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Total Marks: 28
"The Spacecraft"  by Jack Lasenby
School Journal Part 3, Part 1, 1996
Learning Media Ltd, Wellington, NZ
Learners' Grid, https://www.learnersgrid.com/english/nzjournal-index.html
AJBerghuis,2004-2019©

Set: VESAC   (Vocabulary, Evaluation, Synthesis, Analysis, Comprehension)

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GENERAL COMPREHENSION - Developing thinking skills

 1) Who is the author of this piece of writing? [1 mark]  

 2) Who is the illustrator for this piece of writing? [1 mark]  

 3) What kind of writing is this? A story? A poem? An article? A play? [1 mark]  

 4) What was the problem with nails in the first spacecraft? [2 marks]  

 5) How did the storyteller stop air escaping through the hole in the parachute? [1 mark]  

 6) What was the old Guy Fawkes' Day sky-rocket used as? [1 mark]  

 7) Why is concentration said to be the best way to travel in space? [2 marks]  

 8) What was used as a space helmet? [1 mark]  

 9) Why didn't they take off after countdown? [2 marks]  

 10) Were the two children related? How? [2 marks]  



VOCABULARY SKILLS - Developing language skills

FIND WORDS FROM THE TEXT WHICH MEAN THE SAME AS:
 11) inform (p21) [1 mark]

 12) merely (4th-to-last paragraph, p22) [1 mark]



FIND THESE WORDS IN THE TEXT, THEN PUT THEM IN SENTENCES OF YOUR OWN, PRESERVING THEIR MEANING AS PER THE TEXT:
 13) stick (p20) [1 mark]

 14) vaporise (p23) [1 mark]



FIND THESE WORDS IN THE TEXT, THINK OF A BETTER SYNONYM, THEN PUT THEM IN SENTENCES OF YOUR OWN:
 15) making (paragraph 1, p20) [1 mark]

 16) saw (last paragraph, p20) [1 mark]



ANALYSIS - SYNTHESIS - EVALUATION

Complete any TWO (2) tasks below
 17) Draw up a flow chart [What?] for the expedition past the moon described on pages 20 and 21. [4 marks]

 18) Create an illustration (by hand or computer) based on p23. Give your picture a ruled border, and a caption. [4 marks]

 19) Look at the picture on page 21. Imagine you are a reporter for a newspaper. The picture on p21 is for the front page of your newspaper and you must write a short article for it. Write a short article which suits the picture AND give your article an appropriate headline. [4 marks]