Good morning, Year 5,
Today’s English focus is: Grammar
Here is your Grammar activity for today (click on the image to enlarge):
Fronted adverbials
Adverbials are words or phrases that give more information to the sentence.
“I discovered fronted adverbials, earlier today.”
‘Earlier today’ is the adverbial.
“Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials.”
A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. So here, ‘earlier today’ is a fronted adverbial.
Please take a look at these:
BBC Bitesize: What is a fronted adverbial?
BBC Bitesize: What is an expanded noun phrase?
BBC Bitesize: How to use brackets
You can answer the task in your Home Learning books and then try out the challenge by answering in the blog comments.
Challenge:
Can you write a paragraph or a short story which includes all of the above? If this is too tricky, you can list some super sentences with fronted adverbials!
We look forward to reading your responses,
Mrs Avdiu & Ms Robertson
You can find a printable version of this blog here: Grammar Blog Tuesday Week 4
Hello Everyone!!
I hope you have all had an amazing day so far ??
For today’s English task I have written the sentences below and then I have written a paragraph with some of the above.
I hope you enjoy ? ?
1) If I work hard, I will be able to get good test scores✅ .
2)Throughout the film, my sister was talking on her phone ?.
3)I kicked my favourite green football ⚽️ (over the fence).
4)I was walking ?♀️ down the street
We were collecting shells ? on the beach ?.
They were eating popcorn ?.
5) The name of the punctuation mark in this sentence is called a full stop.
Challenge
‘’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
While Emily and Michelle were in dance class, they decided to eat some of there left over food from school ?. After the class, Thalia (Emily and Michelle’s friend) decided that they would go to the beach (since it was a lovely day outside).Emily’s sister (Riley) wanted to keep practicing for the dance competition that was coming up but Thalia told her to let loose and have fun ??.
I hope you all have an amazing day ???????????
~Elena ???
Fantastic paragraph – well done! Please check spelling for ‘there food’!
Hello everyone, I hope that you are well! I have written down the grammar challenge in my yellow workbook
Here is my paragraph ( including all of the above) :
Light streamed in as the beautiful mahogany clock chimed one, I was almost ready. Tears filled my eyes as I assembled the last few bits and pieces. It was time. I had to leave.It wasn’t my choice.
Although I dreaded to leave school and friends I knew that I could not persuade my parents to stay. It was for work they said we have to go, only for a while, they said. I did not believe them.
A part of me, a small, adventurous part of me, was exited to go to a foreign land, England ( at least I think that is what it is called).
Late in the afternoon, we emerged from the plane and I saw for the first time what ‘England’ was like and I cannot lie, it did not look attractive.
Wow, Lavinia! I absolutely love the phrase ‘mahogany clock chimed one’. Wonderful range of vocabulary, well done. I am so impressed with your use of commas and clauses too. What a delight to read this!
Hello everyone, I hope you are all well. These are my answers and paragraph:
1) If I work hard, I will be given chocolate as a reward.
2) Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
3) My favourite green ball is underlined.
4) I was walking down the street.
5) The punctuation is called brackets( )
Yesterday after lunch, my dad and I went to the park to play tennis. The bright yellow sun shone down on us, making me hot. I also became hotter when I was running. My dad threw the ball towards me and I hit it back with my racket (I sometimes missed). We had an enjoyable afternoon and hope to play again today.
Super sentences! I am really impressed with your use of brackets too.
Good morning Yr 5!
I’m looking forward to reading all of your super sentences today – keep up the great work! ?
If I work hard, I will learn lots.
Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
I kicked my FAVORITE GREEN FOOTBALL over the fence.
I was walking down the street.
We were collecting shells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
The name of the punctuation used is brackets.
CHALLENGE:
The tiny rabbit leaped over the fence, into the darkness.
As the giant boat sunk into the murky lake, a dark figure emerged from the depths of the water.
