Spelling List ( 6 )

Nouns
cave: a big hole in the rock under the ground or inside
the mountain
branch: a part of a tree that birds stand on
sloth: an animal that lives in the tree and is very slow
and lazy
bone: the hard white pieces inside our bodies
skin: what covers our bodies
Armadillo: an animal like a mouse with a hard shell on
its back
tusks: two hard white pieces at the sides of an
elephant's mouth
knife: a sharp kitchen tool to cut things

Verbs
hang: to put something on the wall
die # live: to stop living
crawl: to walk on the hands and knees
cover # uncover: to hide something
roll: to move around like a ball
chase: to run after someone

"The Irregular Verbs in the past tense" (You have to learn these )
swim

swam

eat

ate

keep

kept

catch

caught

Adjectives
woolly: something made of wool
curved: not straight
difficult # easy: hard to solve a question

dangerous # safe: something can hurt or kill you

extraordinary: strange
poisonous: something that is harmful and will kill you if you swallow
it
intelligent # stupid: very clever and smart
delicious: tastes nice and yummy
frightening: something that makes you afraid

Exercise 6
Question 1:
Cut and stick in your copybook:

This page is blank for cutting exercise on the previous page

Question 2:
Fill in with the right words from the box:
Cave skin bone branch chance- hang crawl chased
extraordinary poisonous frightening knife delicious wool

1. The bird built its nest on a tree..

2. your clothes when you take them off.
3. Our skeleton is made of and our bodies are covered with

4. Scary = . But Strange =

5. Many years ago people slept in
6. Dont eat this plant. Its
7. The policeman the thief and gave him no to run away.
8. I started to when I was 4 months old.
9. The lions teeth are as sharp as a
10. I like ice cream its
Question 3:
Do as the arrow tells you, then fill in the gap with the right word:
1. Wolf plural
are frightening animals.
2. Baby plural
A .cries when he is hungry.
3. Tooth plural
Im going to the dentist because my hurts.

4. Man plural
Three came and asked about you.
5. Cover opposite
your food or the flies will stand on it.
6. Easy opposite
English is for me. I always get the full mark, but math is

7. Die opposite
My granddad two years ago.
8. Safe opposite
Its to walk in the middle of the street. Be careful to
be
9. Intelligent opposite
Monkeys are . They understand fast. Other animals
are more
Question 4:
Read and Match:
1. The monkey has got

) Scales on its body

2. The lion has got

) Thick fur

3. The elephant has got

) Hair on its body

4. The fish has got

) A wooly coat

5. The gazelle has got

) Claws in its paws

6. The sheep has got

) Skin

7. The bear has got

) Hooves

8. Our bodies are covered with

) Long tusks

Weekly Assignment (6)

I - Reading
Look and read:

II Spelling and Vocabulary

Choose from column B what is suitable for column A
1. Sabre-tooth

a. Two knife-sharp

It had two knife- sharp teeth

2. Mammoth

teeth
b. Long curved tusks
c. Long fur
d. Three sharp claws in

3. Glyptodont

4. Giant Sloth

paws
e. Thick woolly coat
f. Hard spikes at the
end of the tail

g. Hard scales on the

back

III Grammar
Correct the adjective between the brackets:
1. The bear is . (Big) the lion.
2. Tom is . (Good) Tim at English but he is .(bad)
at math.
3. The sabre-tooth was . (Frightening) animal.

4. People are (Intelligent) animals.

5. The crocodile is (Fierce) the tiger.
6. The clown is (Funny) the acrobat.
7. Sana is (Pretty) girl in the class.
8. Tilly got . (Bad) mark in the class and I got
(Good) mark.
IV Writing
Look at the picture then write:

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Unit Six
Comparison of Adjectives
"with adjectives that has more than two syllables"

a. The Comparative Adjectives

When the adjective has more than two syllables, we put the word
more/less before the adjective and than after it.
The form
Example:

Compare:

more + adjective + than

- A cat is dangerous. A tiger is dangerous.

-A tiger is more dangerous than a cat.

b. The Superlative Adjectives

When the adjective has more than two syllables, we put the article
and the word most before the adjective, which doesn't change form.
the most + adjective
The form
Example: - Mai is beautiful. (90%) Mona is beautiful. (70%)
Heba is beautiful. (50%)

Compare:

Mai is the most beautiful.

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The Kinds of nouns

a. The Proper Nouns

Remember

A proper noun is a special

naming word. It begins with
a capital letter.

Examples:
Names of people:
Ahmad Edward etc.
Days of the week and months:
Sunday February etc.
Names of certain places:
Tayba Azharian Language School Carrefour etc.
Names of cities and countries:
Alexandria Egypt Brazil etc.
--------------------b. Countable and Uncountable Nouns
1. The Countable Nouns:
They are nouns we can count (regular and irregular plural nouns)
Examples: one apple

two apples
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one fish

two fish

The Irregular Plural Nouns

They are nouns that don't follow the rules of the regular ones.
Examples:
"You have to learn these"
a man

men

a woman

women

a child

children

a tooth

teeth

a goose

geese

a foot

feet

a fish

fish

a deer

deer

a sheep

sheep

an ox

oxen

a person

people

a mouse

mice

2. The Uncountable Nouns:

- Uncountable nouns are those that cannot count and which have no
plural form.
Examples:

"You have to learn these"

cheese oil water hair air flour bread sugar tea coffee
salt rice wheat juice milk butter soup pasta spaghetti
chocolate vinegar
- We often use "measured amounts" with uncountable nouns.
Examples:
a loaf of bread a kilo of flour a bottle of milk a cup of tea
a carton of juice a slice of cake/toast/cheese a piece of cheese
a bar of chocolate

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c. The Compound Nouns

What are the "Compound Nouns"?

They are two or more nouns

combined to form a single noun.

Example:
-Toothbrush is a compound noun. Its made up of two nouns:
(tooth) + (brush)
Writing
Factual information about animals:

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Exercise 6
Question 1
Match the words. Write the "Compound Nouns":

Question 2:
Put the nouns in the right column:
children
bread

bird
tea

egg

table

sandwiches

meat men

knife

feet

coffee

watch

cheese milk

cherries

poster

apples
Countable Nouns
Singular

Plural

Uncountable Nouns

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Question 3:
Write the words that needs a capital letter:

Question 4:
Complete with the comparative:
1. Dogs are lions. (friendly)
2. Windsurfing is golf. (exciting)
3. This car is that car. (expensive)
4. The French exercise is the English one.
(difficult)
5. The diamond necklace is than the silver
one. (precious)
Question 5:
Complete with the superlative:
1. The blue whale is animal in the world. (large)
2. cat in the world is only 7 cm. tall. (short)
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3. pony in the world is 53 years old. His name's

Teddy.

(old)

4. The sea horse is fish.

(slow)

5. The cheetah is animal in the world. (fast)

6. spider in the world can eat birds! (big)
7. animal in the world is a frog from
Colombia. (poisonous)
Question 6:
Let's write about the woolly rhino:

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