Features of the text
What kind of text is this?
A play
Lewis: What do you mean "him"? It could be a her.
What is the modal verb in this speech?
Could
What does suspected mean?
An adjective describing someone who may be the person who did wrong
What is the list of names of the people in the play at the beginning called?
Character list
Erin: And the terrible joke was on the whiteboard.
Myles: It's a brilliant joke!
What are the two adjectives in these speeches? How can you change them to adverbs? (4 answers; 800 points total)
Terrible; brilliant; Terribly; brilliantly
What does "tidying up" (page 10) mean?
to clean up
What is the type of text called when there are character directions?
Italics
Erin: But we never steal things. Do we, Naomi?
Whom does the pronoun we refer to?
Naomi and Erin
What does "you could have eaten your dinner off the floor" (page 10) say about the floor?
It was really clean
What are in italics?
Character directions
Who put itching powder in Mr. Boyle's PE shorts?
What pronouns can you replace the words in this question with?
Who put it in his PE shorts?
What does pleading not guilty mean?
Saying they are not the culprit or saything they did not do it
What do the bold text in the speech tell us about what the person is saying?
It adds emphasis
On page 16, "You'd do that to me?" The contraction in this question becomes what two words (includes a modal verb)?
You would
On page 16, "we'll sort it out - together" means what?
We'll work it out together. We'll help each other. We'll manage it together.
Even though people are talking, there is a mark missing because it is a feature of a play. What is this mark that's missing called?
inverted commas/quotation marks
"Lewis hasn't told us why he was in here." What are the two verb tenses in this sentence?
Present perfect and past simple tense
What does culprit mean?
The person who did it.