ESL 2 2012-13 Mid-Term Review

ESL 2 Practice Mid-Term:

 



 

Reading Comprehension: Read Meals on Wheels, then answer the multiple-choice questions, complete a skim and take notes, and write a paragraph to answer the open-ended question.



 

Meals on Wheels

By Nilanjana Bhowmick/Vrindaban, with reporting by Andrea Delbanco

India is home to more hungry children than any other country. A school-lunch program feeds 120 million students there.

Narasimha Das is on his way to feed 169,379 hungry children. Das is in charge of a kitchen in Vrindaban. The town is about a three-hour drive from India's capital, New Delhi. Das gets to work at 3:00 a.m. Thirty men are already working with wheat flour and dough. They will make tens of thousands of rounds of bread. It will be brought to 1,516 schools in and around Vrindaban.

A Growing Problem

Going to school is difficult for more than 13 million children in India. They must go to work instead, or go hungry. That's why India launched the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the largest school-lunch program in the world. A free lunch encourages children to come to school and gives them the energy they need to focus on learning. The program began in the 1960s.

The kitchen in Vrindaban is run by the Akshaya Patra Foundation. It is one of the lunch program's biggest partners. "Just $11.50 can feed one child for an entire year," Madhu Sridhar, president of Akshaya Patra USA, told TFK.

The program is a "powerful demonstration of what's possible when people work together," says U.S. President Barack Obama. To find out how you can help, go to foodforeducation.org.

Lunch Is Served!

The Akshaya Patra delivery van arrives at the Gopalgarh Primary School. Since the program started, attendance has gone up, and the number of underweight children has gone down. The children get unlimited helpings--as long as they finish what's on their plates.

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/ns/article/0,28391,2042905,00.html

Multiple Choice Questions:

1.      Which of these questions does the passage answer?

a.      What is an Indian?

b.      What are meals?

c.       How do Indian children eat lunch?

d.      How do school lunch programs help Indian children?

2.      When you SKIM the section called “A Growing Problem”, what words should get your attention?

a.      School, lunch, program, children

b.      Meals, cook, food, eat

c.       Eat, chef, breakfast, drink

d.      President, cost, energy, fast

COMPLETE SKIM & TAKE NOTES Technique:

 

a. Turn the title into a question:  What are Meals on Wheels?

b. Write and answer the W? words / use only key words and phrases:

    who, what, where, when, why, how

c. Answer the title question: Meals on wheels is.....

 

 

Open-Ended Question:

India is home to more hungry children than any other country.  A school-lunch program feeds 120 million students there.  Explain how a school-lunch program is a good way to help feed hungry children.  Use examples from the reading to support your answer. 

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ESL 2 Mid-Term Vocabulary Study Sheet

Use your notebook or book or http://dictionary.reference.com/ to find and write the definition for each of these words.  Study the words and the definitions for the mid-term exam.

 1.      Wilderness

2.      Weightlessness

3.      Territory

4.      Launch

5.      Journey

6.      Inspired

7.      Defy

8.      Discover

9.      Expedition

10.  Explore

11.  Gravity

12.  Clue

13.  Barrier

14.  Anxiously

15.   Astronaut