Saturday, 13 April 2019

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 English Blog - Biography Unit

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog!

Biography and Autobiography Unit

What is a biography?
Bio means life.
Graph means writing.
Biographical writing is about someone else’s life. It is about a real person but written by someone else in third person.
A A biography contains key details of a person’s life. We use our question words to help organise ideas:
Where they lived
When they lived
How they lived
What they did and why

It is written in chronological order. It can be about a living or a dead person.


A biography provides information about the important events in a person's life. 
A biography will also talk about how the person feels and the emotions they show.

What is an autobiography?
An autobiography is the writing about a person's life written by the person himself or herself. It is written in first person (pronouns such as I, me, my myself, we, us our).

Who is Jane Goodall?
Read Jane Goodall's biography and do the related activities.

Were you ever kind to an animal? Do you think animals forget people who are kind to them? Watch this video!


Do you know any story of an animal saving a human's life? Here is one. Watch this video.

China's Leap Year Forward

Jung Yang's Autobiography: Wild Swans

Read Spy Dog - Teacher's Pet Chapter 8. Is Lara going to save someone from an eminent danger? Find out!

Saturday, 16 March 2019

Welcome to Al Dhafra - Poster Competition

If you are asked to buy 2 things out of these, which ones would these be and why?


1. PolyUrea Spray
2. Healing Cloths
3. Non-Newtonian Fluid
4. Thermo-Chromic Paint
5. Super Glue
6. Lava
7. Glittering Ink
8. Bio-elastic Display
9. Fire- Extinguisher Ball
10. Gradient-Index Glass


Monday, 11 March 2019

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog!

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog!

Success Criteria
·       I can identify the semicolon punctuation mark.

·       I can use a semicolon (;) to join two simple sentences instead of the comma and FANBOYS conjunction.

·       I can write my own sentences showing the use of semicolon.

·       I can differentiate the meaning and usage of homophones.


·      I can write my own sentences using homophones.

Play the semicolon game here!


Monday, 4 March 2019

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 English Blog - Spy Dog Chapter 6

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog!

What do you think about this?


Answer the comprehension question:

Friday, 18 January 2019

Welcome to AL Dhafra Grade 6 English Blog - Journalistic Writing

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 English

Starter(s): 
Talk about a famous person who you admire.




Task: Now create a newspaper report about Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed visiting his teacher. Remember to use all the important newspaper report features.


Saturday, 3 November 2018

Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog

Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog!


What is  dilemma?
The word ‘dilemma’ is a noun that means a problem where a choice or decision has to be made. To have more than one choice might put you in a dilemma. The dilemma is the situation you are in. There is no easy choice to make.

Some situations when people had a dilemma ...

Billy's Dilemma

Some Amazing Moments in Sports

Think of your own story that involves a dilemma...
Opening:
Character-appearance and their thoughts, personality
First hint as to what the ‘dilemma’ might be


Build up:
Who are the other characters? What are they like- appearance and personality
Who do the characters act with each other? How does the dilemma happen?

Problem:
What is the dilemma? What are the possible options?
How do the characters act during the dilemma?


Resolution:
What does the character chose to do? How does the character act when he makes his decision? How does everyone else react?

Ending:
How does this dilemma change any of the characters?
What happens after the dilemma is resolved to the characters?