Grade 5 paper 1 Penguins/Hiking in the Polar Regions: Antarctica

1. Look at the subheadings in the text. Write a similar subheading that is

suitable for the fourth paragraph.

• -Penguin(s’) diet / food / nutrition

  -What penguins eat

• -(in its) mouth / beak

• -The Galapagos Islands

• air trapped in their feathers / feathers

Find one word in the third paragraph which tells us the purpose of

penguins’ colouring.

• tiny shrimplike

• colouring

• camouflage

• an intensifier

3.Find the example of passive voice form.

• Penguins found

• (penguins) are found

• but, however, likewise

• is going

4.Find examples of conjuctions/coneectives

• penguins/cols, freeze

• is, are, they

• to, on, under

• but, however, likewise

5.Tell the Heading / subheading.

• Penguin families

• feel as if they are there

• use of an exclamation mark

• sight and sound

6.Look at this sentence:

‘It really is an ice paradise!’ (Line 8)

• feel as if they are there / in polar regions / in Antarctica.

• to feel how stunning it would be to be there.

• use of an exclamation mark

  • use of ‘really’/ an intensifier

  • use of a short sentence

  • use of literary devices, e.g. - rhyme (ice/ paradise) / --metaphor / hyperbole /

  -alliteration

• to feel they (really) want to be/go there.

7.Give an example of each of the following from Text B.

Alliteration (more answers)

• the wind gently kisses

• streaked skies

  • ice paradise

  • conditions can change quickly

• sight and sound

  • ice-filled ice-cliffs and deep blue icebergs

• sunsets and sunrises (separated by crimson-streaked skies)

  • slippery surfaces

8.Choose example of Personification

• -the wind gently kisses (the surface of the water ...)

• -conditions can change quickly

• use of a short sentence

• rhyme (ice/ paradise)

9.What is the main purpose of the third, fourth and fifth paragraphs?

• The expedition might be delayed unexpectedly

• to give (specific) information / details (about the hiking trip)

• to hook reader's attention.

• to tell the truth

9.Text B is a persuasive article, persuading people to go on a trip to Antarctica.

what are the features used in?

• -Text structure and organisation,

  -Try to convince readers.

• fictional

• No heading

• extra information is necessary for the descriptor to be achieved.