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Questions to think about

1. Read pages 1-12 with your partner2. Talk about each question below and record notes of your discussion3. Be ready to share your thinking at the end of this session

Week 1 Monday Comprehension 1/Spoken Language 1

© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users Y5 Sum F1 Classic fiction

Tolkien wanted Thror's map to be printed on a separate piece of paper and glued in the front of the book. What effect do you think that would have had?

Tolkien originally wrote the novel for his children. What clues of this can you find in the language that he uses?

Who is your favourite character from today's reading? Explain why you have chosen him.

Use of language

Can you tell who said these words just by the type of language they use?

Week 1 Tuesday Comprehension 2


Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not today. Good morning! But please come to tea - any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Come tomorrow! Good-bye!

Shut yer mouth! Yer can't expect folk to stop here for ever just to be et by you and Bert. You've et a village and a half between yer, since we come down from the mountains. How

much more d'yer want?

Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit - may the hair on his toes

never fall out! All praise to his wine and ale!...We are met to discuss our plans, our ways, means, policy and devices. We shall soon before the break of day start on our long

journey, a journey from which some of us, or perhaps all of us (except our friend and counsellor, the ingenious wizard Gandalf) may never return.

Dialogue Detectives1. Read pages 13-22 with your partner and look carefully at the dialogue you see2. Talk about each question below and write your answers3. Be ready to share your thinking at the end of this session

What do these words make you think about the type of person Bilbo is?

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What do these words make you think about the trolls?

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This is what Gandalf says when he pretends to be one of the trolls. How does it sound like the way that trolls speak?

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Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

Shut yer mouth! Yer can't expect folk to stop here for ever just to be et by you and Bert. You've et a village and a half between yer, since we come down from the mountains. How

much more d'yer want?

No good boiling 'em! We ain't got no water, and it's a long way to the well and all.

Dialogue Detectives1. Read pages 13-22 with your partner and look carefully at the dialogue you see2. Talk about each question below and record your answers3. Be ready to share your thinking at the end of this session

Look again at page 15. What clues do Bilbo's words give you about his character?

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Look again at page 17. What do you think 'copped' might mean?

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Look again at page 18. Why does the troll think Bilbo is a 'Burrahobbit'?

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Look again at page 20. The speech bubbles without a tail (there are 2) are Gandalf pretending to be a troll. How does he make his words sound like a troll?

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Think about all of your reading today. Why do you think Tolkien chose to use such different language for the dialogue of each of his characters?

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Dialogue Detectives

1. Read pages 13-22 with your partner and look carefully at the dialogue you see2. Talk about each question below and record your answers3. Be ready to share your thinking at the end of this session

Look again at page 15. What clues do Bilbo's words give you about his character?

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Look again at pages 16-17. What impression do you think Tolkien wanted his reader to have of the trolls from their speech?

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Look again at page 20. The speech bubbles without a tail (there are 2) are Gandalf pretending to be a troll. How does he disguise his speech?

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Think about all of your reading today. Why do you think Tolkien chose to use such different language for the speech of each of his characters?

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The Hobbit was written almost 80 years ago. In what ways is the speech different from the type you might find in modern day fiction?

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Multi-clause MadnessGame Card

Game instructions

The aim of the game is to think of an excuse which must be said in a multi-clause sentence, using 3 things from the game card

o Work in groups of 3, taking turnso Roll the die 3 timeso The numbers rolled tell you which 3 words/phrases your excuse must

contain.o If you can say a multi-clause sentence you score 1 pointo If you can flip the order of the clauses score 1 pointo If all the dice numbers are even score double pointso If all the dice numbers are odd, first person to say 'STEAL' gets that go

Excuse for Conjunction Challenge words1 No homework after alien

2 Losing your coat although The Queen

3 Not feeding hamster because elephant

4 Breaking a window before bee

5 Your sister crying when cake

6 Flooding the bathroom while sock

E.g. Throw a 3…There was an elephant blocking the cage when I tried to feed my hamster. (1 point – 2 clauses in this sentence)When I tried to feed my hamster, there was an elephant blocking the cage. (1 point – flipping the order to open with a subordinate clause)

Week 1 Wednesday Grammar 1


You need:1 game card1 die

I rolled: 3,5,3

Chapter 5 Riddles in the Dark

When Bilbo opened his eyes, he wondered if he had. It was just as dark as with them shut. No one was anywhere near him. Just imagine his fright! He could hear nothing, see nothing, and he could feel nothing except the stone of the floor.

