Grammar with Coraline
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This document provides an excerpt from the novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman and includes vocabulary and pronunciation exercises based on words from the excerpt. The excerpt describes the narrator's family moving into a flat in 1987 that was originally built as a manor house for the King of England's physician. It has since been converted into flats. The exercises that follow focus on defining vocabulary words from the text, classifying them, identifying stress patterns, writing sentences using the words, and substituting phonetic transcriptions.
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- 1. Coraline by Neil Gaiman a. Read the text. We move into our flat in Littlemead, in the tiny Sussex town of Nutley, in the south of England, in 1987. Once upon a time it had been a manor house, built for the physician to the King of England himself, so I was told by the old man who had once owned the house (before he sold it to a pair of local builders). It had been a very grand house then, but it was now converted into flats. b. What is the definition of the words in bold? * great: __________ * a large country house with lands: ________ * minuscule: ________ * apartment: ________ * constructed: ________ c. Classify the words into categories. Look at the example. WORD NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE house flat tiny manor built grand d. Identify the stress. WORD O Oo house flat tiny manor built grand
- 2. e. Match the pronunciation with the word. WORD PHONETIC SYMBOLS 1. house a. /ɡrænd/ 2. flat b. /ˈmæn.ər / 3. tiny c. /bɪlt/ 4. manor d. /flæt/ 5.built e. /haʊs/ 6. grand f. /ˈtaɪ.ni/ f. Which phonemes are similar? 1._______________ 2._______________ 3._______________ 4._______________ g. Write down different synonyms of the words. IN ENGLISH. WORD SYNONYMS 1. house 2. flat 3. tiny 4. manor 5.built 6. grand
- 3. h. Write one positive sentence and one negative sentence with each word. At the end you will have 12. house 1.______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ flat 3.______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ tiny 5.______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6_______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ manor 7.______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8.______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ built 9.______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10._____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ grand 11._____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12._____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________
- 4. a. Read the text. Write the word using the phonetic description. Flat number /fɔːr /,where we lived, was a /ɡʊd/ place, if a /ˈlɪt.ə l/ odd. Above us, a Greek family. /bɪˈniːθ/ us, a little old lady, half blind, who would telephone me whenever my little /ˈtʃɪl.drən/ moved, and tell me that she was not /ˈsɜː.tə n/ what was happening upstairs, but she thought that there were elephants. I was never entirely /ʃɔːr / how many flats there were in the house, nor how many of them were /ˈɒk.jə.paɪd/. 1._____________ 2._____________ 3._____________ 4._____________ 5._____________ 6._____________ 7._____________ 8._____________ b. Write a paragraph using these words, from 20 to 50 words.
- 5. c. Identify the pronunciation. WORD O Oo oO Ooo flat d. Write different synonyms to the words. WORD SYNONYMS flat apartment Taken from: Coraline by Neil Gaiman Adapted by: Mayahuel Pacheco Benítez