English (Reading) – Friday 5th February
Your text this week is an extract from the brilliant Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian.
Read it carefully and then answer the questions below. Good luck!
Questions
- Why doesn’t the author use Standard English for Tom’s speech?
- How do you think the Billeting Officer feels when she is talking to Tom? Explain your answer.
- Write down a word that the author could have used instead of “bewildered” in line 16.
- What effect does the line “One tiny dark-haired girl in the front was hanging firmly on to a new teddy-bear (lines 16 and 17)?
- Does Tom have to take in an evacuee? Explain your answer.
- Give one reason why the author might have chosen to include a lot of direct speech in this text.
- Do you think that Tom and the boy will get on? Explain your answer.
Why doesn’t the author use Standard English for Tom’s speech? I think it’s an different accent
How do you think the Billeting Officer feels when she is talking to Tom? Explain your answer. Maybe a bit annoyed because he sounds angry
Write down a word that the author could have used instead of “bewildered” in line 16. Confused or anxious
What effect does the line “One tiny dark-haired girl in the front was hanging firmly on to a new teddy-bear (lines 16 and 17)? Because the teddy is new and she doesn’t want to lose it and she might be scared
Does Tom have to take in an evacuee? Explain your answer. Yes to look after a child and keep them safe
Give one reason why the author might have chosen to include a lot of direct speech in this text. Because people are talking to each other
Do you think that Tom and the boy will get on? Explain your answer. Maybe after a long time of knowing each other
1. Because he speaks normal English.
2. arkward
3. confused
4. hugging a teddy bear
5. yes because of war
6. to make it so people read it and to make it intresting
7. yes because there both nice
English reading
1. I don’t know what Standard English means.
2. She feels offended because the man is rude.
3. They could of used upset (I don’t know what bewildered means).
4. Her Teddy might be her last thing from her parents.
5. Yes because it is obligatory and it is for the war effort.
6. I don’t know.
7. No because the man already does not like the boy.
1) Because he was a child and because this was back in the 1940’s.
2) ‘Skipped’ like because the boy was saying thing like ‘don’t need to tell me that’ or ‘ I know’.
3) Confused, perplexed.
4) She was scared.
5) No, if he doesn’t want to he won’t he doesn’t have to.
6) He probably used it a lot to make us feel more like we’re there.
7) I think so because they’ll have a lot of time together until the end of the war.
I have seen the film of GOOD NIGHT MISTER TOM
And it was good
1. Because some people weren’t that grate at using English then.
2. A bit weird because Tom hasn’t had a kid to look after before.
3. A bit sad because they lived a good life in London with their family and now they are sad because they might stay with somebody else and not their family, because their family might have been bombed and they don’t know who they are with and who they are.
4. That she was a little girl and she was scared.
5. Yes because the vacation children’s offer would go to his house if he had to take one but if he dose not go to his house he will not take one of them in.
6. To show that someone is having a conversation.
7. I think they would get along because MR Oakely is a good man and seems nice.
1. so it would be more intersting or grumpy (I think)
2. sad so they will get a home
3.confused
4.That she was special to tom
5.no he should adopt one child
6.That’s because to make the person who is reading this read more or to make it more interesting
7.no sadly he is very grumpy and unhappy in my opinion
1. Why doesn’t the author use Standard English for Tom’s speech?
Because the Author wants the reader to become more interested.
2. How do you think the Billeting Officer feels when she is talking to Tom? Explain
your answer.
Worried because in those times it was harsh to say these things.
3. Write down a word that the author could have used instead of “bewildered” in line 16.
Confused
4. What effect does the line “One tiny dark-haired girl in the front was hanging firmly on to a new teddy-bear (lines 16 and 17)?
Says that the children were very playful compared to the army in the war.
5. Does Tom have to take in an evacuee? Explain your answer.
No because the problem is not serious.
6. Give one reason why the author might have chosen to include a lot of direct speech in this text.
Because this can be like a little bit like a script because we have to focus on the characters
7. Do you think that Tom and the boy will get on? Explain your answer.
No, because the place is not been set properly to be safe through the path.
reading
1. Could be that it was an accent or some type of old English.
2. Scared as the woman has a wristband for some type of importance.
3. Surprised
4. sad
5. He has to as the word obligatory mean you have to to something
6. To make it sound like your there.
7. No? As he didn’t look happy when the lady came with the little boy.