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WorksheetsY6_Week1_Spring_2022
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is a thoughtshot?
(30 seconds)
A written prediction of what you think the author will write about.
A written description of a scene in a book.
A written description of what an author or character is thinking or feeling.
A description that is written in italics.
Do not concern yourself with moving mountains, for the mountains will move you.
What is this text effect called? (p.7)
(20 seconds)
Leaning
Arial
Italic
Sloping
Why do you think there are two paragraphs on page 1 that use this text effect? (p.1) Check the boxes for the correct reasons.
(2 answers - 30 seconds)
Yash's own thoughts
Yash's shouted instructions
Yash remembering the Guru's words
Yash remembering instructions he'd read
On page 4, there are three very short paragraphs that are only one line long each. Why are these paragraphs so short, and why did the author choose not to attach them all together?
(30 seconds)
For 'dramatic effect'
To build tension
To simplify the story
New speaker, new line (direct speech)
Check the boxes when you find two possible names for the main character?
(20 seconds)
Protaganist
Yashwin
Yashashwin
Yash
Computing: Which of these statements is incorrect?
(30 seconds)
2D Shapes have only 2 dimensions: height and width.
3D Modelling allows us to experiment with different designs.
2D Modelling allows you to see the back and sides.
3D Shapes have faces, edges and vertices.
Literacy: Identify all the features of a biography.
(2 correct answers - 30 seconds)
Stage Directions
Slogan
Headline
Verses
Emotive
Anecdotes
Beliefs / Values
Achievements
Imperative verbs
Instructions
List of Equipment
Rhyming couplets
Third person
Past tense
Chronological
Facts
Literacy: Identify the definition of an autobiography
(30 seconds)
An account of someone's life written by someone else.
An account of a person's life written by that person.
An account of the series of events making up a person's life.
A fictionalised account based on a series of events in a true-story
Literacy: Which of these conjunctions is NOT a relative conjunction
(and cannot be used in relative clause)
(20 seconds)
who
which
that
what
Which of the following is NOT an example of figurative language
(20 seconds)
metaphor
simile
idiom
pronoun
RE: Tick the box of the correct statement about Time.
(20 seconds)
Things happen and exist within time.
Time in ongoing - it doesn't stop and is always moving forward.
Time is indefinite in length - we don't know if it has an 'end'.
All the previous statetsments are correct.
How was Mount Everest formed?
(30 Seconds)
An ancient volcano, pushing up lava, which became rocks.
The impact of an ancient meteorite pushed up the rocks.
Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided, pushing up the rocks.
Indian and Tibetan tectonic plates collided, pushing up the rocks.
Check the 2 boxes of the 2 countries that lie either side of the summit of Mount Everest.
(20 seconds)
Bhutan
India
Sherpa
Tibet / China
Nepal
Where does the English name Mount Everest originate from?
(30 seconds)
The mountain was named ‘ever-rest’ – as many people have died there and cannot return.
The mountain was named after George Everest, a former Surveyor-General of India.
The mountain was named on the eve of a Buddhist god’s rest day.
The mountain was named after Mr Edward Verest, a former Surveyor-General of India.
Check the box of the two people to first reach the summit of Mount Everest and return?
(30 seconds)
George Everest
Edmund Hillary
Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
George Mallory
Tenzing Norgay
Explain who are the Sherpas.
(30 seconds)
An honorary title given to elite/expert mountaineers.
An ethnic group who live in the high mountain region of the eastern Himalaya.
An honorary title, given to the people who have climbed a summit in the Himalayas.
A group of shepherds who live in Nepal only.
Check the box for the role(s) of the Sherpas on a mountaineering expedition?
(20 seconds)
Mountaineers
Guides
Porters
All 3 roles
What is a yak is used for on a climbing expedition?
(30 seconds)
A special type of ice axe used to prevent slipping.
A rope, made of natural Himalayan fibres, used for climbing.
A special type of lightweight ladder used to cross crevasses.
An animal used for carrying equipment.
Guided Reading: Which of these mnemonics did we use last week?
(20 seconds)
PEAL:
Point
Evidence
Analysis
Link
PERL:
Point
Evidence
Review
Link
PEEL:
Point
Evidence
Explanation
Link
PEEL:
Point
Evidence
Explication
Loop
How do the Sherpa people make a fire when there is no wood to burn?
(20 seconds)
Liquid gas, from a crevasse.
Liquid petroleum, from a rock fissure.
Dung, from a Yak.
