Huddersfield: A place where we feel at home

Activities to go with the reading resources created by MESH

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Here is a sample of different level activities which can be done with the Exploring and Belonging reading resources about Huddersfield. The activities from the slides can be adapted for both reading resources.

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Castle Hill: A place in Huddersfield where we feel at home

E1 Booklet:

Read pages 1-4

1. Where is Castle Hill?

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• Who lives up here? Humans or rabbits?

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Look at the photos on pages 3 and 4.

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1. What do we pick? Apples or pears?

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• What other food can people pick?

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Read pages 5-7.

1. What can we see at the top of the hill? A castle or a tower?

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• What else can we see?

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Read Pages 11-14 True or False:

1. It is okay to fly a kite in a storm (True? Or False?).

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• There is a kite festival in Pakistan called Basant (True? Or False?).

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• A beacon is a big fire on top of the hill (True? Or False?).

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• We climb the hill in the dark (True? Or False?).

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Watch this video: Basant kite festival

Circle the right word:

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1. [Men / Women] are flying the kites.

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• They are standing on the [window / roof].

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• The weather is [rainy / cloudy].

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E3 Booklet: Read it and find these words. Discuss their meaning, then put each word into a sentence:

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steep

wildlife

forage

A well

traces

landmark

Now put the words from slide 9 into these sentences:

1. If you need water, you can dig a ________.�
2. In summer and autumn, you can _________ for wild food.�
3. To avoid getting lost in a city, always look for a ________.�
4. Foxes, badgers, owls, squirrels and bats are examples of British ___________.�
5. In winter, if it snows, children love to find a _______ hill to go down on their sledges!�
6. After the children have been on their sledges, you can find __________ of their journeys in the snow.

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Two festivals are mentioned in the text. A kite festival and a fireworks festival

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Do you have these in your country?

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Tell your group about the festival, then have a go at writing about it.

Masjid Noor: A place in Huddersfield where we feel at home

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E1 Booklet: Read pages 1-3

1. Where is Masjid Noor?

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• Look at the old maps. Can you see the railway?

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• Can you see the river?

Read pages 10-12. What things can we do at the masjid? Choose 4 words:

Swim�

Sleep�

Pray�

Run

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Listen�

Build�

Ask�

Read

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Read pages 7-8 and 13-14.

Put the sentences in order:

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1. The church is no longer used.�
2. People feel happy in the masjid.�
3. A group of people buy the church.�
4. In 1933 people build a church.�
5. In 1979 the church is now a masjid.

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E3 Booklet: Read pages 4, 5 and 6. Fill the gaps.

1. A mill is a place where people [……] fabric.

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• Another word for fabric is […….].

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• People come from [….] and [….] to work in the mill.

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• Roubina’s father was 8 during [….]. He had to […..] a long way to Pakistan.

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E3 Booklet: Read the whole thing, then click on the pencil for a worksheet.

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Copyright Notice/Statement

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The Exploring and Belonging resources on the Learning English Plus website are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, unless otherwise stated.

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You may share and adapt these materials for non-commercial purposes, as long as you credit MESH Exploring & Belonging Project and the National Lottery Heritage Fund UK, and distribute any adaptations under the same license.

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For further information please contact info@yhmesh.org.uk

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Photos of Shah Jehan, Madni Jamia Masjid and Jamea Masjid - Geograph