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Reading Practice: Sports Day at School

Reading Text

It is nine in the morning. Mr Clark blows his whistle. Sports Day at school starts now. The sun is warm today. All the children stand in lines on the green field.

First comes the sack race. Each child puts both legs in a big brown sack and jumps to the red line. Tom jumps fast and falls down, but he laughs. Next is the relay race. Four children run in each team. They carry a small wooden stick. Anna runs last for her team and she wins.

Parents sit on long benches near the field. They clap and call the names of their children. At twelve o'clock the teacher blows the whistle again. Then everyone eats ice cream under the trees.

Comprehension Test

Question 1. What time does Sports Day start?

✓ CorrectThe text opens with "It is nine in the morning" and then Mr Clark blows his whistle to start the day.

✗ IncorrectTwelve o'clock is the end of the morning, when the teacher blows the whistle again and the ice cream comes.

✗ IncorrectThe text names nine in the morning, not eight, so the day starts one hour later.

✗ IncorrectEverything happens in the morning: the races and the ice cream at twelve o'clock. The text never mentions the afternoon.

Question 2. Who blows the whistle at the start?

✗ IncorrectThe parents are on the benches and only clap. They do not blow the whistle.

✓ CorrectThe second sentence says it: "Mr Clark blows his whistle", and later the text calls him "the teacher".

✗ IncorrectTom is a child in the sack race. He jumps and falls down, but he has no whistle.

✗ IncorrectThere is no shop and no shop man in the text. The whistle belongs to Mr Clark.

Question 3. Where do the children stand at the beginning?

✗ IncorrectThe long benches are for the parents later in the day, not for the children at the start.

✗ IncorrectPeople go under the trees at the very end of the story, to eat ice cream there.

✓ CorrectThe text says "All the children stand in lines on the green field" right after the whistle.

✗ IncorrectThe whole day happens outside on the field. The kitchen is never mentioned.

Question 4. What do the children put their legs in for the sack race?

✗ IncorrectRed is the colour of the line they jump to, and boxes are not in the text at all.

✗ IncorrectGreen is the colour of the field, and the text speaks about a sack, not a bag.

✗ IncorrectThe wooden stick is for the relay race: the children carry it in their hands, not on their legs.

✓ Correct"Each child puts both legs in a big brown sack and jumps to the red line."

Question 5. Tom falls down. What does he do next?

✓ CorrectThe text says "Tom jumps fast and falls down, but he laughs", so the fall does not make him sad.

✗ IncorrectThe word "but" shows the opposite feeling: he laughs. Nobody cries in this story.

✗ IncorrectTom stays at school: the children are still on the field for the relay race after him.

✗ IncorrectOnly the teacher with the whistle stops and starts things. Tom is just one child in the sack race.

Question 6. What do the children carry in the relay race?

✗ IncorrectThe sack belongs to the first race of the day, where the children jump inside it.

✓ CorrectAbout the relay the text says: "They carry a small wooden stick."

✗ IncorrectThere is a red line in the sack race, but no flag anywhere in the text.

✗ IncorrectIce cream comes much later, at twelve o'clock, and people eat it under the trees. It is not carried in the race.

Question 7. What does Anna do in the relay race?

✗ IncorrectThe child who falls down is Tom, in the sack race. Anna runs well and wins.

✗ IncorrectThe text says she runs last, not first: "Anna runs last for her team and she wins."

✓ CorrectThe sentence "Anna runs last for her team and she wins" gives both facts about her.

✗ IncorrectEach child has his or her own sack in the first race, and Anna is in the relay race with a stick.

Question 8. Where do the parents sit?

✗ IncorrectUnder the trees is where everybody eats ice cream at the end, not where the parents sit.

✗ IncorrectThe parents watch the races outside near the field, and the classroom is not mentioned in the text.

✗ IncorrectThe red line is the finish of the sack race for the children, and the parents stay away from it on their benches.

✓ CorrectThe third paragraph begins: "Parents sit on long benches near the field."

Question 9. What do the parents do during the races?

✓ CorrectAfter the benches the text says: "They clap and call the names of their children."

✗ IncorrectOnly children run in the relay: "Four children run in each team." The parents watch from the benches.

✗ IncorrectThe whistle is Mr Clark's job. He blows it at nine and again at twelve o'clock.

✗ IncorrectThe ice cream comes after the races, at twelve o'clock, so it is not something they do during them.

Question 10. Where does everyone eat ice cream at the end?

✗ IncorrectThe benches are for sitting and watching the races. The ice cream is eaten in a different place.

✓ CorrectThe last sentence is "Then everyone eats ice cream under the trees."

✗ IncorrectThe red line is only the finish of the sack race. No one eats there in the text.

✗ IncorrectThe story stays on the green field and under the trees all day. Nobody goes inside.
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