Happy Friday Quiz - Week 19

What is a sequence of events?

• a list of events in the time order that they happened.

• A list of places that events happened in.

• A list of events given in any order.

• A list of events given in order or importance.

Answer explanation

A sequence of events is a list of events ordered by time. Events are just things that happen. If we can sequence them, we can put them in the order they happened.

(First,... then,..., next,... after that,... etc.)

If you infer something, what do you do?

• You use clues and your own knowledge to work out something you haven't been told directly.

• You make a completely random guess that is not based on any proof or evidence.

• You carry it around.

• You use it to connect two things together.

What does a writer expect the reader to use in order to make inferences about what they have written?

Choose TWO answers.

• What they can find out about by speaking to specialists in the subject that the text is about.

• Their own knowledge of the world.

• What they can work out by magically reading the writer's thoughts.

• Clues and hints from what the writer has written.

What is a word family?

• A group of words which all have the same suffix.

• A group of words which all have the same prefix.

• A group of words which all share a root word and so are related in some way by their meaning.

• A group of words which are all pronounced the same but which have a different meaning.

Which of these is a synonym for understand?

• sequence

• comprehend

• infer

• conjoin

Which of these means to use reasoning skills to draw conclusions?

• sequence

• comprehend

• infer

• conjoin

Select ALL the words which can be conjunctions.

• who

• which

• when

• where

Answer explanation

These words can all be used to begin questions and also to join pieces of information together.

The conjunction tells us the type of information (e.g. WHEN = time information

WHERE = place information

Who = person information

Which conjunction could be used to join the two parts of this sentence?

Ulm is the place _____ Albert Einstein was born.

• because

• where

• when

• who

Which conjunction could be used to join the two parts of this sentence?

_____ cacao beans are ready, workers harvest them from the trees.

• because

• where

• when

• who

Which conjunction could be used to join the two parts of this sentence?

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl _____ was killed by the Nazis during World War II.

• because

• where

• when

• who