Kensuke's Kingdom Descriptive Writing Assessment:Thursday 25th February 67% Crit A and Crit D

There is a variety of features to include in your descriptive writing piece this week, such as:

• Irregular past simple/ past participle verbs
• First and second conditionals
• Kensuke's Kingdom vocabulary
• Vocabulary to describe people
• Vocabulary to describe places
• Metaphors
• Similes
• Alliteration
• Personification
• The five senses (ie. what can you see, hear, touch, taste and smell?)

How to revise?

• Conditionals

1st Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3226

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/first-conditional-exercise-1.html

2nd Conditional

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3227

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html

• Irregular verbs

Irregular Past Simples
Irregular Past Simples 2
Irregular Past Tenses 3

Homework for Thursday 18th February: Kensuke's Kingdom Chapter 8

1.What does Kensuke use the outrigger for?

2.What did Kensuke used to do for a living?

3.What do we learn about Kensuke’s family?

4.What happens to Kensuke’s home town during the war?

5.How does Kensuke end up on the island?

6.How does Kensuke feel about his situation when he first arrives on the island?

7.List 2 reasons why Kensuke does not want to leave the island?

8.Why did Kensuke not want Michael to stay on the island at first?

9.What does Michael find on the beach?

10.What does he do with the object he finds?

11.In one sentence, explain what happens at the very end of the chapter.

Term 2 Exams

• Thursday 25th February: Descriptive Writing Exam on Kensuke's Kingdom

67% Criteria A and D

• Thursday 3rd February: Reading Exam 67% Crit B