How to blow a trumpet

Blowing your own Trumpet by John Bonallack

School Journal Part 3, Number 3 1983

WALT: Read the text to extract greater meaning which we will display in our follow up activities.

Success Criteria: I can read the text to extract greater meaning which we will display in our follow up activities.

Answer the following questions in red:

What types of ideas is dad always getting?

Dad is always getting oddball ideas.Because when he got back back from work he came in a happy mood thinking about things.

What do you think an ‘odd-ball idea is’?

I think it mean a sort of music that has been quite old, and if you shake it, it will make noise.

I recommend that it is shaped as a ball because that is what the name is I think (oddball).

That is a old object.and so I think he is thinking of strange ideas.

Where were ‘simple trumpets’ originally found?

Trumpets were first found was in Egypt and now it all around the world but is originally in tutanka and that means thom. So I recommend that it is an old sort of thing and that it is not so new any more because it has gone old.

Why was dads trumpet making no noise to begin with?

Because they had something wrong because their was not any air because there was not enough air so he passed out with his face all red.

Why is dad making a trumpet? Who is he trying to ‘show what trumpeting is all about?

Because He realized in the magazine all about doing early trumpet learning.

The kids because he wants to do some learning with his kids.

For what reason did dad decide to use a balloon to blow his trumpet?

So that it will work so that it  will go to the lungs and it has hilum in it so it would make sound.

Because it all depends on what balloon you have because you can get all different kind of balloons.

What are your predictions for dads new materials he’s using to make his trumpet?

A piece of a hose and a in a funnel so that is how they make the trumpet because those are the main part that makes sound, so that it will have shape of it but you could have any size of the trumpet as long as it has a piece of hose and balloon for it to work and a funnel.It seems that dad

is doing a trial and error of different ways he could make a trumpet, do you agree with this statement? Why/why not?

I think he could do it because you could do so many other ways because it is just using you brain and thinking what you are gonna do.