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Hello everyone.I hope you’re all well and enjoying the sunshine. These tasks are designed to help you to develop the skills required for the AQA Step UP to English qualification you will be studying when you return to school. This term we will be exploring the Gothic genre. Remember there is no pressure to complete all the tasks. I look forward to seeing you all again.97155012128500Miss Beavis Thinking challengesAnagramsUsing the letters from the phrases and the clues make a word (they are all words associated with jobs)a steW sir (works with food)______________________here caT (works with children)_______________________root cD(works with sick people)_______________________re duilB(works with bricks)Language analysisHave you heard of the Mexican festival, the Day of the Dead? Watch and find out how to make an amazing Day of the Dead mask!182880-8953500 your vocabulary and understanding. Complete the sentences with a word from the box. 1. I’m an online special effects _______________. 2. I taught myself these _______________ by watching a lot of really cool _______________ on sites like YouTube and Instagram. 3. Today, I’ll be sharing with you a _______________. 4. If you need some design ideas, you can _______________ ‘Day of the Dead skull’. 5. The last _______________ is to add in all these different gems. 6. And _______________ you have it!Write a definition for the words in the table. The following words are included in the extract (below) from Bram Stoker’s Dracula.WORDSDEFINITIONgleamdisusegestureintonation3 .Developing Reading SkillsThese tasks are designed to help pupils to develop the skills required for the AQA Step UP to English qualification course they will be studying when they return to school. We will be exploring the Gothic genre.How creative can you be?455930746125Write as many ly adverbs as you can think of (at least 5). For example quickly, suddenly, slowly. Remember an adverb is a word which describes an action. Use your adverbs to write sentences to describe this picture The light shone brightlyThe fox howled loudly__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________00Write as many ly adverbs as you can think of (at least 5). For example quickly, suddenly, slowly. Remember an adverb is a word which describes an action. Use your adverbs to write sentences to describe this picture The light shone brightlyThe fox howled loudly__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Listen to a gothic soundscape or draw what is making the different sounds. Think about how the sounds are linked to the gothic theme and how the sounds make you feel. Read the extract-5562602667000Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back. Within stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.Glossary:chinks: cracksgrating: harshclad: dressedquivering: shaking/ tremblingmotioned: waved / signalledIn this extract the reader is made to feel what the narrator feels by the using the senses to describe. Identify words the writer has included that link to each sense in the grid below: seeHeare.g. heavy stepSmelltastetouchEmotionsFearDeveloping descriptive writing skillsUse one of the images below to write a description of the setting. Choose one image and think about:Where are they? When is the story set?Who / what is there?Weather?Atmosphere?Building suspense and making the reader wait.Revealing the monster! Or whatever it is! Planning and ideas: 182880104140Where?When?Who?What?Weather?Atmosphere?00Where?When?Who?What?Weather?Atmosphere?Remember to use the six senses to add detail to your descriptionseehearsmelltastetouchemotionsCheck list. Remember to:I have planned my writingI have checked my spellings I have checked my punctuationI have used powerful languageI have used the six senses to add detail to descriptionWrite a paragraph about the setting:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________-56515044196000Word bank and Sentence starters to help you: ................
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