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My Bio Poem

media type="file" key=" Bio Poem.mov" align="center" width="300" height="300" An excellent Bio Poem that tells me a little bit more about you, Dave! Well done. Nice use of expression in your voice and you speak at the same time your words appear. Fantastic! Great consistent use of colour for your text. Miss Crone :)



 WARRIORS READING WORK WEEK 10

**School Journal 2000 Part Four Number One**

**THE GAME**

Here is a list of descriptive words and phrases. Choose the three that your think //best// describes the Space World game players. Choose the three that you think //best// describe the arcade itself. //Base your choices on what you’re told on page 2.//

__**young, lowlife scum & aggressive**__

**Young, polite, aggressive, badly-behaved, modest, keen to play, dark, noisy, well-lit,** **virtually adult-free, menacing, cheerful, lowlife scum**


 * **Words or phrases describing the players** || **Words or phrases describing the arcade** ||
 * __**Young**__ || __**Adult-free**__ ||
 * __**Modest**__ || <span style="color: #053df5; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**Lit virtually**__ ||
 * <span style="color: #053df5; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**Aggressive**__ || <span style="color: #053df5; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__**Low life scum**__ ||

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Answer these:**
 * 1)  Matt’s ‘feet rested on pedals, and the fingers of his left hand danced over four keys set on a lever’. Which one word in this sentence tells you that Matt was a skillful player? <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px;">__**Rested**__
 * 2)  Write down three details that show that Matt was badly affected by his experiences in playing the new machine. __**S cared when he finished, panicked to get out & would never do it again. **__
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Why were adult fighter pilots no use against the alien fighters?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Complete the following sentences. Delete any words that don’t apply:** I like arcade games becaus e <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">__**they are challenging & really fun.**__ The best arcade game I’ve ever played is <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">__**battle fights, because it is really hard & it is fun to play with a friend.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself:**

This story suggest two things that many people will __**find**__ disturbing. One is that we are already under __**attack**__ from alien invaders. While for years much has been made of sightings of strange craft in our __**skies**__**,** the idea that aliens are fighting a secret war against us is __ **warfare****.** __ The second disturbing thing is the __**idea**__ that children are the key to defeating __**these**__ aliens. And what if harmless fun in arcades is real new against a dangerous enemy. Does that mean other arcade games aren’t what they seem? Perhaps when your a character in an arcade game, a real person somewhere in the world!

<span style="color: #d91711; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**attack dangerous dies find idea new shoot skies these warfare**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">The writer uses some interesting verbs in this story. Match six of the words below with the meanings listed on the left.
 * 1)  slid out of control - __**Skidded**__
 * 2)  moved and stopped abruptly - __**Jerked**__
 * 3)  grabbed tightly - __**Gripped**__
 * 4)  tearing - __**shoved**__
 * 5)  sprang - __**Bounded**__
 * 6)  rushed at great speed - __**hurtled**__

<span style="color: #c3130e; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**shoved skidded flicked gripped jerked bounded hurtled clawing** <span style="color: #c3130e; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">

<span style="color: #0a36db; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px;">**THERE STOOD A MAN**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">School Journal 2000 Part Four Number One

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Here are ten events from the story, but they’re in the wrong order. Put them in the right order.**
 * 1) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**George woke up about mid-day**__
 * 2) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**George rubbed the bump on his head and wondered where he was**__
 * 3) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**George thought about Robbie Burn’s lines about ghosts and ghoulies**__
 * 4) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**A Maori suddenly appeared ahead of him**__
 * 5) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**George followed the Maori along a faint track**__
 * 6) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**Night began to fall**__
 * 7) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**George smelled food**__
 * 8) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**Shorty told George he would lead him down the old greenstone trail**__
 * 9) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**Shorty told George there was no-one with him when he came into camp**__
 * 10) <span style="color: #0000ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">__**The men in the camp stared at George as he swayed unsteadily**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Complete these sentences using information from the story**
 * 1)  George didn’t know where he was because __**he was lost in the mountains.**__
 * 2)  George started thinking of ‘ghoulies and ghosties’ because __**Robbie burn’s told him about ghosts & ghoulies.**__
 * 3)  The Maori guide suggested that George keeps quiet by __**not telling his friends that there was a Maori on that track.**__
 * 4)  The first sign that there was a camp nearby was __**that George could smell the food his friends were making.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**When the Maori guide pointed at George’s feet and beckoned, George took this as a signal to walk. See if you can come up with a hand signal for each of the following commands. Write your description beside each command:**
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Keep quiet **-**
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Speed up **-**
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Stop **-**
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Come here **-**

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Complete the following sentences. Delete the words which don’t apply** <span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">If I had found myself lost like George __**I would have not panicked & I would have tried to find a way back to the tent.**__ <span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">I think the best word to describe George is __**scared**__ <span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">because __**he was lost & he didn’t know if he would find his way back to the tent.**__ __**I enjoyed**__ <span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">this story because __**George got lost & this moari person helped George find his way home to his friends & the story was very interesting because you didn’t know what was going to happen next.**__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**If you were alert when reading the story the idea that the Maori guide was a ghost would not have surprised you. List below 4 clues given by the writer to suggest that the Maori was a ghost.** <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">