Very slowly he got up and groped about on all fours, till he touched the wall of the tunnel; but neither up nor down it could he find anything: nothing at all, no sign of goblins, no sign of dwarves. His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment. He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

From The Hobbit, (1937) Opening Paragraphs of Ch.5

Text to display for introduction

Week 1 Thursday Comprehension 3/Transcription 1


Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake; for a lake it was, wide and deep and deadly cold. He paddled it with large feet dangling over the side, but never a ripple did he make. Not he. He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind fish, which he grabbed with his long fingers as quick as thinking. He liked meat too. Goblin he thought good, when he could get it; but he took care they never found him out. He just throttled them from behind, if they ever came down alone anywhere near the edge of the water, while he was prowling about. They very seldom did, for they had a feeling that something unpleasant was lurking down there, down at the very roots of the mountain. They had come on the lake, when they were tunnelling down long ago, and they found they could go no further; so there their road ended in that direction, and there was no reason to go that way-unless the Great Goblin sent them. Sometimes he took a fancy for fish from the lake, and sometimes neither goblin nor fish came back.

Actually Gollum lived on a slimy island of rock in the middle of the lake. He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes. Bilbo could not see him, but he was wondering a lot about Bilbo, for he could see that he was no goblin at all.

Gollum got into his boat and shot off from the island, while Bilbo was sitting on the brink altogether flummoxed and at the end of his way and his wits. Suddenly up came Gollum and whispered and hissed:

"Bless us and splash us, my precioussss! I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, Gollum!" And when he said Gollum he made a horrible swallowing noise in his throat. That is how he got his name, though he always called himself 'my precious.'

The hobbit jumped nearly out of his skin when the hiss came in his ears, and he suddenly saw the pale eyes sticking out at him. "Who are you?" he said, thrusting his dagger in front of him. "What iss he, my preciouss?" whispered Gollum (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to). This is what he had come to find out, for he was not really very hungry at the moment, only curious; otherwise he would have grabbed first and whispered afterwards.

"I am Mr. Bilbo Baggins. I have lost the dwarves and I have lost the wizard, and I don't know where I am; and I don't want to know, if only I can get away."

"What's he got in his handses?" said Gollum, looking at the sword, which he did not quite like.

"A sword, a blade which came out of Gondolin!"

"Sssss," said Gollum, and became quite polite. "Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss. It like riddles, praps it does, does it?" He was anxious to appear friendly, at any rate for the moment, and until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit, whether he was quite alone really, whether he was good to eat, and whether Gollum was really hungry. Riddles were all he could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them, had been the only game he had ever played with other funny creatures sitting in their holes in the long, long ago, before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone, and crept down, down, into the dark under the mountains.

From The Hobbit, (1937) extract from Ch.5Week 1 Thursday Comprehension 3/Transcription 1


Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. He was Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake. He paddled it with large feet dangling over the side, but never a ripple did he make. Not he. He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind fish, which he grabbed with his long fingers as quick as thinking.

Gollum lived on a slimy island of rock in the middle of the lake. He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes.

Gollum got into his boat and shot off from the island, while Bilbo was sitting on the brink altogether flummoxed and at the end of his way and his wits. Suddenly up came Gollum and whispered and hissed:

"Bless us and splash us, my precioussss! I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, Gollum!" And when he said Gollum he made a horrible swallowing noise in his throat. That is how he got his name, though he always called himself 'my precious’.

The hobbit jumped nearly out of his skin when the hiss came in his ears, and he suddenly saw the pale eyes sticking out at him. "Who are you?" he said, thrusting his dagger in front of him.

"What iss he, my preciouss?" whispered Gollum (who always spoke to himself through never having anyone else to speak to). He was not really very hungry at the moment, only curious; otherwise he would have grabbed first and whispered afterwards.

"I am Mr. Bilbo Baggins. I have lost the dwarves and I have lost the wizard, and I don't know where I am; and I don't want to know, if only I can get away."

