English Close Reading

On the surface

1. Los Angeles
2. It is on December 13 in Los Angeles
3. There were 100,000 fans and it was in Wellington.
4. Because the movie was made in New Zealand.
5. They have given 4 ways of contacting the newspaper and they are Letter's, News Contacts, Postal Address and Street Address.

Discovering Techniques -

1. First one means the premiere is not happening in Wellington again and the second one means Waiting for the actors of the movie.
2. Hollywood-Style.
3. It originates in French
4. There is a colon because there is more of one movie.

Search And Think -

1. A special design or pattern.
2. The premiere is not as unqiue.
3. Because the movie was made in New Zealand not Los Angeles.
4. It is encouraged further by tourism New Zealand Marketing will see it as a reason to vist.

Hidden Depths -

1. The opinon is New Zealander's and it it is about even though the premiere is in Los Angeles instead of Wellington this time it is still a new zealand made movie even though the premiere is in Los Angeles.

2. It is talking about New Zealander's being disappointed about the premiere in Los Angeles not in Wellington.

Extend Yourself -

1.  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/28/hobbit-premiere-peter-jackson-wellington


8/1/17

Dry Your Hands

On The Surface -

1. There were four that were tested and they are paper towels, Cotten Reels, Hot-Air Dryer, Cold-Air 'Blade' Dryers.
2. Paper Towels are made from wood pulp.
3. Cotten Reels can be reused 70-130 times before they wear out.
4. They dry your hands by evaporating the water with heated air.

Discovering Techniques -

1.
a. This recent technology uses high-speed air blades.
b. Greenest
c. Heavily
2. to show you what is bad and good.
3. The information tells you the source of where the information is and found.

Search And Think -

1. Photographs help break up the information, they lead into the text, They introduce the text that you are talking about and they support the article content.
2. They show a graph of what is good and bad.


9/8/17

On The Surface -

1. The Big Red Shed
2.  Pre-Schooler
3. The Warehouse has 92 stores nationwide
4. The Warehouse was founded in 1982 by Stephen (now Sir Stephen and Margaret Tindall.
5. In the past 30 years the company has raised $20 million to support Kiwi community organisations.
6. They are Communtiy and Environment.

Discovering Techniques -

1. To show and tell you that is a big store in New Zealand.

2. If you mention it a large percentage of the country will konw what the warehouse is and over 30 years it has been a favourite store for many Kiwis.

3. Unrivalled courage means there is no competion for them they are the number one store in New Zealand.
4. It means someone has said and they are writing it down.

Search and Think -

1. That a pre-schooler sang it.
2. Because they community has helped the warehouse grow and grow uo to now.
3. A hybrid car is enviromental friendly car and one of there key focus is enviroment.




23/8/17

On The Surface
1a. The company is Two Hands.
b. The brand
c. Variety is fruit and fruit seeds and jams.

2.  The slogan is If it's by hand it's made for Two Hands.
3.



19/9/17

The Last Wolf Speaks From The Zoo.

On The Surface
1. There are 2 wolves in the exibit
2. A child screaming
3. Because she tore a child's finger off
4.  About 4 days
5. The wolf is waiting for his sister


Discovering Techniques

1a. Turf: grass and the surface layer of earth held together by its roots.
b. Spoor: the track or scent of an animal.
c.  Span: the length of time for which something lasts.
d. Croon: a soft, low voice or tone.

2. a. 


27/9/17
Dictionary

On The Surface

1.  35 phrases with Break in it.
2. To hoist it rolled up and to "break it"
3.  Satire or sense alas! Can sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon the wheel.

4. The sport is cricket.

Discovering Techniques -


28/9/17

On The Surface -

1. They are commerce and trade, education, science, international relations and tourism.

2. English is the number one language to use in internet sities, English is the language of international aviation and most literature is published in english or translated from english into other languages.

3.