Delicious Steamed Kai

This task is about making inferences from a text.
Read the story "Delicious Steamed Kai" School Journal Part 1, No 5, 1992 and look at the pictures before you answer these questions.

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a) What is another word for "kai"?
      

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b)  Why was the guide the only person allowed to go close to the steaming hot pools?

    • It was her pool.

    • There were too many people for everyone to go near.

    • So no one would get hurt.

    • So no one else would take the food.

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c)  The kai was cooked by

    • frying

    • poaching

    • steaming

    • roasting

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d)  What is the person in Picture 2 doing?

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Sort the letters in the spaces to show the order the sentences below go in according to the story.
The first one (B) has been done for you.
 
A – The guide put the flax kits and flour bags in the water.
B – Our class went to Rotorua.
C – We ate the kai.
D – We decided to cook some kai in the boiling pools.
E – We watched the water bubble round the flax kits, cooking our kai.
F – We put eggs in flax kits, and corn, potato, and kumara in flour bags.
 

  • B

  • A

  • C

  • D

  • E

  • F