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International School of Herzen University

Formative Assessment

2019-2020 academic year

Term:

Subject:

Language Acquisition (Phase 2)

Unit:

Topic:

Changing the world.

Key

concept:

Connections

Global

context:

Fairness and development

Related concepts:

Audience, Message

ATL skills:

Make inferences and draw conclusions

B: Comprehending written and visual text

i. identify basic facts, main ideas and supporting details, and draw conclusions

Student:

Criteria

Grade:

Task 1.

What traits of character can help people to survive? Which will be useless? Which will make things worse?

Helpful	Useless	Harmful

Task 2.

This letter was written by Titanic survivor Nellie Walcroft shortly after she arrived in New York. Nellie was a second class passenger aboard the Titanic. Over three pages, she describes the tragedy in detail.

Read the letter and answer the questions.

My dearest Clara,

Just a line or two to let you know we are safe after our terrible experience. I am glad to say my cold is the only effect so far, so Clara, it was awful to see that magnificent ship like a floating palace go down in the sea.

We had to be let down in the boat & when we were going down the steerage passenger jumped in the boat & our Officer saw our danger, jumped in the boat and shot the men to keep them from swamping us, I thought that was my last minute – there were 59 people in our boat when we got well away from the ship. And after the ship had gone down you could hear the cries of those poor men and women for about 2 hours.

After the ship had gone down we had to change our boats to let our officer go back to the rescue and when we got into the boat there were 4 dead men. After rowing for 7 hours we got picked up by another ship - the Carpathia, we shouted for joy when we saw it. They took us up with ropes.

There were 710 survivors so they could not put us all up, so we slept on tables for 5 days. They were very kind to us in every way. We had 35 women who had lost their husbands on board and one can imagine the agony of these women not knowing if their husbands were living or dead & how glad we were to see New York.

Here we were given some clothes. The journalists took our photo. I was so glad to meet Carl and his friend. I shall never never go on a floating palace again.

Write to me soon send me any recipes you have got there.

With much love, your loving friend, Nell.

1. How did Nell call Titanic?

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2. What way was he saved?

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3. Who shot the passenger?

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4. What were people doing after the ship sank?

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5. Why did they have to change boats?

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6. How many survivors were with Nell?

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7. How many women lost their husbands?

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1. What dangers did Nell go through?

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2. Why were the women were in agony?

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3. What happened to him in New York?

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4. Why does he say that it was awful to see the Titanic sink?

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5. Why do you think it is important to read documents like this today?

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Task 2.

Now write a letter to your relative or friend to tell that them you are safe.

Answer the questions:

1. What did you see on the ship?

2. Who did you meet and what did you do?

3. What do you think about this ship?

4. What dangers do you see?

5. What are people doing?

6. What traits of character can help people to survive?

Do not forget the structure of the letter! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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