GRADE 6-ENGLISH LANGUAGE REVISION-READING COMPREHENSION

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1 4 GRADE 6-ENGLISH LANGUAGE REVISION-READING COMPREHENSION These questions are about the text, "Butterfly Life Cycle! Butterfly Metamorphosis". Answer ALL questions. For multiple choice questions, put a cross in each correct box X to indicate your answer. If you change your mind, put a line through the box and then put cross in another box 1 What grows within butterfly eggs? A tiny eggs B tiny caterpillar C larva Dpupa (Total for Question 1 =1 mark) 2 What happens in the second stage of butterfly metamorphosis? LIII! A Caterpillars form themselves B Caterpillars grow their new parts C Caterpillars lay and hatch their eggs onto the leaf they want to eat 1-1 D Caterpillars come from butterfly eggs 3 (Total for Question 2 =1 mark) 3 'If you are lucky, you will get to see an adult butterfly emerge.' Explain the meaning of 'emerge' as used in this sentence. 4 4 Write out the phrase from paragraph 2 that means 'careful inspection.' (Total for Question 3 =1 mark) (Total for Question 4 =1 mark)

2 5 Write out the word from paragraph 1 that suggests the idea of transformation. (Total for Question 5=1 mark) 6 This is really important because the mother butterfly needs to lay her eggs on the type qf lea/the caterpillar ui/i eat - each caterpillar type likes only certain types qflc(l%'es. Why do you think the writer has used dash in the above sentence? (Total for Question 6 =2 marks) 7 How has the writer used language to explain the process of butterfly life cycle? Refer to the whole text. (Total for Question 7 =3 marks)

3 Writing Complete the task below. You will be assessed on spelling, 1)0 net u at ion and grammar. Write a magaiine article about a disaster, like floods or earthquake. In your article, you should: provide information that will develop your article use a style of writing appropriate for a magazine article use a style of writing appropriate for the audience 3

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6 RESOURCE BOOKLET Butterfly Life Cycle I Butterfly Metamorphosis Let's explore a butterfly's life cycle in detail, including all four stages of life. All butterflies have "complete metamorphosis." To grow into an adult they go through 4 stages: egg. larva, pupa and adult. Each stage has a dilibrent goal - for instance, caterpillars need to eat a lot, and adults need to reproduce. Depending on the type Of butterfly, the lit cycle ola butterfly may take anywhere From one month to a whole year. The First Stage: The Egg A butterfly starts life as a very small, round, oval or cylindrical egg. The coolest thing about butterfly eggs, especially monarch butterfly eggs, is that if you look close enough you can actually see the tiny caterpillar growing inside of it. Some butterfly eggs may be round, some oval and some may be ribbed while others may have other features. The egg shape depends on the type of butterfly that laid the egg. Butterfly eggs are usually laid on the leaves of plants, so if you are actively searching for these very tiny eggs, you will have to take some time and examine quite a few leaves in order to find some. The Second Stage: The Larva When the egg finally hatches, most of you would expect for a butterfly to emerge, right? Well, not exactly. In the butterfly's life cycle, there are four stages and this is only the second stage. Butterfly larvae are actually what we call caterpillars. Caterpillars do not stay in this stage for very long and mostly, in this stage all they do is eat. When the egg hatches, the caterpillar will start his work and eat the leaf they were born onto. This is really important because the mother butterfly needs to lay her eggs on the type of leaf the caterpillar will eat - each caterpillar type likes only certain types of leaves. Since they are tiny and can not travel to a new plant, the caterpillar needs to hatch on the kind of leaf it wants to eat. Caterpillars need to eat and eat so they can grow quickly. When a caterpillar is born, they are extremely small. When they start eating, they instantly start growing and expanding. Their exoskeleton (skin) does not stretch or grow, so they grow by "molting" (shedding the outgrown skin) several times while it grows. The Third Stage: Pupa (Chrysalis) The pupa stage is one of the coolest stages of a butterfly's life. As soon as a caterpillar is done growing and they have reached their full length/weight, they form themselves into a pupa, also known as a chrysalis. From the outside of the pupa, it looks as if the caterpillar may just be resting, but the inside is where all of the action is. Inside of the pupa, the caterpillar is rapidly changing. The Fourth Stage: Adult Bu tie rtiv Finally, when the caterpillar has done all of its forming and changing inside the pupa, if you are lucky, you will get to see an adult butterfly emerge. When the butterfly first emerges from the chrysalis, both of the wings are going to be soft and folded against its body. This is because the butterfly had to lit all its new parts inside of the pupa.