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Porridge
This task is about making inferences from a text.
Read the story
Porridge
by Michele Boston (
School Journal Part 3, No. 3
, 1996). Then answer the following questions.
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a) Why did the author put "NOW!" in capitals with an exclamation mark?
a) Why did the author put "NOW!" in capitals with an exclamation mark?
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b) Write down
two
words from the text which tell how Mum or Anna were speaking.
b) Write down
two
words from the text which tell how Mum or Anna were speaking.
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c) The dots at the end of a sentence show that some words have been missed out.
Write down the words that would best finish this sentence in the story.
"Like I say, I've never won a battle with Mum, but Anna . . .?"
c) The dots at the end of a sentence show that some words have been missed out.
Write down the words that would best finish this sentence in the story.
"Like I say, I've never won a battle with Mum, but Anna . . .?"
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d) Mum was determined that Anna would eat her porridge. Write an example from the text which shows this.
d) Mum was determined that Anna would eat her porridge. Write an example from the text which shows this.
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e) Write down the words from the end of the story which show that Mum "gave in" over the porridge.
e) Write down the words from the end of the story which show that Mum "gave in" over the porridge.
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f) Write down the words from the beginning of the story which show that Mum might be going to "give in".
f) Write down the words from the beginning of the story which show that Mum might be going to "give in".
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g) How is the storyteller related to Anna?
g) How is the storyteller related to Anna?