Literacy week 4

This weeks literacy is geography based, all about mountains and rivers

Task 1: Reading Comprehension

Questions:
1. In your own words, explain how a river is made.


2. a) Why can the Nile river be seen from space?


b) Why do you think so many people are living by this river?


3. How do you think the Amazon rainforest might depend on the Amazon river?


4. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the text.  Rivers are _______for life as we know it. They carry  ____________ and important ___________all around the world and are         
____________for millions of __________ of plants and animals.
5. Name three ways in which humans use rivers.

6. a) Find and copy a caption from the text.

  b) Why do you think captions are important in this text?


7. a) What is the meaning of the word ‘contaminate’?

  b) Why has the author put some words in bold?


Task 2:

1. What was the tragic event that prompted Dashrath Manjhi to spend so long carving a passageway through the mountain?

2. What did other people initially think of Manjhi’s project when he first started?


3. Look at the first two paragraphs. Find and copy a word which means ‘remote or far away from other places, buildings or people’.

4.
'The labourer said that he never wanted anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife.’
 What does this suggest about Manjhi’s character?


5. What is meant by a ‘state funeral’ and what does this suggest about the way the government felt about Dashrath Manjhi’s actions?


6.  How do you think local people felt when the road through the mountain was finally completed?




7. Look at the Location Fact File. Which direction is Nepal from India?

8. Look at the section The Mountains of India. What are the positive and negative aspects of the mountains attracting tourists to the region?


9. Complete the information about The Mountains of India. The first one has been done for you.

Highest peak of the Kanchenjunga in number of feet: 28,000
Total number of peaks on the Kanchenjunga mountain
Number of species of birds in the national park
Number of countries over which the Himalayas are spread

10. Explain why the mountains in the Great Himalayan Range are important to India as a country.

Task 3: Re-write the passage 
This year we have worked on editing throughout the year. With that in mind, your task is to re-write the passage below correcting any mistakes. Make sure to consider: capital letters, punctuation, correct tenses and spellings.

Task 4: Story

Your final task of the week is to continue the story passed on the passage you re-wrote out correctly yesterday. Make sure to try and write descriptively so it draws the reader in. Here is a video to remind you how this can be done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSoRzTtwgP4