Fronted Adverbials: duck-billed platypus
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Rewrite the first sentence with a fronted adverbial that describes when the platypus first enters the water.
Challenge 2
Complete the second sentence with a main clause after the fronted adverbial “Once in the water, …”
Challenge 3
Using some of the descriptive words from the Word Wall, write your own scintillating sentence about the platypus featured in the film clip. Your sentence must start with a fronted adverbial, giving additional information about when, where, how or how often the action took place.
Whiteboard Challenges
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1) __________________ , the platypus boldly dived into the Tasmanian lake.
2) Once in the water…
Word Wall
duck-billed platypus
Tasmanian lake
hodgepodge
unusual
calm
awkwardly
dived
navigated
murky
collided
beaver-like
manoeuvred
venom
paralysed
fatty tail
webbed feet