How We Met… Task: Read the Text Below About Ed Smith on Vikram Seth. Answer the Questions in the Space Provided Using Full
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ENGLI1001-READING ASSESSMENT TASK COVER PAGE Topic STS Performance Criteria Assessment event Date Time 8 – What’s She Like? 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, Portfolio Reading Task 1: Week 5 Term 2 1 3.11, 4.1, 4.3, 4.6 How We Met February 2 - 6 period Student Name Teacher Class Total Mark /20 I certify that the work presented is my own. Student signature: Date: Marked and feedback provided by: Signature: Date: Teacher comment: Student Comment: Feedback I acknowledge that I have received and understood feedback about this assessment. acknowledgement Student signature: How We Met… Task: Read the text below about Ed Smith on Vikram Seth. Answer the questions in the space provided using full sentences – use your answers to the questions from the text on page 67 of English Unlimited to help you. You must work on your own and finish the task by the end of the period. Each question is worth 4 marks: 2 marks for the correct answer, 1 mark for punctuation (use of capital letters and full stops) and 1 mark for grammar. How We Met Ed Smith on Vikram Seth My dad was Vikram’s English teacher at Tonbridge School in the 1980s, but the first time I met Vikram was in 1994, just after a A Suitable Boy came out. He visited Tonbridge to give a reading and stayed the night with our family. I was sixteen and we didn’t talk much. He spent most of the time talking to my father. Six years later, in 2000, we met again in Australia. He was in Perth for work and I was there playing cricket. I rang his hotel and said, “Vikram, it’s Edward Smith, Jonathan Smith’s son.” We met up and spent the afternoon chatting, and had dinner that evening. We talked for hours about books and music. It was wonderful. I’d left university a couple of years before and I missed talking about ideas. Vikram’s a serious person, but he’s also great company, intelligent, creative and sometimes very funny. We only see each other from time to time but reading Vikram’s books, listening to him, getting to know him – it’s all taught me a lot. Questions 1. How old was Ed when he first met Vikram? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why did Vikram come to Ed’s home? __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Where did Ed meet Vikram for the second time? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. How did they spend their time together? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. According to Ed, what’s Vikram like? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Do Ed and Vikram see each other often? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ .