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Your guide: Miss RabiaReads every story twice: once for fun, once for the paper.
You meet a word you have never seen. Before you reach for a dictionary, what in the sentence around it could tell you its meaning?
Strategies: word parts (prefix, suffix, root), a dictionary or thesaurus, multiple meanings, and context clues from the words around it.
The book's examples: famished means very hungry (clues: devoured, entire bowl, in seconds). Console means comfort (clues: after the bad news, offering tissues and kind words).
Ambiguous means unclear or confusing: the clue is “Even though… tried to follow”.
An idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from the literal meanings of its words. A proverb is a short, common saying that expresses a truth, advice or wisdom from experience.
Break the ice: to start a conversation in a relaxed way.
Don't judge a book by its cover: don't make assumptions based on appearance.
The ball is in your court: it's your decision or responsibility now.
Actions speak louder than words: what you do is more important than what you say.
Bite off more than you can chew: take on too much responsibility.
In Exercise B (Hina's story), “kept her cool” is an idiom and “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” is a proverb.
Four steps: read the text, identify the key ideas, form your opinion, and support it with three to five reasons.
Activity A asks for a 2–3 minute talk on “Social Justice”; Activity B, a group speech on “The Qualities of a Great Leader”.
Editing improves content, structure and clarity. Proofreading is the final step: correcting spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar.
A hyphen is a small dash that connects words or parts of words: check-in, mother-in-law, a well-known author, a full-time job.
Words with -ough are spelled alike but sound different: though (“oh”), tough (“uff”), through (“oo”), thought (“awt”).
Plan step by step before the final draft: brainstorming, mind-mapping, structuring, free writing and note-taking.
The book's model, “My Favourite Hobby” (drawing), moves from ideas, to a mind map, to topic sentence, supporting details and closing sentence.
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You meet a word you have never seen. Before you reach for a dictionary, what in the sentence around it could tell you its meaning?
Strategies: word parts (prefix, suffix, root), a dictionary or thesaurus, multiple meanings, and context clues from the words around it.
The book's examples: famished means very hungry (clues: devoured, entire bowl, in seconds). Console means comfort (clues: after the bad news, offering tissues and kind words).
Ambiguous means unclear or confusing: the clue is “Even though… tried to follow”.
An idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from the literal meanings of its words. A proverb is a short, common saying that expresses a truth, advice or wisdom from experience.
Break the ice: to start a conversation in a relaxed way.
Don't judge a book by its cover: don't make assumptions based on appearance.
The ball is in your court: it's your decision or responsibility now.
Actions speak louder than words: what you do is more important than what you say.
Bite off more than you can chew: take on too much responsibility.
In Exercise B (Hina's story), “kept her cool” is an idiom and “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” is a proverb.
Four steps: read the text, identify the key ideas, form your opinion, and support it with three to five reasons.
Activity A asks for a 2–3 minute talk on “Social Justice”; Activity B, a group speech on “The Qualities of a Great Leader”.
Editing improves content, structure and clarity. Proofreading is the final step: correcting spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar.
A hyphen is a small dash that connects words or parts of words: check-in, mother-in-law, a well-known author, a full-time job.
Words with -ough are spelled alike but sound different: though (“oh”), tough (“uff”), through (“oo”), thought (“awt”).
Plan step by step before the final draft: brainstorming, mind-mapping, structuring, free writing and note-taking.
The book's model, “My Favourite Hobby” (drawing), moves from ideas, to a mind map, to topic sentence, supporting details and closing sentence.
Edit first for meaning and order; proofread last for small errors. Doing it the other way wastes the proofreading.
Q1. Exercise A (p. 13): edit and proofread “yesterday me and my friend went to the park we seen a group of kids playing soccer…”
Yesterday, my friend and I went to the park. We saw a group of kids playing soccer and decided to join them. It was really fun, and everyone was nice. After that, we walked to the ice cream shop, but it was closed. We were disappointed, but we still had a great time.
Q2. Exercise B (p. 13): add hyphens where needed.
1. part-time job · 2. check-in desk · 3. well-deserved speech · 4. mother-in-law
✗ Fixing only spelling and calling the paragraph edited.
✓ Editing also fixes sentence structure, word choice and order; proofreading is the last step.
✗ Reading though and through with the same sound.
✓ Though sounds like “oh”; through sounds like “oo” (p. 13).
✗ Explaining “break the ice” as breaking real ice.
✓ The book gives its meaning: to start a conversation in a relaxed way.
1. “As the storm grew stronger, the waves began to pummel the shore with tremendous force.” Pummel most likely means
(c) The clues are “stronger” and “tremendous force” (Exercise A, p. 10).
2. Which is the final step of writing, according to p. 12?
(a) p. 12.
3. Which sentence uses the hyphen correctly?
(b) A compound adjective before a noun (p. 13).
4. In the process approach, “drawing your ideas in a visual way” is
(d) p. 14.
5. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” in Exercise B is
(c) A short common saying giving advice from experience (p. 11).
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