Al-Huda International School

English Reference Worksheet

Unit 1
Section A: Reading
Spend 30 minutes on this section.
Read this extract from ‛The Secret Garden’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett and answer
the questions.

Mary is a girl who has been sent to live with her uncle.

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She had been lying awake, turning from side to side for about an hour, when
suddenly something made her sit up in bed and turn her head towards the door
listening. She listened and she listened.

‘It isn’t the wind,’ she said in a loud whisper. ‘This isn’t the wind. It is the crying I
heard before.’
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The door of her room was ajar and the sound came down the corridor, a far-off
faint sound, of crying. She listened for a few minutes and each minute she became
more and more sure. She felt as if she must find out what it was. She put her foot
out of bed and stood on the floor.

1 Number the events below from 2 to 6, in the order that they happen.

Mary gets up.

Mary thinks she hears a sound.

Mary is finding it hard to get to sleep.

Mary decides she has to know what the noise is.

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Mary is in bed. 1

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2 Look at lines 4–5.

(a) Where does the sound comes from?

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(b) Give one reason that tells you that this is not the first time Mary hasnoticed the sound.

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3 Look at lines 6–9.

Give one word that means ‘a little bit open’.

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Now read the next part of the story, and answer the questions.

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There was a candle by her bedside and she took it and went slowly out of the
room. The corridor looked very long and dark, but she was too excited to mind that.
The sound had come up the passage. So she went on with her dim light, almost
feeling her way, her heart beating so loud that she fancied she could hear it. The
far-off, faint crying went on and led her.

She stood in a corridor and could hear the crying quite plainly, though it was not
loud. It was on the other side of the wall at her left and a few metres farther on
there was a door. She could see a glimmer of light coming from beneath it.
Someone was crying in that room, and it was quite a young Someone. So she
walked to the door and pushed it open, and there she was standing in the room!

It was a big room with ancient furniture in it. There was a low fire glowing faintly on
the hearth* and next to it, a huge double bed, and on the bed lay a boy, crying
pitifully.

Glossary
the hearth: the fireplace
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4 Look at lines 10–14.

(a) Give one word that means ‘not bright’.

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(b) The text tells you that Mary was excited (line 11).
Give another phrase from the text that tells you this.

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(c) What leads Mary to the boy’s room?

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5 (a) Look at this sentence: ‘She stood in a corridor and could hear the crying quite
plainly, though it was not loud.’ (Lines 15–16)
Give two examples of pronouns from the sentence above.

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(b) What type of word is crying in the sentence above? Tick () one box.

an adjective
a noun
a
preposition

an adverb

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6 Look at lines 15–19.

Give one word which means ‘clearly’.

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How does line 19 link to line 20?

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Now read the next part of the story, and answer the questions.

Mary wondered if she was in a real place or if she was dreaming without knowing
it.

The boy had a delicate face. He looked like a boy who had been ill, but he was
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crying more as if he were tired and cross than as if he were in pain.

The light attracted the boy’s attention and he turned his head on his pillow and
stared at her, his grey eyes opening so wide that they seemed immense.

‘Who are you?’ he said at last in a half-frightened whisper.

‘Are you a ghost?’

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‘No, I’m not,’ Mary answered, her own whisper sounding as timid as a mouse.

‘Are you one?’

He stared and stared and stared.

‘No,’ he replied, after waiting a moment or so. ‘I am Colin.’

8 The boy is crying.

What does Mary think is wrong with him? Tick () two boxes.

Mary thinks the boy is crying because

he is unwell.
he is sleepy.
he is unhappy.
he is scared.

he is worried. [2]

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9 Add speech marks in the given sentence: Are you a ghost

10 Give one word that means ‘very big’.

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11 Both children whisper when they meet.
What does this tell us about how they feel?

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12 Give one example of direct speech from the text.

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13 What happens in this story? Tick () one box.

In this story,

Mary and Colin meet a ghost.

Mary sees Colin for the first time.

Mary goes to help her friend Colin.

Mary has a dream about a boy called Colin.

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14 Do you think this story is set in the past, the present or the future? Explain your
answer. Give two reasons from the text.

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15 What genre do you think this story is? Tick () one box.

myth
fantasy
adventure

real life story

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Section B: Writing

Spend 30 minutes on this section.

16 Write the next part of the story.

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Space for your plan:

Write your story on the next page. [25 marks]

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