen and scuba divers
the following statement, and then to think of at least three reasons why to stay clear of sharks.
you do!
♦ Survival guide
Spear fishing is a dangerous sport and should be banned. Review the section “Survival Tips: Shark Attack” on the text card. Use this
information to create a survival guide so people will know what to do in
When you have thought of your three reasons, share them. First you will the unlikely event of a shark attack.
need to write an introductory sentence to let people know what you are ♦ Proofreading a newspaper article
talking about and if you agree or disagree. Before finishing, you will need Read the article “Shark Attack” provided on Work Sheet 24. A writer has
to say one last time if you agree or disagree with a ban on spear fishing. submitted this piece to be published in a local newspaper. It is an account
Present your argument to others. of a shark attack and the author has not proofread the article. Your task
Good luck! is to re-write the piece using correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Must stay
calm.
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Murder on Ice
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Who Is the Iceman?
The first investigators to reach the
scene
Imagine hiking along a snowy mountain ridge. found that the body was a male,
about
45 years old and with a number
of tattoos.
Suddenly you stumble … and realise you’ve tripped The body was well-preserved, so
they
assumed he had been dead for
only a
over a frozen body! short time.
It then took Alpine Rescue Servic

e four days
to reach the site and dig the body
from
its icy grave. At one stage, a pneu
matic
hammer was used to dig aroun
d the body.
This damaged the left hip. Finall
y, the body
was wrapped in strong plastic foil
and taken
by helicopter to a forensic lab in
Innsbruck, Austria.
dern person?
Was this really a mo
Forensic scientists would determine
the bod y beg an to thaw, some
As the s
The knee bone’s cause of death. At this stage, they
had not ookers not iced that the Iceman wa
1 onl
connected to the ruled out murder. grass clothes.
y dressed in furs and
Stone Age Mumm thigh bone . . .
carried
ic lab, tests were
Back in the forens shock
body. Imagine the
out on the frozen ou t to be not
tur ned
when the Iceman He was,
5300 years old!
45 years old, but best-p reserved natural
and
in fact, the oldest team sent
nd. The forensic
mummy ever fou
olo gists!
for the archae
like detectives.
Archaeologists are
for clu es, too. But they’re
They look
g for clu es to a crime;
not lookin es to the past.
kin g for clu
they’re loo led the Iceman
ha eo log ists cal
The arc
an d set ou t to investigate his
“Ötzi”
mystery.
That’s just what happened in 1991 to hikers in the
could
e before people Ötzal Alps, near the border of Austria and Italy.
Ötzi lived at a tim dead
ite an d rec ord their history. But
wr l them
n do tel l tal es. At least, they tel They made the grisly find on a lonely mountain
me to piece
who know how
to archaeologists
er. 3200 metres above sea level. The upper part of
the puzzle togeth
cm the body was sticking out of the melting ice. Was

ut 162
as abo
Ötzi w o d y w as so
b it another hiker who had become lost or slipped?
tall. His that his
served
well-pre ft tissues
d so Was it a murder victim? Or was it something else?
skin an intact.
ill
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Murder on Ice
3 Forgot the
snowmobile!
What Happened Ötzi was we
aring
to the Iceman? his cloak wh
en he
braided
died. It was
asses,
As scientists discover more abou from long gr
t Ötzi, they have
suggest different theories about and would
rproof
his death. been a wate
layer over his
He
fur clothes.
o used
probably als
t or a
Theories it as a blanke
Ötzi died of exhaustion while crossing ground cove
r.
the Alps.
He froze to death on a hunting trip
in rugged terrain.
He fell in a deep crevasse in the ice and
was quickly covered by a glacier.
He was caught in a snowstorm while
bringing his flock back from high pastures.
Ötzi carried only broken arrows, so he
may have had a clash with other humans
or wild animals and fled high into the 4 Tools
mountains to escape. Broken arrows
Ooops! Gathering Clues and a bow under
construction;
preservatives copper axe;
In 2001, another piece of the jigsaw
puzzle Scientists didn’t want to use any dagger; wooden-
change
was found. X-rays were used to
produce a on Ötzi’s body. If they did, it could framed backpack;
multi-dimensional computer imag It looks like there is a murder things in his body and ruin future research. bark container of
e of Ötzi’s to
body. The image showed an arrow
head close
investigate after all! But, after So today his body is kept in conditions just charcoal; pouch
that he was
more than 5,000 years in ice, like those in the frozen glacier of years. He
to his left lung. He would have with flints and
died very the fungus for tinder
painfully within a few hours of the
wound. trail to the mur safely preserved in for thousands
dere r is very coldis! in a refrigerated glass case in
a museum in
scientists
Italy. About 40 research teams of
ining him.
and archaeologists take turns exam
so he is only
But they don’t want Ötzi to thaw,
11 minutes
allowed out of cold storage for
at a time!
is an
Q: What logist?
The teams of scientists and archaeo whose
It looks like there is a murder to archaeologists are slowly piecing eone
A: Som is in ruins.
Ötzi’s story together. The clues are career
investigate after all! But, after found in his clothes, his tools and
even inside his mummified body.
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more than 5000 years in ice, the
contents
trail to the murderer is very cold! Stomach
Wheat br
ead, gree
d meat
n Clothe
s
lly stitch
ed leath
Carefu clothes inclu
er
ding
plants, an hours in
and sk , leggings an
d
t
eaten eigh died loinclo
th
woven
g rass
before Otz
i plus a kin hat; well-
jacket, rs
nd bea shoes
cloak a rproof
nd wate
lined a
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ZONE IN!
Before reading the text …

It is important that you understand all the words the author has used in the text. Working independently or with a partner, read each word then find its meaning.
Record each word, the word’s number and the letter beside its meaning in your student book.
Match Me!
1 pastures A the scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of their material remains usually dug up from the ground
2 tattoos B taken for granted
3 fungus C a deep crack, for example in the ice of a glacier
4 rugged terrain D to decide or settle something conclusively
5 flint E extreme physical or mental tiredness or collapse
6 exhaustion F a very hard greyish-black fine-grained form of quartz that is used to make a spark
7 tinder G crime solving, applying science to decide questions arising from a crime
8 crevasse H organisms that were thought of as plants but are now considered a kingdom of their own; mushrooms are the best-known fungi
9 grisly I a large body of continuously accumulating ice and compacted snow
10 glacier J gruesomely unpleasant or creating a sense of horror
11 site K to preserve a corpse (body) for burial
12 pneumatic hammer L the body of a person or animal that has been embalmed and wrapped in cloth, especially as was the custom in ancient Egypt
13 archaeology M grass-covered land used for grazing livestock
14 mummy N hammer operated by compressed air
15 preserve O to keep something protected from anything that would cause its current quality or condition to change or deteriorate or fall out of use
16 determine P land with a sharply rising and falling, rough or jagged surface
17 mummify Q an area or piece of land where something was located
18 assumed R a permanent picture, design or other markings made on the skin by pricking it and staining it with an indelible dye
19 forensic S material such as dry sticks that is easily combustible and can be used for lighting a fire
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READ IT! ♦ Research and report
You are a world famous archaeologist called in to date the body. Your task
is to use the connections listed on the website below to complete your
♦ Story sequence field report. Obtain permission from an adult before you go to the website.
There is no right answer. It is up to you which experts you choose to believe.
From when the man was found in the ice until 2001, many events occurred
http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/methods/HSIE/AmyCottone/Amy%20Cotton/
to reach a suggested solution to the mystery. Look at the list of events
iceman_mainpage.htm
below. Record the correct numerical sequence in your student book. You
may refer back to the text to assist you with this task – but try to rely on Working alone or with a partner:
your memory. Good luck! • Complete the report using the web site given.
or
No. Event • Create your own oral report.
or
a Otzal Alps near Italian border, hikers find a body sticking out
• Just click on the links that interest you to find out more information
of the melting ice
about the Iceman. Enjoy!
b 2001 X-rays found an arrowhead close to his left lung
c Alpine rescue reach the site
d Body is wrapped in plastic foil
THINK IT! TALK IT!
e Forensics team sent for the archaeologists who found that After reading … Think and share with a partner.
the man was about 162 cm tall
♦ What happened to the Iceman?
f He is kept in a refrigerated glass case and taken out for Using the factual information you have read, suggest three fictional
11 min at a time for examining scenarios for how the Iceman’s life might have ended. You may work on this
g Helicopter airlifts body to forensic lab in Innsbruck, Austria alone before you discuss it.
h Investigators discover tattoos
WRITE IT!
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clothes
j Pneumatic hammer used to drill around the body and assist After reading the text, write …
its removal from the ice ♦ Newspaper article announcing the discovery
Use Work Sheet 25 to assist you to write a newspaper article about the
Iceman. Ensure you announce to the general public all the significant
information relating to the discovery.
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Sailing into the Unknown
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Rumblings at Sea
Magellan’s flagship Some leaders of the attempts
Imagine a daring plan to sail right At first, things went well. was called the Vittoria, to mutiny were put in the
The five ships reached which means “Victory”. stocks. Others had their heads
Rio de Janiero and took on cut off and their bodies cut
around the world … with no maps to fresh food and water. Then into quarters.
they sailed down the coast of

