AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

•JEST OFF ItP.OADWAV WEDNESDAY.

On Wednesday at the* Princess Theatre a William Pox special starring •Tolln Gilbert in " .lust off Broadway ” "ill be presented. This picture, conceived by Frederick and Fanny Hatton, is one of the most absorbing dramas of international crook's and the secret service which has dime to the screen this season, Gilbert, as Stephen Moore, a mysterious associate of the members of a hand id' world-wide cuntorfciters, portrays a character which gives him ample opportunitv to act. lie is as romantic and handsome as ever and as a lover he proved as intrepid as he is fcarh-ss in the role of a secret service agent. Marion N'ixuu, tin at tractive little brunette, shows that she has dramatic ability, too. Others in the cast arc Trilby Clark, lien Hendricks, • Ir. and Pierre Gendron. Edmund .Mortimer is ilie director, lie has produced a ihrilliug, intense picture, set in the colonrtnl haunts ol Paris, Deauville and iiroadway, which scores a well deserved success. A pood supporting programme will also he shown inclndinp a topical and two-reel comedy. On Thnrsdav next a Tom Forman production "’The broken Wing ” starring Kenneth Marian and -Miriam Cooper will he the big attraction.

CANTERBURY EDUCATION BOARD - SCHOOL LESSONS—SIXTH SET. ENGLISH. standard ah. I. (a) Set tins as poetry. It describes a. hunting scene.— Yelled on the view the opening pack rock glen and cavern paid them hack to many a mingled .sound at otico the awakened mountain gave response. (b> Pick out subjects, predicates and objects in each clause: (<•) Explain what is meant by the pack opening; also, li.ow the mountain gave response. 2. Explain the difference between: (a) A jam tart or an Easter egg will do, (b) A jam tart and an Easter egg will do. Expand these into .sentences, use the present tense: (a* Neither the church hell nor the school licll (b) He or hi.s brother (<•) Tin* gallant explorer with bis T:tit-lifill guide .... ,'i. Punctuate: (a) At day break the three mastheads were punctually manned afresh d'ye see him cried aliah after allowing a little space for the light to spread see nothing sir. (b) Write the lirst sentence in the active voice. !. Write sentences containing nouns made from: Abound, rapid, distant, admit, conclink*. HEADING. Head any story hook you have. (As tin* .Journals arc not yet to hand). WRITING. From your spelling list- select twelve words. Put each word into a sentence and underline it. See that your .sentences are original ones. SPELLING. .Make n list of six new. useful words daily from your story hook. Remember to keep your lists. ESSAY. 1. Easter time and why we keep it, or •2. You were nut in Monday’s storm. Describe your experiences. :l. An imaginary conversation between an aeroplane and n motor-car. POETHY. Continue learning poetry begun last week, “Summer is Dying.” Irom -March Journal. DRA WING. I. Make a drawing of a pumpkin, or a melon with a seetion cut out. ‘2. A basket with (lowers in it. or ti. A pair of shoes or boots. All work is to be coloured. GEOGRAPHY. In your map of Canada put the towns and the Canadian Pacific. Railway. STANDARD V.-KrXTH SET. ENGLISH. I. Write a short letter inviting your friend to your birthday party. Re careful how you begin and how you end.

2. Combine into one sentence: (a) An ex|H*ditioii is setting out. (I,) It i,s an interesting expedition from Christchurch. (c) It is setting out during tins Easter

(d) It is selling out for the headwal ers of the AA'aimakariri.

