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End-of-unit 5 test
Making the news
Reading
Read the news report in Session 5.2 of the Learner’s Book.
Then answer questions 1–6.
1 Who wrote the news report? [1]
2 When was it written? [1]
3 Where did archaeologists make their discovery? [1]
4 Who was the leader of the team? [1]
5 What did they find? [1]
6 Who did they think it could be? [1]
Read the diary entry and news report in Session 5.8 of the Learner’s Book.
Then answer questions 7–9.
7 What is a pendant? You can use a dictionary to find out.
[1]
8 Who is the ‘voice’ in each account? (Who tells the story?) [1]
• The diary entry:
• The news report:
9 Find a word in the text that is linked to: [2]
• value
• beauty
• begin
• evaluation
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Writing
1 Imagine what happened next. Think and make notes on the following.
• What was the result of the evaluation? How valuable was the pendant?
• What was the boy’s reaction? What did he say?
• How did the parents react? What did they say?
• How do friends and family feel about it?
• What did the museum do?
2 Plan a short news report on what happened next.
• Think of a catchy headline.
• Plan the lead sentence by answering the Who? What? Where? and When?
questions.
• Add details to your paragraph by explaining the why and how.
• Conclude with a final sentence.
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Remember to:
• use a formal language style
• write in the past tense and use third-person narrative
• order events correctly (you can use adverbials like then, later and finally)
• punctuate sentences and use inverted commas to show quotations
• check and edit your work.
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