help you find the next piece of land. South America, looking for a
sea passage to Asia. But they
couldn’t find one. Some of
the Spanish sailors did not
trust Magellan because he was
IbwfoÖu!xf!qbttfe! Portuguese. Twice, the crews
1 uibu!jtmboe!cfgpsf@
tried to mutiny. Magellan
executed or marooned the
dinand
WestWards to WedeaFerlth
nam
By 1517, an explorer leaders. Then one of the ships
Columbus was was wrecked in rough seas.
Magellan knew that
an lay on the west
wrong. Another oce A Dangerous Passage
Am eric as. Could Magellan
coast of the Finally, after more than a year,
oug h the Americas
find a passage thr Magellan sighted a narrow
rich es of the Eas t? opening in the coastline. But
to the
the strait was stormy and a
Magellan’s ships find a way
A Man with a Plan maze of islands. It took 38 days through the dangerous strait.
he found to find a way through. One
Magellan knew that if
the Spi ce Islands, he Food and SupplieS
a new rou te to ship turned and sailed back to
• flour and salt to make bread
wea lth and fame. Spain, taking most of the food
would gain instant with them! At last, the three
• hard, dry ship’s biscuits To Trade
n wa s to sail wes t and find a • dried fish
His pla remaining ships entered a calm • rolls of red
the Atla ntic Ocean • meat preserved in salt water
velvet
sea passage from ocean. Magellan wept with joy • salt pork
Americas and and named it “Pacific”, which • quicksilver
that led through the • barrels of fresh water
• mirrors
an on the means “peaceful”. • barrels of wine
• bells
into the unknown oce
other side.
uese, but after

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he asked
Spanish king Five hundred years ago, the people of Europe wanted the silks and
sponsor the voyage. The
d five old , leak y ship s. At last,
supplie spices from the East. The way east across land was long and lined
lan wa s rea dy to sail.
in 1519, Magel
crew his plan. with robbers. The only known sea route was also eastwards, around
But he did not tell the
they knew
They might mutiny if the tip of Africa.
what lay ahead!
In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Europe. He planned
Ferdinand Magellan
to discover the rich lands of Asia by sailing west into uncharted
(1481–1521) seas. Today, we know that Columbus reached the Americas on that
voyage. He believed he had reached Japan …
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Finding the Spice Isla
nds
3 Soon after Magellan died , the crew discove red
The end of The Journey that one ship was rotting
. But the re wer en’t
Magellan should have saved
enough men left alive
to crew it, any way! They
his tears. The worst part of the burned it and set sail on the two remaining Pearls from the
voyage was still to come! ships. In November 152 Spice Islands. Key
1, they finally reached
the Spice Isla nds .
Magellan’s Last Stand The y load ed up with Magellan’s crew also
Magellan
Magellan had no idea how big as ma ny spices, silks and took tropical birds
ht
pearls as they
the Pacific Ocean was. He thoug could. Then they set sail back to Spain.
for home.
he could cross it in two or three Magellan’s crew
hs!
days. The voyage took four mont Back at the Beginnin Asia
The crew began to starve. They g
ate insects, rats, sawdust and
To try to gua ran tee tha t at least
the leather strips from the sails. one ship would make it
home,
By the time they reached the island the Trinidad went east North
Europe
of Guam, where they could take
across America
Magellan thought that his the Pacific and the Vitt
on fresh supplies, many had died men would easily defeat the oria Magellan killed
from an illness called scurvy.
islanders. He was wrong. continued wes t. The Trin idad in local war Atlantic Seville
tried to return to the Spic Ocean
of Cebu, where islanders gave e Guam
The ships sailed on to the island Islands, only to be
Magellan became friends with cap ture d Philippines
the men shelter and more food. by the Portuguese. But
Magellan
him to Christianity. In return, on (Cebu) 1519–1520 Africa
the King of Cebu and converted Indian Ocean
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♦ Synonym activity ♦ 3 level guide Write true or false for each statement.
Synonyms are words that have the same or a similar meaning. Match each Answer using the text
synonym in the left column to the correct meaning. Use your dictionary if 1. Columbus reached Japan in 1492.
you need help!
2. Magellan and the King of Spain quarrelled.
uncharted stranded 3. The five ships reached Rio de Janeiro.

Americas rebellion
4. Magellan was determined to find a new route to the Spice Islands.
quarrel firmness of purpose 5. Magellan knew that the crew would not want to undertake the voyage
to the Spice Islands.
sponsor not mapped
6. Magellan died a hero.
narrow body of water joining two larger bodies Answer using the text, your own opinion and knowledge
mutiny
of water of the world
treaty go around something 7. Humans will take great risks to get what they want.
8. Explorers held little value for the lives of their crew.
marooned disease due to lack of vitamin C 9. Magellan was a hero.
strait disagree ♦ Scurvy and its effects

