Easter

English Activity Booklet

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 Scrambled Suffixes
The nouns and adjectives below can all be changed to verbs with the addition of the correct
suffix. However, they have all been scrambled up. Can you match each word with the correct
suffix to form a verb?

horror speciality advert dedication

class terminal note colony

germ reality active intense

-ate -ise -ify

Use three of the verbs in Easter-themed sentences.

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 Think and Write: New Life

Sentence 1: Include a fronted adverbial.

Sentence 2: Include an apostrophe to mark plural possession.

Sentence 3: Use a dash or dashes to indicate parenthesis.

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Sentence 4: Use a relative clause.

Sentence 5: Include a modal verb.

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 Easter around the World
Easter is one of the major Christian festivals of the year with many customs and traditional
food. It is, however, celebrated differently around the world. Read on to find out about five
interesting Easter traditions:

1. In Poland, on Easter Monday, boys roam around the streets sprinkling

girls with water or perfume. ‘Wet Monday’ (or ‘Smigus Dyngus’) dates
back a few centuries and, traditionally, the girl who got the most
water on her was said to be the next girl who would be married.

2. Don’t be confused when you see skeletons in Spain – it is not Halloween! On

Maundy Thursday, five men dress as skeletons and perform a dance of death
to the beat of a drum to symbolise Jesus’ death. Additional skeletons escort
the dancers carrying torches that illuminate the scene with a gloomy glow.

3. In the town of Haux in France, a giant omelette (made with 4500 eggs) is
served to 1000 people in the main square. It is thought that when Napoleon
and his army were travelling through the south of France, they ate omelettes,
which Napoleon liked so much that he ordered the townspeople to gather
all of their eggs to make a giant omelette for his army the next day.

4. The tradition of pot throwing takes place in Corfu, Greece. People throw
pots, pans and other earthenware out of their windows, smashing them
on the streets! It is thought that this tradition symbolises welcoming
spring and the new crops that will be gathered in new pots.

5. In Bulgaria, people don’t hide their eggs – they have egg fights! Whoever
finishes the game with an unbroken egg is the winner and predicted to
be the most successful member of the family for the coming year.

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1. Match the country to its tradition.

Country Tradition
Poland pot throwing
Spain omelette making
France Wet Monday
Greece skeleton dance
Bulgaria egg fights

2. Find and copy a word that shows that the skeleton dance is dark.

3. Which word is closest in meaning to predicted? Tick one.

forgotten

foretold

told

meant

4. Which country would you least like to visit at Easter? Why?

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 Easter Super Sentences
Use your super sentence writing skills to create a sentence with brackets, dashes or commas to
indicate parenthesis. Look at the image then write a sentence with parenthesis.

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 Relative Clause Chocolate Chaos
Chocolate has been splatted on these sentences, covering the relative pronouns. Can you
choose the correct relative pronoun from the word bank below to complete each sentence?

who whom whose which that

The rabbits, noses twitched, were jumping around the field.

I’d rather have the cake has a big egg on top.

My gran, is 86, still makes a Simnel cake each Easter.

Your cousin, you met last year, is visiting this Easter holiday.

I ate all of my eggs this morning, means I have none left.

Now, can you complete these sentence starters with an appropriate relative clause? Don’t
forget to insert a comma if the information is non-essential.

We attended the Easter egg rolling competition

We had an assembly given by Reverend Sue

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 Easter Expectations
Read the statements below and choose an appropriate modal verb to complete each one.

The Easter Bunny bring me lots of eggs this year.

After the effort I’ve put in making my hat, I win the Easter
bonnet competition.

The weather be nice during the Easter holidays.

My sister eat Easter eggs because she is allergic to them.

Julian play football later – he is visiting a chocolate factory today.

Now, read the statements below and choose an appropriate adverb of possibility to
complete each one.

I will go to the Easter disco on Friday.

Zana’s Easter egg is the biggest.

If the sun shines, we will have an Easter egg hunt in the garden later.

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 Prefix Pattern Problems
The Easter eggs have been muddled up in the factory. Can you join the correct prefix to the
root words to make verbs? Some root words might join to more than one prefix.

activate connect treat take

de- mis- re- dis- over-

do value cook laid

Use three of the verbs in Easter-themed sentences.



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 Easter Adverbials
Look at the Easter scenes. Can you write four sentences about each picture, beginning each
sentence with a fronted adverbial?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Easter Expanded Noun Phrases
Look at the images below. Can you write sentences including expanded noun phrases (with
the addition of modifying nouns, adjectives or prepositional phrases)?

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 Code Breakers
Your job is to become a secret agent. The words below are written in code. Break the code
using the information below. Find the letter from the code word on the bottom row and swap
it for the letter above it. What hidden words are being spelt?

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
e p v f o w l q u g b r z x a m h y n c i t j d k s

evvazzafeco ozpeyyenn moyniefo

  

peyleux lieyexcoo yqkcqz

  

vaxcyatoynk rulqcxuxl nkzpar

  

Now, use the code above to make your own code words. Ask an adult to try to decipher them.
Which top secret words have you hidden?

 

 

 

 

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 Easter Egg Hunt
Unscramble the statutory spelling words below. The ones hidden in the eggs will spell out an
Easter-themed word when unscrambled. Can you find it?

cethadta

ginrefo

decoenmmr

isreub

saasrh

srciaifec

moytiumcn

reenifret

reosidl

tyierva

The word is:

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