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              Affixations                                        •  the severed arm of a toy
                                                                 •  old envelope
                       Formative Practice                        •  unusable sellotape
                                                                 •  toothless stapler
               Practice  1                                       •  springless bulldog clip
                 1.  unsure    4.  invisible   7.  immoral       •  the dried-up liquid paper
                 2.  unwell    5.  invalid   8.  impossible      •  unusable battery
                 3.  unlucky   6.  immobile                      •  unusable starter motor
                                                                 •  worn out tyre
               Practice  2                                       •  spoilt sparking plug
                                                                 •  unusable carburettor
                improve  unite   winner    river  introduce
                                                              Practice  2
                uncertain  upset  nearer  innocent  loser       1.  small pieces that are left on a surface
                                                                2.  broken
                 spider  imagine  industry  umbra  prosper      3.  spoils
                                                                4.  pattern on tyre
                 inject  unload   hilly  homeless  driver       5.  a pet that no longer has a home
              POEMS                                           Practice  3

               FORM 1                                         Accept any suitable answers.
                                                              Practice  4
              News Break by Max Fatchen
                                                               (a)  The arm is broken.
                       Formative Practice                      (b)  It can no longer hold paper.
                                                               (c)  We can clear the weed, trim the plants and replant some of
               Practice  1                                        the plants in the garden to make it beautiful.
                 1.  ✗    2.  ✓    3.  ✓    4.  ✗   5.  ✓      (d)  No, it is not a good idea because keeping  unwanted  things
                 6.  ✓                                            messes up the place and takes up storage space.
               Practice  2                                    Practice  5
                 1.  CREASE                                    (a)  They would end up in a landfill.
                 2.  LUNCHEON                                  (b)  It can no longer start the engine.
                 3.  SHRIEKING                                 (c)  You can use it to plant flowers.
                 4.  HULLABALOO                                (d)  No, we should not as that would contribute to the increase of
                 5.  TREBLE                                       garbage. Instead, we can recycle them into usable things.
                 6.  CEASE
                                                              Practice  6
               Practice  3                                     (a)  The word is ‘severed’.
                (a)  The child                                 (b)  It mars instead of mends.
                (b)  He made sure that he is clean and his shirt is not creased.  (c)  It is left standing on a shelf in the library and nobody reads the
                (c)  The word is ‘shrieking’.                     book.
                (d)  The child knows that the mother would be displeased with his   (d)  The poet wants to communicate a sense of hopelessness and
                   performance in school and tries to make up for it.  sadness.
               Practice  4                                     FORM 2
                (a)  The child is not behaving in his usual manner.  My Hero by Willis Hall
                (b)  He is trying to behave well to make up for the bad news that
                   he has to relay.                                   Formative Practice
                (c)  The parent realises  the reason  for the behaviour  when  she
                   sees the report card.                      Practice  1
                (d)  Accept any reasonable answer.            1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9
               Practice  5                                    Practice  2
                (a)  The words are loving and helpful.                          1 v
                (b)  He spends all his money.                              2
                (c)  The line is ‘Today you are  a lamb,  love.  Where yesterday  a   b  r  a  v  e
                   rebel’.                                                      m
                (d)  The parent cannot believe that he is her child because he is   3 u  p  s  e  t
                   behaving so well. (Accept any reasonable answer)
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              Sad I Ams by Trevor Millum                                      4
                                                                              g  r  e  e  t
                       Formative Practice                         5 t  6 d       e
                                                              7 s  k  e  l  e  t  o  n  s
               Practice  1
              (Accept any 10 of the following answers)        c    l    f
                 •  the ring from an empty Cola can           a    l    e
                 •  the scrapings from an unwashed porridge pan  r  y   a
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