Read the following text about scurvy. Make a list of the five effects
scurvy continents of North America and South America
of scurvy.
guarantee assurance Scurvy
Scurvy is an illness caused by a lack of vitamin C found in fresh fruit and
determination agreement
vegetables. Many sailors became sick with scurvy on long sea voyages once
circumnavigated one who helps pay for something their limited supplies of fresh food ran out or went bad. The symptoms of
scurvy are painful. Victims suffer from blackened, bleeding gums and their
teeth fall out. They also have aching limbs and joints, and sores that spread
all over the body. In the end they die from bleeding inside the body.
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Nothing to
After reading … Think and share with a partner. worry about.
♦ What was said? Full speed
Work with a partner. One person assumes the role of Magellan and
ahead!
the other King Charles of Spain. Act out the dialogue between them as
Magellan asks the king to sponsor his journey. Remember to re-read the
text so that you understand the background to the conversation and
what the king’s response was to Magellan. You may add more information
to the dialogue as you wish. Act out this conversation in front of another
group or the whole class.
WRITE IT!
♦ Written conversation
Work with a partner to write a conversation in letter format between two
crew members on two different ships of the five-ship fleet. In your letters
to each other, describe your feelings about the voyage you know nothing
about and what conditions have been like. Continue your conversation
to show how as the months are passing, conditions are deteriorating and
there is little food! One of you may even die from scurvy or hunger. Or you
may be one of the 17 who returned home three years later.
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and illustrated by Evelina Frescura. Teachers’ Pranks
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Some kids think that teachers have no lives of their own. That is what I That was not the case. The next day I walked into the classroom to find no
thought when I was a kid at school. I had the idea that teachers got into fish-fingers in the tank. But there was also no water, no gravel and no weeds.
a cupboard at night, and only ate chalk and drank glue. It never occurred Instead, there were twenty-seven tins of tuna! Again, there was the same
to me that they had homes to go to, just like we did – or that they had lives ransom note. I must admit I had a bit of a chuckle. But if I was to stop being
to lead, just like we did. the victim of these practical jokes, I had to continue to ignore them. So, into
Then I became a teacher myself. the staffroom I walked, with my head held high once again. As I made a cup
of coffee, I could hear them sniggering. You would think the principal of the
I still remember the first day of my first job as a teacher. When the bell rang, school would be above such childish pranks. But no, there he was, giggling
I nearly went outside to eat my playlunch and play! I thought educating kids along with the others. They thought they were so clever.
was very serious business. Little did I realise the pranks that teachers got up
to just to amuse themselves. Just so you know that the lives of teachers are On Wednesday, the tank was full of plastic fish. Yet again, the ransom note
anything but dull, I’ll tell you a story about one of the pranks that was played but I ignored them.
on me at the first school I ever taught in … On Thursday, the tank was covered in pictures of fish, cut out of magazines.
One Monday morning I arrived at school eager for a great week with the Of course, the ransom note was there again, but I ignored them.
kids. The first thing I did on Mondays was feed the goldfish in the classroom.
There were twenty-seven goldfish in the tank. As you can imagine, it was
a pretty big tank. The kids loved the goldfish, maybe because it’s a bit like
watching TV. As I walked closer to the tank, I realised something was wrong.
Instead of goldfish, there were twenty-seven fish-fingers in the tank! Stuck
to the side of the tank was a ransom note that said:
e your
If you ever want to se
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goldfish alive agai n, pr
for the
a superb morning tea
teachi ng staff!
So, the practical joker was at it again. I decided to just ignore them. I walked
into the staffroom with my head held high. And when a few of the teachers
started sniggering, I pretended not to notice. My hope was that they would
soon get sick of picking on me and move on to somebody else.
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I was just about to sit down and hoe in when one of the teachers called out:
“Hey, Beth, why don’t you help yourself to some iced water in the fridge.
I put it in there last night, so it’s nice and cold.” I couldn’t resist. It was just
what I needed, and I was glad they were being nice to me. Perhaps they had
found someone else to pick on. Perhaps I could even join in with them to
pick on someone else!
“Thanks,” I said, and I walked over to the fridge. I began to fill a glass, my
mouth watering at the thought of a nice cold drink. Then one of the other
teachers called out: “Oh, and Beth, there are ice cubes in the freezer. Why
don’t you help yourself to some.”
Great! I opened the freezer. There they were. My goldfish. All twenty-seven
of them – each frozen it its own cube!
I couldn’t believe it! Those poor fish! I wondered about cryogenics. If I
thawed them in the microwave, would they come back to life?
I wanted to cry, but that wouldn’t look cool. I wanted to laugh, but I
couldn’t. All I could think of was the poor goldfish.
One of the other teachers said: “You guys have gone too far this time!”
Then came Friday. I wondered what I would find in the tank this time.
I had thought about it all the way to work. My class eagerly awaited the I was just about to agree, when I took a closer look at the ice cubes. They
next instalment of the goldfish saga. But they were to be disappointed. weren’t the goldfish at all, but perfectly carved pieces of carrot, shaped
For when I walked into the classroom and looked at the tank, it was empty. like goldfish!
Nothing! Not even a ransom note. One of the teachers even had the nerve to come over and eat one!
I have to admit I was as disappointed as the kids. They had been enjoying The prank was, yet again, on me.
every minute of the prank. But I soon got over it. I remembered that was – written by Victoria Hazell
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exactly what I wanted. I wanted them to stop playing pranks on me! Finally,
I had got my way.
It was 42 degrees – damn hot in anyone’s book. I was on yard duty. Yard
duty in the blistering heat is not something you would volunteer for. So when
the bell went, I trudged inside, exhausted. My lunch wasn’t the most exciting
in the world – a vegemite sandwich and a bruised apple.
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Match each word to its meaning. Show this by writing the number for each ♦ Poster about April Fool’s
word together with the letter beside its meaning. Create a poster that summarises the following information about April
1 saga A a trick played on someone Fool’s Day. Display your finished poster.
2 blistering B French words for “big finish”

Fir st Day of April
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ma 1st was Pisces, the
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THINK IT! TALK IT!
Get up in the middle of the night and sneak into the bathroom, reach
down behind the base of the toilet and turn the water knobs off. Then
♦ Pranks in your life when morning comes and someone goes to flush the toilet, hmmm …
Do you like pranks? Have you ever played one? Have you ever had one it doesn’t work. How did that happen? What’s going on?
done to you? If you could play a prank on a family member, who would
you pick on, and what prank would you play?
Go into your parents’ wardrobe and take one shoe each from some pairs
♦ Teachers’ Pranks of shoes. Hide them. Now wait and watch the fun as your parents try to
This is a true story – it really did happen to the author (well, very close work out what has happened? Where have the shoes gone – why are only
to the truth). The students in the class thought it was a great joke. What some of them missing? Who could have taken them and why? Remember,
everyone wants to know is, “What happened to the fish?” Discuss what you will have to keep a straight face for a short time before you confess
you think happened to the fish because the teacher never saw them again! and hand the shoes back!
♦ Story map
Create a story map of the text from the moment the teacher walks into the
WRITE IT! classroom to find her fish gone to the moment that she finds the frozen
carrots in the ice cube trays. Remember that you may use illustrations and
After reading the text, write … short pieces of text to retell the story.
♦ Parents’ pranks!
Select one of the three pranks below. Write a story that centres around the Teachers’ Pranks
prank. The story could be written as though you are playing the prank on
your parent(s) at home, or it could be a fictional family. Make one character
the prankster. Remember to describe this character and the setting well,
so that others can get a good sense of the story.
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On a Friday, ask your parents if they have to work the next day (Saturday).
If they don’t, before your parents go to bed, sneak in and set their alarm
for 5:00 am! They will wake up for no reason at all. You could even hide an
old alarm clock in some out-of-the-way corner. Laugh as they try to find it
to turn off the alarm. They will wonder what in the devil is going on!
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“Let’s go to this TV studio where they tape the show Cupid Idiot on Thursday
nights,” my sister asked. My response? Why not? Why not, indeed.
When we got to the television studio, I was asked to fill in a questionnaire.
When I asked why, they explained that if a contestant doesn’t turn up for
the show, they can quickly pick a new contestant from the audience. Fair
enough, I thought, so I filled it in. I wrote some really wacky answers to the
questions, just for fun. I thought someone would get a laugh! Well, the
laugh was on me, because a female contestant had phoned in sick with a
terrible case of nerves, and they picked me to replace her!
I was taken backstage and the format of the show was explained to me.
I was to ask three boys three questions, without being able to see them.
They would answer and I would select one of them according to the answers
I liked. Then I would be sent on a date to who knows where with the lucky It was my turn to go onstage. I heard loud applause coming from the
man! I was asked to write down three questions to ask the three guys. My audience as the host – Ken (Call-me-Ken) Pretzel, who had big hair and huge
mind went blank. What on earth was I going to ask them? Finally, I decided fake-looking teeth – introduced each of the three guys. Then Ken introduced
upon my three questions: me – saying how my interests included skydiving in silk undies and hunting
Tasmanian tigers! I walked onstage, looking out into the dark sea of faces for
1. What three things would you take with you to a desert island?
my sister Trudy. I had asked her to hold up one, two or three fingers to let
2. How would you sweep me off my feet? me know which guy to choose, because I wouldn’t be able to see them. But
3. What is your most annoying habit? it was too dark and I couldn’t find her. Eeek!
Ken Pretzel asked me to put my questions to the contestants. I did, but
barely listened to the answers because I was so busy trying to find Trudy in
the audience. So, when I had to choose the contestant whose answer I liked
best, I didn’t have a clue! Time was up. I looked pleadingly at Ken …“Who
do you think I should choose?” I whispered, hoping he would give me a
clue so I wouldn’t end up with the dork of the decade. He laughed and said,
“Well, we can’t give you too much time to think about it. Who will be the
lucky guy?” I thought he was giving me a clue by saying “two much time”.
So I took a chance. “Contestant Number Two!” I shouted, and the audience
broke out in huge applause and cheers.
Ken introduced me to the two losing contestants.
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“Meet Cupid Idiot Number One – James Reed from the Gold Coast. He is
a doctor and loves surfing on weekends …”
What a sensation! He had blond hair, blue eyes, a great tan and was built
like an ironman. What a honey!
I started to get excited, because if this was one of the guys I had passed
over for contestant Number Two, then Number Two must beat Tom Cruise!
“Now meet Cupid Idiot Number Three – Rick di Carlo from Noosa. He works
as a builder, and his hobbies are water-skiing, scuba-diving and competing
in triathlons …”
I began to shake. This guy was a dish! He was the tall, dark, handsome type,
with a smile that lit up the whole studio …
Boy-oh-boy, I thought, if Numbers One and Three were this cool, Number “Now, you two lovebirds are off for a fabulous weekend cruising around
Two was sure to be a dreamboat. the Whitsunday Islands! Yes, you’ll sail aboard your own private yacht,
Then there was a drum-roll … with a crew to attend to your every need. Two fun-filled days and romantic
nights …”
“Now for the big moment we’ve all been waiting for. Meet Cupid Idiot
Number Two – Gordon Greach! Gordon is out of work at the moment but Gordon was overcome with emotion and swept me up into his arms, planting
hopes to get a job as a bank-teller. His hobbies include stamp-collecting more wet, sloppy, disgusting kisses – this time, right on my lips. YUK! How
and taking care of his elderly aunt. Meet your date, Gordon!” was I going to get out of this one?
Gordon stepped out from behind the screen. My heart sank. This guy was I would really like to tell you that, even though he was as ugly as a dog,
a dog. What a dork! What a dweeb! What a loser! He walked towards me he had a bright and sparkling personality, as Trudy had hoped.
and gave me a kiss on the cheek. It was sloppy and disgusting. But he didn’t.
He took my hand and it was hot and
I’m no oil-painting myself, and I’m sure that I’ve bored many a poor bloke,
sweaty and gross! I was trying to
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but there is a limit. And Gordon was it! I spent the weekend laughing
smile as my mind went into a spin.
and joking with the crew of the boat, and though I wasn’t exactly rude to
Ken was about to announce what
Gordon, there wasn’t even a hint of romance – anywhere. We said goodbye
our date would be. I said a silent
on the pier. I didn’t ask for his phone number and he didn’t ask for mine.
prayer that it would be lunch
somewhere in a very public place. I guess Cupid was an idiot after all …
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Who or what is Cupid? Read the following definition of the word cupid to find ♦ Character comparisons
out why the author has used the word in the story’s title. Draw a table with two columns. List the positive and negative
Cupid: The Roman god of love, the son of Venus, usually characteristics of the main female character.
represented as a young boy with wings and a bow and arrow.
Main Female Character
Read the following definition of the word idiot to find out why the author has
used the word in the story’s title. + –
Idiot: A taboo term that deliberately insults someone’s intelligence. Fun loving Self-centred
Put both pieces of information together and look at the picture on the text Makes the best of a situation
card. Predict what you think the story will be about and tell a partner.
♦ Self-effacing humor
The main female character possesses the ability to laugh at herself and
to acknowledge that she is not perfect. Find at least three examples of this
in the story and share them with a partner or your teacher.
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THINK IT! TALK IT! • Start the final line with “if only” then follow it with a wish.
For example:
Cupid
♦ Reality television shows Beautiful and sweet
Have you ever seen a reality television show? It may have been about Aiming carefully
dancing, acting, singing, car racing, people living together in a house, Like an arrow to a bull’s eye
people renovating a house or people undergoing surgery or performing If only I could have won a different man.
tasks and challenges for prizes.
♦ Chain story using an author team
Did you enjoy these programs? Why? Some people prefer to watch these
programs because they are about real people. What are your thoughts? The idea here is that two or three people contribute as a team towards
Name some of those programs that you have enjoyed. How did other creating a story that has a beginning, middle and end.
family members and friends react to those programs? Follow these steps:
♦ Is it justifiable? 1. The topic is “game show”.
The main character of the story was rude and self-centred. Do you agree? 2. Each person writes their own Part A, that is, the beginning of the
How would you respond to that statement? Discuss your ideas with story. Then they give this to another person.
a partner. 3. Each person adds to the Part A they were given and writes Part B, the
middle of the story. Then they give Parts A and B to another person.
4. Each person writes Part C, the end of the story. So now the story is
finished!
WRITE IT! Work Sheet 26 5. Each person illustrates one of the stories, and then shares a finished
story with the others in the author team.
After reading the text, write … ♦ Design for a book cover
♦ Poem about dating You have read the story, thought about it, discussed it and written some
Write a five-line poem that relates to this topic of dating in the following responses to your reading. You are an expert, so now you can design
manner: and create a cover for the book! Use Work Sheet 26 to help you create
• On the first line, write a noun of your choice. your cover. Make sure it relates to the theme of the story. You may like
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• On the second line, write two adjectives joined by and to describe to research what Cupid looks like, before you try your hand at drawing
this noun. his image! The cartoon on the other side of this card is one artist’s idea.
• On the third line, write a verb and an adverb to describe this noun
in action.
• Start the fourth line with “like” then follow it with a comparison.
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Break that Code
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Louis Braille Mayan Messages
Blind people can read and write using a well- Between 700 BC and 400 BC, the Maya developed
known system called Braille. Letters, numbers a complex system of writing. It used about 800
and punctuation marks are replaced by a pattern picture signs, called glyphs. But because no one
of raised dots – with 63 possible combinations. today writes like the ancient Maya people, the
Blind people can feel the raised dots with glyphs look like a great secret code.
their fingers to spell out words. The code was
Archaeologists and other scientists have been
developed by Louis Braille, who was blind himself.
trying to break the code for the last 100 years.
He experimented for three years before unveiling
So far, they have decoded nearly 85 per cent
the code in 1824. He was just 15 years old!
of known glyphs.
Here is a message written in Braille. Mayan glyphs, Mexico
Leon Battista Alberti How to read Mayan Glyphs