Nobody saw the sneaky man disappear into the alleyway.
Super work, Gabi! Thank you 🙂 I love the second sentence!
Hello everyone! I hope that you have had a great day so far! I really enjoyed the english task today and I learned a lot.
~ If I work hard, I can help the world become a better place.
~ Throughout the film, my sister talked on the phone.
~ The expanded noun phrase is favourite green.
~ The correct verbs for these sentences were:
– Was
– Were
– Were
Punctuation in the sentence: the brackets (and a full stop ?)
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CHALLENGE ???
Sophie looked out of her badly painted window. The black sky was as someone had put a dark blanket over the whole city. Even though it was bitter cold, Sophie decided to go outside for a walk. She put on her orange glasses (the ones her mum wore 20 years ago) and slowly tiptoed down the spiral stairs. As Sophie was putting her very bright green coat on, she heard a whispering downstairs in the kitchen. ‘It’s just granny, it’s fine…’ she told herself, but before she could continue she was rudely interrupted by some laughing. Her heart was thumping madly inside her chest… At that very moment you could have noticed that it looked as though it was going to pop-out…
‘Granny?’ she asked, her whole body shacking.
There was no respond…
‘Granny?’ she repeated, ‘Are you there?’
A funny respond followed.
‘No, I am not.’
‘What!?! You just, but…’
‘GO AWAY NOW BEFORE I…‘
Sophie gasped. ‘What will you do?’
Sophie stepped inside the kitchen, it was not her granny’s eyes that she met, but Benjamin’s.
‘YOU!’ she screamed, ‘YOU! WHY ARE YOU HERE!? ARE YOU GOING TO MURDER ME LIKE YOU DID TO MY MUM AND MY GRANDAD? ARE YOU? YOU BRAT! HOW DID YOU EVEN GET IN HERE?! HUH? HOW?!!?’
Sophie was not afraid now, she was more furious.
Benjamin just laughed and stepped closer to her.
To Sophie’s horror, she saw her granny behind him. ‘NOOO! NOT HER! PLEASE! NOT HER!’ she screamed.
Benjamin repeated his stupid laugh. ‘Sophie, don’t you worry about her.’ he said.
‘Yeah don’t….’ Her granny’s eyes were turning blood red.
‘What!?!? WHY? YOU ARE GOING TO DIE NOW AND…’ again, she was interrupted..
‘No Sophie, I won’t die you see – because I am a Hingo..’
‘A HINGO! SO YOU MURDER PEOPLE! WHAT?! SO IT WAS YOU WHO MURDERED GRANDAD AND MY MUM!?! WHAT KIND OF PERSON DOES THAT? AND WHY?’
‘Sophie, I had to, anyways I have a better life with Benjamin, we go around streets and have a bit of fun with people..’
‘What do you mean? How is killing people fun? Like how… NOOOOOOOOOO!!!’
And again she was interrupted but this time, she could not talk or fight back..
She just lay there, on her back, in her dirty pyjamas….
‘Nice work…’ said Benjamin to Sophie’s granny.
With that they both left the house chuckling to each other…
~ Nika ???
P.S. Please, tell me if you enjoyed reading this, also tell me if you found it scary…
Wow! I am so impressed with your short story. I really like the way you used speech to create suspense. I have to say I did find it scary, especially with words like ‘gasped’ and ‘screamed’ – you are really getting better and better at writing to have an effect on the reader 🙂
Hi everyone,
I hope you are having a nice day! ?
This is the work that I have done on grammar ?
– Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
– I kicked my favourite green football over the fence. The E x p a n d e d noun phrase in the sentence is: Favourite green football.
– I was walking down the street.
– We were collecting shells on the beach.
– They were eating popcorn.
– The punctuation mark in the sentence is the brackets.
Challenge
John ( who has that huge hairy face ) went up to the steep cliff and began to climb it. The jagged rocks made cuts in his callused hands. John could see the top of the cliff approaching and carried on. Finally, he pulled up with all of his strength and lay down on the soft grass.
