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WorksheetsExplorers or Boys Messing About
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 12mins
What form of writing is this text?
A newspaper article
A magazine article
A speech
A letter
How does the text start?
Focusing on how their new adventure has failed.
Explaining that the previous expedition failed
Introducing the explorers to the reader.
Praising the explorers for their bravery.
Their last expedition ended in .........
disaster
triumph
farce
a joke
The two men's helicopter plunged into the .........
Antarctic
Arctic
Atlantic Ocean
Atilan Lake
The men were rescued by the....
US Navy
British Navy
Australian Navy
Chilean Navy
The men in the article are called....
Steve Brooks and Quentin Smith
Steve Smith and Quentin Brooks
Q and Steve Brooks
Quentin Jones and Steve Smith
In Explorers or Boys Messing About, "plucked" and plunged" are examples of...
metaphor
emotive language
personification
euphemism
BONUS: Select all of the boxes that demonstrate the hostility in 'Explorers or Boys Messing About?'
The wild and churning sea that the adventurers find themselves trapped in
The Russian government for trespassing
The tone of the article towards them for being so silly and wasting everybody's time
The rescue teams reactions towards Steve Brooks and Quentin Smith
Gunter Endres who criticised the two men is an expert in...
Adventuring
Expeditions
Sailing
Helicopters
Overall, the purpose of this article is to...
Make the taxpayers angry
Show that the men are immature 'boys'
mock the two 'explorers'
All of the above
In Explorers or Boys Messing About, what is the nickname Q a reference to?
James Bond
Harry Potter
Game of Thrones
Lord of the Rings
Complete this quotation: "they’ll probably have their (a) kicked and be sent home the long way"
Name two ways that the writer tries to undermine the explorers in the text.
Fill in the quotation: "‘nothing short of a (a) that they had survived."
Fill in the following quotation:
"the team were planning to fly from
the north to south pole in their “ (a) helicopter”
How confident do you feel about this text?
Very confident
Mostly confident but I need to review again
I remembered some of the article but I think I need more time.
Disaster! I really need to revise this text in detail
