The TranzAlpine train journey

The TranzAlpine train journey

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This task is about understanding language features and making inferences about an advertisement.
tranzalpine poster
Look carefully at the advertisement and answer the following questions.

Question

a)  A "fierce snow-fed river" would be best described as

    • rushing and foamy.

    • ice covered.

    • very rapid and cold.

    • far below the train.

Question 2Change answer

b)  What word from the text sounds like "the song of many steel wheels"?
     

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c)  Give another example from the advertisement of a word that sounds like the noise it names.
     

Question

d)  The text has been written so that travellers will feel that the TranzAlpine is

    • noisy.

    • scary.

    • rushed.

    • exciting.

Question

e)  "A wandering path. Wild life. Whoosh." The use of 'W' is an example of:

    • alliteration.

    • simile.

    • onomatopoeia.

    • rhyme.

Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (with SOME auto marking).
Copyright: 

Source: Tranz Scenic, Unique Train Journeys, The TranzAlpine Train Journey.

Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking, Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
advertisement, onomatopoeia, alliteration, comprehension, language features
Description of task: 
This resource has an assessment focus on comprehending the language features used in an advertisement.
Curriculum Links: 
 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • recognise language features
  • infer ideas and information that are not directly stated in the text

as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.

Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Making sense of text: vocabulary knowledge, set 6
Reading for literary experience, set 5
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y9 (03/1999)
a) very rapid and cold easy
b) "clicketyclackclityclack" easy
c) "Whoosh" easy
d) exciting very easy
e) alliteration moderate