English Skills
What is a Simile?
Comparing to things using the words like or as.
What is a life experience?
An experience that changes your life.
Through sound.
The correct term for a story in Literary texts is....?
A narrative.
Who is the current principal?
Mr Moar
What is hyperbole?
Extreme Exaggeration.
Loss of a loved one, divorce, an accident or natural disaster, etc.
If I like images and pictures, what type of learner am I?
Visual.
Name 2 Persuasive Devices.
High modality, rhetorical question, statistics, facts, quotes from experts, connectives, etc.
Which room are we in now?
D10
Identify a technique used in the following sentence:
The car groaned to a stop.
Personification.
Give three examples of life experiences.
Starting a new school, losing a loved one, graduation, getting married, etc.
What is a kinaesthetic learner?
Someone who learns through movement.
What is the purpose of a comic?
To entertain.
What year did South Grafton High School open?
1964
How many lines and syllables do Haiku poems have?
3 lines
5, 7, 5
What is an example of a shared life experience?
Starting school, winning a championship as a team, starting a family.
Give an example of kinaesthetic lesson for English.
Painting a story setting, Body Voting, Play Doh, Lego.
Which poetry type consists of 3 lines of poetry which follows the below structure?
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
Haiku
Name 4 Head Teachers from our school.
Cameron, McCarthy, Wauchope, George, Martin, O'Connor, Rothsey, Brunton etc.
What is anaphora?
A type of repetition, Where 3 things are repeated.
Identify 5 life experiences you would not participate in willingly.
Swimming with sharks, walking over a snake pit, skydiving, driving a race car, etc. Varied answers.
How could an auditory lesson be helpful in English?
Listening to an Audiobook, dictating notes, etc.
Identify 5 genres of film and/or novels.
Sci-fi, Action, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy, etc.
Name 5 teachers from our school.
A,b,c,d,e