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practice 2: preparation for summative assessment


Question 1: Reading comprehension Read this information text by yourself.


What are buildings made from?


Note to the teacher: For Weeks 9–10 an example of an exam paper has been included in the Teacher’s Guide.


All over the world people make use of whatever materials they can find or make themselves to build shelters and houses. They use materials such as mud, stone, bricks, branches, reeds, steel, concrete, wood, frozen snow, animal skins, packing cases and even cardboard boxes. In big cities such as Johannesburg, Cape Town and cities in other parts of the world, the modern buildings look very similar. However, one finds in these cities, towns and in the country, many different kinds of buildings.


Thatched huts with walls of dried mud are found in parts of Africa, such as South Africa and Mali. They are cheap to build, cool to live in and when they are decorated, they look beautiful. When people realised that concrete with steel rods could make a very strong building material, they were able to build tall buildings. These tall buildings with many stories or floors are called skyscrapers. Skyscrapers save space as more people can fit into a small area.


They live on floors one above the other.


In some parts of the world there are people who do not live in the same place for very long.


Skyscrapers allow many people to live in smaller areas.


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