What goes around comes around

What goes around comes around

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This task is about gaining information from illustrations and text.
What goes around comes around text
 
 
Use the illustrations and the written text to answer the questions.
a)
Why have words been written around the edge of the circles?
 
 
 
 
 
b)
How is the title linked with the graphics?
 

 
 
c)
Three steps in the process of making a pair of glasses are shown by the graphics and words. The first step has been written in below.
Write in the other two steps.
   
i)
 
ii)
 
iii)

Soda, lime, and sand come from the earth._______________________________
 
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d) What three steps in making a cardigan are shown by the graphics and words?
   
i)
 
ii)
 
iii)
 
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e) What are two advantages of using graphics to present information like this?
   
i)
 
ii)		  
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Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Copyright: 
What goes around comes around - Text and images were first published by Learning Media Limited for the Ministry of Education. Copyright Bob Kerr, 1999. 
 
Source: Image amended - Connected No. 1, Learning Media, 1999.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Viewing
Keywords: 
diagram, comprehension, title, layout, visual cues, information skills
Description of task: 
Students read a visual presentation about manufacturing processes and identify information in the text and why certain visual techniques are used.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (8/99)
a) Any 1 of:

  • To help explain what is happening in the illustration.
  • To provide additional information to that which is shown in the illustration.
  • So the words do not get in the way of the illustration.
 moderate
b) Any 1 of:

  • The diagram shows "what goes around" by showing how materials are made into products.
  • The illustrations are circular (which links with the idea of things going "around").
 difficult
c)
  • Sand, soda, and lime are put into a mixing furnace and made into molten glass.
  • The molten glass is used to make lenses/glasses.
 2 correct – difficult

1 correct – moderate
d)
  • The earth and the air make the grass grow/the sheep eats the grass.
  • The sheep's wool is spun and/or knitted.
  • A cardigan is made from the knitted wool.
 3 correct – difficult

2 correct – easy

1 correct – very easy
e) Any 2 of:

  • Less words are needed/it avoids repetition.
  • It makes it easier for the reader/viewer to gather the information quickly.
  • It shows the way pieces of information are linked in a clear way.
  • It is more likely to engage the reader/catch the reader's attention.
 2 correct –
very difficult

1 correct –
easy