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"The Giant Who Had Two Heads"  by Jack Lasenby
School Journal Part 2, Part 4, 1993
Learning Media Ltd, Wellington, NZ
Learners' Grid, https://www.learnersgrid.com/english/nzjournal-index.html
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Set: VESAC   (Vocabulary, Evaluation, Synthesis, Analysis, Comprehension)

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External Links.  Find out about:

[i] Jack Lasenby
[ii] Two-headed Giants

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GENERAL COMPREHENSION - Developing thinking skills

 1) Who is the author of this piece of writing? [1 mark]  

 2) Who is the illustrator for this piece of writing? [1 mark]  

 3) What kind of writing is this? A story? A poem? An article? A play? [1 mark]  

 4) What were the giant's two heads like? [1 mark]  

 5) How did Jack appear in the land? [1 mark]  

 6) Where did all Jack's strength come from? [2 marks]  

 7) When did the giant steal Jack's motorbike? [1 mark]  

 8) What was Jack's plan to catch the giant? [2 marks]  

 9) How do we know that the hole was VERY deep? [2 marks]  

 10) Describe how Jack made the giant angry. [2 marks]  

 11) Once the giant was trapped, what did the people do? [2 marks]  



VOCABULARY SKILLS - Developing language skills

FIND WORDS FROM THE TEXT WHICH MEAN THE SAME AS:
 12) carefully, quietly (p3) [1 mark]

 13) big, huge (p5) [1 mark]

 14) yelling (p6) [1 mark]

 15) grass (p9) [1 mark]



FIND THESE WORDS IN THE TEXT, THEN PUT THEM IN SENTENCES OF YOUR OWN, PRESERVING THEIR MEANING AS PER THE TEXT:
 16) square (p4) [1 mark]

 17) dump (p8) [1 mark]



ADJECTIVES & VERBS:
 18) From the first page, find 2 adjectives. [2 marks]

 19) From the last paragraph, find 2 verbs. [2 marks]



ANALYSIS - SYNTHESIS - EVALUATION

Complete any TWO (2) tasks below
 20) Imagine you lived in the town BEFORE Jack came. Write a letter to Jack begging him to come to your town - and say WHY you need him to come. [4 marks]

 21) Imagine you are a newspaper reporter. Write a short newspaper article about the capture of the giant. Include an appropriate headline. [4 marks]

 22) Imagine you are the giant's eating head. Write an apologetic letter to the townspeople trying to convince them to let you out of the ground. [4 marks]