Japnoor - T3W9

Pre-reading activity 1
Pre-reading activity 2
Vocabulary

T3W9

Listen/read Instructions
Summary
Listen/read Chapter 1a
Checklist Listen/read Chapter 1b
Summary of Chapter 1
Writing
 Fire
Pre-reading activity Wood

The title of the novel is The City of

Ember. An ember is a piece of coal,
wood, or other material that is still
Coal
glowing in the ashes of a fire. On the Ember Glowing
work web, write a word in each circle
Coal
that relates to the word ember. Then
compare your diagram with those of
your classmates.

Charman
Live Coal
der
What do you imagine the city of Ember
will be like?
Pre-reading activity What will the world be like 200 years into the Is it better or worse than today? Explain
future?
2
People will no longer be using vehicles powered This will be better because fossil fuels cause
Imagine that you can get by fossil fuels. large amounts of pollution and climate change.
into a time machine and
travel hundreds of years The world falls to its knees Bad because our world is gone.
into the future. What do
you think you would see?
Would things be better or
No more trees Less oxygen, no oxygen..
worse that they are now.
Use this chart to organize Bees vanish Bad because of our food will be gone.
your thoughts.

Polluted Bad, pollution is bad.

Everything in the air and will float. This is good because we wont need to disturb
things beh=neath us i think.
 Vocabulary
Endeavour Solemnly Electric Labourer Scurried Nook & Cranny Generator Binding Coal Ember

Endure? How do i explain? Electric train ? Ran away ???? Thingy to Bind Something to Glowing coal.
Technology generate. something. put on a fire.

verb Adverb Adjective Noun Verb noun noun noun noun

try hard to do or in a formal and of, worked by, a person move Everywhere, as in I've a thing that a strong a combustible a small piece
searched for it in every
achieve dignified manner. charged with, or doing hurriedly nook and cranny, and I generates covering black or dark of burning or
something. producing unskilled with short still can't find it. This something, in holding the brown rock glowing coal
electricity manual work quick steps metaphoric idiom pairs particular. pages of a found mainly in or wood in a
nook, which has meant
for wages an out-of-the-way book together. underground dying fire.
corner since the mid- deposits and
1300s, with cranny, widely used as
which has meant a crack
or crevice since about fuel.
1440. Neither noun is
heard much other than in
this idiom.

he is the Queen was "an electric stove" "a farm He What is the nook She turned on He began a coal fire "the dying
endeavoring to solemnly crowned "an electric laborer" The scurried and cranny? the generator binding it She used the embers in the
help the Third by the Bishop of current" laborer away Nook and Cranny The generator She added coal for a fire fireplace" "the
World He is Rheims" "the EU She tried She cried broke the binding flickering
endeavouring has solemnly to scurry again embers of
declared its away nationalism"
intention".

Try Formal, formally Electric-powered Unskilled Run ? Machine For another mineral Glowing coal/
worker? meaning, live coal.
Unbreakable.
The Instructions - Summary
These guys built the city and something would happen after 200-220 years. So the
people that built the city gave the box to the mayor of the town, the box went down
from generation to generation but there was one mayor that was less honorable.
This mayor was ill and thought that whatever was in the box could save him but he
was already losing his strength and before he could tell the next mayor about it, he
died. The box then sat in a hidden place until it finally clicked open in secret.
Chapter 1 - Summary
They introduce the characters one by one as each of them pick their assigned
jobs. The main character, Lina, got one of the worst jobs and as students went,
each had better jobs than her and none were as wretched. Then this boy named
doon got the job that Lina wanted but he didnt like that job and wanted the
pipework one which was the one that lina got, so they traded and both were
suuuuuper happy.

The end..

Writing prompt
Imagine you are in The City of Ember
and it is your last day of school - your
assignment day.
You reach your hand into the bag and
remove your slip of paper
What job does it say?
Write to tell the choosing ceremony
from your perspective.
Remember to use your senses!
I slip my hand into the bag, removing one of the many pieces of
paper drowning in each other. I shut my eyes tight, afraid of what i
may get. I clutched onto a piece of paper, it felt cold in my sweating
fingers. The room felt tense at that moment and i felt like i could
smell my own sweat. Unfolding a piece of fate, i slowly unbolt my
eyes, first the right and then the left.
I continued staring until a voice screamed Hurry up!
I began to open my mouth, no sound came out. I tried again,
Electrician assistant not the job i had really wanted but it was
better than some. I began to snail walk back to my seat as the next
person stood.