Test Your Research Skills Famous Britons 3 Match the famous Briton with their principal occupation.

Test Your Research Skills Famous Britons – Why are they Famous Today? Part 1 Write a sentence to show why these Great Britons are still famous today. Use the library or the Internet to find the answers.

Test Your Vocabulary Skills Noisy Words 1 – Animal Noises Examples Write the name of the animal that makes each of these noises: 1. baa ________________________ 2. chirp ________________________ 3. squeak ________________________

Test Your Research Skills The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz – Fun Facts about Bananas 1 How much do you know about the world’s favourite yellow-skinned fruit? Try your luck with our absolutely bananas multi-choice fun quiz! Example questions... 1. Bananas are a type of... a) vegetable. b) fruit. c) potato. d) meat. 2. Bananas are an excellent source of... a) sodium. b) oxygen. c) potassium. d) magnesium. The worksheet comes complete with answers for the teacher.

Test Your Research Skills Out of this World! 1 Example questions... How much do you know about the solar system that we live in? Fill in the gaps below: 1. ___________________ is the closest planet to the sun. 2. ___________________ is the largest planet in the solar system. 3. ___________________ is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. This worksheet includes an answer sheet.

Test Your Vocabulary Skills Hotel Anagrams Examples Do you know your "room service" from your "do not disturb"? Practise hotel vocabulary by unscrambling the following anagrams. They are all words or phrases to do with staying in a hotel: 1. RPECTOEIN 2. ROMO SEVRICE 3. HEOTL FLICTAEIIS Complete with an answer sheet.

Test Your Research Skills Spotlight on Australia 3 Using the Internet or a research library, find the answers to these questions all about Australia: Example question 1. In Australian slang, ‘laughing gear’ means m __ __ __ __ … 2. …while if you were ‘up a gum tree’ you would be in t __ __ __ __ __ __... 3. …and if you were feeling ‘bushwhacked’ you would be extremely t _ _ _ _.

Test Your Research Skills Spotlight on Australia 2 Using the Internet or a research library, find the answers to these questions all about Australia: Some example questions... 1. Australia’s currency is called the ______________________________. 2. The mountain range that runs down the east coast is called The Great ________________ Range. a) Mountain b) Separating c) Victoria d) Dividing 3. True or false – Australia is the world’s largest producer of diamonds? a) true b) false

Test Your Research Skills The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz – Fun Facts about Bananas 2 Example questions: How much do you know about the world’s favourite yellow-skinned fruit? 1. True or false - the banana plant is not really a tree, but the largest herb in the world... a) true b) false 2. Which one of these sentences is true...? a) bananas are high in potassium and low in fibre b) bananas are high in potassium and low in vitamins c) bananas are high in calories and low in fibre d) bananas are high in fibre and high in potassium The worksheet comes complete with a teachers answer sheet.

Test Your Research Skills Fifteen Great Kevin Costner Films Example questions... Complete the titles of these great Kevin Costner films: 1. Open ______________ 2. ______________ Durham 3. Dances with ______________ 4. ______________ of Dreams The worksheet includes a teacher answer sheet.

Test Your Research Skills The Olympic Games 1 Match the city with the year to show when and where the summer Olympic Games have been held, then write out the list in chronological order:

Test Your Research Skills Watching TV in the UK 1 There are five terrestrial television channels in the UK: BBC1 BBC2 ITV 1 Channel 4 Five Example questions... Write the name of the channel that shows each of these programmes: 1. Eastenders _____________________________ 2. The Simpsons _____________________________ 3. Brookside _____________________________ The worksheet includes an answer sheet.

Test Your Spelling Skills Just Vowels - Mixed Emotions 2 Fill in the gaps to spell fifteen different emotions: Examples 1. _ o _ e _ _ 2. _ i _ e a _ a _ e 3. e _ e _ _ e _ i _ 4. _ u _ _ Complete with an answer sheet

Test Your Spelling Skills Just Vowels - Mixed Emotions 1 Examples Fill in the gaps to spell fifteen different emotions: 1. a _ _ _ _ 2. _ o _ _ i e _ 3. a _ _ a i _ 4. _ a _ Complete with answer sheet

Test Your Spelling Skills Read > Cover > Write > Check > Correct No. 6 – Food and Drink To improve your spelling, read a word, cover it with your hand, then write it on the first line. Check your spelling. If it’s wrong, write it out again on the second line: Example words rice _________________ _________________ eggs _________________ _________________ fruit _________________ _________________ chocolate _________________ _________________

Are you teaching your students about the different shades of pink? I have created a colourful, high quality pack of 22 different pink themed photos for you to discuss with your class. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different pink objects being shown in each of photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about different pink objects. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different sorts of pink. The students can then discuss how they decided on each type of pink. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing.

Material Visual Prompt helps your students to take notes about different sorts of materials they find around them. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different materials being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.