Answers Module2

Level 6 English & Writing Copyright © Qs School Group Term 2 Answers
Term 2 Level 6 English and Writing

Module 2 Answers
Classwork
Identifying
features of an
EXPLANATION
No Answer
1. What makes you yawn and sneeze?
2. It is essential that your body has oxygen drawn from fresh air
3. Sometimes you find yourself sneezing several times…
4. If it is even slightly starved…your brain notices
5. Instantly. Sometimes…
6. A yawn, A sneeze
7. Become, is, suffers, makes, brings
8 It is essential…
9. When; if and
10. Oxygen, blood stream, nasal passages
No Answer Explanation
Braille
1a 1812 - punctured his eye with a sharp tool
1b 1819 - went to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth
1c 1821 - his school was visited by a French Army Captain
1d 1824 - invented Braille
2a F He only punctured one eye
2b T You can write numbers in Braille
2c F Can be used in many languages
2d F See examples - p and r have 4 dots each
3. Teacher to check
4. Teacher to check
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The Days of the Week

1. The Sun, Moon, and planets
2. The Solar System
3. Dies Solis then Dies Domini
4. To celebrate the day on which Jesus rose from the dead
5. The English Language has its roots in the Anglo-Saxon language so some
days retained their Anglo-Saxon origins and did not adopt the Latin.
6. These planets were not known in those days
7. Italian - Domenica, Lunedi, Martedi, Mercoledi, Giovedi, Venerdi, Sabato
French - Dimanche, Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi
8. Teacher check
9. To Christians, the Sabbath represented the day of the rising of Jesus
Christ from the dead, i.e., on the third day after crucifixion.
10. Originally the seventh day of the week (Saturday) was considered a day
of rest referred to in the Fourth Commandment.
11. “finally”
VOCABULARY
1. impaired, essential, opposite, eventually, astrology, civilisation,
electronic, experimented, blockage, represent, punctured, religion,
visually, influenced, agriculture
2a essential, electronic, punctured, blockage
2b civilisations, agriculture, influenced, astrology, religion, eventually
2c visually, impaired
2d experimented, represent
WRITING
1. Compact Discs
2. Compact disks are optical discs on which digital information is stored.
3-5 Teacher check. These questions ask for opinions, so there is no correct
answer.
6a answers will vary but may include laser, data, track
6b answers will vary but may include forms, contains, holds
6c answers will vary but may include and, but, when
7. answers will vary but may include, “the width of one of the ridges is less
than a strand of your hair!”
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Homework
No Answer Explanation
How the Sun Heats Our Bath Water
1. heat, water, hot bath
2. solar panels on the roof of the house
3. dark glass, collectors
4. in an insulated hot water tank
5. greenhouses; they trap heat under their glass tops
6. in Australia, the northern slope; in order to gain the greatest benefit from the sun’s heat
7. any one of: causes no pollution, cheap/free, preserves our other sources of fuel
8. hot, sunny weather
9. they give a clear, visual image of what the object/process looks like
10a a tank lined with material that stops heat escaping
10b a glass house where plants which thrive on heat are grown
10c the result of things being released that make our environment dirty
VOCABULARY REVISION
A agriculture: agri
astrology: astro
blockage: block
civilisation: civilise
electronic: electric
essential: essence
eventually: eventual
experimented: experiment
impaired: impair
influenced: influence
opposite: oppose
punctured: puncture
religion: religio
represent: n/a
visually: visual
B Answers will vary but may include

TECHNE: technology, technical, technicalities, technician, technique
VIDE: video, visual, visualise, vision
TRANS: transform, translate, transmit, translucent, transport
AUDIO: audiology, audiologist, auditory, audience, auditorium
SOL: solar, solarium, solarisation
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CHANGING TENSES - from present to past

a) Tom smiled when he saw the piles of food.
b) With a roar of rage, the lion leapt from the rock and disappeared in the thick
undergrowth.
c) Its jets screamed/screaming, the plane taxied down the runway, quickly gathered
speed and lifted gracefully into the sky.
d) Fred ate/was eating the nuts as fast as his sister was able to shell them.
e) Dot was ashamed because she had upset/was upsetting her mother.
From past to present

a) a. The sun shines brightly as we toil up the hill.
b) a. No one notices the man who quietly enters the room.
c) a. The everlastings are growing on a river bank where we are camping.
d a. Dad knows why the shearers are late.
e) a. The lad jumps out of bed, hurriedly dresses in his best clothes and races to be the
first seated at the breakfast table.
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Level 6 English & Writing Copyright © Qs School Group Term 2 Answers

Term 2 Level 6 English and Writing

1b 1819 - went to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth

1c 1821 - his school was visited by a French Army Captain

1d 1824 - invented Braille

2a F He only punctured one eye

2b T You can write numbers in Braille

2c F Can be used in many languages

2d F See examples - p and r have 4 dots each

The Days of the Week

B Answers will vary but may include

CHANGING TENSES - from present to past

From past to present

b) a. No one notices the man who quietly enters the room.

c) a. The everlastings are growing on a river bank where we are camping.

d a. Dad knows why the shearers are late.

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