Grade Six Mathematics
Hello Boys and Girls of Grade Six! I hope that you are using your time wisely and revising your work daily. This week we will continue to do Practice exercises. Make sure that you work carefully and work all the items.
Boys and Girls, please take all necessary preventative actions to keep yourself and others safe from the deadly corona virus. Remember that your watchword is FOCUS. Bye, until next week!
6. Generally speaking, students are fairly discriminating about the movies they watch. (careful, selective, prejudiced, concerned)
7. The survey showed that rents in the poorer part of the city were exorbitant. (extra, ridiculous, large, excessive)
8. For months before elections there is a lot of conjecture about which party will win. (discussion, confidence, speculation, questioning) 9. The students felt that the headmaster had been unduly harsh on the boy.(sufficiently, unnecessarily, appropriately, slightly)
10. The chief judge gave the panel’s disinterested opinion on the mat ter. (bored, impartial, biased, honest)
SPELLING—SOME BASIC RULES
Adding –ing
• Drop the silent e when you add –ing:
E.g. take taking hope hoping fine fining write writing
• Double the consonant in words ending in a single vowel + a single consonant:
E.g. hop hopping run running step stepping shut shutting
Now test yourself. Give the present participle of the following verbs: 1 Disrobe, 2 rub, 3 shape, 4 shop, 5 excrete, 6 mope, 7 cap, 8 rape, 9 mop,