Year 9 English with Ms Williams

1. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but

   it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

2. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

3. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a

   little behind in his work.

4. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be

   stationery.

5. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result

   in Linoleum Blownapart.

6. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

7. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it

   hit me.

8.. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’

9. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

10. Don’t join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!

Welcome to our English blog! We will use this as a meeting point from time to time as we work our way through the year. You can access it wherever you are online – school, home, the Library, even somewhere overseas. (Last year my Year 10 English class kept in touch with one of our students as she and her family were travelling in Canada and the USA.)

In today’s lesson I would like you to work your way through the pages listed below. When you have completed these please let me know and I will give you a chance at a secret assignment (shhhhh!!!)

The men were huddled in lifeboats. Some prayed that their legs would work. Some smiled to show they weren’t scared. They peered into the darkness ahead and saw nothing.

Then, the dark shape of a man standing on a hill. A shout from the shore. A single shot rang out and a bullet hissed overhead.

The Gallipoli campaign had begun

Anzac soldiers fought on Turkish soil nearly a century ago. So why do we still care about what happened there? Why do we celebrate a battle lost?

The Gallipoli Story takes young people on an unforgettable and tough journey deep into the heartland of war. Patrick Carlyon digs past the myths to explore the lives and choices of the men – soldiers, politicians and generals alike – who found themselves caught up in a battle fought far from home.

A powerful piece of storytelling that brings history to life – and shows us the human faces behind the grand story