Week 6 - Exercise 6
WEEK 3 - EXERCISE THREE (3)
Your country is under partial lockdown due to the upsurges in cases of a deadly pandemic. Due to this, your President has ordered that all students should stay stay at home During the period, write a letter to your friend who has been quarantined in another town, telling him how you are feeling at home, and activities you are engaged in to keep your mind and body active before school resumes for academic work and B.E.C.E to commence.
Speaker 1: My sister, even from bad marriages are born sons and daughters.
Speaker 2: Who shall look after them?
Have you not heard it sung
From the end of the East road
To the beginning of the West?
What literacy device is employed in the statement above?
TELL MY SON TO HOLD ON TO HIS GUN- Kaakyire Akosombo Nyantakyi
My father owned the biggest cocoa farm, which made him the richest man in the village.
The setting of the story is………………………………………………………………………………..
The narrative style is ……………………………………………………………………
What was believed to have killed the writer’s mother?............................................................
THE GIRL WHO CAN- Ama Atta Aidoo
State one theme for the story? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
“You don’t know what life is about, you don’t know what problems there are in this life”
The speech above was made by ……………………………………
What literary device can be found in this statement below?
“but she walked way behind school children as though she was on her way to someplace else. ……………………………………………………………………………..
SOSU AND THE BUKARI BOYS – Lawrence Darmani
How he wished Uncle Sam hadn’t left. But right at dawn, his uncle had left.
“He in the extract refers to …………………………………….
What was unique about the Bukari Boys? ………………………………………………………………………..
Sosu’s father had lost weight because he was in an unfortunate situation.
What situation was that? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
OLIVER TWIST- Charles Dickens
What was the occupation of Mr. Gamfield? ………………………………………………………………………………
The next person who read the sign about Oliver was? ……………………………………………………………………
Oliver was born in ………………………………………………………………….
How much was Oliver bought for? ………………………………………………………
DEBBIE, SANDY AND PEPE- Merill Corney
Debbie ran down the path beside the house
What is the setting of the story? ………………………………………………………………………
She knelt down beside the little bundle of feathers on the ground and gently touched it
The little bundle of feathers refers to………………………………………………………
She wiggled like a worm
The literary device used above is………………………………………
The bird was accommodated in ………………………………………..
RIPPLES- Peter Paul Adolinama
Mama Adamu called Abiba, Abi for short, into the women’s yard. She had decided to give the special gift which her mother Amina had entrusted to her to give to Abi when she was fourteen.
Mama Adamu called Abi into the yard because ……………………………………………………………………
The mother of Abiba was ………………………………………………………..
‘’his bark was worse than his bite’’
What literary device is used? ……………………………………………………………………….
‘’His’’ in the above extract refers to……………………………………………
THE OLD MAN AND HIS CHILDREN- Jean Watson
The old man sat very still with his eyes closed, but he was not asleep or even at peace.
The old man in the extract refers to …………………………………………..
The names of the grandsons were ………………………………………………………………………………………..
‘’Fast and furious forefinger’’……. The literary device used is …………………………………..
As she stalled back to her hut, she called out to them, one more quarrel from you and your father will hear about it
‘’She’’, in the extract above refers to ………………………………………….
A DAY’S WAIT – Ernest Hemingway.
‘’He came into the room to shut the window while we were still in bed, and I saw he looked ill
He in the extract above refers to ………………………………..
How old was the boy? …………………………………………………….
The temperature of the boy was ………………………………………………………………………………………………..