The World Cup Final

The World Cup Final

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Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
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This task is about using both a written and visual text to find information.
Read the poem The World Cup Final, School Journal Part 3 Number 2, 1993, and look at the illustrations to help you answer the questions.
 
a) This World Cup final is a game of ...
 
(A)  playground cricket
(B)  cricket max
(C)  one day cricket
(D)  test cricket
b)
In picture D the artist has drawn a person with the bat swung back.
Give three other ways the artist has shown the action of hitting the ball.
 
 
 
1.
 
2.
 
3.
 
 
 
 
 
 
c)
Which picture (A, B, C, D, or E) best shows each event in bold print?
 
i)
 
ii)
"When Wright was given out for running off with friend". Picture __
 
"Crowe hit two scintillating fours before departing to buy an ice cream".  
 
Picture __
 
d)  
What are two things which happened in the game to show it wasn't a real World Cup final?
 
 
 
1.
 
2.
 
 
 
 
e)
The person writing the poem thinks that his team is more important than the other team.
Write down some words from the poem which show this.
 
 
 
 
 
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Copyright: 
The World Cup Final - Text and Images first published by Learning Media Limited in School Journal on behalf of the Ministry of Education. © Gary Langford. Illustrations © Crown 1993. Reproduced with permission.

Source: School Journal, Part 3, No 2, Learning Media, 1993.

Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking, Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
poem, poetry, comprehension, illustration, School Journal, SJ-3-2-1993
Description of task: 
This resource centers around a poem about a cricket game. Cartoon illustrations surround the text and students use both to answer questions. SJ-3-2-1993. Text provided.
Curriculum Links: 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:

  • use comprehension strategies

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

Answers/responses: 
 

Y7 (03/1999)
a)   A easy
 
b)		    
•   sound – whack!
•   star
•   movement lines		 3 correct – difficult

2 correct – moderate

1 correct – moderate
 
c)		  
i)
ii)		  
B
D		  
easy
moderate
d)   Accept any 2 explanations of behaviour or events which would not be found in a real World Cup final, e.g., Crowe left to buy an ice cream. 2 correct – moderate

1 correct – easy
 e)    Either of:

•   Us: Wright, Rutherford, Crowe,
     Jones and Smith.
•   Them: Who cares?

  difficult