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Please help me with my 6 y/o's English Homework

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BloodyHardHomework · 14/10/2018 08:25

I've changed my username because I'm too embarrassed to let people know I can't do my 6-year-old's homework! Can anybody please tell me what words should go in the blanks instead of go/have?

Please help me with my 6 y/o's English Homework
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Munchmallow · 14/10/2018 09:12

It's a long time since I went to school but I'm sure I wasn't taught that 'am' is a tense of 'be'

What a strange assignment!

MrBirlingsAwfulWife · 14/10/2018 09:12

"We are having tea now!" would work but they have used "teatime"

PurpleDaisies · 14/10/2018 09:13

We are having ...?

We are having tea, yes. It is teatime now, yes. We are having teatime, no.

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BookMeOnTheSudExpress · 14/10/2018 09:13

If there is "now", it should surely be "are having" teatime

Not that that makes any greater sense than the rest!

I can see why the teacher has done it, as others have said, it's about infinitives after "let's" etc cf first person forms, but the examples are atrocious. S/he obviously made them up herself, it doesn't look like a photocopy from a book- though if it were, I might email the publishers. I've seen so many shite exercises because of shite examples.

BookMeOnTheSudExpress · 14/10/2018 09:13

Xpost!

Munchmallow · 14/10/2018 09:14

'We are having tea' makes sense, but not 'tea time'

MrBirlingsAwfulWife · 14/10/2018 09:15

"We are having teatime now!" Sounds just as weird as "We have teatime now!"

HenryInTheTunnel · 14/10/2018 09:19

'It is teatime now' or 'we are having tea now' would be correct.

What an odd worksheet

Oddcat · 14/10/2018 09:20

I feel your pain Op , so many occasions when dd and I struggled to make sense of homework , only for me to question it with the teacher who then agreed that the task was either misleading or incorrect Angry

sirfredfredgeorge · 14/10/2018 09:29

Why are we having tea and scones now?
It's tea time.
It's 3am, we should be asleep.
We are having teatime now!

MrBirlingsAwfulWife · 14/10/2018 09:51

Or
"why are you putting the kettle on?"
"It's 2 o'clock, teatime"
"Our teatime is 4 o'clock "
"We have teatime now!"

MrBirlingsAwfulWife · 14/10/2018 09:52

Even these convoluted possibilities don't sound like english Grin

sirfredfredgeorge · 14/10/2018 10:03

Even these convoluted possibilities don't sound like english

Certainly not, questioning why someone is putting the kettle on is certainly not English!

MrBirlingsAwfulWife · 14/10/2018 10:24

Grin @sirfredfredgeorge

MrDonut · 14/10/2018 11:20

@MrBirlingsAwfulWife

Homework should be review, so they should have been doing similar activities in class. It’s harder for us because the activity is out of context. I think the instructions were clear, so I wouldn’t complain to the teacher about it.

MrBirlingsAwfulWife · 14/10/2018 12:17

@MrDonut The fact that the instructions were not clear to the 6 year old in question, suggests that preparation in class was not adequate. And an activity aimed at a 6 year old should surely be instantly understandable to an adult.

But as a primary school teacher I remain totally disheartened that this is the style of teaching activity used with 6 year olds Sad

Squidgee · 14/10/2018 12:21

that's one I would send back with 'this doesn't make sense' written across it.

honeyskye · 14/10/2018 12:25

What’s the ‘I be hungry’ about? Is the BFG setting the homework?

Thismummyruns · 14/10/2018 12:28

I'd be raising concerns about this!

I'm in my 30's and I cannot believe this has been set for KS1!!!

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 14/10/2018 12:33

I am, you are, he is, she is, one is, we are, they are. Definitely the verb 'to be.'

Gooseygoosey12345 · 14/10/2018 12:36

They're giving you the verb you need to use in the brackets, you then have to use the correct form of the verb in the sentence. So it would be let's go swimming, we are thirsty, let's have biscuits etc.
I think it just wasn't explained well and definitely should have been explained to your child in class so they knew what they were supposed to be doing with their homework.

Bluesheep8 · 14/10/2018 12:37

Not the point of the thread at all but homework for 6 year olds?! Seriously? It's a long time since I was at school and I don't have dc but homework at 6???

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BloodyHardHomework · 14/10/2018 12:38

Thank you so much for all your answers! I am just going to ask DC to write go/have (and maybe change to drink as well) as no other words would make sense. Thank you!

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MrBirlingsAwfulWife · 14/10/2018 12:39

A 6 year old can reasonably be expected to know / be taught the correct use of the verb "to be" in both spoken and written english.

They do not need to be able to fathom out a ridiculously over complicated deathly dull worksheet like this one that includes an example that doesn't make sense ( question 8)

MrBirlingsAwfulWife · 14/10/2018 12:41

@Bluesheep8 exactly!

Everything about this is making me dispair.