Songs
from the Soul:
Stories
from Around the World
1 In
which story can you find these things? Complicity,
The Luck of Four, Chinna and Muthu, The Deceivers, Treason.
a A yellow butterfly. ………………
b A little goat. ………………
c A fat chicken. ………………
d A lottery ticket. ………………
e A computer. ………………
Setting
Choose the best answer.
1 In
The Evening Train, Keshto lives _____.
a [
] on a large farm b [ ] in a
noisy city c [ ] in a small town d
[ ] in a quiet village
2 Keshto
makes and cooks delicious _____ cakes.
a [ ] rice b [
] potato c [ ] tea d [ ] chocolate
3 Emma
and Jimmy in Complicity visit
a _____ with their mother.
a [
] farm b [ ] shop c [ ] mine d [
] house
4 In
The Luck of Four, Chai goes into Samy’s _____ shop.
a [
] book b [ ] clothes c [ ] coffee d [
] cake
5 In
Chinna and Muthu, there has been no _____ in the village for a long time.
a [
] rain b [ ] work c [ ] milk d [
] hot weather
Changing their Skies: Stories from Africa
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
1 Which
story do these sentences come from? The
Rubbish Dump, Cardboard Mansions, Leaving.
a She
began to think again about Stanger, and the past, and her friend Ratnadevi.
……….
b He
saw Mazambezi sitting by the side of the pit looking down into it. ……….
c There
were no fruit trees, no birds calling and flying
in and out of the trees. ……….
d Some
weeks later answers to the letters began arriving
with big shiny prospectuses. ……….
e Near
the house he stopped and hid the plane under his shirt. ……….
f That
was the first time I saw her as a person, and not just as our mother. ……….
g All
through the journey he stood by the window, with his nose against the glass.
……….
h It
was a hard life, with five children and no husband. ……….
i Why
did people vomit when they were flying in a plane? ……….
j She
waited for the boy, pulling the end of her old green cotton sari over her head.
……….