If the work of a cryptographer [crip-TOG-ra-far] sounds Mayan glyphs can be words or syllables. Different glyphs were
mysterious, that’s because it is! A cryptographer is a person put together in a block to make sounds, words or ideas.
who makes and breaks codes. Leon Battista Alberti is one of
history’s most famous cryptographers. Alberti was an Italian
architect and mathematician who lived in the fifteenth
century. He invented the Alberti disk,
a kind of coding wheel. Since its
invention, the Alberti disc has
been one of the most popular sky king house child
encoding methods in the world.
Solve this message:
her children
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Break that Code
A Picture Code that a b c d e or i f or v g h A Secret Letter Scramble
was Hard to Crack
Julius Caesar was a very famous and successful Roman
h i j k or x l m n n general in ancient times. His armies usually won their
The ancient Egyptians didn’t just leave giant
battles because Caesar was good at planning what his
pyramids and mummies behind them. They
troops should do next. When Caesar sent a message
also left a mystery. When their writing was o p c or q r s t u v
to tell his troops what to do, he didn’t want his enemies
first discovered, no-one could figure out
to be able to read it. So Caesar invented his own secret
how to read it. Hieroglyphs [HIGH-ro-gliffs]
y z ch kh sh rh code – the Caesar cipher.
are mostly made of pictures of natural or
man-made objects. Hieroglyphic writing
is one of the oldest forms of writing in the How to Use a Caesar Cipher
world. It was used from about 3200 BC to AD 394. In the Caesar cipher, which is a shift cipher, each
letter of a message is shifted ahead a specific number
A Stone Key to Hieroglyphs of letters of the alphabet. In this Caesar cipher, for
example, each letter of the message is replaced by the
In 1799, the Rosetta stone was found in Rosetta, Egypt. It had the same message
letter three places further down in the alphabet. This
written on it in Egyptian hieroglyphs and in Greek. Since the code breakers could
means a becomes D, b becomes E, and so on. So the
read Greek, they knew they had found the key to the hieroglyphic code. But many
key to this Caesar cipher looks like this:
scientists struggled for years to match each Greek letter with a hieroglyph. Then
in 1822, Jean-Francois Champollion cracked the code. How did he do it? He realised
that some hierolglyphs stood for sounds, some for syllables, and some for ideas.
How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Hieroglyphs were mostly written in rows from To tell which way to read
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right to left, or in columns from top to bottom. hieroglyphic writing,
But sometimes, if it looked better, they were look at the direction the
Use the key to solve this urgent message:
animals or people are
written from left to right. ZH ZLOO DW WDFN DW PLGQL JK W!
facing. They always face
towards the beginning
of the line. Answer: We will attack at midnight!
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ZONE IN! ♦ Comprehension questions
On the lines! (Use the text)
Before reading the text … 1. What date was the Braille code unveiled and how long did it take
Create your own code. Write the letters of the alphabet vertically in your to create?
student book. Draw a small picture code for each letter. Write the name of one 2. What is the full name of the man who invented the Alberti disk and
item in your school bag in your new secret code. Give it to a partner to crack. what name is given to a person who creates and translates codes?
For example: The symbols ≠p•|¢ could stand for the word “hanky”.
Between the lines! (Use the text and think)
3. Has the system of using Braille been an outstanding success? Why?
4. Has the Mayan code been the most difficult of all to crack? Why do
READ IT! you think so?
5. Was the Egyptian writing system also a form of art? Why do you
After reading the text … think so?
♦ Evaluate each code Beyond the lines! (Use the text, think and use your knowledge
Rule a five-column grid, landscape style. Set it out as shown in this diagram. of the world)
6. Do codes play a vital role in our modern-day society? Explain.
Code Date Purpose + – 7. Does short text messaging (SMS) damage teenagers’ ability to spell
correctly?
8. Do you think modern-day English-writing is a code?
Re-read the text and:
• list the codes mentioned
• record the time period the code was used or discovered
• record the purpose the code was used for
• think about and record the positives (+) and negatives (–) of using that
particular code.
Share your results with a partner.
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♦ Be a Navajo code talker ♦ Battle! narrative
Read the information below about The Navajo Code Talkers. Review their You will create a short battle story (minimum of 300 words) in your student
code. Read the step-by-step guide as to how to send a Navajo message. book. First re-read the “Secret Letter Scramble” text and “How to Use a
Create your own 2- or 3-word message. You may need to draft it in writing Caesar Cipher”, on the text card. Read the sample story on Work Sheet 28.
in your student book first but then you must practise saying your message Then follow the instructions on the sheet to help you complete your
aloud. When you are confident, speak your message to a partner who will battle story.
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The Navajo Code Talke Wol-la-chee N Nut Nesh-chee
A Ant Ne-ahs-jsh
O Owl
by the United Shush
One of the codes used B Bear
P Pig Bi-sodih
II didn’t need C Cat Moasi
States during World War Be Q Quiver Ca-yeilth
s. It was based on D Deer
Many feet,
Gah
complicated machine E Elk Dzeh R Rabbit
uage, Navajo. S Sheep Dibeh
the Native American lang F Fox Ma-e
ple, called Navajo
no brains
T Turkey Than-zie
It only took Navajo peo G Goat Klizzie
No-da-ih
utes to send and U Ute
code talkers, a few min H Horse Lin
V Victor A-keh-di-glini
took half an hour Tkin
receive a message that I Ice
W Weasel Gloe-ih
. People trying to J Jackass Tkele-cho-gi
Al-an-as-dzoh
using a coding machine Klizzie-yazzi X Cross
e found it hard to K Kid Tsah-as-zih
break the Navajo cod Dibeh-yazzi Y Yucca
sounds. The Navajo L Lamb Besh-do-gliz
even write down the M Mouse Na-as-tso-si Z Zinc
never broken!
code talkers’ code was
Weasel, elk,
nut, elk, elk,
deer . . . ded Message
How to Send a Navajo Enco to
rs used an alphabet code
The Navajo code talke
spell out some words. example,
g the alphabet code. For
1. Spell the words usin
at/ice/fox/ice/cat’.
spell ‘Pacific’ as ‘pig/ant/c
code words into Navajo.
2. Translate the alphabet as
the spelled out ‘Pacific’
For example, translate oasi’.
moasi/tkin/ma-e/tkin/m
‘bi-sodih/wol-la-chee/
3. Transmit the message.
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Than-zie/Lin /Dzeh Dzeh/N
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♦ Be a Navajo code breaker
Work individually or with a partner to be code breakers. Crack the messages
on Work Sheet 27. Good luck!
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Activity Card 2 – Extreme Adventure Activity Card 9 – Brain Power Activity Card 14 – Four-line Poems
Cloze activity Cloze activity Quick quiz
1 vine 1 cerebum, cerebellum, brain stem 1 a person or thing
2 four, vines 2 cerebellum 2 adjectives, describing
3 bridge 3 cerebum 3 verbs, doing (action)
4 New Zealand, bungee 4 brain stem 4–5 Answers will vary.
5 cerebral cortex
Activity Card 3 – Volcanoes Activity Card 15 – Double Headed
3 level guide Activity Card 10 – No More Dog
1 true Plastic Bags Quick quiz
2 true Multiple choice 1 because they stare at the dog
3 false 1 b. polythene 2 Give him double the love.
4 false 2 c. block drains 3 yes. Learn to accept others as they are even if they
5 true 3 b. jellyfish are different.
6–8 Answers will vary. 4 a. block the digestive track 4 Answers will vary.
Activity Card 8 – Monsters Activity Card 13 – Something Evil

