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2
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term Evaluating Linguistic Competence
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Name and surnames: Paula PedreroGroup: 4
th
ESO A Date: 10-4-2011
Changing their Skies: Stories from Africa
Retold by Jennifer Bassett1 Which story do these sentences come from?
The Rubbish Dump, Cardboard Mansions, Leaving.
a She began to think again about Stanger, and the past, and her friend Ratnadevi.
Cardboard  Mansions
 b He saw Mazambezi sitting by the side of the pit looking down into it.
The Rubbish Dump
 c There were no fruit trees, no birds calling and flying in and out of the trees.
Cardboard  Mansions
 d Some weeks later answers to the letters began arriving with big shiny prospectuses.
 Leaving
 e Near the house he stopped and hid the plane under his shirt.
The Rubbish Dump
 f That was the first time I saw her as a person, and not just as our mother.
 Leaving
 g All through the journey he stood by the window, with his nose against the glass.
Cardboard  Mansions
 h It was a hard life, with five children and no husband.
Cardboard Mansions
 i Why did people vomit when they were flying in a plane?
The Rubbish Dump
  j She waited for the boy, pulling the end of her old green cotton sari over her head.
Cardboard Mansions
 
2 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
a
T
Joey kept all his secret things from the airport in his school bag.b
T
Dadi-Ma and Chotoo went from Durban to Stanger by train.c
T
 
Aloo’s mother refused to marry again because of her children.
 d
F
 
The rubbish dump was a long way from Joey’s house.
 e
T
A famous college in America offered Aloo a place with a scholarship.f 
T
The
name Mazambezi meant ‘rubbish collector’.
 g
F
Mr Naidoo was happy to wait for the rent money.h
F
Aloo wanted to study agriculture.i
T
Dadi-Ma had a little money saved from the good old days. j
F
Aloo wanted to marry a white woman.
 
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3 Fill in the gaps using:
into, out, of, around, down.
a We moved to a quiet part
of 
town.b The smells of the rubbish were all
around
them.c Mazambezi held
out
a toy plane.d Dadi-Ma sat
down
on the step to wait.e Aloo put all the papers
into
 
Mr Velji’s hands.
 
4 Who said this? Who did they say it to?
 Mazambezi, Dadi-
 Ma, Joey, Aloo’s mother,Chotoo, Joey’s mother, Neela, Joey, Dadi 
-Ma, Aloo.
a
‘I thought you had a terrible headache.’
 Joey’s mother 
to
 Joey
 b
‘They say old man Naidoo going to throw us out.’
 Dadi-Ma
to
Chotoo
 c
‘And promise me that you will not smoke or drink.’
 Aloo’s mother 
to
 Aloo
 d
‘Did all that come from the plane?’
 Joey
to
 Mazambezi
 e
‘Sonny doesn’t beat you, that’s one good thing.’
 Dadi
-
 Ma
to
 Neela
.
5 Match a number from A with a letter from B to make complete sentences.A
1
c
He was holding out a toy plane,2
d
I remembered her arms around me3
e
Mazambezi was old,4
a
When Mother felt sad,5
 b
She sat down by the side of the road,
B
a Aloo and I played card games with her.b pulling the boy close to her side.c with AIR RHODESIA written on the side.d when I was a young child.e with a lot of grey in his short black hair.
 
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Setting
Choose the best answer.
1
Aloo’s mother sold the store and moved with her last two children to a quiet part of _____.
a [ ] London
b
[ ] Dar es Salaam c [ ] Tanga d [ ] America2 Joey lived near an international _____.a [ ] school b [ ] house
c
[ ] airport d [ ] plane3
Aloo’s mother did not have the money to send him to an American _____.
 a [ ] store
b
[ ] university c [ ] scholarship d [ ] prospectus4 Dadi-Ma and Chotoo lived in a _____ house in Port Elizabeth.a [ ] wooden b [ ] new c [ ] large
d
[ ] shanty5
 _____ was the centre of Chotoo’s life.
a [ ] Sonny b [ ] Mr Naidoo c [ ] Neela
d
[ ] Dadi-Ma6
Aloo’s mother wanted him to study hard but she did not want to _____ him.
 
a
[ ] lose b [ ] visit c [ ] pay d [ ] believe7 The disease of tuberculosis killed Dadi-
Ma’s _____ and three of he
r sons.a [ ] wife
b
[ ] husband c [ ] grandson d [ ] friend8 Mazambezi pushed the rubbish in his wheelbarrow from the airport to the _____.
a
[ ] pit b [ ] plane c [ ] house d [ ] school9 Aloo had a _____ at the university in Dar es Salaam but he did not want to study agriculture.a [ ] scholarship b [ ] subject c [ ] prospectus
d
[ ] place10
Flies _____ over the rubbish pit near Joey’s house, and big birds circled.
 a [ ] stepped b [ ] looked
c
[ ] buzzed d [ ] ran
Characters
Choose the best answer.
11 Dadi-Ma hated living in the city and she did not _____ her time in Stanger.
a
[ ] forget b [ ] think c [ ] remember d [ ] believe12 _____ was in his last year at school and a clever student.a [ ] Mr Datoo b [ ] Mr Velji
c
 
[ ] Aloo d [ ] Aloo’s uncle
 
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