Adventure 1.1

Unit One: Adventure
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What is an adventure?
“an unusual and exciting or daring experience”.
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The features of adventure

stories
 Adventure stories feature action and
courageous heroes who save others from
danger or impending disaster. The adventure
genre of fiction is fast-paced and usually
centres on a main character in a dangerous
setting.
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Vocabulary: Write in your vocabulary
notebook
 Courageous means not afraid of danger or
pain; brave.
 Impending means about to happen.
 Genre means a type of art, music, or writing.
 Fiction means something that is not real.
 Setting means a place where something

happens.
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With a partner write down in your
notebook any books you know that are
about an adventure.
 The Call of the Wild – Author Jack London
 Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Dafoe
 The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
 Kim – Rudyard Kipling

Exercise
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1: Adventure stories are a genre
Exercise 1: Different adventure stories have similar

features, talk with your partner about the following and
write down your ideas.
 The types of characters
 The types of settings
 The things that happen
 How the stories end

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What happens
notebooks Characters
Endings
Settings
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Other Genre’s
 Adventure
 Comedy
 Crime
 Science Fiction
 In pairs try to think of more genre’s

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Other genre’s
 Fantasy  Mystery
 Ghost  Thriller
stories  Science
 Historical Fiction
 Horror  Romance
 Comedy  Action
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Reading
 Read the extract from ‘Beware Low-

Flying Girls’ by Katherine Rundell. It is
about Odile, a girl whose adventure
begins when she discovers she has a
very unusual skill.
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How to approach reading

1. Read the story and when you find difficult words then
highlight them
2. Tell the teacher which words you don’t understand
3. Write down the words and the definitions in your word

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4. Read the story out loud in class as instructed by tour

teacher
5. Every evening read through the new vocabulary

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Practice working out meaning when you
see words you don’t understand
 When you see words you do not understand, use details from
the surrounding sentences to help you work out meanings. For
example, in the second to last paragraph of the extract, you
could work out the meaning of billowed by thinking about the
effect the wind might have on Odile’s coat – blowing it out
around her (see picture p10).
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Exercise 2
 Context means the situation within which something exists or

happens
 Exercise 2: Practice working out word meanings from their

context. The following words are taken from the third paragraph
of the extract. What do you think they mean?
 Fierce
 confetti
 Irate
 bundled
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Definitions
 Fierce means physically violent and frightening
 Confetti means small pieces of coloured paper that you throw

at a celebration, especially a wedding
 Irate means very angry
 Bundled means to push roughly and quickly

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Exercise 3: Explicit Information
 When reading a text, it is important to be able to identify and

understand the main points and ideas that a writer tells you.
 Explicit information is ideas and details that the writer states

directly.
 Read the story again and in your notebook make notes on:
 What you can find out about Odile’s family
 What is unusual about the setting
 Other unusual aspects of the story
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Exercise 4: Narrative Structure
 The narrative structure of a story is the order in which events

take place. This includes how a story starts, when different
pieces of information are revealed and how the story ends. Look
at the timeline on page 11 it shows the first four main points in
the story. Write down the last two main points in the extract from
‘Beware – Low Flying Girls’.
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Exercise 5: Readers interest
 Writers design the narrative of their stories to keep readers

interested. In your pairs discuss the following questions.
 Why does the writer start the story by telling you Odile can fly?
 Why does she tell the reader that Odile wears her fathers coat?
(Think about why the coat may be special)
 Why does the writer end this part of the story with Odile flying?
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Definitions
 Predict means say what you think might happen

in the future
 Opinion means a personal view or judgment
about something, not necessarily based on fact
or knowledge
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Exercise 6:
 Which parts of the story have you found most

interesting so far?
 In your pairs predict what you think might
happen, or what you’d like to find out in the next
part of the story. Do you both have the same
opinion?
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Exercise 7: Writing
 Write a summary of about 5o words explain what

you have learnt about the features of adventure
stories. Use some examples from ‘Beware Low-
Flying Girls’ in your summary.

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Unit One: Adventure

The features of adventure

 Genre means a type of art, music, or writing.

 Fiction means something that is not real.

 Setting means a place where something

 The Call of the Wild – Author Jack London

 Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Dafoe

 The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne

 Kim – Rudyard Kipling

Exercise 1: Different adventure stories have similar

 The types of settings

 The things that happen

 How the stories end

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC

 In pairs try to think of more genre’s

 Read the extract from ‘Beware Low-

How to approach reading

2. Tell the teacher which words you don’t understand

3. Write down the words and the definitions in your word

4. Read the story out loud in class as instructed by tour

5. Every evening read through the new vocabulary

 Context means the situation within which something exists or

 Exercise 2: Practice working out word meanings from their

 Fierce means physically violent and frightening

 Confetti means small pieces of coloured paper that you throw

 Irate means very angry

 Bundled means to push roughly and quickly

 When reading a text, it is important to be able to identify and

 Explicit information is ideas and details that the writer states

 The narrative structure of a story is the order in which events

 Writers design the narrative of their stories to keep readers

 Predict means say what you think might happen

 Which parts of the story have you found most

 Write a summary of about 5o words explain what

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