Quick quiz Quick quiz
1 to bite your neck and suck your blood 1 Jim Small
2 Count Dracula 2 walking his dog around the lake
3 Hold a mirror to their face as vampires don’t have 3 his cap with blood stains on it
a reflection.
What do you believe?
What do you think? 4 They believed people who walked near the lake were
4 People believe that terrible creatures live there. never seen again.
5 Answers will vary. 5 a screaming girl and some monster from the lake
6 Answers will vary.
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Work Sheet Answers
Work Sheet 1 Work Sheet 6
Dreamworld Rides How I Became an Animator
Answers may vary. 1 I always loved … drawing funny little characters
1 tallest, ride and making up stories about them.
2 amazing 2 I watched lots of … cartoons and animated movies.
3 falling 3 I wrote … my own stories and comics.
4 giant, wave 4 I created … a whole town of thumb print characters
5 tidal, middle and pages of comic strip adventures about them.
6–8 Answers will vary. 5 Answers will vary.
Work Sheet 4
Cool Autos
Grand Prix
Australia, New Zealand
formula one, V8 supercars, stock car racing, rally car racing,
drag, racing
formula one
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Activity Card 16 – Morse Code Activity Card 19 – Nightmares Activity Card 24 – 5010 Calling
3 level guide of Nature 3 level guide
1 telegraph Quick quiz 1 true 2 false
2 1872 1 fangs 3 true 4 Answers will vary.
3 inventing Morse code 2 Fangs pierce the skin of the victim and inject poison. 5 false 6–8 Answers will vary.
4–7 Answers will vary. (Diagrams will vary.)
3 taipan from Australia
Activity Card 27 – Decoding
Activity Card 17 – Making Cartoons 4 Gaboon viper the Mayan Marvels
Quick quiz 5 stop their prey from struggling so they can swallow it 3 level guide
1 a script down whole. 1 true 2 true
2 computer-generated image 3 false 4 true
3 pre-production, production, post-production Activity Card 20 – Living 5 false 6 true
4 Pre-production – script, visuals, storyboard, characters in a Greenhouse 7–9 Answers will vary.
and rough animation developed and the voices are 3 level guide
recorded Activity Card 29 – Movie Tickets
1 true 2 true
Production – computer models of characters, On Line
3 false 4 true
background and effects are created
5 true 6 true 3 level guide
Post-production – visual layers are joined, cutting
1 false 2 false
of final edit with finalised visual effects, and music, Activity Card 21 – The Alien Files 3 true 4 false
sound effects and dialogue balanced
3 level guide 5 false 6 true
5 Writers – draft the story into the script form
1 true 2 false 7–8 Answers will vary.
Illustrators – draw sketches of scenes and characters
3 true 4 true
Modellers – create computer models of characters,
5 true 6 true Activity Card 30 – Stumped by Turf
props and scenes
7 Answers will vary. Thieves
Animators – add texture (skin, fur, hair …) for each
character 3 level guide
Activity Card 22 – Living in Space 1 false 2 false
Activity Card 18 – Earthquakes 3 level guide 3 false 4 true
3 level guide 1 true 2 false 5 true 6 true
1 true 2 true 3 true 4 true 7–8 Answers will vary.
3 true 4 true 5 false 6 true
5–6 Answers will vary. 7 Answers will vary.
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Work Sheet 13
Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes
1 B. she had a surprise for Sadako behind her back
2 C. 1000 years
3 C. 1000 years
4 D. she knew Chizuko did not believe in such things
5 A. origami is difficult
6 B. a sign that something good will happen
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Activity Card 33 – Finding Fresh Activity Card 36 – Murder on Ice 14 mummy L the body of a person or animal that has
Water Match me! been embalmed and wrapped in cloth,
especially as was the custom in ancient
Cloze activity 1 pastures M grass-covered land used for grazing Egypt
1 agriculture 2 crops livestock
15 preserve O to keep something protected from
3 land 4 equipment 2 tattoos R a permanent picture, design or other anything that would cause its current
5 spray 6 roots markings made on the skin by pricking it quality or condition to change or
7 climates 8 irrigation and staining it with an indelible dye deteriorate or fall out of use
9 plants 10 effective 3 fungus H organisms that were thought of as plants 16 determine D to decide or settle something conclusively
11 flooded 12 mature but are now considered a kingdom of their
17 mummify K to preserve a corpse (body) for burial
own; mushrooms are the best-known fungi
13 rice
18 assumed B taken for granted
4 rugged P land with a sharply rising and falling,
Activity Card 34 – Fighting the terrain rough or jagged surface 19 forensic G crime solving, applying science to decide
Good Fight questions arising from a crime
5 flint F a very hard greyish-black fine-grained form
Cloze activity of quartz that is used to make a spark
Story sequence
1 hunger 2 failed 6 exhaustion E extreme physical or mental tiredness
or collapse 1 a Otzal Alps near Italian border, hikers find a body sticking
3 down 4 stomach
out of the melting ice
5 again 6 vomiting 7 tinder S material such as dry sticks that is easily
2 h Investigators discover tattoos
combustible and can be used for lighting
Activity Card 35 – Survival Against a fire 3 c Alpine rescue reach the site
the Odds 8 crevasse C a deep crack, for example in the ice of 4 j Pneumatic hammer used to drill around the body and
a glacier assist its removal from the ice
3 level guide
5 i Onlookers notice that the man is dressed in furs and
1 true 2 false 9 grisly J gruesomely unpleasant or creating a sense
grass clothes
of horror
3 false 4 false
6 d Body is wrapped in plastic foil
5 true 6 true 10 glacier I a large body of continuously accumulating
ice and compacted snow 7 g Helicopter airlifts body to forensic lab in Innsbruck,
7–9 Answers will vary.
Austria
11 site Q an area or piece of land where something
was located 8 e Forensics team sent for the archaeologists who found
that the man was 162 cm tall
12 pneumatic N hammer operated by compressed air
9 f He is kept in a refrigerated glass case and taken out for
hammer
11 min at a time for examining
13 archaeology A the scientific study of ancient cultures
10 b 2001 X-rays found an arrowhead close to his left lung
through the examination of their material
remains usually dug up from the ground
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Activity Card 37 – Sailing into 17 ransom note S a note asking someone for the return Inscription on statue: Nelson Mandela, first black president
of stolen goods or a kidnapped person of South Africa, who through his great courage and peaceful
the Unknown 18 snigger L a small mean laugh protests brought about equality to all South Africans.
Synonym activity 19 instalment F an episode or part of a long story
Illustration: (Will vary)
uncharted – not mapped
Americas – continents of North America and South America Activity Card 40 – Break that Code Work Sheet 24
quarrel – disagree Comprehension activity
sponsor – one who helps pay for something Shark Attack
1 1824, 3 years
mutiny – rebellion Meg had just finished riding a wave and was going back in
treaty – agreement 2 Leon Battista Alberti, cryptographer to catch another when a small two and a half metre shark
marooned – stranded 3 Yes, because it is still used today latched onto her right hand. It came up from underneath her
strait – narrow body of water joining two larger bodies of water 4 Yes, because it has not yet been fully solved and just bit her! She was so amazed that she could hardly
scurvy – disease due to lack of vitamin C
5 Yes, because it has decorative images believe it had happened! It just gave her a good old chomp
guarantee – assurance
6 Yes, because Braille is still used, the military uses coded on the hand and took a couple of knuckles. Meg was as
determination – firmness of purpose
messages and everyone uses a shortened form of code frightened as anyone else would be at the sight of a shark in
circumnavigated – go around something
when text messaging the water. It was just like she had been bitten by a big dog,
3 level guide just down to the bone on two knuckles and then about 10
7 Answers will vary.
1 false 2 false teeth lacerations up her hand. She acted quickly and paddled
8 Yes, because letters are strung together to create
3 true 4 true to shore, where life guards acted quickly to stop the bleeding
written words that have meaning to us the same as
5 true 6–9 Answers will vary. and called for ambulance support. Once transported to
glyphs or hieroglyphs had meaning to other cultures
Casualty, the doctor on duty said there would be no ligament
Activity Card 38 – Teachers’ Pranks damage and that with a few stitches and careful dressing she
Work Sheet 17
1 saga K a long story
would be fine! Meg plans to give it a couple of days and then
Biography box she’ll go surfing again, for sure!
2 blistering G extremely hot
3 cryogenics M the science of low temperatures
Name: Nelson Mandela Date of birth: 18/7/1918
4 exhausted E very tired Place of birth: South Africa Work Sheet 27
5 nerve H cheek Personal background: His father, who was the leader of the Break that Code
6 prankster O a person who plays tricks on someone Thembu tribe, died when he was 12; adopted by the Thembu Codes are cool; Kids love recess; Teachers love holidays; We
7 waver I become unsure of something
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King, Chief David Dalindyebo; studied law; joined group love homework; Look after the planet; Be brave; Be positive;
8 trudge J walk heavily
African National Congress. Smile some will smile back; Be a friend to have one
9 resolve R a firm decision
10 eagerly D doing something keenly Problems or issues he overcame: He was imprisoned for
11 grand finale B French words for “big finish” 27 years because of his political fight against apartheid which Work Sheet 28
12 practical joke A a trick played on someone denied black people the same rights as white people. Battle!
13 volunteer N offer to do something for nothing Why he should be remembered: He helped to bring about LOOK AFTER THE PLANET
14 smirk P smile in a silly way the abolition of apartheid without any compromises; he was
15 stride Q walk with long steps
BE BRAVE 2400 ATTACK!
the first black president of South Africa.
16 prank C a playful trick
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Dreamworld Rides
Text Card: 1
Name Date
Complete the sentences. The answers are in the text.

