Non-chronological report about Penguins

Non-chronological report about Penguins

Grade 5 - English

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Read the text about penguins

• Answer the questions that follow each section

Multiple Choice

Penguins only live in very cold climates like in the continent of Antarctica.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

In which other places do penguins live? Tick all the correct answers.

• Galapagos Islands

• Iceland

• Australia

• South Africa

Fill in the Blank

Among the 17 species of penguins, ______________ are the larger ones that live in colder climates.

Multiple Choice

Which two words from this paragraph tell us how penguins move across land?

• fly and waddle

• waddle and slide

• slide and swim

• swim and dive

Multiple Select

What are the two special features of penguins that prevent them from getting cold.

• thick fur

• layer of feathers

• layer of fat

• air trapped in their feathers

Multiple Choice

Penguins are birds that can fly and swim.

• True

• False

Fill in the Blank

Find the word in the paragraph that means naturally not able to fly.

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of penguins colouring?

• as a costume

• as a shield from the sun

• as camouflage

Multiple Select

Which two ways the penguins' colouring serve as a camouflage?

• their white stomachs make them hard to see from the sky

• their white stomachs blind other animals

• their black backs scare other animals

• their black backs make them hard to spot in the ocean

Fill in the Blank

Look at the subheadings of the other paragraphs. Write a similar subheading that is suitable for this paragraph.

Multiple Choice

Look at this sentence:

‘They also eat krill (tiny shrimplike animals), squid, shellfish and octopus.’

(Line 17)

Why is ‘tiny shrimplike animals’ in brackets?

• to make the sentence longer

• explains the meaning of krill

• to confuse the readers

• to make the sentence interesting

Multiple Choice

Which group of seafoods do penguins eat?

• krill, clams, fish, lobster

• krill,squid, oysters, octopus

• krill, squid, shellfish, octopus

Multiple Select

According to this text, which two reasons cause the fish stocks to decline?

• too many animals are eating them

• overfishing

• climate change

• trash in the ocean

Fill in the Blank

According to this text, why are the number of penguins decreasing?

Multiple Choice

Only the mother penguin sits on the eggs to keep them warm.

• True

• False

Fill in the Blank

How does a parent penguin bring fish to its young?

Multiple Select

What is the purpose of subheadings in a text like this? Tick all the correct answers

• to show what the paragraph is about

• to help organise the information in the text

• To make the text interesting

• to help the reader find information faster or easier

Multiple Select

Tick two boxes that we know are true from the passage.

• Penguins become independent after a few weeks.

• Penguins can be found all over the world.

• Penguins are finding it harder to locate food.

• Penguins live most of their lives on land.

• Penguins from different places eat different food.

Multiple Select

The text is a non-chronological report. Which of these features are found in this report?

• connectives

• passive verbs forms

• past tense verbs

• first person point of view

• facts

Fill in the Blank

Write at least three connectives used in the text.

Fill in the Blank

Write an example of passive verb forms from the text.

Poll

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Poll

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