Have a great day! ??
Super work, Seb! Thank you
Hi everyone I hope you’re all doing well.
If I work hard, I can go home early this Christmas.
Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
I kicked my favourite green football over the fence. The expanded noun phrase is ‘favourite green football.’
I was walking down the street.
We were collecting shells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
The dragon (who lived on the mountain) scared the whole village. The punctuation mark in this sentence are brackets.
Nothing is more scary than the colossal dragon, (who lived in the mountain cave) it was destroying everything in its way! Flying towards the local village at great speeds, the village people were now in sight. What will happen to the village? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
~Iggy
Excellent! Do you remember how much Mrs Robinson loved using the word ‘colossal’ in English? ha ha…
Hello everyone,
These are my answers:
1* If I work hard, I can do a play date with my best friend!!
2*Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
3* I kicked my favorite green ball over the fence. The expanding noun phrase is: favorite green football.
4* I was/ were walking down the street. It’s the verb: was.
We was/were collecting shells on the beach. It’s the verb: were.
They was/were eating popcorn. It’s the verb: were.
5* The dragon [who lived on the mountain] scared whole the village.
CHALLENGE: ? ?
This is my paragraph:
Before lunch, I played with my delightful friends a fantastic game. We were told to go downstairs agreeably without doing noise, but sadly some of the children spoked and got told off by the irritated teacher. As the angry teacher told off the others, we all tried to do our best to not to start a conversation. In the vast canteen, some people ran, giggled and yelled {you could not hear what your friend said}. The food that you were served was delicious!! Annoyed and exhausted, the instructor started to yell. All of the children stopped proximately their discussion. The professor trowed all of the finished plates and ran off. Fortunately, the educator never came back!!! ? ?
I hope you liked my paragraph!! ? ? ? ?
PS: Miss, I did it all on my own!!!!
Wow! Well done for attempting this independently. ‘I played with my delightful friends a fantastic game’ should be ‘I played a fantastic game with my delightful friends’.
‘Making’ noise rather than ‘doing’ noise. Also, could you check the word ‘spoked’ please? Thank you
Hello Everyone,
1. If I work hard, I’ll be rewarded.
2. Throughout the film, my sister spoke on the phone.
3. I kicked my favourite green football over the fence.
4. I was walking down the street.
We were collecting shells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
5. The punctuation is brackets.
I hope you enjoy reading my paragraph.
Yesterday, for my daily exercise I went to the leafy green park. At the park we were looking for trees to climb. My brother (who was looking after me) played football with me and I obviously beat him 3-0. We then went home to finish our work so we could watch a film. In the end (after arguing with each other who is going to pick the movie) I then picked Aqua Man.
Thank you Dylan. Can you revisit the phrase ‘leafy green park’ and consider where a comma might go?
Hello everyone. Here are the sentences and the challenge.
1) If I work hard, I would be able to get good grades.
2) Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
3) I kicked out *my favourite green* football over the fence.
4) I WAS walking down the street.
We WERE collecting shells on the beach.
They WERE eating popcorn.
5)The punctuation is brackets.
Challenge:
At dusk, the sky was a beautiful light pink colour. I loved it! Then my dad and I started chasing each other around in my wonderful garden. My mum (who was working from home) was going to join after. When we were tired, all of us took a nice long nap and then we had a delicious snack (but after we couldn’t sleep at night).
I hope you enjoyed reading my sentences and my challenge. Stay safe.
You have described what sounds like a lovely day! I always enjoy reading your work, thank you Renee!
