Prepositions: sulphur-crested cockatoo
Whiteboard Challenges
Challenge 1
Complete the first sentence with a preposition from the Word Wall that shows exactly where the sulphur-crested cockatoo was balancing in the clip.
Challenge 2
Complete the second sentence, showing what the cockatoo did after it was chased away. Once you have done this, expand the noun phrases ‘the lady’ and ‘the bird’ with words from the Word Wall.
Challenge 3
Using either a time, place or direction preposition, and some of the descriptive words from the Word Wall, write your own scintillating sentence that describes something that a sulphur-crested cockatoo might do.
Whiteboard Challenges
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1) Fearlessly, the sulphur-crested cockatoo strutted ______ the railings.
2) After the lady used a washing-up brush to chase the bird away, …
Word Wall
(place) below, above, among, beside
(time) before, after, during, at
(direction) towards, through, between, along, across
vandal
angry
hooligan
snow-white feathers
sulphur-coloured crest
hooked beak
destructive
cheeky
rampage