Skaters – are they really to blame?

This task is about making inferences to identify the main idea in different points of view.
Read the four posts from an online forum and answer the questions that follow.
skaties-letters

Question

 
a) Select the person who explains what skaties want.

    • C. P. Griffiths

    • Hemi Waerea

    • Huey Kaine

    • Tina Moriarty

Question 1Change answer

b)  For each of the posts, select the main idea for their post.
C. P. Griffiths
Adults need to be fairer to the kids.Skaties are a menace.Skaties want somewhere to ride their boards.Skaties should take no notice of adults or the rules.
 
Hemi Waerea
Adults need to be fairer to the kids.Skaties are a menace.Skaties want somewhere to ride their boards.Skaties should take no notice of adults or the rules.
 
Huey Kaine
Adults need to be fairer to the kids.Skaties are a menace.Skaties want somewhere to ride their boards.Skaties should take no notice of adults or the rules.
 
Tina Moriarty
Adults need to be fairer to the kids.Skaties are a menace.Skaties want somewhere to ride their boards.Skaties should take no notice of adults or the rules.

Question

c)  Imagine you have to give a talk to your class about the four posts from the online forum.
     Select the best title for your talk.

    • Why skateboards should be banned.

    • Rules should be broken.

    • Different views of the skateboarding debate.

    • Adults are unfair to skateboarders.

Question

I suppose my son is a skatie. He is not a criminal. He is just an ordinary kid who wants to have some fun riding his board. In this town he and his friends have been banned from riding their boards from just about everywhere. These are good kids who just want an area that they can skate in and be left to have fun in their own way – let's give them a fair go!

Fair-minded
 
d)  The letter above was written to the local newspaper by a parent of one of the online posts. 
     It is most likely to be the parent of ... (Select the name)

    • C. P. Griffiths

    • Hemi Waerea

    • Huey Kaine

    • Tina Moriarty

Question Change answer

     ii)  Highlight the words in the letter above by 'Fair-minded' to support your answer for d) i).
I suppose my son is a skatie. He is not a criminal.
He is just an ordinary kid who wants to have some fun riding his board.
In this town he and his friends have been banned from riding their boards from just about everywhere.
These are good kids who just want an area that they can skate in and be left to have fun in their own way – let's give them a fair go!