James - ESL - Quiz 2 (features of non-chron reports)

What do we call words which tell us how many of something or how often something happens?

• generalisers

• facts

• prepositions

• technical vocabulary

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

Order the generalisers from least to most.

• some

• all

• most

• many

• very few

Match the following

• diary or journal

• A text which tells people about an important, recent event

• newspaper report

• A text which explains how you can do or make something

• instructions or recipe

• A (usually private) record about someone's thoughts, feelings and experiences

• explanation

• A factual text that is not written in time order

• non-chronological report

• A factual text which explains how something happens

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Which of these are structural features of non-chronological reports?

• headings and subheadings

• numbered points

• paragraphs

• diagrams

Which of these are important language features of non-chronological reports?

• second person pronouns

• generalisers

• opinion adjectives

• proper nouns

True or false?

We can start sentences with coordinating conjunctions.

• False!

• True!

Answer explanation

Coordinating conjunctions should come between the main clauses whereas subordinating conjunctions can come at the beginning of the sentence or in between the two clauses.

Which of these can be subordinating conjunctions?

• after

• because

• which

• and

• but

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which conjunction could fill the blank?

_____ there is a full moon, the teacher turns into a werewolf!

• For

• But

• Yet

• When

Answer explanation

'When' is the only conjunction here that can come at the front because it is a subordinating conjunction.

Which conjunction could fill the blank?

I meditate _____ it relaxes me.

• which

• for

• so

• when

Answer explanation

'For' is a coordinating conjunction with a similar meaning to 'because' but which always comes between two main clauses.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which conjunction could fill the blank?

I rubbed the lamp _____ a genie did not appear.

• as

• so

• yet

• for

Answer explanation

'Yet' has a similar meaning to 'but' when it is used as a conjunction.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A