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Inside Collection (Course): English Home Language Grade 6
1. H appy thought
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Isn’t it strange that some things that you take for granted, like ice-cream and spaghetti, have a ‘story behind the story’? Did you know, for example, that spaghetti, which the majority of people think of as truly Italian, is in fact of Chinese origin? Marco Polo brought it back to Italy from his trips to China.
Now listen to this carefully so that you can choose the best answer afterwards. Your educator will read the piece to you.
What to do
For the educator: The following passage should be read aloud.
Amazing food: ICE CREAM
Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and apple-pie, but ice cream was known long before America was discovered.
The Roman Emperor Nero may have made a kind of ice cream. He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains. He used it to make cold drinks. Traveller Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.
Hundreds of years later ice cream reached England. It is said that King Charles I enjoyed the treat very much. There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.
Today ice cream is known throughout the world. Americans alone eat more than three billion quarts a year.
Questions
1. The piece says that most Americans
A think that ice cream is very new
B think that ice cream was an American idea
C know that ice cream is very old
D do not know what ice cream is
2. The Roman emperor Nero hired men to
A make ice cream for him
B bring ice cream from China
C guard the secret of ice cream
D bring ice to cool his drinks
3. Marco Polo is known as
A a Roman emperor
B the inventor of ice cream
C a royal cook
D a traveller to China
4. Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as
A hockey and bubblegum
B rugby and braaivleis
C baseball and apple-pie
D chess and frozen milk
5. Charles I of England wanted to
A make ice cream popular
B keep the secret of ice cream to himself
C develop new kinds of ice cream
D bring ice cream recipes from China
6. More than three billion quarts of ice cream have been eaten
A by Americans in one year
B all over the world in one year
C since the time of Nero
D since America was discovered
Answers to ice-cream questions
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2. Lands and Links
Be a traveller like Marco Polo and link each familiar object or symbol with its country of origin. Place the correct letter, labelling each picture, next to the object/symbol.
| Object/ symbol | Letter |
| Big Ben | |
| Gelato | |
| Kangaroo | |
| Kilt | |
| Rising sun | |
| Taj Mahal | |
| Kiwi | |
| Sphinx | |
| Shamrock | |
| Chopsticks |
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| LO 5.3.1 |
3. The human body as a building
The human body is a wonderful and complicated structure. We could compare it to a car, a computer or a building. But let us compare it to a factory to get a good idea of how some of its main functions work.
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The human body as a building:
A. Compare the two diagrams on page 4 and answer these questions, writing in full sentences.
1. Which part of the human body is shown as the eyes in the building?
2. Which parts of the human body can be compared to pumps?
3. Which room in the top of the building represents the memory?
4. Which part of the human body is shown in the building as the cable carrying wires to all parts?
5. What do the bellows in the building and the lungs in the body have in common? Try to mention at least two things.
B. Play the alphabet game to make a WORD SEARCH of your own. There may not be less than SIX words in your game. Either choose a letter from the alphabet and write down as many parts of the body beginning with that letter as you can think of, or work through the alphabet trying to find a part of the body that begins with each letter.
| LO 3.8.2 |
Use your own paper to design your own word search game.
C. Look at the picture of the human skeleton on page 8 and answer the following questions.
1. Where is the humerus?
2. What is another name for the kneecap?
3. What would you have broken if your clavicle were fractured?
4. What is the name of the longest bone in the body?
5. Why do you think Elvis Presley was nicknamed ‘Elvis the Pelvis’?
6. When accidentally knocking the elbow hard against something, people say they have hit their ‘funny bone’. Why do you think they call it the funny bone? (Remember to refer to the drawing of the skeleton.)
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| LO 3.8.2 |
| Learning Outcomes(LOs) |
| LO 3 |
| READING AND VIEWINGThe learner is able to read and view for information and enjoyment, and to respond critically to the aesthetic, cultural and emotional values in texts. |
| We know this when the learner: |
| 3.1 reads and responds critically to a variety of South African and international fiction and non-fiction (journals, poetry, novels, short plays, newspapers, textbooks, etc.): |
| 3.1.1 reads aloud and silently, adjusting reading strategies to suit the purpose and audience; |
| 3.1.2 uses appropriate reading and comprehension strategies (skimming, and scanning, predictions, contextual clues, inferences, monitoring comprehension, etc.); |
| 3.7 identifies and critically discusses cultural and social values in texts: |
| 3.7.3 discusses the diversity of social and cultural values in texts; |
| 3.8 understands and uses information texts appropriately: |
| 3.8.1 summarises main and supporting ideas; |
| 3.8.2 selects and records relevant information appropriately; |
| 3.9 interprets and analyses independently details in graphical texts (maps, line graphs, bar graphs and pie charts) and transfers information from one form to another. |
| LO 5 |
| THINKING AND REASONINGThe learner is able to use language to think and reason, and access, process and use information for learning. |
| We know this when the learner: |
| 5.3 processes information: |
| 5.3.1 categorises and classifies information and can explain what these processes entail, giving examples form different learning areas; |
1. B
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. B
6. A
2. Lands and Links
3. The human body as a building: questions
A.
1. windows
2. heart
3. library / filing office
4. The nervous system.
5. The bellows (i) pump out the stale air and (ii) draw in fresh air.
C.
1. the elbow
2. patella
3. collarbone
4. femur
5. He gyrated his pelvis when he sang.
6. If you knock it accidentally it produces a “funny” tingling feeling. It makes you grimace (makes you seem to laugh while you are actually expressing pain).
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