LITERACY GRAMMAR Active and Passive Voice In active voice sentences, the subject does the action. Sentence structure: subject + action verb + object receiving the action. Dogs bury bones. Sandy takes cupcakes each Monday. ______________________________________________________________ In passive voice sentences, the subject receives the action. Sentence structure: subject + (auxiliary verb + past participle) + object doing the action. Bones are buried by dogs. Cupcakes are taken by Sandy each Monday. ______________________________________________________________ Exercise: Change the active voice sentences to passive voice. 1. The artist sings a song as he paints. _____________________________________________________________________________ 2. The little girl pounds the piano when mad. _____________________________________________________________________________ 3. The man with no teeth wants new dentures. ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. Many of my friend surf the internet during class. ______________________________________________________________________________ 5. The weatherman forecasts storms for tomorrow. _____________________________________________________________________________ Active and Passive Voice In active voice sentences, the subject does the action. Sentence structure: subject + action verb + object receiving the action. Dogs bury bones. Sandy takes cupcakes each Monday. _________________________________________________________________________ In passive voice sentences, the subject receives the action. Sentence structure: subject + (auxiliary verb + past participle) + object doing the action. Bones are buried by dogs. Cupcakes are taken by Sandy each Monday. _________________________________________________________________________ Exercise: Change the active voice sentences to passive voice. 1. The artist sings a song as he paints. A song is sung by the artist as he paints._______________________________________ 2. The little girl pounds the piano when mad. The piano is pounded by the little girl when mad.______________________________ 3. The man with no teeth wants new dentures. New dentures are wanted by the man with no teeth__________________________ 4. Many of my friends surf the internet during class. The internet is surfed by many of my friends during class._______________________ 5. The weatherman forecasts storms for tomorrow. Storms are forecasted by the weatherman for tomorrow.______________________ COMPREHENSION CREATIVE WRITING You are a mad scientist and you have managed to cross two animals. Tell the whole world what the name of your animal is, what it looks like, what it can do, and what it likes eating... If you have time draw a picture of it. Example: I crossed a monkey and a snake and the animal is called a snakey! A snakey is an animal with a monkey's face and ears, but it has got a snake's tongue. The body also looks like a snake, with a long tail and no legs. Snakeys are very silly animals and the like squeezing bananas with their bodies and eating them later... NUMERACY ESTIMATION Estimate the difference by rounding each number to the nearest hundred: 738 – 402 ___________ 693 – 581 ___________ 272 – 193 ___________ 805 – 380 ___________ 668 – 473 ___________ 425 – 108 ___________ 505 – 344 ___________ 832 – 418 ___________ 971 – 105 ___________ 860 – 216 ___________ MEAN WORK SPACE Example: 3, 2, 5, 6, 4, 4 Mean = 6, 8, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 7 Mean = 24, 45, 12, 20, 15 Mean = 34, 45, 26, 48, 20, 31 Mean = 8, 9, 24, 35, 12, 41, 25 Mean = 23, 80, 46, 78, 65, 43, 37, 76 Mean = 3+2+5+6+4+4 6 Mean = 24 / 6 = 4 AREA AND PERIMETER Find the area and perimeter of each of the following shapes. 2cm 16m 8cm 4m Area = ____________________ Area = ____________________ Perimeter = __________________ Perimeter = __________________ 4cm 7cm 4cm 7cm Area = ____________________ Area = ____________________ Perimeter = __________________ Perimeter = __________________ 1. Write in words: 30301 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………… 2. What is the place value of 5 in 35234? …………………………………………………………………………………… 3. Write the following in roman numerals; i. 143 = ………………………………………………………………… ii. 215 = ………………………………………………………………… 4. Subtract 1543 from 2993. 5. Multiply 200 by 32 6. Divide 255 by 5 7. From the table below, circle all even numbers. 456 23001 56832 4049 789 5684484 96832 30485 980541 889 372361 40392 SCIENCE 1 Find the word below in the grid to the left. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Down 1. What provides the energy that drives the water cycle? Across 3. Ice crystals that fall from the sky. 6. Water that has been heated to a gas. 9. Frozen rain. 10. A large body of water that flows across the land. 12. A large body of salt water. 13. The process of changing from water vapor to water droplets. 2. The process of water droplets or ice crystals falling from the sky. 3. A small body of water that flows across the land. 4. The process of water moving through the world by precipitation, evaporation, and condensation. 7. These form in the sky when water vapor condenses into water droplets. 8. A large body of fresh water. 10. Water that flows in streams and river into the oceans and lakes. 11. Water droplets that fall from the sky. 5. The process of water turning into a vapor. GENERAL STUDIES BASIC 4 Name________________________________ Date: _______________________ 1. Which European country made Nigeria a colony? _________________________________________________________ 2. What name did the British give to Ghana and why? __________________________________________________________ 3. What is the difference between rainforests and savannahs? __________________________________________________________ 4. What type of government does Nigeria have? __________________________________________________________ 5. What does democracy mean? __________________________________________________________ 6. Why must we vote during elections? ___________________________________________________________ 7. List four qualities of a good citizen. _____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 8. Who makes the law in Nigeria? __________________________________ 9. Why was the discovery of fire an important advancement for early humans? ___________________________________________________ 10. Give example of some agricultural resources in Nigeria. _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________
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