(e) At this place is a region of glaciers and great mountains. 3. Write the following as if it had happened last month : We reach the ledge and creep out on an overhanging bough. The breeze fans our faces an wo look down the valley and the great river leaps and surges far below as we cling lo our look-out perch. Suddenly an ominous crack is heard. It KA DING. •‘The Dance of the May Flies.” •••The Orange” and ‘‘Snap" in the March .Journal. COMPREHENSION. limcine von were Snap. 'lell yoin experiences' the night the Fcrnlmll (ilust was abroad. WRITING. Write the first, verse of “ Summer is living.” SPELLING. Select six new useful words daily, as before. Remember to keep your lists. ESSAY. 1 Write a letter to a friend or relation’ in England telling what you have been doing during the epidemic holidays, or o Ail autobiography of a raindrop. I’OKTR V. Pearn “ Summer is Dying " March .Journal. DRAWING. Draw a six inch square. Decorate this using anv ilower and its loaves. GEOGRAPHY. Tn your map of Ireland put the chief towns and ports. STANDARD IV.—STXTIT SRI. ENGLISH.

State the use and part of speech of wonts in capitals : The NIGHT was DARK and

STORMY. The WIND was howling wild; \ PATIENT mother KNELT beside the deathbed of TIER child. 2. Hero are some subjects; place suitable predicates after them so as to make good sentences. (a) The sound of the waterfall . (1>) Great black clouds .... (~J The difficulty of the sum . . • (dJ And now the whole house . . . (o) The gigantic pillars beneath the long bridge . . • • Write the following as if you are thinking of only one lion instead of more than one: Lions live in Africa. They arc found on the wide plains where they prey on antelopes and other animals. They are not often seen abroad by day. hut when night comes on they leave their dens. Then the lions are dangerous animals

to meet. reading. Read a fairy tale on any other story. WRITING. _ 1 Write down on your English paper the’names of that story, and also the name of the author. - 2 From vour week’s spelling list pick out’six words. Use these words in sentences of your own. Underline each word veil picked. SPELLING. From vour stoiy select five new useful words daily. Remember to keep vour lists. ESSAY. I. You were on your way to school when the fire-hell rang. Tell what liap- ' o Imagine vourself to be a mouse that has jm=t escaped from a trap. Tell your story and your warning to your mates. POETRY. Finish poem you began last week. drawing. 1. Make a picture for the poem you are learning, or , 2. Make a picture for the story you are reading this week. geography. Draw a map of Otago marking m mountains, rivers, lakes, and coast features.

STANDARD ITI.-SIXTH SET. READING. School Journal to the end. writing. Write carefully the first paragraph of “The Kiwi.’' ENGLISH. (1) Tell in your own words how the kiwi hunts for its favourite food, the worm. (2) Put in words that describe, (a) The hoy at a apple.. (b) The cart crossed the -—• bridge. (c) The —— baby had a toy. (d) The dog had a hone. SPELLING. C hoose o new useful words daily and write them 3 times each in your exercise. Write them once on your English paper for vein* teacher. DRAWING. Two articles on the breakfast table. STANDARD ii.—sixth SET. 1. Write the following adding words to tell HOW: (a) The hoy ran , (b) The bird sings . (<■) The dog harks . (d) The girl talks . 2. Toll your teacher how you spent Easter Sunday or Good Friday. Name 10 things in a fruit shop. 1. Draw an Easter egg and colour it. STANDARD I.—SIXTH SET. 1. Finish these—(a) A young cat is called a . (b) A young sheep is called a . (c) A young lien is called a . (d) A young cow is called a • ——. *_>. Draw three of these young animals. 3. 1 have, a dog. Ask me four questions about it. 4. Write four sentences beginning with, (a) I was .... (1)) I SCO .... (e) I saw (d) Mother does ....

ARITHMETIC-SIXTH SET. STANDARD ML All work must bo shown. Progressive Arithmetic—Standard 0. Exercise 3. Wednesday, File L, 1,2, 3 mid -1. Thursday, File M, 1,2, 4 ami 5. Friday, File N. 1,2, 3. and 5. Puzzle. A lather save his boy a 5 pint vessel and a seven pint vessel and told him to go to a stream and bring I,a«-k EXACTLY eight pints of water. Show bow the boy measured out exactly eight pints of water using only tho .5 pint vessel and the seven pint vessel. He tilled the five pint vessel first? STANDARD V. All work must be shown. Progressive Arithmetic. —Standard 5. Exercise 72, page 112. Wednesday No. Thursday No. 0, Friday No. 7. Exercise 70, Wednesday: File. 11.,I 1 ., No 3. Thursday: File G. No. 2, (omit discount). Friday: File J, No. 4. Exorcise 2G, Wednesday, File D, 1 and 2. Thursday, File K, 1 and 1. Friday, File D, 3 and 7, Do Standard (> Puzzle. STANDARD IV. All work must be shown. Progressive Arithmetic.—Standard 1. Exercise. G.— Wednesday: File A, 1 and •>. File 14, I. Exercise 7.—Thursday : File A, 1,2, 1 and 5. Friday, File D. 1. 3. 1 and •”>.

