English 18 01 21 The Firework Makers Daughter

English 18. 01. 21

The Firework Maker’s Daughter Chapter 5

LO: Decode, infer and interpret. Success Criteria: Identify key information from a text. Infer meaning using clues from the text. Predict what might happen next.

Chapter 5 Listen to chapter 5 of the Firework Maker’s Daughter by clicking the link below. The next few slides have the text for chapter 5.

Questions Answer the following questions using the text to help you. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) What creatures turn up? What does Razvani look like? What is the Royal Sulphur? Why can Lila barely breathe? How can you tell Razvani is annoyed? Why does Razvani laugh at Lila? What does ‘barren’ mean? How does Philip Pullman make you feel sorry for Lila on the first page? Mild – questions 1 - 4 Medium – questions 1 - 6 Spicy – questions 1 - 8

Answers 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Fire-imps and fire-spirits. His body was a mass of flame and his face was a mask of scorching light. There is no Royal Sulphur. It is an illusion. There was too much fire. It says ‘he roared’. He laughed at her because she wanted to be a firework maker but hadn’t come prepared with the three gifts or the water from the Goddess. 7) Barren means there were no plants or trees growing in the rock. 8) Philip Pullman makes you feel sorry for Lila on the first page because he uses phrases like ‘she felt them with her bleeding hands’ and ‘her heart sank, because she had come all this way and there was nothing here’.