Read the text about using colours to organise homework and do the exercises.

Here are some ideas about how you can use colour coding to organise your homework.

To start you need a few things from the stationery shop. They are all cheap. You need coloured pens and pencils, sticky notes, page markers, glue and folders.

First, I choose a different colour for each school subject. The colour I choose has to be easy to remember so I make sure it means something to me. Maths is green because my ruler is green. PE is yellow because my trainers are yellow. I use the cheapest folders and I add a coloured sticky note to the front. I keep all my notes for that subject inside the different folders.

I use a lot of sticky notes. The blue notes are for history because my history teacher has a blue car. The black notes are for geography because one day I want to visit the Black Sea. I mark the pages in school books I need to read for homework. I use two coloured page markers to mark where it starts and ends.

Finally, I have a wall calendar. I use stars to remind me of important dates. I have a green star on Friday to show I have a maths test. There's a pink circle to show I've got French homework for Monday. It's pink because "pink" is "rose" in French.

Activity 1 - Check your understanding: matching

Match the subjects with the colours and write

a - e next to the numbers 1 - 5.

⒈ green　a. French

⒉ yellow　b. geography

⒊ blue　　c. PE

⒋ black　d. history

⒌ pink　　e. maths

Discussion

How do you organise your school homework?

Answers Activity 1

⒈ e; ⒉ c; ⒊ d; ⒋ b; ⒌ a

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