S1_EFL_WS_Part 1_T2_2021

EFL Summative Worksheet Term 2 Unit 3

Part 1: Punctuate a Passage

Sentence by sentence

Directions: Read the following passage and indicate the correct punctuation required in each sentence [capital letters / question marks / exclamation marks / full stops].

almost two million young workers in the uk have to live with their parents because they cannot buy a house or rent a room newspapers in britain call them the "clipped wing generation" because they are like birds who have had their wings cut house prices in the uk are now so high that many young people cannot afford to buy one this means a quarter of young adults have to live with their parents or grandparents

Multiple Choice

Identify the error(s) in this sentence:

almost two million young workers in the uk have to live with their parents because they cannot buy a house or rent a room

• Capital A for 'almost'

• uk should be capitalised

• full stop after 'room'

• All of the above.

Multiple Choice

Identify the error(s) in this sentence:

newspapers in britain call them the "clipped wing generation" because they are like birds who have had their wings cut

• Capital N required for 'newspapers'

• Capital B required for 'britain'

• Full stop required after 'cut'

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Identify the error(s) in this sentence:

House prices in the UK are now so high that many young people cannot afford to buy one.

• Capital P required for 'people'

• None

Multiple Choice

Identify the error(s) in this sentence:

This means a quarter of young adults have to live with their parents or Grandparents.

• None

• Unnecessary capital G for 'grandparents'

Part 2: Hyphens and dashes

Multiple Choice

The function of a ________________________is to glue words together. They notify the reader that two or more elements in a sentence are linked.

• hyphen

• dash

Multiple Choice

The function of a ________________________ is to add emphasis, indicate an interruption, pause or an abrupt change in thought.

• hyphen

• dash

Multiple Choice

Which is used in the sentence, a dash or a hyphen?

She lives in an off-campus apartment and drives a red car.

• hyphen

• dash

Multiple Choice

Which is used in the sentence, a dash or a hyphen?

After months of deliberation, the jurors reached a unanimous verdict -- guilty.

• dash

• hyphen

Multiple Choice

Which is used in the sentence, a dash or a hyphen?

I pay the bills -- she has all the fun.

• hyphen

• dash

Multiple Choice

Which is used in the sentence, a dash or a hyphen?

The Nobel Prize–winning author will be reading from her book at the library tonight.

• dash

• hyphen

Part 3: Reading Comprehension

Directions: Read the following news article and answer the questions that follow. 

Dad with hunch hires helicopter, finds injured son trapped in car

 SYDNEY — The father of a teenager who spent 30 hours trapped in a car wreck in Australian woods said Tuesday he had followed his intuition by hiring the helicopter that found his seriously injured son. Samuel Lethbridge, 17, remained in a hospital in serious condition with multiple fractures two days after the crash.

 

His father, Tony Lethbridge, said he suspected his son may have been in a car wreck when he did not return by Sunday night to the family home at Lake Macquarie, after a Saturday night out with friends in Sydney, 130 kilometers to the south.

 

The father said he hired a helicopter on Monday morning and the car was spotted in scrub off a highway 20 kilometers from home. Emergency services cut the boy from the wreck 30 hours after the accident, the father said.

 

The father recalled that a victim of an earlier crash in the area had died after not being found within five days. “I wasn’t going to let that happen,” he said.

 

Lee Mitchell, the helicopter pilot and part-owner of Skyline Aviation Group at Lake Macquarie, said he discounted his usual helicopter hire rate of 1,200 Australian dollars ($956) an hour when the father explained his problem.

 

“He came in looking anxious and somewhat fatigued and said he needed helicopter bad,” Mitchell told the AP of meeting Tony Lethbridge midmorning on Monday at the Port Macquarie airport. The father said he had reported his son as a missing person to police and explained his fears of a car accident near home.

“He just said: ‘I’ve got A$1,000 ($797) on me, will that be enough?’ and we said: ‘Yes, it would,’” Mitchell said.

 

The helicopter took off soon after with the boy’s uncle Michael Lethbridge aboard, because the father was prone to air sickness, the pilot said. The car was spotted within 15 minutes of flight, about 20 meters (yards) off the road, Mitchell said.

“It was fairly easy to spot from the air. It would’ve been near impossible to see from the road because it was well below the road level,” Mitchell said.

 

The uncle was the first to reach the car.

 

“I really didn’t want to go. I was scared of what I’d find. As I got closer I seen Sam’s head move,” Michael Lethbridge told Melbourne Radio 3AW. “I went from being terrified to ecstatic in a couple of seconds,” he said.

Multiple Select

In which country did the news story happen?

• Germany

• USA

• UK

• Australia

Multiple Select

Why did the father hire a helicopter to find his son?

• He had a hunch he had been in an accident.

• To take him sightseeing.

• For his son's birthday treat.

Multiple Select

What happened to Samuel Lethbridge?

• He was kidnapped.

• He spent 30 hours trapped in his car after having an accident.

• He got lost in the dark on his way home.

Multiple Select

Why was the car wreck impossible to see from the road?

• Because it was camouflaged

• Because it was dark

• Because the car was below road level

Multiple Select

Choose the word that fits the following definition:

a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning

• suspected

• intuition

• fatigued

Multiple Select

Choose the word that fits the following definition:

Tired and weak caused by stress and anxiety

• intuition

• anxious

• fatigued

Multiple Select

Choose the word that fits the following definition:

A feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement

• terrified

• ecstatic

• fears

Open Ended

Part 4: Selective Summary

Directions: Write a short selective summary about the rescue mission of Samuel Lethbridge. Include only relevant factual information about the rescue. The summary must be in your own words! [min 4 sentences].