Assessment: Comprehension and Vocabulary A In your copy, go investigate.


1. Pick one of the festivals and explain how it is celebrated in your own words. 2. What do Hindus hope will happen if they clean their homes and decorate them with lights? 3. Why do you think lighting the menorah is the most important ritual of Hanukkah? 4. What do you think is significant about the way that latkes are cooked? 5. What similarities do you see in these festivals? 6. Which festival do you think sounds the most fun or interesting? Why?


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B Vocabulary: Match each word with its meaning. melanin produce utter essential vibrant poverty


1. Lively, exciting, bright and colourful 2. To make or manufacture 3. Extreme lack of money, goods or support 4. To speak 5. Pigment found in the skin that effects its colour 6. Absolutely necessary


C Cloze procedure: ‘The Snow Queen’. Fill in the blanks. Once, an evil goblin made a horrid mirror


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reflected the world as an ugly and bad


place. One day, the mirror broke and shards of it travelled across the land. Some of the pieces


who loved each other dearly. The shards of mirror lodged


Kay’s heart. Suddenly, Kay became mean to Gerda, teasing her and hitting he got the chance. One


its beautiful occupant beckoned white furs with a


to the village were Kay and Gerda lived. They were a brother and in


whenever where he stayed, because his heart had become poisoned


, when Kay was playing in the snow, a carriage stopped and inside. It was the wicked Snow Queen, dressed in of ice resting on her head. She took Kay to her ice palace, the mirror. Gerda


devastated and set out to rescue Kay. When she came upon him in the ice , she


ran to embrace him, her tears of relief dropping onto his chest. Suddenly, warmed by Gerda’s , Kay’s heart began to thaw. He realised his mistake in choosing to live Queen and he and Gerda escaped the palace together.


with the


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Unit 8 | Revision and Assessment


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