NTP Unit 2 Text 3 (P.36)

NTP Unit 2 Text 3

Not your everyday school

❶ How do you go to school? For children in small villages, travelling to school can be a matter of life and death. In Indonesia, children cross a river using an old bridge that might break at any time. In the Philippines, some children use old tyres to get across rivers because not all of them have bridges.

Multiple Choice

What do some children use to cross a river in the Philippines?

Multiple Choice

What do some children use to cross a river in Indonesia?

Multiple Choice

What does “a matter of life and death” (line 3) mean?

• very boring

• very interesting

• very dangerous

Multiple Choice

Children in Indonesia do not go to school.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

There are many old tyres in the Philippines.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

What is the title of paragraph 1?

• Floating school

• Learning to survive

• Scary journeys to school

❷ There are a lot of floods in Bangladesh. That is why there are boat schools. In each boat, there are computers and a small library. These floating schools pick students up in the morning and send them home at night.

Multiple Choice

There are boat schools in Bangladesh because ___ .

• it often floods

• people live on boats

• there is no space on land

• students need to learn fishing

Multiple Select

What facilities are there in each boat school?

(You can choose more than one answers.)

Multiple Choice

The boat school picks up students at 7 o’clock in the morning.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

What is the title of paragraph 2?

• Floating school

• Learning to survive

• Scary journeys to school

❸ What do children learn in northern Russia? Some children learn skills like hunting and fishing. This is because they need to learn how to survive. Some of them will even become hunters and fishermen like their parents.

Multiple Choice

In northern Russia, there are many hunters and fishermen.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

What is the title of paragraph 3?

• Floating school

• Learning to survive

• Scary journeys to school