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Reading the game

WARRIORS READING WORK WEEK 10

**School Journal 2000 Part Four Number One**

**THE GAME**

Here is a list of descriptive words and phrases. Choose the three that your think //best// describes the Space World game players. Choose the three that you think //best// describe the arcade ifself. //Base your choices on what you’re told on page 2.//

**young polite aggressive badly-behaved modest keen to play dark noisy well-lit**

**virtually adult-free menacing cheerful lowlife scum**


 * **Words or phrases describing the players** || **Words or phrases describing the arcade** ||
 * Young || menacing ||
 * Polite || adult-free ||
 * Ready to play || virtually ||

**Answer these:**
 * 1)  Matt’s ‘feet rested on pedals, and the fingers of his left hand danced over four keys set on a lever’. Which one word in this sentence tells you that Matt was a skillful player? Danced
 * 2) Write down three details that show that Matt was badly affected by his experiences in playing the new machine
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Why were adult fighter pilots no use against the alien fighters?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Complete the following sentences. Delete any words that don’t apply:** <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> I like/don’t like arcade games because <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> The best arcade game I’ve ever played is because

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Use the words below the passage to fill in the gaps in the passage itself:** This story suggest two things that many people will __find__ disturbing. One is that we are already under __attack__ from alien invaders. While for years much has been made of sightings of strange craft in our <span style="color: #0600c7; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">__skies__, the idea that aliens are fighting a secret war against us is __dangerous__. The second disturbing thing is the _ <span style="color: #0e00ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> idea <span style="color: #0e00ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">that children are the key to defeatin g__ __these__ aliens. And what if harmless fun in arcades is real __warfare__ against a __new__ enemy. Does that mean other arcade games aren’t what they seem? Perhaps when you a character in an arcade game, a real person somewhere in the world!

<span style="color: #d90608; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**attack dangerous dies find idea new shoot skies these warfare**

The writer uses some interesting verbs in this story. Match six of the words below with the meanings listed on the left.


 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">slid out of control **Skidded**
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">moved and stopped abruptly**Jerked**
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">grabbed tightly **gripped**
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">tearing **clawing**
 * 5) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">sprang **bouneded**
 * 6) <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">rushed at great speed **hurtled**

<span style="color: #c3090a; font-family: Arial; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> **shoved skidded flicked gripped jerked bounded hurtled clawing**

<span style="color: #110edb; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**THERE STOOD A MAN**

<span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Here are ten events from the story, but they’re in the wrong order. Put them in the right order.**
 * 1) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">George woke up about mid-day (8)
 * 2) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Night began to fall
 * 3) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">George smelled food
 * 4) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Shorty told George there was no-one with him when he came into camp
 * 5) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">George rubbed the bump on his head and wondered where he was (2)
 * 6) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">Shorty told George he would lead him down the old greenstone trail
 * 7) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">George followed the Maori along a faint track
 * 8) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">The men in the camp stared at George as he swayed unsteadily
 * 9) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">George thought about Robbie Burn’s lines about ghosts and ghoulies
 * 10) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">A Maori suddenly appeared ahead of him

<span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Complete these sentences using information from the story**
 * 1) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">George didn’t know where he was because _
 * 2) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">George started thinking of ‘ghoulies and ghosties’ because
 * 3) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">The Maori guide suggested that George keep quiet by _
 * 4) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px;">The first sign that there was a camp nearby was _

<span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**When the Maori guide pointed at George’s feet and beckoned, George took this as a signal to walk. See if you can come up with a hand signal for each of the following commands. Write your description beside each command:** __ //Bring your hand twards you and then to the ground// __
 * 1) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px;">Keep quiet //__**one hand by mouth**__//
 * 2) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px;">Speed up __//bring your hand towards yo **u** //__
 * 3) <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px;">Stop __// **put hand in front of him** //__



<span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Complete the following sentences. Delete the words which don’t apply** <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> If I had found myself lost like George I would have **stayed were i was or try find shelter** <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I think the best word to describe George is because confused <span style="color: #070807; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I enjoyed/did not enjoy this story because it showed how he felt and had heaps of emotions in it.it was interesting and a mystery