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

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

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

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

Multiple Choice

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

• True

• False

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

Poll

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