Homework

1) Maths HW Book Practice 4
2) English HW Book (2 pages)
3) Synthesis
4) English Activity Book
5) Learn spelling (Spelling 4)
6) Hand in English journals on Monday

The first 4 items, which were assigned on Friday, should not take more than 2h of your time.

Please remember to take pride in your work, write the date, be neat etc.

Do some revision too. CA1 is in a week's time.

Fractions and ratios

To answer the query by Mr Fork (Please do not use pseudonyms! I told you to use your own names, unless it is a pseudonym that everyone knows), if you want to highlight/ underline questions involving ratio, you can highlight all the stated quantities. The purpose of doing that is to ensure that the ratio is reported in the correct sequence.

E.g. Fiona is 5 years old. Her mother is 29 years old. What is the ratio of Fiona's age to her mother's age to their total ages?

F: M: T = 5: 29: 34 (Make sure that the numbers appear in the right order)

Reported Speech

3 points to note:

1) change the tenses

present tense to past tense
past tense to past perfect tense

E.g. "She is at the library now," Tim said.
Tim said she was at the library then.

E.g. "I went to the zoo yesterday," Sam announced.
Sam announced that he had gone to the zoo the day before.

2) change the pronouns

E.g. "I have eaten," Tina said.
Tina said she had eaten.

3) change the time/ place etc

now to then
today to that day etc

E.g. "I will be studying in America next year," she said.
She said she would be studying in America the following year.

If you are reporting a question, you need to take note of 2 additional points:

1) Switch the positions of the subject and verb

In a statement, the subject appears before the verb.
In a question, the verb appears before the subject.

E.g. "How old are you?" she asked me.
She asked me how old I was.

2) Add "if" if there is no question word.
Question words: Who, what, why, where, what, how

E.g. "Are you going to the library tomorrow?" Kenneth asked Daryn.
Kenneth asked Daryn if he was going to the library the next day.

Having mentioned the 5 golden rules for reported speech, please remember not to change the tenses for other questions on synthesis.