STANDARD 111. All work .must bo shown. Progressive Arithmetic'.— Standard 3. Exorcise 0.— AA'cdnesday : File C, 1, - and 3. Thursday, File 0,1, and File ]] I ami it. Friday, File 11, 3. I ami ■->• ’ STANDARD IT. \ll work imisl he shown. |. Add together IS. 17. 10, 15 and 10. A shopkeeper had 73 apples m a box each of G hoys bought 8. How many apples had the shopkeeper left? 3 V teacher had 81 pencils. She „. IV ’ 0 oto a. trirl and then divided the rest anion;' 5 hoys. How many did each hoy pet? .1. in a tram ear there were 42 persons If 15 persons pot out and 0 pot in, how many persons were then m the o. Von are absent from school for 15 weeks. How many days are you absent? (1 In a class there wore 27 hoys and 38 pirls. If 7 hoys and 2 girls were kept in how many children went out at the right time? 7. V teacher wanted to give 0 nuts t„ each of f) hoys? She had only 17 nuts: how many more nuts did she need ? 8 V hoy cleans his teeth three times :l day, how often does he clean them in -I weeks? , <>. 'Pom had 78 apples. Charlie hail one-sixth as many, how many had they between them? 10 Count hv nines from 0 to 108. standard I. 1. Add together 5,8, 9 and 1. o a father gives each of his 1 children G apples; how many apples did all

ip children got*. 3. You have 10 lollies; you eat 1 m

the’morning, and 5 in the afternoon. Plow many have von lolf? L Write out all the numbers which added together make 13 and 18. 5 a eirl has 17 pennies. If she buys book "for !Jd, how many pennies has she left? . , , G A bov who had 18 pennies bought a threepenny hook ami a sixpenny slate, how many pennies had he left? 7 Father has 0 cherries, mother has r, and Tom and May bare three each. How many have they altogether. 8. You have 11 pears; your brother has half as many. Row many have you

ictween you ? <L I want It) books. 1 buy 0 in one .hop, and Gin another. How many no re do I need ?

10. fount, by fives from 20 down to 0. ANSWERS. STANDARD VI. Exercise 3. Monday. File H, 2. U 3. 200 times; ■t. 1-1G0; 5. 15. Tuesday, File T, 2. 1-P>- 3. 47-8-1; 4. 8-9; 5. £1.300. Cl .600 Wednesday. File J, 1. £800; 2. 120 lambs; 3. £l3l * ; 5. IS. Thursdav. File K, 1. 2-23: 2.9 s ltd; 3. 160 trees; 4. 141-1676. Puzzle. —The boy (a) filled his 5 pint vessel, (b) filled iiis three pint vessel from the five pint vessel leaving two pints in the five pint vessel, (e) emptied 3 pint vessel, (d) poured the 2 pints in the 5 pints vessel into the 3 pint vessel. (e) filled the five pint vessel and carried homo 2 pints in one vessel and 5 in the other. standard y. Page 98. Ex. 54. 1. £1 19s 3d; 2. £5 6 I'd - 3 £l-1 16s lid. Page 95, Ex. 54, 4. £8 16s 103 d; 5. £29 4s OJd. Revision: 1. 11 sq. ehs. 301 sq. yds.; 2. 77086 plus 07; 3. £5 7s 6d ; 4. £9B 6s S?,d; 5. 36 minutes; 6. £5 5s gain; «. £30144 3s 7d. STANDARD FY. Exercise : 4. File A. 4. £9Ol 11s 4d : 5. £1331 Is 7d: 6. £2742 7s Cd. File B. 4. £933 Os 4d: 5. £1367 4s 2d; 6. £•’769. File C. 4. £l3ll hs Gd; o. £1631 5s lOd: 6. £896 2s Gd. File D. 4. £1276 17s lOd; 5. £1559 0s 5Jd: 6. fBB7 los. Puzzle: May be done in several ways here is one—--15 28 21 23 22 19 26 14 24

