The Runway Train: story and context

Curriculum topic

Grade

Grade 10

Subject

Английский язык

Term

1

Lesson

№ 20

Section

Unit Natural disasters

Learning objectives

• 10.4.5Deduce meaning from context in extended texts on a wide range of familiar general and academic topics, as well as on some unfamiliar topics
• 10.5.3write on a range of topics in general and in the curriculum, taking into account grammatical rules

Sample questions

1. 1
   Read: 'The avalanche thundered down the slope.' What does 'thundered' mean here?

   moved with a loud noise moved without any sound stopped before the road turned into solid ice
2. 2
   'The train screeched to a halt metres from the bridge.' 'screeched to a halt' means it…

   changed direction suddenly fell off the rails started moving much faster stopped with a loud sharp noise
3. 3
   'After days of rain the river had swollen.' 'swollen' means it had…

   become dirty and grey become frozen and hard become shallow and dry become wider and higher