1 The Giant Drop is the _______________ free-fall __________ in the world.
2 The view at the top of the ride is _________________ .
3 This ride is the closest thing to _______________ (well almost!).
4 The Wipeout is framed by a _______________ crashing __________ .
5 The Wipeout is a huge __________ wave and you’re in the _____________ .
Read and think of your own answers.

6 Look at the faces of the people on the Giant Drop. What do you think
they are feeling and thinking? Fill in the speech bubbles to show
their thoughts!
7 Why do people go on rides like this?
8 Which ride would you most like to go on? Why?
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Extreme Speed
Text Card: 5
Name Date
Thinkboard
What is it?
Interesting fact Equipment
LUGE
Dangers
Summary chart
Sport: Downhill Skiing
Place (Where can you

do this sport?)
Skills needed
Dangers
Feelings
The main thrill

(In your opinion)
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Mind Map
Text Card: 5
Name Date
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Cool Autos
Text Card: 6
Name Date
Fill in the charts to summarise some information in the article.

Four response chart
Formula One racing is also known The 5 types of car racing in this
as . article are:
V8 supercars are the most popular The fastest type of track racing is
in .
and .
Two response chart

Read the sentence in the small triangle. Use the other triangles to complete
a sentence that agrees and a sentence that disagrees with the statement.
Agree because
Formula one racing

drivers are the bravest
and most skilled.
Disagree because
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Improving Road Safety

Text Card: 6
Name Date
How can we reduce speeding and accidents on our roads? Work with
a partner and write an idea in each triangle. Include drawings with your ideas.
Cut out each triangle when you have finished and paste as a square onto
coloured card. Leave a small space between each triangle so you can see the
background colour.
Fewer accidents on our roads
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Text Card: 7
Name Date
In the five boxes below, write a summary of how the author became
an animator. Fill in each box with some key words only. Include words
from the text and some diagrams to complete the flow chart.
1 I always loved …
2 I watched lots of …
3 I wrote …
4 I created …
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A Scary Beginning
Text Card: 8
Name Date
It was a quiet, chilly black night. The jagged, old blind banged and scraped against
the window. Gus twisted and pulled – his hands were tied tightly to the chair. He
could hear a spine-chilling moaning which was getting louder and louder …
Use the box below to write the beginning of your own scary story. Set the
scene. Where will your story take place? Use adjectives (describing words) that
make people feel scared and want to read on.
Title:
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Ghost Dog Mystery

Text Card: 11
Name Date
Fill in the boxes to re-tell what happened in this story.
1 Introduction
• Sets the scene
• Introduces the
characters
2 Events that happened

• States the
problem/s
or issues
3 Conclusion (the problem ends)

