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Pronouns: snub-nosed monkey

3 - Whiteboard Challenges

Whiteboard Challenges

Challenge 1

Avoid repetition and improve the first sentence by using either a pronoun or an alternative noun/noun phrase to describe the snub-nosed monkeys.

Challenge 2

Avoid repetition and improve the second of the two sentences by using your knowledge of pronouns. Once you have done this, see if you can make the sentence more descriptive by expanding the noun phrases – ‘the monkey’ and ‘the male’.

Challenge 3

Using some of the words from the Word Wall, write two scintillating sentences about a snub-nosed monkey. Avoid repetition (saying or writing the same thing over and over again) by using a pronoun to link your second sentence to your first.

Whiteboard Challenges

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1) Snub-nosed monkeys live in groups called units. __________  band together for protection from predators such as birds of prey, wolves and tigers.

2) The monkey wants to be accepted by the gang. The monkey hopes that he will be allowed to groom the male.

Word Wall

(pronouns) it, their, them, this, they, her, his, he, she snub-nosed monkey dominant male lonely frightened leader ferocious threatened gang exiled freezing temperature accepted