Dear Miss Avdiu, I hope you had a good morning. Here is my challenge:
On a crisp autumn evening, Amilia (an ordinary girl) was having a beautiful, agreable walk in a park with her two brothers, Fred and Frank, and her best friend Catherine. Whilst her brothers moaned, Amilia showed Catherine her herbarium she had created with diverse, colourful leaves. Suddenly, Frank told the girls to stop. He had a weird sensation they were being watched. Catherine (who alarmed herself for nothing) started to panick and to twiddle her thumbs. Out of nowhere, a man ran to Amilia and knocked her to the ground. He took Catherine and fled to the nearest exit. As quick as a flash, Amilia got to her feet, dashed after him and sprinted like never before. The man flung Catherine in a car (whose seats were all dirty) and went to the driver’s place. Luckily, Amilia had time to jump on the spare wheel before they were racing at full speed through the streets of London…
I am so impressed with the vocabulary here. I especially liked the phrase ‘diverse, colourful leaves’. I could picture the leaves in my head.
Well done!
Hello everyone,
Here are my answers for today alongside a paragraph using al of the grammar Mrs Avdiu asked us to use! ?
1) If I work hard, I will be allowed to have a doughnut.
2) Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
3) I kicked my favourite green ball.
4) I was walking down the street.
We were collecting seashells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
5) Brackets
CHALLENGE:
My uncle (my dad’s brother) lives on a prepossessing archipelago. Earlier today, I spoke to him and he told me that the sun rises in a flawless and exquisite manner. On the beaches surroundings, there are many natives , who work very hard. After a long days work, they lie down on the tiny grains of sand which are a light hue of gold.
Thank you Regan. Very good range of vocabulary – well done!
Hi everyone! Here are my sentences:
* If I work hard, I will be allowed to play my games!
* Throughout the film, my sister was talking on her phone.#
* My favourite green ball
* I was walking down the street.
We were collecting shells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
* The punctuation in this sentence is a full stop.
I hope you all have a brilliant day! bye!!!
Kayla 😀
Thank you Kayla! Will you have a go at the challenge?
Here are my answers for today’s English task.
1. If I work hard, I will get into the secondary school I want.
2. Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
3. The expanded noun phrase is favourite green football.
4. I was walking down the street.
We were collecting shells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
5. The punctuation mark is brackets.
CHALLENGE:
Yesterday, we had a small meagre meal. My grandma ( my mum’s mum) was determined that we should eat it, even though I insisted it was not big enough. By the end of the argument, my grandma was in a frenzied and panicked mood because she had forgotten to cook my brother’s dinner. All the way through my dinner, I had to endure the shouts of my grandma blaming her forgetfulness on me. I could not comprehend why she thought it was my fault but I chose not to argue.
Great work, Theo! I love the word ‘frenzied’.
Hi everyone, hope you guys are doing well here is my work for today’s grammar.
1) If i work hard on my studies, then my mum will give me extra time on my computer.
2) Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
3) I kicked (my favorite green football) over the fence.
4) I (was)/were walking down the street.
We was/(were) collecting shells on the beach.
They was/(were) eating popcorn.
5) The dragon (who lived on the mountain) scared the whole village. The punctuation mark in the sentence is a comma.
Hopefully you have enjoyed reading my work?? also have a wonderful day!!???
I always enjoy reading your work, Angieli! Thank you. Please could you have a go at the challenge?
Hi everyone.⁂??
.If I work hard, I will be rewarded.
.Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
. I kicked my FAVOURITE, GREEN FOOTBALL over the fence.
.I was walking down the street.
.We were collecting shells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
Earlier that day, I had come across a bird, lying with her wounded wing, out of shape. She had flown away from the troup and was very tired [because she had flown from the Amazon.] The bird had fluffy, feathery wings and a flame-coloured which twinkled in the luminous water. For the previous day, she hadn’t eaten and had been watching the water curiously and patiently waiting, for a fish.
Hi Sara, I can tell you have been reading a lot because there is a wide range of vocabulary in this. Well done. I especially love the phrase ‘flame-coloured which twinkled in the luminous water’.
Hello everyone, I hope that you are all well. Here are my sentences for the grammar task:
* If I work hard, I will get a longer break.
* Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
* I kicked my (favourite, green football) over the fence.
* I was walking down the street. We were collecting shells on the beach. They were eating popcorn.
* It is a bracket.
Thanks Elsa, could you try the challenge?
Hello everyone this is what I did for the challenge.
Dear diary,
Yesterday, was like any other day. Firstly, I woke up early in the morning so I could get some breakfast and get changed. After all of that was done, it was time to do coach Joe’s workout (which I really enjoyed , even though it left me exhausted and breathless). My brother and I do this every weekday. Before getting on with school work, I had a drink and prepared my desk ready to do some challenging maths and creative English. As soon as I finished the daily tasks, it was lunchtime. After my break, I read my new book. In the afternoon I got a bit bored and restless so I caught up with some of my friends. Since it was really windy yesterday, I didn’t do my daily walk. However, I went to the allotment instead. Bye for now.
Have the loveliest of lovely days ever!
Maia?
Thank you – this looks great and I am impressed with the varied punctuation.
Hello everyone,
I hope you are all having a brilliant day so far! Here is my English. I hope you enjoy it.?
1) If I work hard,I might be able to finish my history essay before my gymnastic class.
2) Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
3) I kicked my favourite green ball over the fence.
4) I was walking down the street.
We were collecting seashells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
5) brackets
CHALLENGE: Carefully, Jane and her younger sister Elizabeth crept into their father’s study and took a small wooden box with his initials carved into the sides. As they peered in, they saw their father’s favourite blue ink pen that their Grandpa (who passed not long ago) gave to him.
They grabbed the pen when all of a sudden, the girls heard their father’s heavy footsteps coming up the beautiful wooden staircase.
Well done, Erin! I really love your paragraph to a short story. The detail in each sentence makes me want to read on further. I love the varied sentence openers such as ‘As they peered in’. keep up the good work!
Hello everyone!
1) If I work hard, I will be rewarded.
2) Throughout the film, my sister talked on the phone.
3) Favourite green football is the expanded noun phrase.
4) I was walking down the street.
We were collecting shells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
5) The punctuation mark is brackets.
I hope you all have a nice day!
Fab! Please could you attempt the challenge?
Hello everyone hope you are all well this is my answer for todays blog:
If I work hard, maybe I get to go home early today because today wasn’t busy at all.
Throughout the film, my sister talked on her phone.
I kicked my FAVOURITE GREEN FOOTBALL over the fence.
[favourite green football is the expanded noun phrase].
I was walking down the street.
We were collecting shells on the beach.
They were eating popcorn.
A bracket [ that was used for the phrase who lived on the mountain]
Challenge:
Today is my cousins wedding we were going to go on first class seats but when we were supposed to get on the train, it got delayed. I was a bit upset because we were going to be a bit late [ I was actually happy we got to miss the start but I did want to go].
Thank you Claudia. I’m so pleased you’ve been able to post on the blogs today 🙂 Please check for an apostrophe and check the punctuation. Well done
Hello Mrs Avdiu, here is my paragraph.
It had been gloomy all day and Pippin was feeling miserable. So when he heard a sharp knock on the door, he got up without hesitation, and went to see who it was. To his surprise, not a man but a creature that looked like one, only shorter (who Pippin thought was a dwarf -he couldn’t be sure) was standing on his front porch holding a staff. He was wearing robes of the deepest emerald and around his neck was a wrought gold amulet encrusted with sapphires. Warmly, Pippin invited him inside and they sat down. “Would you like to have an adventure my boy?” asked the dwarf, “I can take you to great places, you know.” Almost immediately, Pippin replied yes and they agreed to set out for Eartherack that Monday. Without another word, the dwarf left and Pippin began to ponder the thought of adventure. He was going on an adventure, a real adventure.
P.S. For the grammar task today, is the answer for the last question: brackets or is it a full stop, because there are both.