8th May - Reading

Reading lesson

By Miss Beadsley

​The Telephone Box
Non-Fiction

Model read
Follow along as I read.

Multiple Select

Which two other tourist symbols of Great Britain is the red telephone box compared to? (1 Mark)

• Queen's Guards

• Black London taxis

• Red double-decker buses

• Union Jack flag

​‘The famous British red telephone box has been around now for nearly a century. It is a well-known symbol for tourists to Great Britain, similar to black London taxis or red double-decker buses.’

​1.Which two other tourist symbols of Great Britain is the red telephone box compared to? (1 Mark)

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Why is the public telephone box not as useful to people anymore? (1 mark)

2. Why is the public telephone box not as useful to people anymore? (1 mark)

​Before the advent of the mobile phone, and even before it became common to have a telephone in the house, the public telephone box was a valuable facility for making calls to friends and family. Nowadays with most people owning mobile phones, there is far less demand for the public telephone box. Consequently, tens of thousands have been removed.

Award one mark for an answer indicating the advent or emergence of either mobile phones or home telephones.

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Name one of the famous landmarks worked on by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. (1 mark)

3. Name one of the famous landmarks worked on by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. (1 mark)

​Versions K2 and K3 were designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who also worked on famous landmarks such as Liverpool Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge and Battersea Power Station. Other models which followed directly after were also modelled on this design, though credited to the Engineering Department of the General Post Office.

Reorder

Order these events showing some of the major events in the history of the telephone box. The first one has been done for you.

1. First standard kiosk introduced

(1 mark)

• First standard kiosk introduced.

• Famous k6 design first introduced.

• Production on k6 design ended.

• Adopt a kiosk scheme introduced.

• Some phone boxes turned into libraries and other uses.

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

4. Order these events showing some of the major events in the history of the telephone box. The first one has been done for you.

1. First standard kiosk introduced

   (1 mark)

Multiple Select

According to the section ‘A Modern Re-design’, which of these have become a new use for a disused telephone box? Tick two (1 mark)

• Post Office box

• Coffee Shop

• Art Gallery

• Power Station

5. According to the section ‘A Modern Re-design’, which of these have become a new use for a disused telephone box? Tick two (1 mark)

​More than one has been converted into a tiny library; a London phone box has become a coffee shop; another in North Yorkshire became an art gallery whilst some have even been used to install life-saving defibrillator equipment to treat heart failures.

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How does the author seem pleased and make it seem like a positive idea that the phone boxes are being given new uses? (1 mark)​

6. How does the author seem pleased and make it seem like a positive idea that the phone boxes are being given new uses? (1 mark)​

​Thankfully, in 2009, an ‘adopt-a-kiosk’ scheme was introduced where rarely used telephone boxes could be adopted for other uses. This idea has happily helped to preserve the famous phone boxes – even if some of them have begun to look a little different now!

Award one mark for indicating the use of positive vocabulary such as ‘thankfully’ or ‘happily’.

Labelling

Look at the diagram.

Match the labels to the picture. (1 mark)

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

D blank back panel

C 8x3 window panes

B Doomed roof

A Illuminated signs

​7. Look at the diagram. Match the labels to the picture. (1 mark)

Open Ended

The headline is: ‘Novel idea for Village Phone Box’. 
Write down two meanings of the word ‘novel’. (2 marks)

​8. The headline is: ‘Novel idea for Village Phone Box’.  Write down two meanings of the word ‘novel’. (2 marks)

​•Novel can mean interesting, new, different or unusual, e.g. a novel idea.

•A novel is a type of fiction story book

​Award one mark for each correct definition, in either order.

Fill in the Blank

Find and copy two words from the article which mean ‘very small’.

9. Find and copy two words from the article which mean ‘very small’.

​Thankfully, in 2009, an ‘adopt-a-kiosk’ scheme was introduced … More than one has been converted into a tiny library; a London phone box has become a coffee shop;

​A rarely used village telephone box has been given a new lease of life after being bought by local people and turned into a miniature library.

Audio Response

How do you think local residents feel about the phone box being turned into a library? Give evidence from the text to support your answer. (2 marks)

Open Audio Recorder

10. How do you think local residents feel about the phone box being turned into a library? Give evidence from the text to support your answer. (2 marks)

​Local resident, Eileen Greenhouse from the Smallsden Book Club said that they had been missing out on a library for years and this was the perfect solution.

 

‘We have a village post office and newsagent, but really wanted somewhere that we could borrow and exchange books. The phone box is right in the middle of the village green but was starting to look a bit shabby and neglected. Now it has not only been spruced up, it has a genuine use for local people to enjoy again.’

Match

Sort these statements into true or false for the following statement about the Smallsden village telephone box that was turned into a library. (2 marks)

• The telephone box is open seven days per week.

• The telephone box has up to two hundred books.

• The telephone box is open seven days a week.

True

True

False

• True

• True

• False

11. Organise these statements into true or false for the following statement about the Smallsden village telephone box that was turned into a library. (2 marks)

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Where else does the Parish Councillor hope that tourists to the area will visit?

12 a) Where else does the Parish Councillor hope that tourists to the area will visit?

​‘We’ve had visitors coming from neighbouring towns and cities just to look at our old phone box! Hopefully, the new tourists will also pop into the village pub for a drink or a bite to eat and take a souvenir from the newsagents’ gift selection while they’re here!’

Fill in the Blank

Why do you think he is happy that they are coming to the area?

12 b) Why do you think he is happy they are coming to the area?

​‘We’ve had visitors coming from neighbouring towns and cities just to look at our old phone box! Hopefully, the new tourists will also pop into the village pub for a drink or a bite to eat and take a souvenir from the newsagents’ gift selection while they’re here!’