Word detective!

The Iron Man by Ted

Hughes
Find examples of nouns, verb and adjectives in Chapter Two of The Iron Man.
A. Read chapter 2 and note down any nouns, verb & adjectives.
Sort them under the appropriate headings.
Nouns Verbs Adjectives

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(Things, persons, objects) (Actions) (It can be colour, size or
texture of things)
 Something shiny, round and hard. It
was one of the Iron Man’s eyes.

B. Find images/ picture for these vocabulary (words) you read in Chapter 2.

Fishing Stream

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 hook Gun

Farm Tractor

windshield Digger

Footprint Lorry

C. Look at the wordsearch. Find the past tense verbs from Chapter two.
You can highlight the words you found.

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 G U D W A S O E
Z C R A S H E D
Q A O T W O M A
N X V C D U A M
L N E H N T E B
U U L E E E D E
Y G G D H D H I
W F T V D O I L

D. Use the verbs to complete the sentences.

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1. Hogarth went Fishing.

2. He heard the Iron Man.

3. He saw the Iron Man walking.

4. Hogarth ran home to tell his parents.

5. His father drove his car to tell other farmers.

6. His father crashed his car into the Iron Man’s foot.

7. The Iron Man ate half a tractor.

8. The farmers shouted because they were angry.

9. The farmers dug a hole.

10. They made a trap for the Iron Man.

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