Year: 2022

Literacy

Today we had to solve problems and find the key words to solve the problem.

 

Inferences – WHEN 

Answer each question, highlight the keywords and justify why this keyword helps you to make the inference. 

 

Having been out in the mountains since dawn and with freezing winds beginning to sweep the slopes and the light fading, the search party were about to abandon the search for the missing climbers when three figures were spotted moving along a snow-covered ridge. 

What time of day was it when the missing climbers were sp

 

THE MISSING CLIMBERS WERE LAST SPOTTED IN THE LATE EVENING

  1. The first glint of light in the eastern sky was the signal for the soldiers to clamber from the shelter of their trenches.
    What part of the day was it? EARLY MORNING BECAUSE THE SUN RISES IN THE EAST

  2. With hunger gnawing at her stomach and the sun at its zenith, Barbara sought the shade of a small cafe.
    What part of the day was it?
    Mid day

  3. Anna observed the seemingly endless flocks of birds migrating to a warmer climate and yearned to be going with them.
    What season was it? Autumn

  4. Having traveled so far, Doug was disappointed to find that he no longer recognised the village.
    Has Doug been in the village before? How do you know that? Yes because the sentence says “no longer recognised” so that means he has been to that village but just no longer recognised!

The house, which had once seemed so large and full of wonderful places for games of hide and seek, now seemed cramped and small.
When had the writer been in the house before? When he was a younger