🍑 English Cumulative Review · Majo
Simple Past · Punctuation · Pronouns · Synonyms · Recount · Text Evidence
Hola, Majito! 😸
Es hora de prepararte para tu sumativa! Primero aprendemos cada tema, luego practicamos, y despues jugamos con 40 preguntas!
| Rule | Base verb | Past form |
|---|---|---|
| Most verbs: add ed | finish / cook / ask / open / watch | finished / cooked / asked / opened / watched |
| Ends in -e: add d | live / stare / like / prepare / trace | lived / stared / liked / prepared / traced |
| Vowel + y: add ed | play / stay / enjoy | played / stayed / enjoyed |
| Consonant + y: change to ied | try / carry / cry | tried / carried / cried |
| Short vowel + consonant: double + ed | nod / rip / admit / stop | nodded / ripped / admitted / stopped |
| Base form | Simple Past | Base form | Simple Past |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | went | eat | ate |
| see | saw | write | wrote |
| feel | felt | run | ran |
| drink | drank | sing | sang |
| take | took | come | came |
| buy | bought | catch | caught |
| teach | taught | throw | threw |
| Mark | Name | Function | More examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| ? | Question mark | Curiosity, doubt, interest | "How can I make comic books?" / "Are you ready?" / "Where is my notebook?" |
| ! | Exclamation mark | Strong feelings and emotions | "Oh no!" / "I made it!" / "Run!" / "Wow, that is amazing!" |
| : | Colon | Introduces lists, items, quotations | He said: "I know you." / She needed: pencils, a ruler and a notebook. |
Leo loves to draw superheroes. So, he keeps wondering every day: "How can I make real comic books?" Every day, he practices drawing cool characters and writing exciting action stories.
Yesterday, Leo went to his bedroom to practice. He opened his desk drawer to look for his special drawing notebook. But the drawer was completely empty! His notebook was gone. Leo felt very sad and worried. "Oh no!" he yelled.
He ran into the kitchen to find his little sister, Maya. Leo pointed at the marker and said: "I know you have my notebook, Maya." Maya smiled and gave the notebook back to her brother.
After practicing for so long, Leo could finally draw his favorite superhero and shouted: "I made it!"
| Subject | Object | Example |
|---|---|---|
| I | me | Look at me! |
| You | you | Mum helps you. |
| He | him | I see him. |
| She | her | We know her. |
| It | it | Look at it! |
| We | us | You see us. |
| They | them | I play with them. |
After coming up with the idea, Ben and I spent six years planning the trip. We had to save up for the boat and prepare ourselves. A lot of people told us how tough it would be.
Most of the physical training was done in the gym. I cycled to work every day, then I would do two hours in the gym. But that was the fun bit, just eating mounds of food!
We left at dawn. It was a beautiful morning and the sun was coming up as we rowed out of the tiny marina. It took us about ten minutes to reach the open sea.
Synonyms are words that mean the same or nearly the same thing. Using synonyms makes your writing more varied and interesting!
| Word | Synonyms |
|---|---|
| happy | joyful | cheerful | thrilled | pleased | delighted |
| excited | thrilled | enthusiastic | eager | elated |
| proud | satisfied | accomplished | pleased | fulfilled |
| ambitious | driven | determined | motivated | goal-setter |
| painting | mural | picture | artwork | canvas |
Leo was very happy [= joyful / cheerful] when he finally finished his comic book. He had been excited [= thrilled / eager] about drawing superheroes for a long time. He felt proud [= accomplished / satisfied] of all his hard work. Leo was a very ambitious [= driven / determined] young artist. His painting [= artwork / picture] of the superhero looked absolutely amazing!
A recount retells something that happened in the past, in chronological order. It uses Simple Past tense throughout.
| Part | What it includes | Key words / connectives |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Orientation (Beginning) | Who? When? Where? Why? Sets the scene. | Last Saturday... / Yesterday... / With my friends... / At school... |
| 2. Sequence of Events (Middle) | Events told in ORDER. Actions and feelings as they happened. | First... / Then... / After that... / Next... / Later... |
| 3. Reflection (Ending) | How it ended. Feelings + what was learned. | Finally... / I felt... / I learned... / It was... / In the end... |
Last Saturday, my family and I went to the Natural History Museum in the city. We decided to go because we had been learning about dinosaurs at school and we wanted to see real fossils.
First, we arrived at the museum early in the morning and bought our tickets. Then, we walked into the main hall and saw an enormous T-Rex skeleton standing right in the middle of the room. I could not believe how big it was! After that, my mum took us to the fossils exhibit, where we saw shells and fish that were millions of years old. Next, we watched a short film about how dinosaurs lived and what they ate. We also visited the gift shop, where I bought a small dinosaur model to take home.
Finally, we had lunch in the museum cafe and headed home. I felt very excited and curious about science. I learned that dinosaurs were much more varied than I had thought, and that fossils can tell us so much about life millions of years ago. It was one of the best days of the year!
Text evidence means using specific quotes or details directly from a text to support your answer. You copy the exact words!
| Step | What to do | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Find key words in the question AND in the text | Question: "Where do snakes live?" → key word: live / distribution |
| 2 | Copy word-for-word from the text (exact words!) | Find the exact sentence: In warm parts of the world... |
| 3 | Enclose in quotation marks " " — introduced with a colon : | Write: "In warm parts of the world, in all habitats." |
Subphylum: Vertebrata | Class: Reptilia | Number of species: Over 2,000
Distribution: Snakes live in warm parts of the world, including the sea, in all habitats. They are found on every continent except Antarctica.
Prey: A snake can track its prey using its long, forked tongue, which it flicks over the ground. It picks up the smell left by small animals like mice and voles. Some snakes, such as grass snakes, catch their prey by grabbing and swallowing it whole. Others, such as pythons, coil their bodies around their prey and squeeze it, making it impossible for the animal to breathe.
Attack: Poisonous snakes attack their prey with their fangs. The poison glands are in the snake's jaw and, as they bite their prey, the poison is injected into its nervous system. Only a third of all the snakes in the world are poisonous.
The black mamba is the fastest snake. It can travel around 15km/hour in short bursts.
Examples of questions and text evidence:
Leo loves to draw superheroes. So, he keeps wondering every day: "How can I make real comic books?" Every day, he practices drawing cool characters and writing exciting action stories.
Yesterday, Leo went to his bedroom to practice. He opened his desk drawer to look for his special drawing notebook. But the drawer was completely empty! His notebook was gone. Leo felt very sad and worried. "Oh no!" he yelled.
He ran into the kitchen to find his little sister, Maya. Maya was sitting at the table, and she had a black marker in her hand. Leo pointed at the marker and said: "I know you have my notebook, Maya." Maya smiled and gave the notebook back to her brother.
After practicing for so long, Leo could finally draw his favorite superhero and shouted: "I made it!"
Examples of questions and text evidence:
Estas segura, Majo?
Perderas tu progreso si sales ahora.