1.6: GM Food
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Learning Goals
In this chapter, you will learn to:
- Hear, read, and write blends with r, l, and t
- Copy short sentences
- Read common sight words in a paragraph
- Answer questions about a story
- State an opinion about a reading
- Give sentence answers to questions
Talk About It
- Have you heard that people in labs make new kinds of fruits and vegetables?
- Would you mind eating fruits and vegetables that were made by people in a lab?
Picture Dictionary | ||
Use the pictures to help you figure out the words. | ||
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| hard | cold | weather |
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| crop | rain | fruits |
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| sold | change | company |
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| help | bird | test |
Practice reading these words without the pictures. | |||
| sold | test | fruits | crop |
| hard | help | weather | rain |
| bird | change | company | cold |
Word Skills
Word Patterns
A consonant is any letter that is not a vowel. For example, the letters b, c, d, f, g, h, and j are consonants. A blend is when two consonants go together and each consonant makes a sound.
The letters dr in drip are a blend.
Read these words. Underline the blend. The first one is done for you. | ||
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| 1. clap | 2. frog | 3. step |
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| 4. plum | 5. drum | 6. stop |
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| 7. club | 8. crib | 9. star |
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| 10. flag | 11. crab | 12. stem |
Practice reading these words without the pictures. | ||
| crab | star | club |
| stem | plum | clap |
| step | flag | crib |
| frog | stop | drum |
Your instructor will read these words to you. Underline the blend in each word. You will see these words in the story. | ||
| crop | fruit | grow |
| dry | stay | cold |
| sold | test | |
Read the sentences. Then copy them. Use upper case letters, periods, and question marks correctly. |
| Stop the car. |
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| Do not step on the bug. |
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| We put up a flag. |
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| He hit the drum. |
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| Was she bitten by a crab? |
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Use Your Reading Skills
Listen to GM Food. Then read GM Food in BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Reader 1.
An audio element has been excluded from this version of the text. You can listen to it online here: opentextbc.ca/abealf1/?p=59
Check Your Understanding
Does each sentence say something good or bad about GM food?
| 1. GM food can grow in cold weather. | good | bad |
| 2. GM food may kill bugs we need, like butterflies. | good | bad |
| 3. GM food may make birds sick. | good | bad |
| 4. GM food can stop bugs from eating it. | good | bad |
| 5. GM food may make people sick. | good | bad |
| 6. There have not been many tests on GM food. | good | bad |
| 7. GM food may grow in dry land in Africa. | good | bad |
| 8. GM food can stay good longer. | good | bad |
9. Do you think farmers should grow GM food? Use the underlined words to help form your answer.
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Writing
Grammar Rule
You can use words from a question to form an answer.
Question: Why is farming a hard job?
Answer: Farming is a hard job because cold weather can kill your crops.
Two things changed from the question to the answer:
- is farming changed to farming is
- because was used
Answer this question in three more ways.
Why is farming a hard job?
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2. _____________________________________________________
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3. _____________________________________________________
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Writing Task
Have you ever visited a farm? Or have you ever visited a farmers’ market? Tell your instructor about your visit. Your instructor will write down your words. Then copy your story into your notebook.
When you are done, read your story.
- Did you begin each sentence with an upper case letter?
- Did you use an upper case letter at the beginning of a person’s name?
- Did you end each sentence with a period or question mark?
- Are you missing any words?
Answer Key | |
| Word Patterns | |
| QUESTION | ANSWER |
| 1 | clap |
| 2 | frog |
| 3 | step |
| 4 | plum |
| 5 | drum |
| 6 | stop |
| 7 | club |
| 8 | crib |
| 9 | star |
| 10 | flag |
| 11 | crab |
| 12 | stem |
| Check Your Understanding | |
| QUESTION | ANSWER |
| 1 | good |
| 2 | bad |
| 3 | bad |
| 4 | good |
| 5 | bad |
| 6 | bad |
| 7 | good |
| 8 | good |
| Writing | |
| (Any three of the sentences below are correct.) | |
| Farming is a hard job because bugs can eat your crops. | |
| Farming is a hard job because weeds can hurt your crops. | |
| Farming is a hard job because your crops may need more rain than they get. | |
| Farming is a hard job because fruits and vegetables can go bad before they are sold. | |
Attributions
See the Attributions page near the end of this book.