3.3 To read for information

• Ingredients:
• Serving suggestions:

Activity 4:

To use language to talk about language

[lo 6.9]

Spot the Similarity:

• Mila’s magic
• The villagers’ shopping baskets
• I can’t exactly say what it is
• Bashir’s Family Travel Business
• Gram’s mince pies
• I’ve never noticed it
• What’s this?
• There’s never enough money
• Mr Smith’s in on the secret

What do the underlined words have in common?

• When do we use an apostrophe?

• To show that something belongs to somebody/something.

• e.g. Mila’s Magic (the magic belongs to Mila)
• The villagers’ shopping baskets (the shopping baskets belonging to the villagers.)

Try yourself:

Bashir’s Family Travel:___________ belongs to ______________

Gram’s mince pies:__________ belong to ____________________

To join two words into shorter one :

• e.g. I can’t go.
• Can’t = can + not (the apostrophe substitutes the NO of “Not”)
• I’ve never noticed it.I’ve = I + have (the apostrophe substitutes the HA of “have”)

Try yourself :

There’s never enough money.

• There’s = _________ + ________ (the apostrophe substitutes the ____ of .____)

To indicate possession with the use of the apostrophe in the following sentences, apply the following:

Now try the following:

1. the jackets of the boys
2. the ears of the mongrel
3. the smell of the herbs
4. the recipe of Gram
5. the destination of the families
6. the swift motion of her apron
7. the stings of the bees
8. the peels of the potatoes
9. the presence of Shamila
10. the secret of the naartjie

Assessment

Memorandum

ACTIVITY 1

Perhaps do the same exercise with other pages in the dictionary. Again, the aim is to make learners familiar and comfortable with using a dictionary or any other reference book. Introduce them to as many as possible.

1. (a) Culinary (b) Culture (c) Cupful

(d) Currency (e) Curve (f) Curry

2. (a) Spice (b) Spike (c) Spine

(d) Spiral (e) Spit

3. (a) parallel (b) paralyse (c) paraphrase

(d) paratroops

4. (a) buttermilk (b) cardomon seeds (c) chillies

(d) cinnamon (e) coriander (f) dennepitjies

(g) gharum masala (h) paprika (i) turmeric

My own dictionary

Suggested assessment

Spelling 5 (5 words)

Alphabetical order 5 1 for each word in the correct place

Meanings 5 These must be completely correct as they may be copied from the dictionary

Presentation 3 3/2/1

Guide words 2 The first and last word in their list will be the guide words

ACTIVITY 2

Again, allow the learners to do some reading silently or aloud – such a good skill to learn!

The Competition

1. Mila shared her curry secret with Frieda.

2. She would be on a ship. “Cruise” shows this.

3. They celebrated 100 years of business.

4. Frieda had torn the competition from Mr Smith’s magazine. He must have found out that she had done it.

She trusted him to keep their secret and they knew he would be able to help them with the formalities.

5. They were very excited at first. They lost hope of winning. Mila became depressed.

6. She thought Mila was born evil and naughty.

7. (a) True: “parents enjoyed their eternal rest.”

(b) False: “the family mutt”; “the spotty mongrel’

(c) False: “Southern Hemisphere”

(d) False: “Gram never used notes or measures”

(e) True: ’”Mila would assist . . . inherited pearls of herb-wisdom”

(f) False: ”cast the warning eye/”

(g) True: ”Scorching tongue . . . inherent evil”

8. Who? Mila, Frieda, Sara and Gram

Where? Cape Coast

ACTIVITY 3

Learners do need to know how to read a recipe. This is cooking literacy!

ACTIVITY 4

Go over the notes with the class and make sure they all understand the rule.

Possession Exercise

1. boys’ jackets
2. mongrel’s ears
3. herbs’ smell
4. Gram’s recipe
5. families’ destination
6. apron’s swift motion
7. bees’ sting
8. potatoes’ colours
9. Shamila’s presence
10. naartjie’s secret