Chapter One: Hunger and cold take their Toll
Learning Activities

7 Handouts

Activity 1 – Vocabulary

• New Words (Handout 1)
  Learners guess the meaning of the bolded word in the sentences given. Then they look each word up in a dictionary and write the best definition down. Learners then write a sentence for each word.
• Tricky Words (Handout 2)
  Often we think of homonyms as words that sound the same but have a different meaning and spelling. Homonyms can also be words that sound the same and are spelled the same but have different meanings. For example: bank can be both a place where you keep your money and a place on the river shore. Learners write definitions for several homonyms from Chapter 1 on Handout 2.
• Word Search (Handout 3)
  Learners practice words from Chapter 1 by doing the word search.

Activity 2 – Language Skills

• Nouns (Handout 4)
  Learners underline the nouns in the sentences. There is more than one noun in each sentence. Learners also categorize nouns into person, place or thing.
• Adjectives (Handout 5)
  Learners write a descriptive word to describe each noun. They also write adjectives to describe different nouns and then write a sentence.

Activity 3 – Chapter Questions

Learners answer comprehension questions from the chapter on Handout 6.