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Reading Practice: Grandma's Birthday Cake

Reading Text

There is flour on the kitchen table. It is Saturday morning, and we make a cake for Grandma. Her birthday is today. Mum puts flour in a big bowl. I bring two cups of sugar. We have butter, milk and salt too. But we have no eggs. Mum looks in the fridge and says, "We need eggs."

Our neighbour Mrs Lane comes to the door. She has six eggs from her hens. We say thank you. Mum mixes the cake and puts it in the oven. The cake smells very good.

I put ten small candles on it. Then Grandma comes to our house. We sit at the table and drink tea with cake. She smiles and says it is a happy day.

Comprehension Test

Question 1. What is on the kitchen table at the start of the story?

✓ CorrectThe text starts with "There is flour on the kitchen table."

✗ IncorrectThe cake is not ready at the start: at first it is only flour in a bowl.

✗ IncorrectThe eggs come later, when Mrs Lane brings them to the door.

✗ IncorrectThe candles go on the cake much later, not on the table at the start.

Question 2. Why do they make a cake?

✗ IncorrectThe text says nothing about school or a party.

✗ IncorrectMrs Lane only brings eggs. The cake is not for her.

✗ IncorrectSaturday is the day, but the cake is not for lunch. It is for Grandma.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "we make a cake for Grandma. Her birthday is today."

Question 3. What do they need but not have?

✗ IncorrectThey have sugar: "I bring two cups of sugar."

✓ CorrectThe text says: "But we have no eggs."

✗ IncorrectMilk is in the kitchen: "We have butter, milk and salt too."

✗ IncorrectThey have flour: "Mum puts flour in a big bowl."

Question 4. Who comes to the door?

✗ IncorrectGrandma comes later, after the cake is ready.

✗ IncorrectNo man with a box is in the story. A woman comes with eggs.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "Our neighbour Mrs Lane comes to the door."

✗ IncorrectThe only visitor in the text is Mrs Lane, the neighbour.

Question 5. What does Mrs Lane bring?

✓ CorrectThe text says: "She has six eggs from her hens."

✗ IncorrectMilk is already in the kitchen, and the text does not say she brings it.

✗ IncorrectThey have butter at home. She brings only one thing: eggs.

✗ IncorrectThe family makes the cake at home. She brings eggs for it.

Question 6. Where does Mum put the cake?

✗ IncorrectThe table is where the family sits later. At first the cake goes into the oven.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "Mum mixes the cake and puts it in the oven."

✗ IncorrectMum looks in the fridge for eggs, but the cake goes in the oven.

✗ IncorrectThe bowl holds the flour and the mix, not the cake in the oven.

Question 7. How does the cake smell?

✗ IncorrectNobody says the cake smells strange. The text says the opposite.

✗ IncorrectThe text never compares the cake to bread.

✗ IncorrectThe text gives a simple positive answer: "The cake smells very good."

✓ CorrectThe text says: "The cake smells very good."

Question 8. How many candles does the child put on the cake?

✗ IncorrectSix is the number of eggs from Mrs Lane, not the candles.

✗ IncorrectTwo is the number of cups of sugar, not the candles.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "I put ten small candles on it."

✗ IncorrectThere is no number five in the text. The child puts on ten candles.

Question 9. Where do they sit?

✓ CorrectThe text says: "We sit at the table and drink tea with cake."

✗ IncorrectThe text does not speak about a garden. They sit at the table.

✗ IncorrectThere is no sofa in the text. They drink tea at the table.

✗ IncorrectThe oven is only for the cake. The people sit at the table.

Question 10. What do they drink?

✗ IncorrectMilk is for the cake, not for the tea table.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "We sit at the table and drink tea with cake."

✗ IncorrectWater is not in the text. The drink with the cake is tea.

✗ IncorrectJuice is not in the text. Grandma and the family drink tea.
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