COLEGIO SAN PEDRO CLAVER

- ELEMENTARY

SECTION
BUCARAMANGA
2015
AREA:
SUBJECT: ENGLISH

ENGLISH

GRADE: FIFTH TEACHERS: ANA MILENA OSPINA R. JULIAN QUINTERO

PINO
STUDENT:
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BANK OF
EXERCISES

Elephants are the largest living land

mammals. The Asian Elephant, also known as
the Indian Elephant, can weigh up to 11.000
pounds. The African Elephant is even bigger
weighing as much as 20.000 pounds. The
elephants gestation period is 22 months, the
longest of any mammal, because baby elephants weigh an average of
260 pounds at birth. The largest elephant ever measured was 13 feet tall
and weighed 24,000 pounds.

Give complete answer to the following questions which are related to

the previous reading:

Are elephants amphibians?

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Among the Asian Elephant and the African Elephant, which is
bigger and why?
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How long is the elephants gestation period?
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Write a complete description of the elephants according to the

image:

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Draw a line to match the sentences that create a relationship between

cause and effect:

It was snowing outside

His teacher made him do it

at recess.

Tony forgot to do his homework

She was late getting to

math class.

I studied for the test

The teacher told me to turn

the ruler
around.

I was supposed to measure in

inches but used the centimeter
side of the ruler

I got great grades.

I practiced my math facts a lot this

summer

I become very fast at

addition.

Kelly missed the bus this morning

The teacher could not read

her writing.

Sharons handwriting was very

messy on the math paper

The math teacher had the

class measure snow during
class.

To take into account:

Check the following sentences and underline the word that

needs to be capitalized:
Example:

i went to new york on Saturday.

1. when i went to the store, i saw my teacher ms. rojas.

2. my family will go to disneyland in july.
3. my sister sara says that her favorite subject is english.
4. in august, we are going to visit our aunt mary in san francisco,
california.
5. my friend jane speaks english, and i speak Spanish.
6. my neighbor tom will visit paris, france.

Write the superlative of:

One syllable
a. old- ______________________
b. big- ______________________
c. cold- _____________________
d. large- ____________________
e. small- ____________________
f. short- ____________________
g. long- ____________________
h. red- _____________________
i. fast- _____________________
j. blue- ____________________
k. smart- ___________________
l. sad- _____________________
m. cute- ____________________
n. wet- _____________________
o. young- ___________________

Two syllables ending in y:

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.

Lazy- _______________________
Happy- _____________________
Silly- ________________________
Pretty- ______________________
Dirty- _______________________
Noisy- ______________________
Heavy- _____________________
Funny- ______________________
Healthy- ____________________
Easy- _______________________
k. Cozy- ______________________

Long adjectives ( 2, 3 or more syllables): add the most+

adjective:
a. beautiful_____________________________
b. stupid_____________________________
c. intelligent_____________________________
d. clever_____________________________
e. expensive-

g. boring_____________________________
h. careful_____________________________
i. famous_____________________________
j. delicious_____________________________
k. dangerous-

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f. interesting_____________________________

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l. modern_____________________________