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SIMPLESTARTERS
(inc prep for KS3 tests)

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7 principles

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?Kick-start learning
? Dont aim for false links with main lesson
content
? No Blue Peter badges
? Do aim for coherence across starters
? Emphasise collaboration problem-solving
? Are great for grammar
? Avoid the temptation to extend the activity
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Homophones Sound of Music Kylie Beethoven their
there theyre too two to pray prey

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Hard
Homophones Freeze Stand advice advise pract
ice practise effect affect Its its

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Activity Ill say some sentences containing
homophones. You tell me whether its list A or
list B. Make up sentences eg The pilot of the
aircraft was really rather plain) A stand
up B under table plain Plane weak
Week steal Steel main Mane rows
Rows fare Fair break Brake sew So due
Jew whether whether

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Mnemonics Necessary Separate Disappearance Fulfil

Never eat chips - eat sausage sandwiches and
raspberry yoghurt

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Call My Bluff OXYMORON LITOTES

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WORD CLASSES BY COLOUR
VERB
ADVERB
NOUN
ADJECTIVE
PREPOSITION
The cat slept heavily on the old carpet
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Connectives The house was looking dark . (walk
in lights not working hear a sound upstairs
go to explore hear a window smash ...)
? And ? But ? Or

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Word patterns Auto - Gh - Who can think of
most words starting with these letter patterns ?

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Synonyms Who can think of most words meaning
scary, big, small, nice

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• Semantic continuum
• Think of synonyms for house / toilet / friend
• Place them in order of formal to informal

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It was really cold. The weather was awful. I was
walking along the edge of the cliff and I was
really scared.

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• Jake began to dial the number slowly as he had
  done every evening at six oclock ever since his
  father had passed away. For the next fifteen
  minutes he settled back to listen to what his
  mother had done that day.
• Fiction or non-fiction?
• What text-type is it (eg thriller, romance /
  autobiography, leaflet)
• How can you tell?

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Seville is voluptuous and evocative. It has to be
seen, tasted and touched. The old quarter is
Seville as it was and is. Walk in its narrow
cobbled streets, with cascades of geraniums
tumbling from balconies and the past shouts so
loudly that one can almost glimpse dark-cloaked
figures disappearing silently through carved
portals. Fiction or non-fiction?
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• Proud mum in a million Natalie Brown hugged her
  beautiful baby daughter Casey yesterday and said
  Shes my double miracle.
• Fiction or non-fiction?
• What text-type is it (eg thriller, romance /
  autobiography, leaflet)
• How can you tell?

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SIMPLESTARTERS

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