"What's he got in his handses?" said Gollum, looking at the sword.

"A sword, a blade which came out of Gondolin!"

"Praps ye sits here and chats with it a bitsy, my preciousss. It like riddles, praps it does, does it?" He was anxious to appear friendly until he found out more about the sword and the hobbit. Riddles were all he could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them, had been the only game he had ever played, before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone, and crept down, down, into the dark under the mountains.

From The Hobbit, (1937) Abridged extract from Ch.5Week 1 Thursday Comprehension 3/Transcription 1


Spelling rule i before e except after c

If the /i:/ (ee) sound in a word follows the letter c then it is spelt ‘ei’. Otherwise it is spelt ‘ie’. There are some exceptions though!

Words with the spelling ie

achievebelievedieselgriefyieldbriefpiecemischiefbrief

relievedchiefreprieveshieldwieldniecepriestfield

Words with the spelling

Receivedeceiveceilingconceit

inconceivablereceiptperceive

The words ‘either’ and ‘neither’ are exceptions, though this can depend on accents where sometimes they are pronounced with the /aI/ (as in pie) sound.

Other exceptions are where the /i:/ sound doesn’t follow c but the sound is spelt ‘ei’, for example, weird, seize, protein, skein, caffeine.

Week 1 Thursday Transcription 1/Comprehension 3


Thinking about Clues in The Hobbit A

Read the extract Use this prompt sheet to help you think about the text Write answers in your exercise book/on the sheet

*short answer of one or two words ** medium answer - explain in a sentence or two***longer answer - explain in a few sentences/short paragraph

1. Who does Bilbo meet?* _______________________

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature.2. Highlight the alliteration (words beginning with the same sounds).

3. What do you think lamp-like eyes might be like?**

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4. What does Gollum eat?* __________________

5. Why doesn't Gollum try to eat Bilbo?*

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6. What makes Gollum's speech different to Bilbo's?**

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7. Why does Gollum want to play riddles with Bilbo?**

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8. This extract is from the original Hobbit novel. Do you prefer this or the graphic novel? Explain why.***

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Grammar challenge: use a highlighter to highlight the conjunctions



Thinking about Clues in The Hobbit B

Read the extract carefully Use this prompt sheet to help you think about the text Write answers in your exercise book


1. Who does Bilbo meet?*

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature.2. Highlight the alliteration. Why does Tolkien repeat these sounds?**


4. What does Gollum eat?*


6. What makes Gollum's speech different to Bilbo's?**

"Sssss," said Gollum, and became quite polite.7. What makes Gollum change his behaviour towards Bilbo and why? **

8. Why does Gollum want to play riddles with Bilbo?**

9. Do you think Bilbo knows what Gollum plans to do with him? Explain why.***


Grammar challenge: use a highlighter to highlight the conjunctions



Thinking about Clues in The Hobbit C

Read the extract carefully Use this prompt sheet to help you think about the text Write answers in your exercise book


1. Describe Gollum.**

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature.2. What effect is created by this alliteration?**


...but never a ripple did he make...4. What effect does Tolkien create with this detail?**

5. What makes Gollum's speech distinctive?**


...I have lost the wizard, and I don't know where I am...7. What clues do these words give about Bilbo's character?***

8. How does Gollum change his speech to appear more friendly?**

...before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone...9. Does it surprise you that Gollum used to have friends? Why does Tolkien include this detail?***


11. Tolkien's narration is still quite conversational. Explain why you think he might choose this style, including a quotation to illustrate your point.***HINT - Remember to put the quote in "inverted commas"

Grammar challenge: highlight all of the conjunctions, use one colour for coordinating conjunctions and another for subordinating conjunctions



Wilderland Phrase BookCommon Troll Phrases

afore - beforeblighter - a person who is regarded with contempt, irritation, or pityblimey - used to express surprise, excitement, or alarmblinking - used to express annoyancecopped - caughtet - ateme - mytomorrer - tomorrowyer - you

Trolls often miss out the 1st h in words e.g. here becomes 'ere and the last g in ing so sneaking becomes sneakin'

Common Dwarf Phrases

all praise to... - I really admire...be off - go awaybeset - troubled byindeed - used in a response to

express surprise, or contemptfarewell - goodbyehasten - hurrypray - please

Dwarfs enjoy using grand words and phrases. They often use long, extended sentences, with many subordinate clauses.