• Usually gives
a resolution
(solving of the
problem/s)
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Steel Eyes
Text Card: 12
Name Date
Fill in the boxes to re-tell what happened in this story.
1 Introduction
• Sets the scene
• Introduces the
characters
2 Events that happened

• States the
problem/s
or issues

• Usually gives
a resolution
(solving of the
problem/s)
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Glossary Glance
Text Card: 23
Name Date
Word Meaning
glacier slow moving body of ice made by the build up of snow
ice sheet very large icecap
icecap a mass of ice that permanently covers a large area of land
ground water water beneath the Earth’s surface
water cycle movement of water between land, oceans and the atmosphere
resource naturally occurring material that is useful or valuable
Question 1:
Question 2:
Question 3:
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A Visitor From the Future

Text Card: 24
Name Date
Fill in the boxes to help you plan your story.
1 Introduction (needs a great beginning)

• Sets the scene
• Introduces the
characters
2 Events as they happen

• States the
problem/s
or issues

• Usually gives
a resolution
(solving of the
problem/s)
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Paper Whale
Text Card: 25
Name Date
How to Make an Origami Whale

You will need: A4 paper, scissors, pencils or markers
Step 1
Make your piece of paper square.
Fold one corner over to the other side.
Cut off the excess paper.
You now have a square.
Step 2
Fold diagonally in half, then flatten out.
Fold in opposite corners so that they meet in the middle.
It will look a bit like a flat ice-cream cone. Fold to
centre fold
Step 3
Fold the “nose” over.
Step 4
Fold the sides together just like when you fold a towel,
keeping the nose tucked in!
Step 5
Fold the whale’s tail up!
Step 6
Cut through the fold on the tail and you will have fins to help him swim!
Step 7
Decorate your whale with other features using your drawing materials.
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Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes

Text Card: 25
Name Date
Circle the correct answer.

1 Chizuko smiled mysteriously because:
A. she had a sad story to tell
B. she had a surprise for Sadako behind her back
C. she knew why Sadako was sick
D. she had a paper crane in her bag
2 The old crane was said to have lived:
A. 10 years
B. 100 years
C. 1000 years
D. 10 000 years
3 How many cranes were needed to make a sick person well again?
A. 10 cranes
B. 100 cranes
C. 1000 cranes
D. 10 000 cranes
4 Sadako was surprised when Chizuko brought her a paper crane because:
A. she was not expecting visitors
B. she did not expect to get a present
C. she didn’t know Chizuko could create origami pieces
D. she knew Chizuko did not believe in such things
5 Some of the paper cranes were lopsided because:
A. origami is difficult
B. Sadako was sick
C. they were made whilst lying in a bed
D. all of the above
6 A good omen is:
A. a promise that only good things will happen
B. a sign that something good will happen
C. a good thing that already happened
D. a sign that something good or bad will happen
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Max My Mate
Text Card: 26
Name Date
Write a thankyou letter to the Lost Dogs’ Home for giving you Max.
Your address:
Date:
To: The volunteers of the Lost Dogs’ Home,
I would like to thank you
Yours sincerely,
Max’s Owner
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The Mayan Library

Text Card: 27
Name Date
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Text Card: 28
Name Date
___________________________ ’s Television
(Insert your name, he/she and his/her as appropriate!)
_________________________ ’s mother was full TV Busters they called themselves,

of woe, Small and green, they looked like elves.
Because to school __________ would not go.
_____________________ would not leave the They set to work right away,
television, For ___________________ had been led astray.
Even though it damaged ___________ vision. They claimed the television

Had addled _________ brain and destroyed
________________ watched it day and night, __________ vision.
___________ favourite shows were infinite.
The solution was simple, as simple
Drama, comedy, cartoons and all, as could be.
____________ drove the family up the wall. They removed the power plug with glee …
They carried the television from the room,
When they ended, _____________________
would cry … And sent it away, we can only assume.
A tear would fall down from each eye. Gradually, over the passing of time,
__________ mother pleaded and begged ____________________________ changed
_____________________ to
and was just fine.
Turn off that nasty TV voodoo! __________ developed hobbies and other
pursuits,
The family were frightened __________ was
_______________ no longer had those family
under a spell,
disputes.
That _____________ would end up quite
unwell. __________ addled brain and poor eyesight
And so they called the people, who knew Are mended now and are quite alright.
How to make the spell, undo! So let this be a lesson to you,
They came at once, they came with haste, About what too much TV can do!
There wasn’t another moment to waste.
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Biography on a Box
Text Card: 31
FOLD
Name:
Date of birth:
FOLD
FOLD
Place of birth:
Inscription on statue Personal background Illustration
FOLD FOLD
Why he should be remembered
Problems or issues he overcame

FOLD
FOLD
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Web Page Layout

Text Card: 31
Name Date
Insert picture Company, Business, School Name or Name of Site
of interest
Title e.g. Nelson Mandella
Points of interest
Further References e.g. internet links, book resources, etc.
To Contact us
Company Address
School Address (fictional)
Phone Numbers (fictional)
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Name Date
Start A Training Diary

Create your own training diary using this example as a guide.
How I felt
Duration Ate/Drank
Date Exercise felt
Tired at start but
30 mins Banana/Water e run.
12/10 Jog energised after th
rwards.
In good mood afte
gin with.
Feeling good to be
60 mins Muesli bar/ g workout
14/10 Gym Tired a little durin
Water r.
but felt great afte
usiastically
Started really enth
60 mins Sports drink intain this
17/10 Tennis and managed to ma
Felt tired
throughout game!
rw ards.
but satisfied afte
day, felt
After tennis yester
60 mins Banana/Sports game
18/10 Hockey drained but as the
drink o it. Totally
progressed got int
bushed later.
d and
Felt really energise
45 mins Had porridge we ll-paced,
21/10 Jog happy after this
an hour before.
lengthy run.
Drank water
before run.
Winning mental qualities of champions

Desire — you wa nt you r goa l so
Confidence — the quiet assura
bad ly, you won’t stop until you nce
that you can, and wil l, win.
ach ieve it.
Positive attitude — positive des
Enthusiasm and passion ire
and self-belief.
— passion and purpose equals
Courage — cou rage is not the
motivation.
absence of fea r, but it’s feeling
Determination and persisten the
ce fea r and doi ng it any way.
— staying focused on the goa l,
Self-awareness — understandin
even when losing. g
the sig nals from you r body and
Concentration — the abi lity to
menta l state, and allowing you
focus on the task at hand. rself
time to rest, relax and sleep.
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Top 10 Water Facts

Text Card: 33
Name Date
Top 10 Water Facts

Most rainy days Up to 350 rainy days per year at
Mount Waialeale, Hawaii, USA.
Fewest rainy days 1 day every 6 years in Arica, Chile.
Most rain in one day 1.87 metres at Chilaos, La Réunion.
Tallest dam The Rogun Dam in Tajikistan is

335 metres high.
Biggest iceberg Before the Antarctic B15 iceberg
broke into pieces, it was 295
kilometres long and 37 kilometres wide
— about the same size as Jamaica.
Longest river The Nile is 6 670 kilometres long,
running through Tanzania, Uganda,
Sudan and Egypt.
Highest waterfall Angel Falls in Venezuela is 979 metres
high.
Deepest ocean The Mariana Trench in the Pacific
Ocean is almost 11 kilometres deep.
Worst flood The Huang He River flooded in China
in 1931, killing 3 700 000 people.
Fastest person Donald Campbell reached
on water 444.71 km/h on Lake Dumbleyung,
Australia, in 1964.
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Water Tally
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Name Date
Student’s CATEGORY LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5

name and Basic action: Action Action Action Action
Total points 1 Water involves a requires some requires involves
Point wise choice: effort: greater persuading
2 Water 3 Water effort: others:
Points Points 4 Water 5 Water
Points Points
Name: Water pollution/
quality
Total Water
points = conservation

quality
Total Water

quality
Total Water

quality
Total Water

quality
Total Water

quality
Total Water

quality
Total Water
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Name Date
LEAFLET No. 1
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.
Are Women Citizens? Force-feeding
Yes! when they are required to pay taxes.
The prison warders tried
No! when they ask to vote. to tempt hunger strikers
with tasty food. This
Does Law concern Women?
usually failed and then
Yes! when they are required to obey it.
they reached for tubes
No! when they ask to have a voice in the and funnels. Three or
representation of the country. four strong warders
held the woman down,
Is Direct Representation desirable for the
while a doctor pushed
interests of the people? a rubber tube down her
Yes! if the people to be represented are men. throat until it reached
No! if the people to be represented are women. the stomach. A form
of liquid food was then
poured into the tube.
All who believe that this state of things is neither This made the woman
just towards women nor advantageous to men are invited vomit again and again.
to become members of “The Victorian Women’s Suffrage The ongoing cycle of
Society”. hunger, force-feeding
and vomiting ruined
PLATFORM the health of many
suffragettes.
To obtain the same Political Privileges for Women as
now possessed by Male Voters, with the restriction of
an Educational Test by writing legibly the name of the
Candidate on the Ballot-paper.
ELIZ. H. RENNICK
Hon. Sec. and Treas.
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Name Date
A Grizzly Moment
The best way to avoid trouble with bears is to stay away from bears!
But sometimes even the experts get into trouble.
This is Not a Bluff!

