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Unit 3 Worksheet 3 page 1 ‘ Blessing’ by Imtiaz Dharker from Postcards from God
(Bloodaxe Books,1997); Unit 3 Worksheet 3 page 4 extract from Sandpiper by Ahdaf
Soueif. Copyright © 1996 by Ahdaf Soueif, used by permission of The Wylie Agency
(UK) Limited. All rights reserved; Unit 12 Worksheet 14 page 1 excerpt from Web of Lies
by Beverley Naidoo (Puffin 2004). Copyright © Beverley Naidoo, 2004. Reproduced by
permission of Penguin Books Ltd; Practice progression test 2 page 5 excerpt from The Year
of the Hare by Arto Paailinna, translated by Herbert Lomas, Peter Owen Ltd, London

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Stefano Viola/Shutterstock; Unit 3 Powerpoint presentation p. 2 PRILL/Shutterstock;
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Oparin/Shutterstock; p. 5r Dainis Derics/Shutterstock; p. 6 yankane/Shutterstock;
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Excerpt from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Reprinted by permission of
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, The Lord of the Rings © Fourth Age Limited 1954, 1955,
1966; ‘Eureka! Archimedes’ secret death ray is brought to light’ by Jonathan Leake,
Sunday Times, May 2000 © NI Syndication; Excerpt from ZLATA’S DIARY: A CHILD’S
LIFE IN SARAJEVO by Zlata Filipovié, translated by Christina Pribichevich-Zoric (Viking
1994, first published in France as ‘Le Journal de Zlata’ by Fixot et editions Robert Laffont
1993) Copyright © Fixot et éditions Robert Laffont, 1993. Reproduced by permission
of Penguin Books Ltd and Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc;
Text adapted from ‘Rafa takes Spain home; clinches fifth Davis Cup’ by Maha Mansoor,
Khelo Pakistan, December 2011; ‘The Sea’ and ‘The Snitterjipe’ by James Reeves ©
James Reeves from COMPLETE POEMS FOR CHILDREN (Heinemann); ‘The Bay’ by
James K. Baxter from Collected Poems; Text adapted from ‘A Drink of Water’ from Ways of
Sunlight by Samuel Selvon, used with permission; ‘Puducherry on top’ by Manju Malhi
for Open Skies, September 2009, used with permission of the author; Text from the blog
www.antoniotahhan.com, adapted and used by permission of Antonio Tahhan; Excerpt
from Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, published by Little, Brown Book Group,
copyright © 1994 by Nelson Rolihlala Mandela. By permission of Little, Brown and
Company. All rights reserved; Excerpt from CHINESE CINDERELLA by Adeline Yen Mah.

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Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Copyight © 1999 by Adeline Yen Mah.
Used by permission of Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books,
a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this
publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc
for permission; ‘Amish barn raising’ by Harvey McGavin from the TES, 8 June 2001; ‘My
secret life as a teen detective’ interview by Clio Williams, Sunday Times Magazine, June
2010 © NI Syndication; ‘Lightning Bolt gunning for 9.4 as sprint king vows to smash
100m world record in London’, Daily Mail, April 2012 © Solo Syndication; ‘Usain Bolt’s
Olympic 100m triumph triggers jubilation in Jamaica’ by Kwesi Mugisa and Hugh Muir,
Guardian, August 2012, Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2012; ‘Bolt’s heartland
of Sherwood Content erupts in celebration’ Courtesy of Jamaica Observer Limited ©
2012, Horace Hines - Staff Reporter; Text adapted with permission from the short story
‘Emotion of Speed’ by Eileen Hughes, published June 2007 on www.helium.com; Excerpt
from A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat and Other Bizarre Ancient Sports Discovered in Asia
by Emma Levine, Andre Deutsch 2000; ‘The Tortoise and the Hairpin: a tale of life in
the slow lane by Mark Cocker from Guardian Weekly magazine, June 2000, Copyright
Guardian News & Media Ltd 2000; ‘Friend’ by Hone Tuwhare from Small Holes in the
Silence: Collected Works, Godwit Press, Random House NZ, 2011, used by permission of
the Estate of Hone Tuwhare honetuwharepoetry@ gmail.com; Excerpt from Wind, Sand
and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry © Gallimard, 1939; Excerpt from Polar Dream
by Helen Thayer, with adaptations by permission of the author; Excerpt from THINGS
FALL APART by Chinua Achebe (William Heinemann, 1958, Penguin Classics, 2001).
© Chinua Achebe 1958. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books and The Wylie
Agency (UK) Limited; Excerpt from AS I WALKED OUT ONE MIDSUMMER MORNING
by Laurie Lee (Penguin Books, 1971) © Laurie Lee 1969. Published and reproduced by
permission of Penguin Books Ltd and Andre Deutsch; South African Great Karoo text
used with permission; Grenada advert text used by permission of Virgin Holidays; Excerpt
from Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, published by Chatto & Windus, reprinted by
permission of The Random House Group Limited; ‘‘Little Sa’ winds her way up to Lhasa’
by Zheng Jinran in Beijing and Daqiong in Lhasa from China Daily, May 2012; ‘Second
Glance at a Jaguar’ from Wodwo by Ted Hughes, reprinted by permission of Faber and
Faber Ltd, and from COLLECTED POEMS by Ted Hughes, copyright © 2003 by the Estate
of Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC; ‘Hunting
Snake’ by Judith Wright from A Human Pattern: Selected Poems (courtesy the publishers
ETT Imprint, Sydney 2010); Text by Lee Krystek from the Unnatural Museum www.
unmuseum.org; ‘Boli-mania hits the concert hall’ by Paul Gent, Telegraph, April 2009,
© Telegraph Media Group Limited 2009; ‘Four-year-old piano prodigy to play Royal
Albert Hall’ by Anna Davis, Education Correspondent, London Evening Standard, April
2012, © Solo Syndication; ‘Ballet gives me the biggest high’ interview by Sue Fox, Sunday
Times Magazine November 2009 © NI Syndication; ‘Every Body Is Doing It’ Wicked World
by Benjamin Zephaniah (Puffin 2000). Text © Benjamin Zephaniah, 2000, illustrations
© Sarah Symonds, 2000. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd; Evita text
adapted with permission from a review on www.fandango.com; ‘Write-ARap Rap’ by Tony
Mitton from A Handful of Poems published by BritLit Kit, 2007, used with permission from
David Higham Associates; p._181 ‘The Naming of Cats’ from Old Possum’s Book of Practical
Cats by T.S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd

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Travel Photos – Jerusalem © Rafael Ben-Ari/Fotolia; p. 19 DKImages; p. 21 AFP/Getty
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