Week 1 Friday Composition 1


Week 1 Friday Composition 1/Spoken Language 2

Guided visualisation of a journey through Mirkwood Forest

(You may wish to remind chn of where Mirkwood appears in The Hobbit p.70)

I am going to take you to Mirkwood Forest. I want you to think about what you notice. I will pause to give you time to think and encourage you to use all of your senses. Shut your eyes and open your imagination...

You are standing at the edge of Mirkwood Forest. Through the tall trees you notice that it is much darker there. What is your first impression? Can you see anything that makes you nervous or you think will make your journey difficult?

You begin to move through the trees. What is the ground like? Is it damp or muddy? Do your feet slide and sink in the earth? Is there a blanket of thick vegetation? Do you have to push through tangled undergrowth or hold your arms high to avoid brambles and nettles? What does the place smell like? Does it change as you brush past a bush or as you feel the ground ooze beneath your feet? Is the light dimmer under the trees or do they create pools of lighter and darker space? How are the colours different in each?

Take a moment to look up. What colours are the leaves? Is the colour changed where the sun shines through? Can you see the sky through the leaves or is it covered by a canopy of foliage? Is there anything growing up the thick trunks of the trees or anything hanging from the branches? Can you see any signs of the giant spiders that are rumoured to live here?

Continue, deeper into the forest. Now that you are used to the landscape, what sounds do you notice? Is there a breeze? How does that affect the plant life? Are there animals nearby and what sounds do your own movements make? Is there any moving water? You've heard stories of an enchanted stream in these parts. What does the sound of water remind you of? Are there any sounds that worry you, that hint of hidden danger?

You travel further. Something is different now? Does it feel a little colder or quieter than before? Is it that bit darker or is something else playing on your mind? Take a moment to look cautiously around. Are there any subtle signs of danger?

Keep looking and listening. Move on, pushing through towering ferns and ducking to avoid low branches. Stop. You know not to move a muscle. You are surrounded by a network of cobwebs, thick as rope and stretched, from tree to tree. Something under your feet crunched as your foot landed and although you cannot see anything moving, there is a faint rustling sound above your head...

Week 2 Monday Grammar 2/Composition 2


Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn't put Humpty together again.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, which was both crooked and crumbling. Humpty Dumpty, who was well-known for his reckless behaviour, had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, who had already saved Humpty from many previous perils, couldn't put Humpty together again.

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after.

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, who sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away.

Week 2 Tuesday Grammar 3


Relative Pronounswho, which, where, when, whose, that

Narrative Style

He is all-knowing; he knows everything about the story, including future events and characters' thoughts

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours' respect, but he gained - well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end.

He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it.

He was watching Bilbo now from the distance with his pale eyes like telescopes. Bilbo could not see him, but he was wondering a lot about Bilbo, for he could see that he was no goblin at all.

He is intrusive; he shares opinions on actions and motives of the characters

After hearing all this Bilbo ought to have done something at once. Either he should have gone back quietly and warned his friends that there were three fair-sized trolls at hand in a nasty mood, quite likely to try toasted dwarf, or even pony, for a change; or else he should have done a bit of good quick burgling.

What his father Bungo would have thought of him, I daren't think.

I should not have liked to have been in Mr. Baggins' place, all the same.

He is an expert- an adult speaking to a child; he explains

I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us.

And there they stand to this day, all alone, unless the birds perch on them; for trolls, as you probably know, must be underground before dawn, or they go back to the stuff of the mountains they are made of, and never move again.

Now certainly Bilbo was in what is called a tight place. But you must remember it was not quite so tight for him as it would have been for me or for you. Hobbits are not quite like ordinary people; and after all if their holes are nice cheery places and properly aired, quite different from the tunnels of the goblins, still they are more used to tunnelling than we are.

Week 2 Wednesday Comprehension 4


Thinking about Narrative Style

Work through the questions, reading and answering the questions Be ready to share your thinking

Read page 83 and find this narrationHe often wished, too, that he could get a message for help sent to the wizard, but...he soon realized that if anything was to be done, it would have to be done by Mr. Baggins, alone and unaided.

