English Weekly Recall: Summer Activities
Explore spelling, grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, techniques, and challenges in English learning activities focused on Shakespeare and theater. Enhance your language skills through identifying correct spellings, adding punctuation, understanding word meanings, and more.
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Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.1 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Add the missing punctuation 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Prologue What a beautiful bouquet exclaimed Sinead Acceptible Type of word _______ Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Acceptable 4. Reading Comprehension William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Which of the tasks on this sheet links to your learning this week? Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? What is this technique? ____________ Answer: Task _____ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Reason: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ List four things that you learn about Shakespeare: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.2 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Write bought and brought in the right places. 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Epilogue Argument She _____________a gift and __________ it to the party. Type of word _______ Arguement Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension In Shakespeare's time, a stage wasn't just one type of space; plays had to be versatile. In any of these settings, men and boys played all the characters, male and female; acting in Renaissance England was an exclusively male profession. Audiences had their favourite performers, looked forward to hearing music with the productions, and relished the luxurious costumes of the leading characters. The stage itself was relatively bare. For the most part, playwrights used vivid words instead of scenery to picture the scene onstage. 5. Technique 5. Challenge: Transform this sentence into an image: Thou art more lovely and more temperate. A plague on both your houses. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ List four things that you learn about the theatre: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.3 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Circle the nouns and adjectives. 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Tragedy Alice felt her face go red with embarrassment. As a young girl, Alice used to play in the salty water. Today though, everyone except Alice was enjoying the water. Conscience Type of word _______ Conscence Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension 5. Technique 5. Challenge: Transform the image into a short description: From ancient grudge break to new mutiny. What is this technique? ____________ How do these images link to Romeo and Juliet? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.4 1. Spelling Identify the incorrect spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Turn the following sentences into compound sentences: Dog + and + catch _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Cat + but + scratch _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Comedy Discipline Type of word _______ Disipline Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension In William Shakespeare s Othello, racism is certainly featured throughout the play. Othello was written some time between 1600 and 1605. In an time were ethnic minorities were so unimportant that they were almost ignored, a black man rises and has a position of a general in Venice, and is a well respected and trusted by his white leaders. However, when Othello marries Desdemona, the young and beautiful white girl, and the daughter of the Senator Brabantio everything changes, the racism of the 17th century world begins to take place. List four things that you learn about racism: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Which of the tasks on this sheet links to your learning this week? Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. What is this technique? ____________ Answer: Task _____ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Reason: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.5 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Write break or brake in the correct places. 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Harmartia Exilarate The _________ on the cart could _________ if pulled too hard. Type of word _______ Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Exhilirate 4. Reading Comprehension. Richard III (2 October 1452 22 August 1485) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1483 until his death. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England. He is the protagonist of Richard III, one of William Shakespeare's history plays. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Transform this image into a short description: It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat on which it feeds. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ List four things that you learn about Richard III: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.6 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Write a description of what you did at lunchtime using two simple, one compound and one complex sentence: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Resolution Grateful Type of word _______ Greatful Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Think of better synonyms for the word talk: I am determined to prove a villain. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ How do these images link to Richard III? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.7 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Add in all of the missing punctuation: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Protagonist Immediate At the end of the day the sun slipped out of sight Type of word _______ Imediate Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Complete the connections map: 4. Reading Comprehension. The Duke tells Hermia to obey her father, or either die or accept a life as a nun in Diana s temple. Lysander and Hermia plan to elope, and they tell Helena, who is in love with Demetrius, but he hates her and loves Hermia. The lovers run away from Athens but get lost in the woods. Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. OTHELLO WOMEN JEALOUSY What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ JULIET EXPECTATIONS What can you infer about the story from this summary? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ HATRED DESDEMONA
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.8 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Circle the verbs. 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Carolina started at her new school. She made lots of friends and spoke a lot in her first science lesson. Antagonist Judgement Type of word _______ Judgment Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. Oberon, king of the fairies, who lives in the woods, has quarrelled with his queen, Titania, over an Indian boy she refuses to give him. Oberon overhears Helena and Demetrius arguing and sends his mischievous servant, Puck, to get a flower whose juice has the power to make people fall in love with the first creature they see when the juice is placed on their eyelids while asleep. He instructs Puck to put some drops on Demetrius eyes. What can you infer about King Oberon? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Which of the tasks on this sheet links to your learning this week? Oh that this world weary flesh would melt away. Answer: Task _____ What is this technique? ____________ Reason: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.9 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Correct/replace the incorrect punctuation: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? have you eaten my kit-kat jake asked erika she said she hadnt eaten it although there was chocolate all over her mouth shirt and hands Artisan Environment Type of word _______ Enviroment Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. Some artisans are rehearsing a play about the tragic love- story of Pyramus and Thisbe to present before Theseus on his wedding day. Bottom, the weaver, is to play the lover, Pyramus, while Flute, the bellows-mender, is to play Thisbe. The others play the parts of the Moon, the Wall and the Lion and they are directed by Quince, the carpenter. Puck overhears their rehearsals in the wood and he plays a trick on them by giving Bottom an ass s head which frightens the others away. What can you infer about the actors from this extract? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Transform this image into a short description: The course of true love never did run smooth. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.10 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Create a compound sentence: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Adam + and + sofa Iambic pentametre Possession _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Type of word _______ Posession Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Can you think of better synonyms for the word love? To be or not to be? That is the question. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ How do these images link to A Midsummer Night s Dream? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Year 8 English Weekly Recall Summer 3.11 1. Spelling Circle the incorrect spelling, then correct it. 2. Grammar and punctuation Correct the errors: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? maria asked have you seen stranger things season three yet sadly laura hadn t watched it as she was still catching up with season two this made maria frustrated as they no longer had anything to discuss Soliloquy Priviledge Type of word _______ Privilege Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. The greatest reason to study Shakespeare is that there is a reason it is still popular. The stories themes are timeless. These are tales of young love, madness, family drama, aging, ambition, murder, and intrigue. Shakespeare s poetry is clever and beautiful. His plays cover multiple genres. What can you infer about the writer s opinion of Shakespeare? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Prioritise: What is the single most important sentence here? Explain your thinking. All the World s a Stage. Not only did Shakespeare teach us about ourselves and humanity, but he also invented around 1700 words which we still use in everyday English today. He often changed nouns into verbs, verbs into adjectives, connecting words together and coming up with wholly original ones too. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
