Unit 1: Ye dirty seadog 2 3 In the texts 1 a What does “ye dirty seadog” mean? _____________________________________________________________________________________ b What do you think this unit is about? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Read all the texts on pages 2–3. a How many texts use the personal pronouns I or we? _____________________________ b Which text tells about the daily life of a pirate? __________________________________ c How many newspaper items are there? ___________________________________________ d How do you know they are newspaper items? ___________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3 a Look at the newspaper items on page 3. Do they all have headings?_______ b How many have photos? __________________________________________________________ c How many are in the past tense? _________________________________________________ d Do all the newspaper items have facts? _________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Find words from Ye Dirty Seadog for this table. a types of boats b ship words c powerful words sailing boat overboard gargle murderer 4 5 a Join a word from above the line to one below it to make a compound word. over ground finger side back boats out board some speed where nails sea dog b Write the compound words. overboard, ___________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ Read and learn 1 a Read the story that begins “Of course, I missed …” aloud, to a partner. Done b Ask your partner to retell the story in his or her own words. Done c How many times was the personal pronoun “I” used in both texts? _______________ d Who do you think was telling the story? Is it a pirate? Why do you think this? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Read All Aboard on page 2. Why do you think the lights went out at 8 pm on Black Bart’s ship? ______________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 Do you think a pirate’s life was hard or easy? Why? _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 4 In the text below: a Circle the adverbs that tell when or how often things happened. b Underline the verbs. c Change the verbs to the past tense. Write them inside the brackets. PIRATES IN MODERN TIMES Modern pirates attack [attacked] ships and fishing boats. They often use [___________] small, fast speedboats. Sometimes the pirates don’t [___________________ ] want cargo. They want [_____________________ ] the ship’s crew. They take [___________________] their belongings and kidnap [________________________] them. Your turn 1 Read all the texts on page 3. Fill in this table. Title Who? Does what? Where/when? Pirates Today modern pirates attack ships and often, when large fishing boats, use ships slow down in small speedboats, narrow waters, kidnap crew, take sometimes belongings a Red Sea Pirates b Cruise Ship Attacked c Supertanker Attacked 6 2 Write a recount of a pirate’s life. Write a title Who is telling the story? A recount tells what happened, in the order it happened. It has: UÊ>ÊÀiÌ>ÌÊÌ >ÌÊÌiÃÊ«>Vi]Ê time, setting and who was involved UÊÜ >ÌÊ >««ii`]ÊÀiÌ`ÊÊÌ iÊ past tense UÊ>ÊÃiµÕiViÊvÊiÛiÌÃÊÊÌ Ì iiÊÊ order UÊÃÕ}ÊÕ«° Will you use I, you, he, she, it, we or they? Present or past tense? Keywords about the work, food, drink, rest and entertainment The weather? Conditions on board? Any dangers? How does/did your pirate feel about being a pirate? ____ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 7 Verbs and tense Action and Saying Verbs 1 a In the text below, underline the action verbs. b Draw boxes around the saying verbs. c Are they present tense (today) or past tense (yesterday)? _____________________ How do you know? ___________________________________________________________ I missed the pirate, but I slashed his hat in two. His eyes bulged and he dropped his sword overboard. Then he fell on the deck. He yelled and pointed his finger at me. “How rude,” I said. Feeling and Thinking Verbs 2 Underline the feeling and thinking verbs. The pirate felt a draught as my sword cut his hat in two. It shocked him. Don’t worry, it didn’t hurt. But I believe he’ll sleep well. I don’t think he likes me, you know. I wonder where I can hide? Relating verbs Relating verbs tell what things are or seem to be. They are having, looking, smelling, tasting and feeling verbs. 3 Underline the relating verbs. This man must be a pirate. He is very brown and wrinkled. His hands are rough and he seems tough. His skin feels like leather. He has a patch over one eye, and he smells salty. I bet his clothes taste salty. “I am not a murderer,” he says. “I just look like one!” 4 Use relating verbs to describe one of the pirates in the text. 8 The Past Tense - Regular 5 Circle the ed endings on these past tense verbs. Verbs Last sound Verbs Last sound Verbs t rolled d end/ed attacked ˇ Last sound ˇ ˇ ed helped a noticed e fir/ed i jumped b died f want/ed j crashed c dragged g kidnapped d used ˇ point/ed ˇ h 6 k l Say each verb aloud. Listen to its last sound. Does it sound like t, d or ed? Write the last sound in the column next to each verb. 7 Which verbs have an extra beat when you add ed? The Past Tense - Irregular 8 Some past tense verbs do not end in ed. They change in other ways. eg go/went am/was is/was are/were can/could Write the past tense of the words in brackets. I [am] ______________ a fisherman. My brothers [are] ______________ fishermen too, and so [is] ______________ my father. We [go]______________ to sea every day we [can] ______________. 9 Write the past tense of these verbs. present past present past present a do did e come i see b take f steal j say c shake g throw k leave d hide h make l feel past 9
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