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English first additional language

Grade 5

Module 12

Language games and punctuation

ACTIVITY 1

TO PLAY GAMES INVOLVING LANGUAGES [LO 2.4.3]

TO USE LANGUAGE FOR THINKING – TO IDENTIFY SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THINGS [LO 5.2.5]

TO DEVELOP OWN VOCABULARY [LO 6.4.3]

1. Orally, give words that name (ask your educator about playing the “game”)

  1. six occupations
  2. six wild animals
  3. six foods starting with “f”

(d) six items from your pencil bag

2. In the sentences below:

  1. Pick out the common nouns that name people. Encircle them in RED/ in brackets .
  2. Pick out the common nouns that name objects. Underline them / in BLUE .
  3. Pick out the proper nouns. Outline them / in GREEN .
    1. Elize Grobbelaar, a neighbour, found the little squirrels.
    2. Berena’s cat, Kit-Kat, became the orphans’ mother.
    3. The kittens are fascinated with Snap, Crackle and Pop.

(iv) Pama, the father and farmer, says they eat his pumpkins and butternuts.

3. Rewrite the following sentences using capital letters where necessary:

  1. He is a game ranger in the kruger national park.
  2. My aunt anne works as a secretary for the nature conservation society.
  3. The only lioness left in captivity in natal can be viewed at durban zoo.
  4. port elizabeth is a holiday resort in the eastern cape.
  5. We have an “I love cape town” sticker on the back of our opel astra.

4. Complete the sentences by filling in the missing nouns of your choice:

  1. ___ is a very clever ___.
  2. He produced a ____ of kittens and they played with a ____ of wool.
  3. The cat sleeps in a ____in his home in ___ Street.
  4. ____ the cat, feels a lot of ____when he catches

his tail in the closing door.

(e) He sits in the ____nursing his injured ____ .

ACTIVITY 2

TO USE PUNCTUATION [LO 4.5.7]

TO DEVELOP OWN VOCABULARY [LO 6.4.3]

Collective nouns

1. Which one fits? Use a ruler to connect the incomplete statement to the answer:

a litter of … players
a pride of … cattle
a swarm of … singers
a herd of … puppies / kittens
a flock of … fish / whales
a school of … bees or locusts
a bouquet of … stairs or aircraft
a flight of … soldiers
a canteen of … wolves or cards
a horde of … savages
a fleet of … flowers
a pack of … motor cars
a troop of … cutlery
a team of … lions
a choir of … sheep

Learn these

a host of angels

a series of events

a circle of friends

a mob of hooligans

a pocket of oranges

a shower of rain

a colony of seals

a column of smoke

a cluster of stars

a bundle of washing

Make up your own collective nouns

A ____ of giraffes

A ____ of meerkats

2. Rewrite the following sentences, putting in the capital letters where necessary:

  1. mordred, the wily wolf, eyed lard lying in the sun.

_____

  1. The pork times, a local newspaper, ran an article about bacon, rasher and lard.

_____

  1. mordred planned to have the piggies on christmas eve for dinner.

_____

  1. The fry river flowed past bacon’s house, nr 3 forest drive, bushville.

____

  1. “I am starving! bacon and eggs will do!” moaned mordred.

____

  1. the forest is situated on top of porkchop ridge, just below roast ridge.

____

Remember Gemma? We met her in the first unit. Quickly explain to Gemma why the words you corrected above, have to be written with capital letters.

Questions & Answers

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In biology, a pathogen (Greek: πάθος pathos "suffering", "passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") in the oldest and broadest sense, is anything that can produce disease. A pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a germ. The term pathogen came into use in the 1880s.[1][2
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respiration is the process in which we breath in oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide
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stimulates the follicle to release the mature ovum into the oviduct
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Biology is the study of living organisms, divided into many specialized field that cover their morphology, physiology,anatomy, behaviour,origin and distribution.
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Biology is the study of how living organisms live and survive in a specific environment
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Source:  OpenStax, English first additional language grade 5. OpenStax CNX. Sep 22, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10992/1.2
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