Homework first? Lesson 419 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 28 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Kai did his spelling homework in four minutes and fifty seconds, a personal record. 1 He spelt «because» three different ways on one page and wrote «Wednesday» as «Wensday». 2 Then he played Roblox and felt very clever. 3 On Thursday Mrs Okafor handed it back with «Please do this again, properly» in green pen, and Kai spent Thursday's game time redoing it. 4 Rushed homework comes back to you, usually on the day you least want it. 5 Priya tried the opposite: «Games first, homework after, I've got loads of time.» By eight o'clock she was yawning over her fractions, got four of them wrong and cried a bit into her pencil case. 6 Leo tried a third way: homework first, then Minecraft as a reward. 7 He finished faster, because the reward was waiting, and enjoyed the game more, because nothing was nagging at the back of his head. 8 Distractions were the real enemy. 9 Theo's phone buzzed every two minutes with his friends arguing about the GTA 6 trailer, a game rated 18 that none of them was even allowed to play. 10 He put the phone in the hall and finished in twenty minutes instead of an hour. 11 Ruby's mum has a rule that homework is only done when she has checked it; Ruby rolled her eyes, but her mum found two mistakes, Ruby fixed them, and the next day she got full marks. 12 Jayden forgot his homework completely after a big game night, owned up to his teacher, did it at lunch and missed playtime. 13 Games and homework are not always enemies. 14 Ollie learnt his seven and eight times tables from a maths game and got them all right in the test, to his own surprise. 15 Mia used a game set in ancient Egypt to start her history project and then checked every fact in library books, because games change history to make it exciting. 17 And Noah asked his dad for help with long division; they finished early and played a family game of Mario Kart, which his dad lost loudly. 18 Homework done in a rush is often full of mistakes and may have to be done again. 19 Doing homework first and playing after usually works better, because people are less tired and nothing is left hanging. 20 A game waiting as a reward can help you finish work faster. 21 Phones and messages nearby make homework take much longer. 22 Putting the phone in another room during homework is one of the simplest ways to focus. 23 Having a grown-up check homework catches mistakes before the teacher does. 24 Planning homework before a big game night stops it being forgotten. 25 Telling a teacher honestly about forgotten homework is better than making up an excuse. 26 Some games can help you practise things like times tables. 27 Games about history often change facts to make the story exciting, so facts should be checked in good books. 28 Asking for help when stuck is clever, not weak, and often makes homework faster. ← previous Sleep and school morningsnext → Eyes, backs and thumbs↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/