1. How does the narrator being able to read the characters' minds help the reader?

Find this narration also on page 83But of course, as you have guessed, he did rescue his friends in the end,

and this is how it happened.2. Why do you think Tolkien tells you before it happens that Bilbo rescues his friends?

3. Read page 84 What does the narrator explain to you about Lake-Town?

Now read pages 85-87It was just at this moment that Bilbo suddenly discovered the weak point in his plan. Most likely you saw it some time ago and have been laughing at him; but I don't suppose you would have done half as well yourselves in his place.

4. What effect does sharing opinions with the reader in this way have?

Week 2 Wednesday Comprehension 4


Is Bilbo shown as a character who is changing? How?

Planning Ideas

Spend some time thinking about the events you will be writing about Record your ideas Use a thesaurus & The Hobbit to collect more words & phrases Build noun phrases (including some relative clauses) which will give your writing impact

Setting Treasure Horrible Hobbit

Smaug's feelings Other ideas

Week 2 Thursday Composition 3/Transcription 2/Grammar 4


The Thief Returns

Deep down in the depths of the cave, poor Smaug lay listening. He moaned. Haunted by the loss of his beloved cup, he was determined to stay alert. He curled his huge coiled tail around his glinting treasure, like a mother cradles her child. He was right to suspect that the greedy thief might return as you will soon see.

Modelled opening/story starter

Week 2 Friday Composition 4/Spoken Language 3

Lost Tale Planning Guide© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users Y5 Sum F1 Classic fiction

Is Bilbo the same as he was at the

beginning of The Hobbit?

Use this guide to help you plan a short adventure story Your story will include Bilbo Choose a planning format or use the one your teacher has given you

Think about

Setting: Hint: forest, cave, palace, dungeon, etc.

Main Characters: Bilbo and...

Other Characters:Hint: could be human or mythological

Theme to include:

Ideas for climax/problem to solve:Hint: losing someone/something, getting trapped, beingasked to get something important, etc.

Ideas for resolution/how problem solved:

Week 3 Monday Composition 4


Tolkien's Narrative Style

Reread your writing Can you remember the features of Tolkien's narrative style? Use the ideas below to 'Tolkien-up' your narrative

Telling the reader before it happens

Add some signposts for your reader to give them clues as to what will happen next and to draw them in.

Hints:This is a story about when...as you will soon see.Little did Bilbo know that...Danger would greet them before the day was out.He didn't know it at the time but...Let us hurry along to when...

Sharing opinions with the reader

Add adjectives to tell the reader what to think of the characters.

Hints: Poor, brave, unlucky, kind, selfish, cunning, etc.

Add a sentence to comment on the action or words of one of your characters.

Sounding as if you are talking to some children

Add a sentence as if you were telling the story to a group of younger children

Hints: Of course, you know what was hiding behind the rock, don't you?

Reading the characters' minds

Choose an action of one of your characters that you find interesting. Think about they might behave this way. Add a sentence to explain their thinking to your reader as if the character has told you.

Week 3 Wednesday Composition 7/Grammar 6


The Hobbit - Worldwide

Polish French

Russian Chinese

Week 3 Friday Comprehension 5/Spoken Language 4

Hobbit Debate Positions© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users Y5 Sum F1 Classic fiction

Week 3 Friday Comprehension 5/Spoken Language 4


The original novel is the only way to

appreciate The Hobbit.

The graphic novel is a great way for children to enjoy

The Hobbit.

Watching the film version is the best

way to enjoy The Hobbit.

The Hobbit is not for girls as there

are no female characters.*

The ending of The Hobbit is

disappointing and spoils the novel.*

Teacher notes:Cut out individual debate statements & distribute randomly *Alternative debate options

Gandalf was wrong to choose Bilbo as

the burglar.*

Debate Notes


My position (what I am arguing):Discussion conjunctions/adverbs:however, alternatively, whereas, on the other hand, although

for example, for instance,

furthermore, also, in addition

as a result, therefore, so, consequently

Evidence/examples that defend my answer:

My Score:Week 3 Friday Comprehension 5/Spoken Language 4


Evidence/examples that might challenge my answer:

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