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Thinking about language
Complete the following sentence. Beginning with a to-verb, try to answer the question in brackets.
We all want (What do we all want to do?)
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Thinking about language
Complete the following sentence. Beginning with a to-verb, try to answer the question in brackets.
They advised the hearing-impaired child’s mother (What did they advise her to do?)
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Thinking about language
Complete the following sentence. Beginning with a to-verb, try to answer the question in brackets.
The authorities permitted us to (What did the authorities permit us to do?)
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Thinking about language
Complete the following sentence. Beginning with a to-verb, try to answer the question in brackets.
A musician decided to (What did the musician decide to do?)
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From the text on Bismillah Khan, find the words and phrases that match these
definitions and write them down. The number of the paragraph where you will find the
words/phrases has been given for you in brackets.
1. the home of royal people (1) _____ .
2. the state of being alone (5) _____ .
3. a part which is absolutely necessary (2)_____ .
4. to do something not done before (5) _____ .
5. without much effort (13) _____ .
6. quickly and in large quantities (9) _____ and _____ .
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When something is revived, it (remains dead/lives again).
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When a government bans something, it wants it (stopped/started).
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When something is considered auspicious, (welcome it/avoid it).
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When we take to something, we find it (boring/interesting).
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When you appreciate something, you (find it good and useful/find it of no use).
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When you replicate something, you do it (for the first time/for the second time).
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When we come to terms with something, it is (still upsetting/no longer upsetting).
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Thinking about the Text
Given below are some emotions that Kezia felt. Match the emotions in Column A with
the items in Column B.
| A | B |
| 1. Fear or terror | (i) Father comes into her room to give her a goodbye kiss |
| 2. glad sense of relief | (ii) Noise of the carriage grows fainter |
| 3. a “funny” feeling, perhaps of understanding |
(iii) Father comes home |
| (iv) Speaking to father | |
| (v) Going to bed when alone at home | |
| (vi) Father comforts her and falls asleep | |
| (vii) Father stretched out on the safa. snoring |
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Answer the following question in one or two sentences.
Why was Kezia afraid of her father?
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Answer the following question in one or two sentences.
Who were the people in Kezia’s family?
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Answer the following question in one or two sentences.
What was Kezia’s father’s routine
(i) before going to his office?
(ii) after coming back from his office?
(iii) on Sundays?
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Answer the following question in one or two sentences.
In what ways did Kezia’s grandmother encourage her to get to know her father better?
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Discuss these question in class with your teacher and then write down your answer
in two or three paragraphs .
Kezia’s efforts to please her father resulted in displeasing him very much. How did this
happen?
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Discuss these question in class with your teacher and then write down your answer
in two or three paragraphs .
Kezia decides that there are “different kinds of fathers”. What kind of father was Mr
Macdonald, and how was he different from Kezia’s father?
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Discuss these question in class with your teacher and then write down your answer
in two or three paragraphs .
How does Kezia begin to see her father as a human being who needs her sympathy?
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