Where angels fear to tread

Where angels fear to tread

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This task is about reading information from a text.
Read 'Where angels fear to tread' (pages 6-8, "Danger", Choices, Learning Media Limited, 1999), then answer the following questions.

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a)  How old is Ngorongoro Crater?

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b)  What word does the writer use in the middle of the story to indicate that he wasn't scared of buffalo?

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c)  What would have been a useful item to take on the walk to the lodge?

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d) Explain how the saying in the final line, "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread", goes with the story.

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e)  What two lessons could be gained from this story?
1. 
2. 
 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (without auto-marking).
 
Equipment:
Text: Where angels fear to tread [pdf], from pages 6 to 8 of "Danger" (from the Choices series), Learning Media Limited, 1999.
Copyright: 
Where Angels Fear to Tread – Text was published by Learning Media Limited in Choices, for the Ministry of Education. Copyright Bill Nagelkerke, 1999. Illustrations Crown. Reproduced with permission.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking, Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
comprehension, choices, locate information, inference
Description of task: 
Students read a recount about New Zealanders travelling in Africa, then answer retrieval and inference questions. The text is provided.
Curriculum Links: 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • 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
Acquiring and using information and ideas in informational texts, set 4
Reading for literary experience, set 5
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

 

Y6 (08/2000)

a)

Two million years

very easy

b)

Only

moderate

c)

A torch

very easy

d)

The people in the story were like fools because they didn't know that buffalo are dangerous and they didn't read the warning in their room. They foolishly went where "angels" (or locals with more knowledge) would not have gone.

difficult

e)

Any 2 of:
 

  • Be prepared.
  • Consider risks.
  • Read warnings.

2 correct – difficult
 
1 correct – easy