STANDARD 111. Exercise 0. File A, 5. 217, 600; 6. 57,120; 7. 470,940. File R. 5. 339, 200; 6. 28,896 ;8. 485, GGO. File C, 5. 486,400; 6. 80, 010; 7. 6334143. File D, 5. 581,664 ; 9. 8175981; 10. 5175525. Puzzle: May be done in several ways here is one—--9 25 22 20 19 11 21 12 23 STANDARD H. 1. 105; 2. 54; 3. GO; 4. 12; 5. 15; 6. 15 oranges; 7. 10 cars; s. 75. STANDARD I. 1. 24; 2. 29; 3. 30; 4. 5: 0. 17; 7. 18; 8. 28; 9. 14. FOR SECONDARY CLASSES. SIXTH WEEK. Note.—Names must lie written on each sheet of paper, and each answer to a text book question must be numbered with the text book number of the question. SENIOR. English.—‘‘Julius Caesar,” Aft 11, Scene 1, to line 233. Study using the notes, and collect- references to customs. persons, historical incidents and very uncommon words. Neslield.—Learn pages 39-44, 90, 97, 150-155. Write page 97, No. 17-26, and page 155, No. 4, *7, 8, 11 mid 14. Arithmetic. —Exercise 23, k. and 1. Algebra.—Ex. 12, a ami D. Geometry.—Revise Th. 28, 29, and p. 117 No 4, and page 120, No 1 and 2. Write page 121, No. 1-5. Geography.-—Study Denmark. Answer the questions, and draw a map showing all places mentioned. History.-—Read Chap G. French.—Chap 4. Learn grammar and study all the examples. Write ex. A and B, ]>. 25G, No. 9. Prepare 3rd extract in “French Autnors.” INTERMEDIATE. French—Lesson 4—Prepare and learn vocabulary as before. Translate the lesson. Learn pages 54, 80, 81. Work mentally Ex. 1 and 2on p. 124. Write

Ex. 3, Ex. IT, 1-12. Ex. IV, first 5 sentences. “La Tour.” Prepare thoroughly p. 3-G. English.—“ Lorna Doone” Ch. 20-25. “Mount Helicon,” p. 254—“ England and Her Colonies.” Paraphrase and learn by heart. Write an essay on the subject suggested here. Arithmetic—Ex. Be, 50-51; Bf, 20-25; Bk, 18, 21, 23, 24, 20, 28, 29. Geometry Revise thoroughly theorems 1-22 for an examination as soon »s school reopens. lx>arn all definitions.

Algebra.—Ex. 12 h; Ex. lid, 21-26. Geography. --Revise France, Belgium, and Holland for a test. Latin.—Longman.—Study pages 202, 203 again vary carefully and thoroughly. AY rite 10x. 127. Seal a© Priniao chap. G 7. JUNIOR. English.—Read “The Pied Piper.” Write Ex. 2,3, 4, on P. 32 “Concise Grammar”; Study pages 12-18. and write. Ex. 2: 1-8. Arithmetic,—-“Prog. Arith”, VI. Ex. 49, 1, J. if’ Geography—-“ Jim. Gcog.”Y Study pages 20-21. Draw a map showing ilio places mentioned.

History,—“Brief Survey”; Study 'bap. 5. Describe briefly (a) V illiam I, (b) Henry I, (<•) the Feudal System.