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DILKUSHA GIRLS SCHOOL

YEAR 5 ENGLISH WORKSHEET [MAY- JUNE]

NAME: _____________________________________ YEAR 5___

DAY ONE

A. COMPREHENSION

I. Words And Meanings

Use your dictionary to find out the meaning of these words.

a) outbreak

b) deadly

c) declare

d) lockdown

e) illegal

f) suspend

g) mutated

h) contagious

i) symptoms

j) virologist

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DAY TWO

B. GRAMMAR IN USE

I. Nouns

A noun can either be common or proper.

a) Write seven (7) common and proper nouns from the story “Coronavirus”

Common Nouns Proper Nouns

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

6. 6.

7. 7.

b) Write the proper nouns in these sentences correctly.

i. Countries affected include china, america, uk and italy.

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ii. The world health organization has declared that this is a global health

emergency.

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iii. Dr linfa wang is a virologist at the duke-national university of Singapore.

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DAY THREE

C. SPELLING AND WORD SKILLS

I.

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DAY ONE

General Features of Information Report

WEEK TWO

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Topic: Coronavirus

Three Things I Learnt About Coronavirus

1. ______________________________________________________________________

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2. ______________________________________________________________________

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3. ______________________________________________________________________

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Two Interesting Facts About Coronavirus

1. ______________________________________________________________________

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2. ______________________________________________________________________

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Three Ways to Prevent Coronavirus From Spreading

1. ______________________________________________________________________

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2. ______________________________________________________________________

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3. ______________________________________________________________________

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DAY TWO

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DAY THREE

Design a poster on ‘Coronavirus’ in which you will put up in your classroom.

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DAY ONE & DAY TWO

POETRY

WEEK THREE

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STRUCTURE

Poetry usually written in verses and stanzas and has patterns and rhythm.

Poets always uses figures of speech to shape their poems.

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GRAMMAR FEATURES

Attributes – word or phrase which tells about a noun or pronoun. It can be adjective or

adjectival phrase. For example, This is the fat cat that ate rat with the injured leg.

Participant – another name for noun or a noun group. For example, Jone saw a

school of fish in the water.

Process – It is another verb.

Adjective – possessive. A word which shows or possession or ownership is called

possessive adjective.

FIGURES OF SPEECH

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DAY THREE

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

Success

By Marcquiese Burrel

When I think of success

My heart is possessed

When I dream of success

I become obsessed

When I have touched success

I’ve made progress

To what I longed to find

Keeping the goal in mind

A moment like this

Is worth holding onto

I have made it happen

Share my joy with the world

In hopes to inspire

Another with my story

I own it yes I know it

I made the impossible possible

Won’t stop here with success

I’ll keep moving up the ladder

See myself rise higher and higher

I found success in life

I hope for success

And gained it through

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My determination to make it happen

Answer the following questions.

1. What happen to the person’s heart when he thinks of success?

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2. State words that rhyme with the word ‘success’.

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b) ________________________________________

3. Who is the poet?

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4. Why did the poet say that he won’t stop with success?

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5. How did the poet gain his success?

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6. How many stanzas are there in this poem?

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Use the words in the box to fill in the spaces provided.

1. Jope became successful through _______________________________________.

2. The class has shown ______________________________ in their reading.

3. The girls are ___________________________ with their work.

4. His ________________________________ was achieved through his hard work and

determination.

5. When striving for success we must face all the challenging ______________________.

success moments obsessed progress determination

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DAY ONE

GRAMMAR IN USE

Adjectives and Adverbs

Complete the table below by filling in the missing words. Remember many adverbs end in ‘-ly’.

Noun Adjective Adverb

care careful carefully

hope

success

sense

victory

anger

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joy

DAY TWO

PREFIX AND SUFFIX

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DAY THREE

LETTER WRITING

Your name is Makereta if you are a girl or Arvin if you are a boy. Complete this letter to your

friend Hannah or Johnny who lives in Australia by putting in the appropriate words. Choose

from the list below.

give Johnny team which

a an our Arvin

Hannah from Makereta in

Tongatapu Primary School

Tongatapu

Tonga

28th May 2020

Dear ________________________

Hello again. I hope you _____________ well. Thank you for your last letter _______________

I received a week ago.

I am enjoying school ___________ lot. We are having __________ annual athletic sports soon.

I’ll be taking part ______________ the boys/girls’ 50 meters sprint and I’m in my class relay

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We had a visit last month ___________________ a policeman. He talked to us about

______________ safety and about studying hard at school.

Please write again soon and __________________ my regards to your family.

I look forward to hearing from you again.

Your friend

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