Keeping her head played
a big part in saving Barbara
Moore’s life. She was walking
in Yellowstone National Park—
bear country—when she came
across a dead bison. Barbara
was a park ranger. She knew it
was dangerous to come between
a bear and its dinner. But before
she could get away she saw a
huge grizzly bear charging at
her. Most bear charges are a and pretended to be dead. The
bluff, so Barbara stood still as bear rolled her over three times.
the bear hurtled closer. But this Each time she kept rolling until
charge was no bluff. She was she was face down. At last, the
knocked to the ground. bear wandered away with its
cubs. Barbara had convinced it
Playing Dead
that she was no threat.
Barbara’s heart raced as the
bear clawed her. She curled up Yellowstone National Park
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24 Work
Sheet
Shark Attack
Text Card: 35
Name Date
meg had just finish riding a wave and was go

back in to catch another when a small two and
a half metre shark latched onto her right hand
It came up from underneath her and just bit
her! she was so amased that she could hardly
believe it had happened! It just gave her a good
old chomp on the hund and took a couple of
knuckles. Meg was as frightened as anyone else
would be at the site of a shark in the water.
It was just like she had been bitten by a big
dog, just down to the bone on two knuckles
and then about 10 teeth lacerations up her hand.
She acted quickly and paddled to shore, where
life guards acted quickly to stop the bleed and
call for ambulince support once transported to
Casualty, the doctor on duty said there would
be no ligament damage and that with a few
stitches and careful dressing she would be fine!
meg plans to give it a couple of days and then
she’ll go surf again, for sure!
25 Work
Sheet
Newspaper Article
Text Card: 36
Name Date
Follow this step-by-step guide to writing a newspaper article:

1 Select the information that you will use as the basis for your article.
2 Write a draft of your article using the template below.
3 Opening sentence – grab the reader’s attention with a sentence that is unexpected
or is a question.
4 Paragraph one – using only a few sentences, answer these:
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
5 Now give the details. Write in the third person (he, she, it or they).
6 Last paragraph – bring it all together. This is where you tell the reader what
happened briefly.
7 By-line – at the top, state who wrote the article: “By …”.
8 Decide where illustrations/pictures will be placed.
9 Edit and proofread your article, and use a spell check!
Here is a sample format:
Put the main headline here. It tells a lot

of information in a small space. So choose
words carefully! Try to use alliteration
such as Hell in Hamilton! or Man Mauled
to Death in Melbourne Zoo.
Date and author.
Add a picture or two.
Write your article here

in two or three columns!
26 Work
Sheet
Book Cover Design

Text Card: 39
Name Date
Use the diagram below to plan the parts of your book cover before you begin.
Perhaps you could do a rough draft of your cover on a piece of scrap paper.
Spine – Compose the text for the spine; think about how you will use
background shading, illustrations and text.
Front cover – Compose the text for the front cover; think about how you will
use background shading, illustrations and text.
Back cover – Compose the text for the back cover; think about how you will
use background shading, illustrations and text.
When you are ready, do a final version of the book cover on good paper.
back cover spine front cover
27 Work
Sheet
Break that Code

Text Card: 40
Name Date
Here are some messages for you to crack using the Navajo code breaker. Good luck!
Moasi / Ne-ahs-jsh / Be / Dzeh / Dibeh Wol-la-chee / Gah / Dzeh

Moasi / Ne-ahs-jsh / Ne-ahs-jsh / Dibeh-yazzi
Klizzie-yazzi / Tkin / Be / Dibeh Dibeh-yazzi / Ne-ahs-jsh / A-keh-di-glini /

Dzeh Gah / Dzeh / Moasi / Dzeh / Dibeh / Dibeh
Than-zie / Dzeh / Wol-la-chee / Moasi / Lin / Dzeh / Gah / Dibeh Dibeh-

yazzi / Ne-ahs-jsh / A-keh-di-glini / Dzeh Lin / Ne-ahs-jsh / Dibeh-yazzi /
Tkin / Be / Wol-la-chee / Tsah-as-zih / Dibeh
Gloe-ih / Dzeh Dibeh-yazzi / Ne-ahs-jsh / A-keh-di-glini / Dzeh Lin /

Ne-ahs-jsh / Na-as-tso-si / Dzeh / Gloe-ih / Ne-ahs-jsh / Gah / Klizzie-yazzi
Dibeh-yazzi / Ne-ahs-jsh / Ne-ahs-jsh / Klizzie-yazzi Wol-la-chee / Ma-e /

Than-zie / Dzeh / Gah Than-zie / Lin / Dzeh Bi-sodih / Dibeh-yazzi /
Wol-la-chee / Nesh-chee / Dzeh / Than-zie
Shush / Dzeh Shush / Gah / Wol-la-chee / A-keh-di-glini / Dzeh
Shush / Dzeh Bi-sodih / Ne-ahs-jsh / Dibeh / Tkin / Than-zie / Tkin /

A-keh-di-glini / Dzeh
Dibeh / Na-as-tso-si / Tkin / Dibeh-yazzi / Dzeh Dibeh / Ne-ahs-jsh /

Na-as-tso-si / Dzeh Gloe-ih / Tkin / Dibeh-yazzi / Dibeh-yazzi Dibeh /
Na-as-tso-si / Tkin / Dibeh-yazzi / Dzeh Shush / Wol-la-chee / Moasi /
Klizzie-yazzi
Shush / Dzeh Wol-la-chee Ma-e / Gah / Tkin / Dzeh / Nesh-chee /

Be Than-zie / Ne-ahs-jsh Lin / Wol-la-chee / A-keh-di-glini /
Dzeh Ne-ahs-jsh / Nesh-chee / Dzeh
28 Work
Sheet
Battle!
Text Card: 40
Name Date
The night sky was clear and bright, so may stars, so many lives lost.
Perhaps each one represents a fallen sky solider that has died in
this bloody battle of 2020. My name is Gargor and I am a warrior,
though only 27 it is my honor to lead my troops to battle. My best
friend fell to the Zarinthians just hours ago. I am so weary it’s
hard to think straight. But I must, for we have just intercepted
this coded message from the enemy.
Dibeh-yazzi / Ne-ahs-jsh / Ne-ahs-jsh / Klizzie-yazzi

Wol-la-chee / Ma-e / Than-zie / Dzeh / Gah Than-zie /
Lin / Dzeh Bi-sodih / Dibeh-yazzi / Wol-la-chee / Nesh-
chee / Dzeh / Than-zie Shush / Dzeh Shush / Gah /
Wol-la-chee / A-keh-di-glini / Dzeh 2400 Wol-la-chee /
Than-zie / Than-zie / Wol-la-chee / Moasi / Klizzie-yazzi!
I was able to translate this as I knew it was a Nava jo encoded

message.
I prepared the troops; this would be our final effort. We were weak,
but we knew to strike before their attack, just as they would be
resting in preparation for their battle. The element of surprise would
help us. I sent word to our troops using our code, the Caesar
Cipher, so that we would be victorious! Zarinthians – prepare to die!
ZH ZLOO DWWDFN DW PLGQLJKW
P.S. See if you can crack the coded message above!
Create a battle sketch with words (minimum of 300 words). Your battle could be set long
ago, in the current time, or in a futuristic world. Within the story, write a coded message
that must be sent. Describe the character that created the message and how they
did so. Explain to your reader how the message is to be conveyed. Finally, explain the
message’s impact upon the battle!
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Upper primary
Blake’s Learning Centres are a wonderful motivating way for students to
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