Connotation: The image that comes to mind

barbed wire = scary, war, keep out, battlefield

Qin Lang – Tuesday 18.07 Not negative

polite

Today
Negative connotation:
• Checking Homework
Not interested
o Subordina4ng Conjunc4ons Relies on tone and body language
o Conjunc4ons revision
• Looking at ‘phrasing’: ”I don’t mind” vs “I don’t care
• Visual texts – an overview
• Novel Study: Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman
• Comprehension Ques4ons
Soccer

Which is more positive, which is more negative barbed wire fence

Text
Text
What predictions can you make about the text based on these covers?

Visual text - techniques

A lot of people
At some point,
suffering
the boy will
travel to
Australia
Body language
Facial expression

Foreshadow
give a clue about Dark colours
what is going to happen
 Vocabulary Practice

Word Definition

(Verb) - avoid (someone or something) by a sudden quick movement)

Synonyms: dart, bolt, swerve

Homework
(verb) (of a bright light) blind (a person) temporarily

(adjective) - serious and unrelenting, especially when someone is trying

Read up to chapter 3 and annotate with any
to assert their authority and discipline.
sections or words you don’t understand.
Synonyms: serious,

1. (verb) stare in an angry or fierce way

Comprehension
Synonyms:questions
to scowl on the following page
2. (verb) shine with a strong or dazzling light

Synonyms: shine brightly

3. Noun – a fierce or angry stare.

(verb) to move forward suddenly and with force

Word Bank: lunge, dodge, dazzle, stern, glare

She gave Harley a fierce __________________

He suddenly ________________________ at her with a broken bottle.

Journalists received a ____________________ warning not to go anywhere near the

battleship.

If you are _________________________ by someone or something, you think they

are extremely good and exciting:

If light ____________________ you, it makes you unable to see for a short time

He _____________________ to avoid the hurtling bicycle.

Word bank: Dodged, glare, stern, lunged, dazzled, dazzles

 Read the questions first
Comprehension questions so you know what to
look for

1. Why does Jamal describe it as “really good”?

2. What is unusual about where they are playing soccer?

3. How many students in Jamal’s school?

4. What does Zoltan feel about Jamal not passing the ball? What tells you this in

the text?

5. What causes the boys to be in shock?

6. What can we tell about their lives from the following sentence:

a. “For a moment there’s silence except for the wind blowing in off the

open desert and the distant sound of someone drilling bomb fragments

out of their wall in the village.”

7. Find examples where the author ‘shows’ us how good Jamal is at soccer.

What are the key words that help us to infer this?

8. In the sentence below, what word(s) convey the power of Bib’s strike?

a. Yusuf dives, but the ball scuds past his fingers and hurtles into the

rocket crater behind him.